Marenian Tavern Story: Patty and the Hungry God

So I'm not one to write reviews but I was so unhappy with this game I needed to share. Do not spend full price on this game. If it ever goes on sale for like $5 then go ahead and try it out. Basically the whole game is go into an area (one area per day) forge/ battle for ingredients, go back to the tavern and try to make some stuff out of what you gathered, open tavern, go to bed, repeat day. Basically its like the Android version but more expensive and a different story line. If you want to play this game I would recommend trying it on your phone first since its cheaper.

The story is good, the chars are sweet and the game looks nice. Its fun gathering the resources and making some nice dishes with it. Watching the money rolling in. EDIT: They fixed the fullscrreen problem. We can now use fullscreen. Thats why i added brrackets to my original BUT-post (BUT! the resolution of the game is very smal and there is NO option to change it! Its like a game from 15 years ago! The game has been made with Unity so there shouldn´t be any problem to have some options to change to full screen or a bigger res than 640x480 in window only mode. For people with big monitors there should be problems.)

(Please note that I've sunk an additional 15 hours into this game for the Switch and iOS/Android versions, so some of my review is based on the game across all versions). Version Differences: -The iOS/Android version is cheaper, but requires more grinding as there is a premium currency available for purchase in this version (jewels, which are handed out much, much more freely in the Switch and PC versions, whereas they trickle in in the phone one. The game appears to be fully beatable without spending jewels, however, just like its predecessor.) -The Switch and PC versions have higher resolution graphics, and the loading times are faster, although still present. Review: Overall, this game is worth getting if you want a laid-back RPG you can play to relax. It encourages experimentation, and critical thinking in the cooking portion of the game. (For example, if you know how to make Pickled Cucumber, using cucumbers and salt, you can easily apply that knowledge to make Pickled Eggplant ...

This is an entire RPG based around one cooking minigame and I've played so, so many hours of it. If you're a completionist, this is the game for you. Collect every obscure ingredient, solve every character's goofy anime problems, fight every weird monster, find every recipe or work them out yourself. All it takes is time. I love it. I'm not even sure why. It's so satisfying to figure out recipes and collect fantasy meats and marine grasses and make a million types of tiny pixellated sushi. What's banana liquor? What's carapaccio? I don't know but I've made both and they sell like hotcakes. I think you get to cook with dragon eggs later in the game and I'm genuinely excited. I'm gonna make such a fancy dragon egg sandwich, you guys. I love this game. What the hell.

Each day in the game you pick 1 location on the map to explore and gather ingredients, and then you cook those ingredients to stock up your tavern in the evening. Pros: [list] [*] Attractive, clean anime portraits and great pixel monster designs [*] Some unexpected depth, e.g. you have to switch recipes up regularly or customers get sick of them. There are quite a few secret chests hidden around the game. There are lots of spells to use in combat with various abilities, etc. [*] Lots of milestones which give you rewards - collect 50 recipes, make 10,000g in a single day, fill up your bestiary, etc. Good game for someone who likes to 100%. [/list] Cons: [list] [*] The main issue is that it's very grindy. You need a lot of ingredients to keep your tavern stocked so you spend the majority of the game running around fighting the same monsters over and over and over again. The reason that the grinding isn't fun is because the gameplay is not very engaging. Gathering ingredients is just ...

It is fun, but the sort of grind that only those of us who find repetition soothing while we think of other things can enjoy. If you're really into hitting buttons and knitting at the same time, this is for you! Though, good luck without using a recipe guide. And, I mean this with all sincerity, screw the random jewel drops. You can tell it was designed with a cash shop in mind... Story is cute and unobtrusive, and I love the characters, though. Meandering as this was, I hope it was of help.

It really is a sequel to Rideon's previous game Adventure Bar Story (2012) on iOS. Gameplay and premise is basically the same between both games with an upgrade on the graphics. I'd wait on getting the game when it goes on sale though. Also the keyboard controls are a little weird so it'd be great of there was an option to change keybindings.

Well, I had a more comprehensive review written but Steam wiped it when I switched to a "no" recommendation, so this one will be more concise. Bad English translation, short and shallow story, and a end-game slog of a grind for little reward. What few chuckles the game elicited (usually with Coco) was lost in short paragraphs of weird phrasing and janky storytelling. The crafting and farming subsystems are a waste of time. In game rewards are also useless by the time you get them, and filling the encyclopedia is a chore, since most of the equipment/orbs in game are, again, useless. The graphics are on par with an early PS2 game, with mixed execution. The game feels rushed, empty, and unfinished. Cannot recommend, but if the development team gets their act together their next game might be good.

It is an okay game, the main problem is that. The game's story doesn't really get started until after your restaurant is ranked 10. This takes a long time to do, let alone not enough materials drop. So, it is constantly a slog. My guess is because how this game was originally developed for mobile, so those practices are in play to try and encourage spending. Taking out that portion of it, it left the game just proceeding slowly. I advise if you play this game, to download cheat engine. Find the value for your gems, and lock it at 9999. Buy everything you need, this will help a lot to speed up the game, but not the farming part of it. Anyway, the story revolves around Patty, who runs a restaurant because the God of Poverty created a situation where her father got scammed by Gustav, the antagonist of Adventure Bar Story. Much of the game doesn't really go anywhere, but explains Gustav's part in it. And eventually, it links into Patty's father, and his reason for avoiding his family, an...

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