“Trico’s believability is a big deal. In any game that involves interacting with an animal, there are clear algorithms in place: get the dog’s ‘happiness’ meter to rise and it’ll help you in combat, feed your Charizard enough candy and it’ll be a bit more resilient, that sort of thing. Trico will react to your treatment as well — a good pat will calm it down, hitting it with a barrel will make it whine. Treating Trico well will, generally speaking, make it a more reliable companion. But Trico never loses its capriciousness, its spirit, the asshole side that all good cat-things have.”
James O'Connor 