History VideoGame / CatQuestII

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Or Cathulhu, as he is here called. He lives in the ocean near Lupus, but he's [[BonusBoss no small fry]].

** You can find an injured soldier in a cave saying that he [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime should have listened]], and that it was indeed [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda dangerous to go alone]]. You can find another dog in a town nearby mention that the soldier should've listened and take the sword he was offering him.

* TopHeavyGuy: Dragons move solely by flying; if a dragon has legs, they are invariably shrivelled and still.

* OneHitPointWonder: Subverted with the Mewlder Wand. It's a DiscOneNuke which fires three shadow magic missiles with each standard attack, and has high magic power. The catch is that it decreases your maximum HP by ''99%'', and most enemies can kill you off in one hit in this state. Except you can easily increase your HP to an acceptable amount with the Chef Set, or wear heavy armor to act as a damage shield for your precious double-digit hit points.

* Foreshadowing: The first time you approach the Arcane Headpawters you'll overhear a couple of cat mages discussing the existence of multiple dimensions and universes.

* RightfulKingReturns: It's [[ExcusePlot never really explained]] where the kings came from or why they should rule just because their past selves did, but, hell, ''someone'' needs to stop the war.

** The "Doge" Knight is basically that world's ComicBook/{{Batman}}. You can even get his costume as equipment.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Kit Cat and Hotto Doggo used to smith together, but then something happened that they both blame the other for. Now it takes the threat of literal war to make Kit acknowledge Hotto exists.

* MagicStaff: A special class of weapon that can't strike physically, but conjures long-range spells that don't cost mana and autotarget any enemy around. Exactly what spell is created and how fast they move depends on the staff's elemental type.
* MagicVersusScience: Cats have magic, dogs science. Or they ''used'' to: right now the dogs don't have much of anything at all, and the cats only have one magician base where they [[VideoGame/CatQuest used to have]] six, all over the country.

* BoringButPractical: You can outrun any attack [[DanceBattler just as long as you keep moving]]. A relatively early powerup lets you deal ScratchDamage to any enemy you roll through. Therefore, a viable (if time-consuming) strategy against any enemy is to roll at them, dodging their attacks until they die. You know, if you're a fucking coward.

* MeaningfulLook: The countries' barracks are located on opposite sides of an ocean, which is just thin enough that soldiers in one can see their counterparts in the other. Naturally, some NPC soldiers do nothing ''but'' stare at their future enemies. (The others just [[NothingIsScarier don't say anything]].)

* ShootTheMessenger: Lampshaded. After an illusionary "fight" against Wolfen, a dog soldier shows up to tell you the true Wolfen is long gone, and to how gullible his master thinks you are. After reciting all this, the soldier weakly begs you not to kill him. [[VideoGameCaringPotential You can leave him alone]], subverting the trope, but if you walk too close to him, [[DoNotGoGentle he will attack]]. Then it's up to you whether you want to run away (he won't follow) or respond to his violence in kind.

* ObviousRulePatch: The Cattrap spell from the first ''Cat Quest'' is gone, and there are a lot less immobile enemies. Which is good, because it was easy in that game to kill such enemies with Cattrap or other [=AoE=] spells...even if they were five times your level. Broken did not begin to describe it.

** One to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' with the mage questline, where you're initially tasked with finding the Invisibility Fur Coat from the Ancient Mage, [[spoiler: who turns out to be an evil mage named Furindelmeow (Grindelwald) who was imprisoned by his friend Mewmblepaw (Dumbledore) after he suggested they retaliate against the oppressive non-mage townscats by trapping them in another dimension.]] Both a reward from said questline and a treasure from a golden chest that's near the Arcane Headpawters are references to the Elder Wand (the Mewler Wand and the Elder stick respectively).

** Agent Triple Mewoh Seven, an enemy you fight in one of the side quests, is a pretty obvious one to JamesBond.

* ShoutOut: One to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' with the mage questline, where you're initially tasked with finding the Invisibility Fur Coat from the Ancient Mage, [[spoiler: who turns out to be an evil mage named Furindelmeow (Grindelwald) who was imprisoned by his friend Mewmblepaw (Dumbledore) after he suggested they retaliate against the oppressive non-mage townscats by trapping them in another dimension.]]

* BigBadDuumvirate: The tyrannical kings Wolfen and Lioner, who are driving their citizens into an unwanted war and taking all their gold under the guise of "taxes".

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In theory, the protagonists are being hunted by tyrants. In ''practice'', they can freely enter soldier barracks and flop down to sleep in capital cities with no problems at all.

%%* ShootTheMessenger:

Under threat from a continuing war between the cats of Felingard and the advancing dogs of the Lupus Empire, ''Cat Quest II'' tells the tail of two kings, brought together against their will, on a journey of paw-some discovery to reclaim their thrones.

* InterspeciesFriendship: The Dragonblood adventures around with a grey wolf to stop the war between their countries.