![]() ![]() There is plenty of humour throughout and cat and dog puns at every opportunity, so if you like puns you’re in for a treat. The story is pretty lightweight but serves the game well, with some lessons taken from the Marvel school of storytelling. Throughout your quest navi-alike Kirry pops up every so often to provide guidance and point you in the right direction to move the story forward. What is also new to this sequel is the ability to play in co-op, with drop in/drop out at any point. You can choose to play as a cat or dog and switch between the two at any point, with the one you don’t choose tagging along with you as a non-playable character. But now there is a new land to explore, the land of dogs: the Lupus Empire. The sequel returns to Felingard, the land of cats. Now in Cat Quest II, from Singaporean developer The Gentlebros and UK publisher PQube, we have more cats, more puns and now: dogs. When Cat Quest arrived on Nintendo Switch in 2017 it delivered an enjoyable open world action RPG experience filled with cats, and puns. There is something about cats that compels a lot of people to lap up cat content, and if that sounds like you then the developers of Cat Quest II have a treat for you. The internet helped make a celebrity out of Grumpy Cat (who passed away earlier this year, RIP Grumpy Cat) and thanks to the internet the famous keyboard cat meme was born. It seems us humans can’t help but be entertained by cat memes and videos. It's beautiful, charming, cute, and satisfying in equal measure, which is a rare thing.There is a close relationship between cats and the internet and a rabbit hole of theory out there as to why. This isn't a huge issue, but it did slightly hamper my enjoyment.Ĭat Quest is one of those games that takes a jumble of very conventional mechanics and somehow turns them into something that feels like more than the sum of its parts. As a result, I spent quite a bit of time wandering from town to town trying to see what there was to do, which got a little bothersome. There is an icon that appears on a town's quest board to indicate that there are quests available, but this is only something you can see if you travel close enough to the town to check it. Side quests are available at all the towns in Cat Quest's world, though when certain towns have quests available for you to take is not always clear. I say this primarily because certain steps of the main quest require that you level up your character significantly before you have a chance at passing them and the best way to earn levels quickly is to complete side quests. Throughout Cat Quest, you will always know exactly where to go to complete the next step of the game's main quest, but this isn't something you'll always want to do. That said, there were times when playing that I felt a little directionless and wish there was some more in-game guidance for finding available quests. ![]() It looks and feels great, has a solid loot system, tells a decent story, and has satisfyingly challenging combat. There's very little to complain about with Cat Quest. The neat thing here though is that almost all of the game's action (with the exception of entering shops or dungeons) occurs right on this map view. The world is super colorful and moves at a silky smooth framerate, and the cat characters and cat-themed locations are clever enough to elicit a chuckle or two as you play through the game.Īll of Cat Quest's action is also presented in an environment that looks and feels like an overworld map from a more traditional RPG. Cat Quest is both gorgeous and hopelessly cute. Enemies in Cat Quest telegraph where their attacks will be using red meters on screen, and success against these enemies requires you to dodge these attacks while laying down plenty of damage yourself.Ĭat Quest primarily stands out as an action RPG because of its presentation. It's all fairly standard-sounding stuff if you've played Diablo before, and the Crashlands comparison only comes into play when examining the game's combat. Most of the time while questing, Cat Quest will throw a bunch of enemies at you that you must kill in order to receive experience, gold, and loot rewards. The ultimate goal of the game is to discover what happened to your kidnapped sister, but there are plenty of other quests and dungeons to investigate along the way. Players control a single hero cat with a "tap to move" and "tap on enemies to attack" control scheme. ![]() ![]() The easiest way to describe Cat Quest would be to call it a mix between Diablo and Crashlands. In a lot of ways, its individual mechanics are very conventional, but Cat Quest has enough heart, charm, and adorable cats to make it feel practically purrfect. Cat Quest is a beautiful and lovingly-crafted action role-playing game (RPG) in a world full of cats and dragons. ![]()
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