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The Tale of Food - Husbandos are FOOD GODS?!

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The Tale of Food is an interesting game, which reminded me quit a lot of another game called Food Fantasy, but with more husbandos. There seems to be quite a lot of story in this game, with a lot of dialogue to read.

Sadly there is very little voice acting in the game, so if you want to invest yourself into the story, I suggest you enjoy a lot of reading. The combat in this game is pretty interesting, you just have to swipe across the screen to move, and when you enter combat, you just select the party members icon at the bottom of the screen and select an attack or support ability there. And then press attack afterwards.

Of course you can also just select the auto travel and auto attack to have the game do all the combat and mission traveling for you. Usually I don't like that so much, but for such simple combat mechanics, it feels pretty okay for this game.

There is also a kitchen and restaurant part to this game, though there isn't much hands on with that feature. You just assign one of your food Gods to do the cooking, only one can be chosen during the early stages of the game, and then you choose a food item for them to make. All ingredients for the kitchen will be provided for by the farm that you also own. So you just have to go to the farm section, click on the items that need harvesting, and then the kitchen will cook the food there.

Cooking food isn't a quick process either. You need to either speed it up by using items, or have to wait out the time. Once the food is cooked you also just select it, and it will go direct to the restaurant. In the restaurant you don't have to do much, except choose what food to put on the menu. The guests will get fed automatically based on what you put on the menu. And that's about it for the kitchen.

The Gacha system is pretty straight forward, you just select the current banner you have an interest in, and then summon your husbandos. I was given some free summoning tokens, so I was able to do a x10 summon from the beginning, and I did get some pretty interesting husbando characters. Visually the game looks pretty solid. I like the artwork a lot more than with the other husbando game I played recently, Obey Me! Nightbringer. The character art looked a lot more clean with their line art, and didn't look so sketchy in the design.

The live 2D when conversing was pretty good too, just a shame there was almost no voice acting to go with the nice live 2D visuals. Overall I'd say that The Tale of Food is an interesting husbando collection game with some funny names for characters, since they're all mainly named after food. The combat is okay if you want to just do other things while grinding out the progression, but I don't think this is the game for me since it's not the type of game I usually go for. But if you enjoy these types of husbando collector games, you should give it a try.

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