I picked up this game on sale for £2.49 I think it was after completing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and feeling a bit lost as to what to play next. I can say that I am glad that I chose to pick this up.
It’s a whimsical action role playing game which is similar to the older Zelda games. Where the entire world is inhabited by humanoid cats and the world littered with dangerous monsters.
You play as a nameless and mute hero, so pretty standard stuff here. So all the talking and exposition comes from your companion spirit guardian, Spirry. The plot of this game is that you are in search of your sister who was taken by the evil Drakoth.
On this search you are able to traverse the world at first by foot, but later you gain the abilities to walk on water and even fly. These come along as you defeat the evil dragons summoned by Drakoth. As you are marked with the Dragonblood emblem you are the only one who can defeat them.
The overworld is inhabited with a constant respawn of monsters to fight, where each area they become harder to fight. So, you can only go through each area effectively as you level up.
In order to level up the defeated monsters drop gold and exp orbs, and the levels come with stat increases. Gold can be used to go to the smith and open either a chest of 50 gold or 5000 gold. These give you new armours and weapons which also stack increasing their levels and stats. This does allow for slight character build as you can go for defence, damage or magic. With the middle ground option being a bit of two of them. Some give high damage but decrease health, or give high magic but low weapon damage etc.
You also have 7 magic attacks you can buy and upgrade, equipping up to 4 at one go. You get the power of fire,lightning,ice, healing, doubling in size, spike traps, and the best move an aether like laser beam.
Whilst adventuring around the land, you will come across many dungeons to explore. These dungeons only take a few minutes each and aren’t particularly large. With the goal simply to clear them, which is done by defeating all the monsters inside and claim the chests within.
Now some of these dungeons you’ll visit a few times as the towns you find all come with quest boards and have roughly three to four quests to complete. All rewarding you with exp,gold and new items.
Nothing in this game is long, overall the game only takes about five to six hours to complete. With a couple more to get the platinum. It’s as simple as do the main quest, level up to level 99. Go through all dungeons and find the monuments which give a bit of lore to the game.
It’s a nice experience. Nothing over stays it’s welcome and you’re never particularly bored. Combat happens in real time, it’s quick and to the point. You attack and can dodge, and use your magic which replenishes whilst landing successful blows upon your foes. You can save and heal up at rest points which are everywhere.
The game has a great cartoon design and aesthetic to it, it’s a colourful throwback. Giving me early final fantasy, Breath of Fire or Golden Sun vibes. One nice feature which even some bigger games fail to do is every bit of armour or weapons once equipped show up on your hero. Also having a weird fetish for rituals and summoning circles. Even going all in for it on a four side quest journey involving Santa Claus. Where you save Kitmas.
I think in terms of drawbacks, it could have had a bit of a better plot, slightly bigger map. Gold for the most part doesn’t start stacking up until you are around level 40 which is a detriment when items have levels which require buying a shit load of chests. I think the combat could have just a bit more to it, even if it was just a shield with a block function. Also, maybe having like four or five bigger much harder dungeons. Not too mention when you zoom out on the map it’s static so you can’t look round. It also falls into the same trap of giving you all the best gear far too late into the game so it’s worthless. You can complete every dungeon and mission by the time your level is around the mid 80’s mark.
This game is a banging and Positively Tasty 7/10.
A quick and quirky adventure in the land of dragon slaying cats. What’s not too like? And for a few quid you can’t go wrong with some easy dungeon spelunking across a magical, monster filled land.
Released 10th November 2017, Sony PS4.
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