Otherwise, it’s a fairly hands-off experience. Outside the kitchen, you can also choose responses to conversations, but your decisions don’t seem to have any broader effect. If you make a mistake, the game encourages you to try again, and there are no consequences for messing something up (unlike cooking outside the console). The puzzles are fun to solve, and not difficult, with generous clues skilfully written in the characters’ voices. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Unfortunately, there’s no touchscreen capability, but the controls are sharp enough in Venba that it didn’t detract from our enjoyment. It ranges from placing things in the right order, to repeating certain steps a few times, to managing temperature. The cooking method is moving a cursor to pick up and put down ingredients and utensils. You might have to fill in the blanks, or decipher a diagram, in order to cook the dish. It’s an old book, though, and pages are sometimes torn or covered in smudges from years in the kitchen. The core gameplay is looking through Venba’s mother’s cookbook and following the recipes. You won’t find such an emotional plot in Cooking Mama, and the gastronomy here is more puzzle-like than dextrous. Comparisons will be made to Cooking Mama but they aren’t accurate. This may look like a cooking game but it’s more a story game with cooking mechanics. It begins not long after Venba and Paavalan have moved from India to Canada, and charts their lives as they struggle to find work, adjust to a new country, and raise Kavin in a way that meets his desire to fit in with his friends while keeping his roots intact. Visai Studios has dished up a title that takes you through the life of a woman named Venba, her husband Paavalan, and their son Kavin. Those are the ingredients of Venba, and mixed together – and topped with a reference to Ratatouille – they form a wonderful narrative-led game that had us wanting seconds. Here’s a recipe for a good game: a meaty cross-cultural story, a dash of delicious food, and a dollop of fun, cosy gameplay.
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