Gochi-Show! -How To Learn Japanese Cooking Game-

Old review (First three great lads who marked this helpful were referring to this): https://docs.google.com/document/d/117HxJL9jaug0POoRkpqshqMn5q8_GX1Tovp4DHkXWHc/edit?usp=sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNBMlPF7vEc I've just finished the Satomi route for this game; I consider my playthrough done at this point. [h1][b]TL;DR: its ok, eks dee[/b][/h1] srsly, this review is too long for almost literally everyone who will notice this [h1]plis[/h1] These guys put mirin in everything. I know it's minor and makes things taste better, but they've turned most dishes into an alcoholic one. I don't think I have ever seen Mariko chill. Full time troll. She's like a child at times with her excitement. Momoko is dangerous. I know she's not yandere; stay away anyways. Why is the protagonist the only decent young man in the whole visual novel? There are some rather cringe moments. Fortunately, it's not the kind of thing that I feel completely disconnected from; they're like... the cringe you encounter in daily life. They aren't unusually cringey, at least for me. [h1]cri[/h1] First, let's address some unsavory parts. This game has quite a collection of translation weaknesses and spelling errors. In my playthrough (Main storyline + Satomi route), I've only gotten one confusing translation, which made me pick the wrong option; the myriad of others were merely mildly distracting, and shouldn't be hard to correct for a native speaker. There's a subtitles button where you can see the subtitles for the other language (English subtitles if you're playing in Japanese, vice versa), but it kinda blocks the middle of the screen. If you're sensitive to keeping an absolutely clear view of what's behind, it might be a bit shoddy of a placement for your tastes. It is still a useful feature, however. Plus, although it's mostly sane, sometimes you have a confusing inconsistency in the length of the English text and the Japanese text. The worst offender is the [url=https://youtu.be/x9z_aP9ndIk?t=13m41s]Tempura recipe[/url], where the text box shows a quick English sentence, but Satomi says 2 or 3 entire Japanese sentences. This wouldn't be too bad of a problem, if not for the fact that sometimes you have a Point dialog that comes after all dialogue is complete, which can be easily skipped if you get impatient and click the 'Next slide' button (This is a much bigger problem for me as a YouTuber instead of you guys, though). Adding to the inconsistency is the difference in volume and tone between the episode and the recipe inside of it, as well as the occaisonal seeming voice actor substitution (I might be wrong). And speaking of inconsistency, it's not that the translator is bad. They seem like a native speaker in their presentation and words, but it drops sometimes. Furthermore, there is a rather poor selection of options. You can't change your resolution, nor can you change the volume. This is a bit of a train wreck for recording the game because you get hit by a copyright dispute (monetisation claim) every single episode, unless you mute the entire game, because the music in this game is entirely from the NASH Music Library. Sometimes you find that the sprites for the characters get unsafely scaled up, and they don't have enough resolution, so they look a bit pixelated. Furthermore, the selection of background scenes and characters is literally worse than a free Indie visual novel. It's rather embarassing. Plus, a tiny issue; There's a rounded black bar at the top and bottom of the screen when you're in an episode or recipe, for seemingly no reason. [h1]question mark[/h1] The game introduces two unique features in all the visual novels I've played. To finish an episode, you have to pass the Clear marker. You can progress by picking good choices that favour affinity with the Cooking Club members, recipe included. You can easily afford saying one or two neutral or bad options. However, if you be completely yourself and have the bad luck of picking all bad choices, you'll fail the episode after the recipe and lose all the Gochi Points you used to unlock that episode... which means you have to go repeat recipes to get them again. If you're ever panicking, just say your food is perfect after the recipe; that usually gives a massive boost. And Gochi Points are the other mechanic. They're great for encouraging players to go check out unlocked recipes instead of just spamming the plot and running off, but it's a bit optimistic to expect players to read all of them through, let alone follow through in the cooking. [h1]noice[/h1] Now that we have all those silly negatives out of the way, let's get into what's good about this game. I like how you aren't block from skipping anything, and this is useful for collecting Gochi Points for unlocking episodes. Many preparation lessons also won't begin unless you say "Show me how", so you can easily spare yourself from the repetition. However, it's nice how the different characters occasionally have different ways of doing things, or at least to different recipes. Hearing two different characters recite the same lesson is nice. The subtitles button is a boon for English players if you want to keep track of what they're saying, and/or learn Japanese. Of course, it's the more advanced kind meant for native Japanese speakers, but if you're at that level, give it a shot. But what kept me going in this game is the plot. It's not magnificent, but you do get to see each character have different personalities. You recognise their voices and their signature interjections. You do genuinely feel like you're a part of the plot (although you might have to intentionally remove yourself and see it in third person if you disagree with the protagonist's choice, like eavesdropping in the bath scene). I felt engaged enough to react to what's going on. I laughed at the jokes and occasional roast. And although you couldn't favour anyone in the first storyline, I liked how you could choose your own route towards which club member you like, in complete violation of the club's rule, and it was something I looked forward to when I spotted those routes, locked, while doing the first storyline. [spoiler]Considering that in Satomi's route, you get her as a romantic interest at the end, I'm guessing the other routes have the same. It isn't all part of some connected universe where every route is inconclusive; they are genuinely separate.[/spoiler] [spoiler]Also, I saw somewhere that you get to meet Mariko's dad, so try her route out.[/spoiler] And of course, the VN is rather good if you're a complete noob in cooking. It has the flaw of not expecting you to screw up massively, but past that, it teaches some new things. I didn't know about buckling and drop lids before playing this (though drop lids are a Japanese thing). Protip if you find the VN too static: Try to imagine the scenes yourself in your mind, like you're reading a book. Let the visual novel just initialise the environment for you. It helped me past the post-cooking conversations that usually were uncomfortable. [h1]verdant[/h1] I got this on a sale. It was worth the money. Out of sale? It's up to you and your wallet. I'm giving a sort of neutral review, considering that it can only closely compete with top tier free VNs. This VN isn't at the level of quality of Nekopara or Hatoful Boyfriend. But if you're warm to the idea, play this. It deserves more players and coverage, and I'd support the developers for their next project. They've already finished the Shoujo version of Gochi-Show. For my standards? 7.5/10, would play again. For everyone's standards? 6/10.

萌えキャラ達と料理作りを学ぶゲーム。 元々がスマホ用のゲームなためか操作性があまり良くなく、 基本マウスのみの操作です。 スマホ版との違いは追加有料コンテンツがPC版は全て収録されている点。 ゲーム内吹き出しボタンを押すと日本語字幕が出ます。 もしくは設定からLanguageをJapaneseに。 所々英語のままの部分もあり（会話パートのみ日本語）。 音声は日本語で、知る人は知る声優さんたちです。 しっかり手順通りにやれば実際にその料理を現実でも作れ、 少し失敗したことを伝えるとアドバイスもくれたりします。

Ok ok, I thought this was going to be learning japanese and cooking at the same time, which I was all like: ''Yay the 2 things I like to do (shut up I'm a nerd)''. I played for like 2 recipe and it's more like a dating sim with cooking ... Honestly I'm dissapointed. the recipe are something you can just google for it and if you want to learn japanese there's better. If you like the sort of game where 1 guy (you) meet a group of girls and 'learns' to cook, go for it. Otherwise, can't recommend.

If the content was ecchi, This would be Shokugeki No Soma (Food Wars) Anyway, if you're a fan of Food Wars, you'll gonna definitely love playing this one. (Note: Moe girls are around, feel free to take them as your waifus) :)) Enjoy the game and keep cookin'

这个游戏的卡牌背景表情徽章都好可爱啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！ 我要炸裂！！！！！ - 里面一共有35篇菜谱。 和42篇做饭小技巧。 - 游戏流程大概是攻略妹子 让她教你做菜，给你食谱。 妹子意外的很难攻略。 平时多模拟做做饭收集点数就可以解锁新的菜谱了。 - 甚至有麻婆豆腐的菜谱。 青椒肉丝的菜谱。 棒棒鸡的菜谱（？？？） - 玩游戏的过程中的心境大概都是 啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊阿啊！好可爱啊！！！！！！！ - 这个游戏还有个攻略汉子学做饭的版本。 http://store.steampowered.com/app/512610/GochiShow_for_Girls_How_To_Learn_Japanese_Cooking_Game/ 不过菜谱是一样的。

表情和背景都超好看的，可惜绝版了

このゲームのおかげで料理ができるようになり彼女もできました！ とはいかない でもなんだか料理できるようになった気がしてきた。よし！ラ王作ってくる！！