Leo and Cat

Hello players!
Once again I'm back with a RPG Maker VX Ace game made for the Swap In The Middle With You event. This time I'm talking about Leo and Cat (not related to Leo & Leah, a game I reviewed months ago) made in two weeks by sjmorgan and supersonicsoda in 2016.

Leo and Cat is the story about Leo, a blonde man that wears an eyepatch and is also cursed: the Eye of God activated two years ago giving Leo only few years to live, but granting him some peculiar abilities (like the ability to scan enemies and find hidden items). But let's not forget Cat, a... cat, that like every other cat is a magical creature descended by the dragons! Ok, well anyway the plot is really simple: the duo learned that near Holbrand Town is a hermit that can probably help Leo to remove his curse. Is it true or not? Also what's the power of noodles? And which of the four endings you are going to get? Play and see!


Mmmmmmh! Onion pie! That's exactly what I wanted! Anyway... gosh, there is a slime here!

This game like many others done for this event (like the previously reviewed Gladiator's True Purpose) can be roughtly divided into two parts (since there are two developers), but I admit that for a game made in two weeks I was impressed: the first part is set inside a city where Leo and Cat have to complete a serious of minor fetch quests while looking for clues. The second part is instead set outside the city where the protagonists have to locate the person that can solve Leo's problem and deal with the situation, that takes a darker turn and can lead to four different epilogues. This part is also more focused on Cat and cats in genera.

Combat is classic: Leo starts with a special attack that bypass armor and cost TP points, and the previously mentioned Scan ability, while Cat can take advance of this using some elmental attacks to strike the opponents' weaknesses. Can can also attack twise and stun the enemies, but he's also physically weaker... he's just a cat! Combat is pretty easy in the beginning, but sooner or later the many random encounters may bore the player, in any case it's also pretty simple because there is not a lot of inventary management, nor you can find shops to buy gear (well, for Leo, of course, since Cat does not need weapons or armors!). What instead you can find are PERMANENT UPGRADES that you can buy at the Noodle Shop, where ramen can increase all the stats, making our two heroes really tough... except for the final boss that you must defeat to get the best ending, and it's extremely powerful, so it may be necessary to do some grinding (to improve these stats even further, characters starts already at level 10, so getting further levels is quite difficult).

Visually the game, that I should stress was done by two developers in a short time for an event, is surprisingly good, it's the case where RTPs are used pretty well, the city in particular is one of the best towns I've seen in an event game, there you can find a lot of characters wandering the place and inside the buildings, all with interesting and/or funny lines. The forest is also pretty good, maybe the only map I did not like was the swamp, but at least I did not find mapping errors. This was pretty good!


Who is this woman? All you can learn here is that she hates cats so she's clearly the WORST WOMAN IN THIS WORLD!

Final Verdict
Leo and Cat is a pretty good game, the only weak point are probably battles that are just average, but for the rest I found it very professionally made and entertaining. The story and visuals are in particular the strong points that would make me suggest this short adventure to players that like short classic rpgmaker adventures... and cats!