Once upon a time, just over 8 years ago in fact, Armor Games released an iOS port of their popular Flash physics puzzler Sushi Cat ($0.99). Now, if you’ve been reading TouchArcade for a while, you’re probably aware I’m the official “cat guy" on staff, and naturally I was a pretty big fan of Sushi Cat when it released. It had you aiming and releasing the titular Sushi Cat from the top of the screen where he’d fall and bounce around the level Plinko-style, hopefully collecting bites of sushi along the way. As Sushi Cat gobbled up those sushi bites, he became fatter and bouncier, and you’d ultimately end up landing in one of the bonus slots at the bottom of the screen which would contribute to your score. Collect enough pieces of sushi and you’d complete a level and move onto the next. It’s basically Peggle with cats. While it hasn’t been updated in a few years, Sushi Cat on iOS is 64-bit compliant and is still a ton of fun more than 8 years later, so I’d definitely recommend checking it out if you haven’t before.
But that was then, and this is now. Sushi Cat is making his trimphant return to mobile in the form of a new word game called, very appropriately, Sushi Cat: Word Search Game. As the story goes, Sushi Cat is mistaken for a famous food critic and so is invited to tour the restaurants of Japan to sample their fine sushi cuisine. Each meal is represented by bites of sushi with letters on them and...