A follow-up to 2017's simple but very effective Cat Quest, the appropriately named Cat Quest II is bigger and better. The first game's simplicity remains intact, making for another approachable action role-playing title that's fun for all ages. Journeying across the game's colourful map, picking up quests, whacking monsters, and exploring dangerous caves and ruins is what you'll be doing for roughly ten hours, and like a share-sized bag of Doritos, it's an incredibly moreish experience.
The real headline, though, is that Cat Quest II lets you play through the entire adventure with a friend in local co-op. The game features two playable characters -- a plucky cat and a determined dog -- who you can swap between when you're playing alone. In co-op, you pick one or the other, and it feels like this is how the title's meant to be enjoyed. Teaming up with a pal lets you coordinate magic attacks and batter enemies from behind.
With a charming story at its core, surprisingly satisfying combat, and loads of neat secrets to find scattered across the map, it's easy to get hooked on Cat Quest II. It's a great little RPG that never outstays its welcome, offering bite-sized but addictive adventuring.
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If anyone's got any questions about the game, let me know.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the first game. I even got the plat, which is pretty rare for me. Looking forward to jumping into this at some point.
@Gatatog This one's got a very doable Platinum Trophy as well.
The girlfriend has been bugging me about the game for months, looking forward to this weekend and sitting down and getting some gaming time in together on this wonderful game
@ShogunRok Ha, I thought I didn't have any questions after reading the review but that is a very welcome piece of information. Thanks
@ShogunRok I absolutely LOVED the first game. I used it as a palate cleanser between two longer/more serious games and it worked a treat. Let me ask: how is the leveling/grinding/gear in this game? I thought the balance was just purrfect in the first.
@glassmusic Pretty much purrfect again. You level up fast, and you're constantly being rewarded with new equipment for exploring caves and doing quests.
@ShogunRok While I mostly liked the first game, I was frustrated by how much backtracking was required if you wanted to see everything (high-level dungeons scattered around in low-level areas, getting the key in the late-game for the chests scattered throughout all the dungeons, etc.) especially given the lack of tracking features meaning you basically just had to walk back through the entire world to check up on that stuff. Have there been changes there?
@docprof Well, I can't remember exactly how it was in the first game, but there are fast travel points in this one, so getting around and backtracking aren't huge issues. There are no locked chests in dungeons, either, so you don't have to go back through them (and you get a 'Dungeon Complete' message once you've found everything there is to find in a dungeon).
Plus the world map shows where side quests and locked chests are located. I got 100% in the game and didn't feel like the backtracking was tedious, although higher level dungeons are still scattered around.
@docprof Oh, and one thing I will say is that a lot of dungeons have quests associated with them, so if you don't want to visit the same dungeon twice (once on your own, and then again for a quest), I'd check around to see if there are any nearby quests before entering for the first time.
@ShogunRok Awesome, thanks - that's what I was hoping to hear. There wasn't fast travel or world-map-tracking in the first one; glad they added those. I'll pick this game up.
@ShogunRok That's what I like to hear!
Loved the original. Fun gameplay and nice platinum. Glad to hear sequel is great as well.
@ShogunRok Is there online co-op?
What did you mean by memes in games?
And how humorous is it?
Nice! Need something to do in between ESO sessions.
@Jaz007 If its anything like the first one there will be a lot of cat puns like Purrfect and such things and now there is a dog character they can double up with dog puns.
@Jaz007 No online co-op, just local.
And by memes I mean internet memes. Things like doge (obviously) and other references to internet humour. They just felt really tacked on and cheap, game's charming as it is, don't ruin it.
It's very lighthearted, a lot of puns, although some of them are terrible. Like, not even puns that are so bad they're good — they're just crap. It's no Dragon Quest, put it that way.
Playing through the first game now and having so much fun that I can't imagine not picking this 1 up @ some point!
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