Iron Chef style tournament cooking game. Art is beautiful. The many different expressions drawn for the main character really makes her feel alive. Voice acting is pretty good. The writing is decent. The story is simple and nothing out of the ordinary. The main character is pretty fleshed out and interesting along with a few other characters but many of the characters doesn't really have much to them. Story mostly only take place in one area, the capital city. Would have liked to been able to explore more places instead of being stuck in a small stretch of road with 3 mini games. Combat is pretty basic. Functional but doesn't quite stand on its own, especially in parts of the main story where you only have to fight. The main meat of the game is the Iron Chef style tournament where you go out and fight monsters and plants to collect ingredients and run back to cook in a match-3 style mini game to get the highest points in a time limit against another character. There is quite a variety of equipment items each with a different use which change up the game quite a bit. Lacking a versus mode. Can only play as two characters in daily cook-off. Would have liked to been able to play as other characters like the girl with the teapot robot or Kirin with her wings. Only encountered 1 bug where the monsters didn't drop any ingredients for me. Restarting the game fixed it. Cleared main story in 13 hours. Game is pretty challenging and had to redo matches quite a few times. Beautiful game which I enjoyed but would have liked to be able to explore more of the world. A versus multiplayer mode would have been good especially given the theme.
