Cat Quest Review

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Cats are the most adored and adored creatures on the planet, and they are often said to be the real masters of the world. It is difficult to say "no" to a product in which have something to do with them.
The developer Gentlebros has played their role very well for Cat Quest , a fun and simplified RPG in which the protagonists are said hairy creatures, available for Android since August and whose release for PlayStation 4 and Switch occurred on November 10.

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In Cat Quest , The Gentlebros present us an isometric RPG adventure very simplified, colorful, tender and humorous, whose protagonists are the cats, gatherers of the continent Felinia. His story is a clear and not hidden homage to Skyrim : the dragons, newly awakened from their lethargy, have invaded the continent of Felinia. The only ones capable of defeating them are the Sangredragón, a breed of cats with powers destined for that purpose. Our protagonist, a sangredragón on a sea voyage to Felinia, is shipwrecked after seeing how the evil white cat Drakoth kidnaps his sister.The villain agrees to release the young kitten if the sangredragon defeats three dragons that Drakoth himself has released over Felinia. It may be a hackneyed argument with a topical villain - and are not topical villains the easiest to hate? Recognizes Drakoth himself in a sequence through which The Gentlebros laughs at themselves - but Throughout a main adventure of about five hours, complemented with 52 secondary missions and 62 dungeons, we discover the complexity of a plot that will surprise us, loaded with an emotional message about the loyalty of pets.

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Gameplay

Our sangredragon will be a yellow-haired cat, mute as it used to be stylized in the role-playing video games of the 90s, and will be accompanied by Spirry, a cat-guiding spirit who will act as mentor, tutor and narrator, and who will remind us of Navi , although he will not possess his insistence. Although we can not customize the gender and coat of our Sangredragon -which would have been an extra enriching, being a character whose personality is not written-, we will determine their class through the clothing and weapon we equip, which will enhance the armor , health and manna .

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The RPG system proposed in Cat Quest is very simplified with respect to other titles of the genre and can be confused with a hack n 'slash . We will move through a continent divided into villages with a small number of inhabitants, in which there will be a board in which the secondary missions will be published and a cushion that will act as an inn, where we will spend the game and recover the maximum health and mana.

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Missions

By default, we will have the main mission active, which we can set aside to perform a secondary mission at a time. If we accept another mission from the bulletin board, we will abandon the current one and we can only resume it by accepting it again in its original bulletin board. The secondary missions will follow a plot of their own, which will be suspended in interesting points to awaken interest in the player and it will spinning all the missions that have to do with it, while gaining experience and level up.

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We have an experience bar , which will be filled with blue orbs that we find quite often on our way, or when fulfilling secondary missions and defeating enemies. We also have a health bar , protected by an armor bar that will regenerate after a period of time without being hit; and mana bar that will be spent using magic and will recover when hitting enemies. In a backpack, which we will access through a circle, we will have access to our inventory, where weapons, helmets and clothing that we acquired during the game and that we can equip ourselves will be stored. In the same inventory we will have access to the available spells, of which we can have four assets at the same time and that we will launch with L1, L2, R1 and R2 as we can. We also have cat money, which we will get by defeating enemies, completing missions and collecting scattered coins on the map. We will acquire new equipment in treasure chests and after fulfilling missions or buying boxes of random content -of two different categories- according to their price in the Kit Gat store. It is worth mentioning that it is not possible to sell our inventory.

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In Addition

The game spells are purchased in Arcane Temples, run by a sorcerer, and scattered throughout Felinia. There are seven in total: Llamiaurada (fire), Garrasana (healing), Felinhielo (ice), Miauyo (lightning), Gatón (increase in size), Gatrampa (magic trap) and Astromiau (magical rain) ; and we can raise the level by investing money in them.

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We will find enemies - foxes, ghosts, guivernos, etc - during the missions, in dungeons and along our route through the map. These will attack us when we are close to them and the combat will take place in real time. Before receiving each attack, we will see in red the area it will affect to give us a clue as to where to flee. We will attack with our weapon by pressing Square and we will roll to dodge by pressing X.

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In addition to secondary missions, in which we will meet endearing characters such as the affectionate herrera Kit Gat or the warded Governor, we will have several dungeons or ruins available, in which different treasures will be hidden and that will be very useful to level up. To clear them, we must eliminate the enemies inside.

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In the dungeons we will see chests that can only be opened with a key, which we will acquire in a secondary mission available on an island south of the map. Throughout the game we will learn new skills, such as walking on the water or flying, thanks to which we can access the dwellings of our draconian rivals.

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The difficulty of the game is quite normal, especially once we learn to develop a technique against the most powerful enemies, such as dragons or sorcerers, and that the handling is comfortable and the controls respond with the expected precision. There is an excellent combination of primary and secondary missions with which to level up, and many of them will contain extra information about the mystery that surrounds Drakoth and the sangredragones. The comic tone that surrounds the game is, in addition, its greatest charm, and there are references to works of popular culture -KitGat is fond of the series "Game of Cats" and "House of Cats", and visit the town of Twin Peaks, two hills on which a lugubrious curse weighs - and even jokes that parody the classic premises of the epic fantasy, like a royal guard dissatisfied with his pitiful salaries and the crappy armor -called this way- with which the king forces them to fight. In this casual tone there is room for more emotional moments, such as the discovery of the true story of Drakoth or the story of a cat who must overcome the loss of his most beloved. As Easter egg , we can get one of the armor of Slashy Heroes , and find an island populated by the same ghosts of the game, with a trail of candy.

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Conclusion

The game's appearance is colorful, cheerful and well-groomed, like a series of children's animation. The created universe overflows a delicious imagination, in which the mice are pirates and the dogs are shown as inhabitants of the Lupus Empire, the sworn enemy of cats and with which they remain in a fragile truce. This Empire Lupus is mentioned in the game frequently.

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The soundtrack consists of an animated main song that invites you to embark on an adventure full of dragons and inns, a more ominous theme for ruins and dungeons and a melancholic and tender song for the most emotional scenes.

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Cat Quest is an RPG with a very simplified system, a simple difficulty and a gameplay easy to master. Its greatest charm is to get away from the classic dark universes of the genre and propose an adorable country inhabited by cats threatened by dragons that can only defeat a sangredragón, which we will control. In an open world in which there is an intelligent combination of primary and secondary mission where we lose neither the interest nor the thread, we will advance through a story of great comedy in which there is space for tenderness and behind which a message hides very emotional about the loyalty of pets. Although its revealing and beautiful epilogue is overshadowed byan anticlimactic ending and although it is missing a protagonist with more charisma and personalization options, Cat Quest is a video game that surrounds us in a good mood and warms our hearts. During the game, we find details that seem to promise a second part, and we hope that it ends up being a reality.