{"id":4160,"date":"2025-01-31T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2025-01-03T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:53:53","slug":"video-game-cat-quest-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/video-game-cat-quest-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Cat Quest (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a6\/Cat_quest_art.jpg\/220px-Cat_quest_art.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Quest\" width=\"220\" height=\"103\" \/>Cat Quest<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017<br \/>Rating: E10+<br \/>Time Played: 542 minutes \/ 9.03 hours<\/p>\n<p>As I continue to find games to play with my children, I was glad to come across <em>Cat Quest<\/em> for its simplicity and cat themed aesthetic. While there wasn&#8217;t anything to write home about for the role playing game (RPG) mechanics, I thought having the entire game take place on the over-world map (with small dungeons to explore) was a neat idea. And even if this game&#8217;s combat was a little too frenetic for my kids to play it, they enjoyed watching the story unfold.<\/p>\n<p>The mark of a good RPG in my book is how much grinding is required to advance the plot. <em>Cat Quest<\/em> avoids some of this by having frequent quests available that provide money (for upgrades of magic and\/or weapons) and experience. Of course, there&#8217;s still a lot of wandering around checking quest boards for missions that can be accomplished at the character&#8217;s current level. Even so, when I did finally decide to complete the game&#8217;s story, I was so extremely over-leveled that it was easy to accomplish. This saved me some headaches, as I didn&#8217;t want to spend a ton of time dying to the same bosses as my kid watched.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of dialogue in <em>Cat Quest<\/em>, which is also pretty standard for RPG games. The trick here was most all of it was infused with cat related puns. It&#8217;s cute the first few times, but becomes tiresome way too quickly (somewhat akin to the <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/book-how-to-talk-to-your-cat-about-gun-safety-2016\/\"><em>How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety<\/em><\/a> book). Visually, <em>Cat Quest<\/em> looks like it started as a flash game and just stuck with that style. Not that it looks terrible, but when combined with limited enemy types and NPCs, there&#8217;s not a ton of variety.<\/p>\n<p>A generic RPG with some cute cat theming, I give <em>Cat Quest<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> 1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cat QuestYear: 2017Rating: E10+Time Played: 542 minutes \/ 9.03 hours As I continue to find games to play with my children, I was glad to come across Cat Quest for its simplicity and cat themed aesthetic. While there wasn&#8217;t anything to write home about for the role playing game (RPG) mechanics, I thought having the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1900],"tags":[349,3062,3984,3063,3985,3986,3987,8,3552,2752,906],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-video-game","tag-349","tag-cat","tag-cat-quest","tag-cats","tag-flash","tag-flash-player","tag-puns","tag-review","tag-role-playing-game","tag-rpg","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}