Epic Chef

畫風很特別、可愛 劇情很有趣也對部分演出驚奇 各個角色的互動甚至世界觀都有刻畫 感覺的到故事很用心寫 要說缺點的話 大概是遊戲玩法玩久有點悶 翻譯品質像是找不專業的人來翻譯 部分會看不太懂 這款至少是我不會玩到想睡覺的遊戲 覺得評價沒有那麼差

LE INTENTE DAR UNA OPORTUNIDAD PERO ES MUY ABURRIDO

This game's roots are a simple farming game, where you spend your produce on cooking contests. The strongest part however is the writing. The story from zero to hero is at times charming, hilarious or witty, with the highest peaks teaching the player profound life lessons. If you can stomach some frustrating game mechanics, I'd recommend Epic Chef based just on the story. There is zero time pressure. Zest, the playable character, may take as long to work on the farm as he wants to, since time stops at 2 a.m. Main and side quests do not progress without the player and cannot fail. Losing a major cooking battle restarts the day. Buildings can be torn down and rebuild indefinitely often. Which makes this game overall quite cozy. Still, there are a couple of things that I found detremental to my experience, where fishing probably was the most annoying. You catch fish in a minigame where you have to keep your cursor inside an oscillating block. Which fish you'll get is random, of course. This is the exact same minigame for fishing as in sooo many other titles, too, that it is very hard for me to stay focused. Yet, especially the end-game fish are such a powerful and valuable ingredient, that I could not ignore it. Second to fishing is collecting products from your lifestock. As long as you provide food, your (whimsical) cattle will just drop their stuff somewhere on the ground at any point in time of the day. While that is manageable with only few animals, at the end-game you've got lifestock that is bigger than most of the farm buildings. They're always in your way and obstructing your view. The products may be laying anywhere, including clipped into buildings, that I came to resent this daily task. Lastly I want to mention that the cooking battles sadly lack all tension. They're more of a puzzle than a skill based challenge. The game does not disclose what ingredients your opponent used and the points they score is exactly the same every time. So I would just take some trash into the first battle and scout what bars I needed to clear, come up with a strategy, including sauces if needed, and usually win by a landslide on the second try. The cooking minigame could have made this much more interesting. What dish Zest cooks is largely determined by the chosen three ingredients and their individual synergies. The controls offer too little precision to favor or filter the flavors. Aroma matters only in the contests to decide which player is judged first, which in turn factors into the utility of sauces. And what nominally deepens the strategic possibilities, is renedered mute, because the judges may have some very restrictive tastes. All in all, I still had a good time playing through. A replay though will be too samey, since I already know the story.