Review: Battle Chef Brigade (PlayStation 4)
Battle Chef Brigade pairs combo-based hunting and puzzle-based cooking in a hand-drawn, fantasy adventure. Cook your way into the Brigade while subduing Victusia’s destructive monsters.
Pros:
- Anime graphics, Looks wonderful.
- 2.07GB Download size.
- Colorblind option.
- Can rebind buttons.
- Four modes-Story, Daily cook-off, Local MP and Challenges.
- Tutorial in story mode.
- Gameplay- Mashes many genres together but in a nutshell, you enter cooking competitions, Go outside to kill creatures who drop ingredients then make the dish by playing a match 3 style game. Get scored by judges and win! (Hopefully)
- Story- Two difficulties, Normal or hard, Six chapters, Take part in tournaments, do side missions and earn cash.
- Surprisingly satisfying gameplay.
- Fully voiced characters.
- Can skip cutscenes.
- 14 Trophies.
- Puzzle modes.
- Fast loading.
- Autosaves regularly.
- Learn new modes as you encounter them.
- Loadout- Combat, Cooking, and cookware. Buy/earn items to put in these slots to affect the game board/stats etc.
- Shop- Where you buy said items.
- In game cutscenes.
- Mashes genres together so well.
Cons:
- Screen ratio is a tiny bit off with no options to fix it.
- A tiny bit of slowdown and screen tearing.
- Gets tedious in places.
- Little replay value for the single player.
- Short story mode.
- A lot to take in.
- As soon as you grasp one method, Another one will appear.
