I like to think that this is just the entire game now. They scrapped everything and now you play as a cat in a world with only other cats. Just wandering around, doing cat things.

Seriously though, I love the idea of incorporating something like this into gameplay like lwl mentioned. I'm kind of thinking of like how you had to utilize different status effects in FFIII to go through portions of dungeons and whatnot. I don't know if they could do it to where it makes sense in the world, but it could be fun.