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You need to collect the right amount of different elements, and also make sure you get the required special ingredient, for the challenge to be complete. There are three elements in Battle Chef Brigade: water, earth and fire. Here you have to beat up enemies and collect their parts, which are used as element-based ingredients. There are dash, magic and normal attacks that all link into each other, and can make for some very SICK combos. This is where the game changes again, and turns into a beat em up akin to Vanilla Ware’s Odin Sphere. Depending on how many people/ingredients you need to cook with, the challenge times can go up to 9 minutes, but with three minutes on the clock you move out to the battlefield. The chef(s) will introduce themselves and tell you what elements of food they like, then immediately a clock pops up and you’re off to the races. Taking on a challenge requires use of a special ingredient ala ‘Iron Chef’. The daily process weaves itself into the story so well, that though in most games these things would be a side quest, they feel integral to Battle Chef Brigade‘s main quest itself. The challenges at the three places all are integral to teaching you ways to improve your cooking and your puzzle solving abilities, before testing you on it for completion. The game is divided into days, so no matter what you take on, you have to do three tasks at specific locations and challenge someone in the city. You can even work at a restaurant, where puzzles can be completed. Through these small interactions with the characters around the town you get to meet the colorful cast that live within the city and also the ones that you’re competing against in the tournament. There’s a woman named Thorn who focuses on teaching you combat techniques, but also occasionally gives you money. You can help the old scientist Melchior learn different ways to affect food for better taste. Around town you come across several characters that you can interact with, that will lead to improvements and new skills to utilize. On a day to day basis you, as Mina, do little side jobs in Capital City to earn some money, using the earnings to buy skills or cooking equipment (there’s a super dope broiler that you can buy).
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The game has an amazingly simple and intuitive way to teach you how to play. The role of a chef in the game’s world is highly regarded, and to become one she has to battle her way through seven other competitors. These chefs are the most revered from around the world, known for using their intellect with food, medicine and science to help others. One day she sneaks out of her house to head to Capital City and attend a competition to join the ranks of the Brigade Chefs. The game is centered around a character named Mina Hann, a woman from a rural town that wants to be a chef but is shackled to her family’s restaurant. I nod my head, “Only the best for us tonight.”īattle Chef Brigade is surprising, not for its individual ingredients, but for how it mixes them together so well. “Bring us the finest wine you have,” I ask very politely.Ī few minutes later, the waiter drops off a copy of Battle Chef Brigade for the Nintendo Switch. The waiter walks by and asks us, “Is there anything else you need for this delicious meal tonight?” On the table in front of us are NieR: Automata, Mario Odyssey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Breath of The Wild and Yakuza 0.
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You and I are sitting at a table, discussing this year’s finest video games. Now imagine, if you will, a gaudy golden dining room with tinted lights. Battle Chef Brigade may very well be one of these games. But sometimes there are these special types of games that come around, taking us on an adventure that we never expected. There come very few times where I feel at a loss for words about a game that I’ve been playing, something that a reviewer should never say. Now that it’s out, Battle Chef Brigade is something I find hard to describe. Soon after the release of the crowd-funding campaign I essentially forgot about the game almost completely, until this year when a new trailer popped up! In it I saw all of the things I want in a game, immediately adding it to my “Games of 2017 to play” list. Battle Chef Brigade initially showed up on my radar when Trinket Studios opened a Kickstarter for the project back in 2014, with a good reason being because the aesthetic is one-hundred percent something that I am a sucker for.