

There are also spells at your disposal which can be mapped to buttons on the Switch controller, and you can assign spells how you want across both characters. You can attack in close combat with swords and axes or from a distance using a choice of magical staffs. It’s an interesting visual style.Įnemies appear across the game map and in the game’s dungeons and ruins, with combat taking place in real-time. The over world looks like a map with each location name in large letters printed onto the map as you walk over it, and towns with houses and buildings look comparatively miniature next to all the characters. The over world is akin to something like some old school JRPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy where your characters are blown up to a larger size than objects on the over world map such as buildings. You travel across the over world map to reach towns as well as indoor locations such as dungeons and ruins. In true open world style, you can go just about anywhere when you begin with some areas off limits until later in the game. 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.


There is a close relationship between cats and the internet and a rabbit hole of theory out there as to why.
