2023-08-26 17:15:39
Do you remember ‘Teamfight Manager’, who becomes the manager of an e-sports club and runs the team? Although it was a small-scale work developed by two brothers, it is a game that has attracted the attention of many gamers with its solid system and contents. It spread through word of mouth and has received more than 4,000 very positive Steam reviews so far. The developer Tim Samoyed said in an interview at the time that he set aside everything else and said that he was aiming to make a fun game unconditionally. Now, about two years later, at BIC 2023, we were able to meet their new work ‘Kitchen Crisis. A game where you have to satisfy aliens.” As can be seen from the strange combination of keywords kitchen and alien, from the moment I first encountered the new work, I felt that it was definitely out of the ordinary. If the previous work, Team Fight Manager, focused on the well-organized management elements and melted down the e-sports elements while adding Team Samoyed’s own colors, this work seems to have completely reinterpreted the defense genre and rebuilt it from scratch. First of all, the game has a pretty unique setting in which the player, captured by aliens, cooks and satisfies the aliens in order to protect humanity. As a defense genre game, the dish has the concept of a tower attacking enemies. What’s special here is that it doesn’t just end with the arrangement of the dishes, it’s that you have to trim the ingredients according to the recipe and go through several cooking methods before the tower called Cuisine can attack enemies. If you cook and put it on the shelf, it’s like a drive-thru, and alien customers pass by and eat and satisfy themselves. He said that the name of the game, Kitchen Crisis, was also made to express the story and gameplay situation in which the main character who was kidnapped had to provide food quickly. The more complex the recipe is, the more satiety the guest will feel when they eat it, but it is necessary to have the equipment to prepare the dish and organize the flow. Unlike typical tower defense games where you can break it properly by simply placing towers with high attack power, Kitchen Crisis requires you to defend while calculating the equipment that will allow your towers to function properly. It had a big difference from existing tower defense games that are played like idle games simply by installing. Nam Hyun-bin, developer, said about this, “As I tried to create something new this time, as in previous games, there are many parts that I can refer to among existing games. “I didn’t,” he said, revealing the difficulties of development. There was a difficulty in that you had to solve it yourself when you ran into a problem, but I think an original work was born as a result because I went through this process. What I felt while experiencing the game was the looseness, which is one of the chronic regrets of existing tower defense games. That it didn’t feel great. This is because the process of preparing new recipes and arranging kitchen tools suitable for them is repeated to satisfy the aliens that become stronger as the stages progress. Cooking is automatically made, but in the end, it is the player’s responsibility to efficiently plan the route, so the efficiency of defense varies greatly depending on how the kitchen tools are arranged. In addition, there were many strategic elements to collect gold and strengthen ingredients or kitchen tools, so there were a lot of things to think about.On the other hand, there are many recipes, but there are restrictions on strengthening, so there are concerns that the recipes may become fixed in the second half. I did. Regarding this, he said that he is designing to induce as many different recipe builds as possible so that it does not become fixed. Since it is currently a demo version, there are not many options, but he said that he is thinking about making his own creative build. Developer Nam Hyun-bin said, “As many gamers get to know us, their expectations will grow. We hope to live up to those expectations. I will try to make a fun game so that you can enjoy it.” Kitchen Crisis is currently halfway developed, and like the previous game, it will be officially released on both PC (Steam) and Nintendo Switch platforms without going through the Early Access stage. The current game is available on the BIC official website until September 14th. You can try the demo version, so if you are looking for a game in the unique tower defense genre, we recommend giving it a try.
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