MagicCar of Delicious

I like the concept, I *want* to like this game, and I played the demo when it was up and then bought it on launch. But this is a very, very basic and unbalanced game. This is my Day 1 review of frustration. One major issue with the game is magic points/mana. I have no idea what magic potion recipes are, and you only get a couple early on, with no way that I can see to get more. There are lots of food recipes, and a "free crafting" mode, but you have to use the exact recipes to craft food, adding anything more to a real recipe, even one extra egg, creates a health potion instead. There are tons of health potion recipes, and tons of "Unknown Food" recipes, which are basically failures. No sign of mana potion recipes though. And all the chests you get from redoing earlier levels all seem to give health potions or money too, not mana, until I think Chest 3 of Ruins Forest Center, which itself is not really a soloable zone without mana potions. Addendum: There is one thing I didn't realise but that they do passingly tell you early on, which is that eating food does restore 1000 power or so each. That actually negates a fair amount of the mana issues. It doesn't negate the overall jankiness of the game though. It's also incredibly easy to miss that mechanic. Cooking is weird and buggy and unbalanced. Some examples of health potion recipes are: 5 liquid + 1 egg/meat or 2 rice/vegetable = health pot. 5 liquid + 1 Unknown Food = health pot too, which is weird. And any higher quantities of items make 1 health pot too. Like 10 liquid, 10 rice, 10 eggs? 1 health pot. 5 liquid + 1 rice/veggie usually fails for me and gave me an Unknown Food, but occasionally I get a weird "Production failed" message that disabled the entire cooking pot UI until I went to the night market and came back. After that point, 5 liquid and 1 rice started giving me health pots too until the next campfire, then it started giving Unknown Food again. I've gotten the weird "Production Failed" on various freestyle recipes, rarely. What does it mean? Who knows. It's not like there's any sort of success chance shown. And you don't even lose the ingredients when this happens anyway, I believe. The second problem with the game is that it's too chaotic to click on your towers and repair them when the train is moving. You can't pause to select a train carriage and repair it, for some reason. I've lost count of how many times I've either lost a tower because I can't click on it in the mass of monsters around it, or I accidentally sell the carriage instead of hit repair since the buttons appear in a wheel around the train. There's a lot of better ways this could have been done, but it's pretty awful right now. Due to that, the optimal strategy seems to be to stop the train at the start of a zone, so you're not wasting mana on movement (WHY does movement require mana?), and not adding to the chaos of trying to repair every carriage at once, and fight the enemies from there, forcing the enemies to come to you. Have one wood collector and one stone collector right at the very back, and put various attack towers in front. In fact, you should fill your train with wood and stone collectors at the very start and idle before the first gate to build up some resources and then demolish all except the two back ones, then upgrade the train a bit before moving past the first gate. Why not? But it's such a boring way to play. If you pause the train right at the start of a zone, and slowly inch forward until your engine is on the circular road and the zone fight starts, you can actually have your carriages safely outside or just inside the zone (and thus not really being attacked) while your engine carriage tanks most things. Health pots only affect your engine and not the rest of the carriages for some reason anyway, so even though this is a "mobile train" bullet heaven game, it seems better to not be mobile at all. Funnily enough, once you beat a stage, and the rest of your train then enters the stage, you might get a brief error message that says that the fight won't start until the entire train has entered the zone. You know, the fight you just beat. Once I figured this and the food = mana thing out, I was able to progress anyway, but it's so very weird and not the way the game is meant to be played at all, is it now? I have many other minor complaints with the game too. For example: - You can only do one night market run (to get money) per "night", but when you fail a run it doesn't actually start a new day, so you lose resources to repair the train and to add salt to the wound you don't get a way to top up your money from the market to buy more upgrades/useless recipes with until you go run a lower level run to move the clock. And there is only one level you can repeat (early on) for resources or to move the clock, which is Forest Center, since the map after that is too long to repeat without magic potions or food. - You cannot move the map (edit: there's a keybind to disable the map being centered on the train, and they never explain this), but there are many map angles where the last carriage of even a 5-carriage train is outside of the screen so you cannot easily click on it to repair it, or see what enemies are attacking it, without relocating the train to another location with a different camera angle first. - The 3rd achievement about omelette rice seems to be bugged for me. I've cooked around 20 of them without the achievement popping. - Recipes in general, available from the Wisdom Statue in the game, are useless, but as they don't show you the dish ingredients until you buy them, and they cost the same as a skill upgrade or new tower, you don't know that you can't make them until you actually buy them. They seem to say that you can also learn the recipes by actually making the foods itself. But the recipes have utterly random amounts of ingredients needed. And you need *exactly* the correct number of ingredients to make the dish. You'll never discover them via "free style" cooking without checking a guide. You unlock these over time anyway though, I think, so they're pointless to buy. But you have the option to do so, for no good reason. - I believe that buying new towers from the Wisdom Statue also seems pointless because you seem to unlock them over time from killing the bosses anyway. But again, nothing telling you that recipes and towers are very bad to buy and to just save money for the upgrades and larger food stalls. - When you're on the pause screen, your collectors still continue collecting resources. Low on resources to repair your carriage mid-combat? Just pause the game and wait (assuming you have at least one of each collector). However, mana does not regenerate, and the game force-pauses you when you tab out, so if you're trying to idle for power, well, you can't. Also there are at least 4 different names for the game: 舌尖上的魔术师 MagicCar of Delicious Gourmet Food Wizard Master of Taste Make up your mind. The devs also don't seem to be on the forums at all, and they set a release date and then blew by it without saying why before releasing it about 24 hours later with no explanation or acknowledgement whatsoever. They also have a package with another game included (the Kill Time Tower Defense one) which is cheaper than actually buying the base game alone, and that is very weird. And lastly for now, this game suffers from poor translations and localization issues like randomly untranslated text boxes, full-width apostrophes, words that overflow their text boxes, missing spaces between words, the usual Asian Jank. Heck, the very first NPC that talks to you gives your quest objective in Chinese instead of English (although the objectives box then shows you the objective in English). I can read Chinese anyway so it doesn't personally bother me, but it doesn't sell your game. This was a very, very poor effort.

Magicar of Delicious 4/5 I bought this game because I love shop sims are there are simply not enough, yet each one brings their own twist. This one does a decent job of presenting my two of my favorite genres. Tutorial is great, some of the text is no in english but then afterwards there is a tutorial style pop up with good written and visual instructions of what the game is trying to teach you. Achievements are unforntunately not in English at the moment. You start as a car on a track, you typically just go around in a circle. I've only played the early levels but there is no opportunity to redirect the cart even though this is a mechanic in the game where you can actually navigate a fork in the road. Once you've beaten a level you can go back to camp and cook a variety of meals and sell the excess for gold. You use gold to level up the cart, the amount of towers you can build, and to unlock new build and recipies. It's never explained where the materials come from, or where to find a specific material. It also can be quite tough sometimes as you cant optimise your towers as the final upgrades are not in english. The upgrade icons also dont specify what the final upgrade is trying to achieve because of the missing English but even imagery such as clock goes up, 3 forks (fast AoE), clock down, big sword (Slow high damage) would suffice. The core gameplay is relatively fun, there is some skill involved such as trying to stop the cart at specific points so your towers can tank the damage whilst your car stays protected. You can trade resources for tower upgrades or repairs, and you want to repair frequently because you lose your materials when they die and your want them taking damage instead of the cart because the map resources cannot be used to repair the cart. There is a fair bit of progression but I haven't played much, I'm hoping to see lots of synergies and tower variety in the late game. I'm also hoping to see rare materials and recipies too but I wouldnt expect it. You progress by doing ever harder maps which unlock the next in a chain but you are free to return to older maps at any time to farm more resources to cook into meals to generate gold for updates if the game gets too hard. Shopping is very simplified, you are presented a price adjust, sliding this changes the number on the top which represents customer satisfaction so you want to min max your money per meal and reputation gained per sale. You can also season your meals to better suit the customer needs but you wont always have the right seasoning or slots. A simple request is a customer wants salty in a meal which doesnt have the salt attribute, you can adjust that. Visuals are actually stunning in my opinion, very clean and clear art style.

开火车转圈塔防，按空格可以加速，按F可以熄火停车收集材料。 现在有捆绑包，一份的钱可以买到2个塔防游戏，不知道是长期活动还是短期活动。甚至捆绑包比单买本体还便宜3毛钱。 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/59067/Kill_Time_Tower_Defense/

一款融合了塔防+模拟经营+肉鸽，不错的小游戏，玩法简单易上手，画风建模也不粗制滥造，总体还算不错。

在《舌尖上的魔术师》的故事里，家园破碎，世界上只剩下莫名其妙的主角和那个会一直转圈圈的魔能车！游戏里我们就要跟着这个魔能车一路探索、采集、烹饪、摆摊、造防御塔、打小怪兽，直到解救这片被魔晶石污染了的世界。 游戏画风相当可爱，无论是场景、角色建模、小怪物建模都相当的Q版可爱，在这种画风下游玩起来再紧张的战斗都紧张不起来。加上简单的操作方式和游戏机制，游玩起来格外舒适。 游戏的故事有着较为简单但却王道的剧情，我们仅需根据大地图一处一处的探索下去。每进入一个新场景就给我们的魔能车建造上各种防御塔或者功能建筑，然后在它不断转圈采集和打怪的过程中，留意车上建筑的更换、升级和维修即可。魔能车自然会将地图上的资源采集起来，我们在空闲之余顺路在魔法CD到达的时候扔扔魔法就大体能轻松通关。 区域场景通关的时候大体会给予我们宝箱作为奖励，里面会有各种资源或者图纸，这些都是能让我们变得更强的凭仗。在资源足够的时候我们还能在营地进行烹饪，制作获得的各种食物还能带到幸存者集市去摆摊销售。游戏的摆摊销售是一个讨价还价的过程，有那么几分《牧场物语 来吧！风之繁华集市》的摆摊样式。摆摊获得的金币还能在神像处给魔能车升级，或者解锁更多的图纸，让我们的实力更强。 整体而言，《舌尖上的魔术师》是一款玩法机制丰富，画风可爱，操作简单的模拟经营休闲塔防游戏，从游戏性来说游戏还是相当不错的，目前销量不咋的应该是游戏发行不大给力的原因，游戏价格不贵，各位游戏荒的小伙伴还是可以入手试玩一下的。 [quote]欢迎关注我们的鉴赏家:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402982/]走心评测[/url] ←遵从内心，写出真实感受 欢迎加入我们Steam组:[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ZXPC]走心评测[/url]←点击加入，一起探索游戏的乐趣 喜欢这篇评论，也麻烦点个赞，让更多人能够看到！[/quote]

fun/funny concept, but very bad design and balancing, lot of physics glitches/issues, and genuinely just... not playable. Also, portions of the game and instructions are not yet english translated.

火车头后面的车厢可以升级炮塔，小火车转圈打怪收集资源，收集完晚上做饭，摆摊卖了赚钱。 玩法整合的很独特。 建议自定义烹饪的时候能一键放入食材。 建议设置菜单里的英文都翻译成中文，角色名也建议翻译成中文。 烹饪允许把书放进锅里消耗没问题吗，不会BUG吗？

混搭多种元素的类列车防守游戏，比如有炮守，建造，烹饪，经商等。列车在资源足够的时候可以加长，其上可以放置各种大炮以应对这个奇幻大陆的魔物；如果能生存下来，可以将收集到的奖励带回家制作食物开店以逐渐获得收益。 当然，艰难的冒险可以有旖旎的风光调剂；游戏有风光各异的景色，从火山到雪地再到绿油油的森林，失败颓废的时候，就在其间摸鱼下休息下收拾下心情再卷土重游。 还有，激战的间隙，小镇居民的慰问也是很好犒劳的方式；带着制作的美食，撑起小店的棚子，来往的居民不仅是客户也能给予咱暖心的肯定，翻车破塔再苦再累也是值得的。 最后，多变的头目也是游戏的重头戏，难？不存在的，相信自己勇敢做自己，用自己的办法解决各样强敌，那种满足只有咱们自己去体验，只可亲测难以言传。 结语，感谢作者顶着各样压力为游戏界添砖加瓦，愿你的生活也如舌尖上的魔术师，终将迎来胜利的曙光，成为手尖上的游术师！

有点意思，塔防玩起来挑战性还行，从简单慢慢到难，也不会很劝退

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