Bait-and-switch visual novel Cooking Companions, which first launched on PC back in 2021, is serving up a PS5 and PS4 port.
The seemingly cutesy romantic adventure, which has a similar twist to Doki Doki Literature Club, actually comes with a content warning.
“This game may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy,” it reads. “Viewer discretion is advised. This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.”
While we haven’t played the game ourselves just yet, we’re going to assume you can read the title in two ways: cooking companions or cooking companions. Surely you get where we’re going with this!
The game’s due out on 29th April, and there’ll even be a limited edition physical version for the PS5, featuring an illustrated inner coversheet, a lenticular kitchen conversion card, glitter sticker sheet, and reversible chipboard standees. You can pre-order that through here.
Will you be cooking companions later this month? Remember to add seasoning in the comments section below.
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Seemed fair and while not my thing, seeing the content warning, I am sick to death of trends like this. For someone out there it's fine.
Surprised no Push Square readers were interested or enough to comment.
Even Raging Loop I just went nope this is dumb, they could try to escape but want to follow through on it and kill the rest. Danganronpa was kind of similar but it had more charm to it that Raging Loop for me didn't have. I don't find them immersive and some dialogue/gameplay works, others don't.
Oh look at us, look how unoriginal we are because we see things and have to try it.
There is putting a spin on something and blatant lackluster inspiration. As in enough to change it to not get sued, wow what great game design you spent making.
No wonder prototyping with random ideas just doesn't happen anymore because no one has an imagination anymore just whatever others do, not something random to come up with from core design or any material, any scenario and make it into something.
It's always oh my experience camping/rock climbing got to put that in a video game. Like why should I care.
Yeah but what are you offering with it I don't want an experience I want good story telling/gameplay not your experience or your culture, wrap it in something interesting. Sadness.
It's why so many overseas games I can respect them sharing their culture, but the gameplay is so who cares I don't care to ever play them.
But my expectations for games are probably too high yes but it's because of how bland many have gotten.
Even PS3/360 sure a lot of trend following but the gameplay was still good enough to still sell you on them.
Nowadays I find the ceiling is more accessible but also more boring gameplay wise as a result, the gameplay sucks in many of these games the mechanics/movesets, modes, settings are so bland and boring.
There is making books to movies talking pictures and conversions to games being movies but with a controller and I just go eh, as I know gameplay wise they can be better but are so dumbed down I can't be bothered.
They feel like graphics/writing first and gameplay is just 'there'. Even in games that aren't text adventures/visual novels/point and clicks many other genres feel so RPG like or bland adventure games besides the puzzles or other things or if they even have any.
It's like when I understood how some genres get broken down how complex some are and how dumbed down others are, it made them look even more pathetic by what they remove and what they don't replace just enough with.
Visual novels differ but it's how they go about it of choices, of themes, of maps, minigames, etc.
Danganronpa to me has a stupid world that has so many plot holes but people enjoy it and I see why, besides the character tropes, humour, and more is a fair game series with it's gameplay, it's mystery and while it varies how much it works on you it is enjoyable. I own the games, I still like the series, doesn't mean I don't see the plot holes or don't hate parts of it besides what I like about it.
I found Doki Doki Lit Club to be so pathetic when I saw footage from visual novel Youtubers even before it got popular so you can tell I really didn't like it then, and once it got popular I cared even less. To me it takes parody in an uninteresting direction I find.
Wow it's so meta with a typical high school romcom, word minigames & horror, wow what a twist.
Unless earned of sadness/etc. not impressed. Not shock factor bait.
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