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Battle Chef Brigade (2017)

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Battle Chef Brigade combines competitive cooking and dungeon crawling on November 20.
Battle Chef Brigade is like next-level farm-to-table cooking. You play a chef in a culinary competition where you slay monsters, hack them up for ingredients, and solve puzzles in the kitchen to create succulent dishes. Part puzzler and part action-platformer, it’s the third title from Trinket Studios. Publisher Adult Swim Games will serve it up on PC and the Nintendo Switch on November 20 for $20.

The surreal premise makes sense in the fantasy world Victusia. You can choose to play the single-player campaign as either Mina or Thrash, who are both trying to win a tournament that looks like a magical version of Iron Chef. When you’re hunting and brawling with beasties, you’ll traverse dark dungeons, lush forests, and islands in the sky. Back at the stove, the main mechanic seems to be something more akin to a match-3 game as you cook up dragon hearts and assemble dishes for the judges to taste.

The title’s been cooking for over three years now. Trinket raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter for Battle Chef Brigade back in 2014. It’s taken so long to release partly because of the art, which was hand drawn. It’s got a lovely aesthetic with soft pastel colors in the background. The vistas and overall look draw inspiration from Studio Ghibli and Studio Trigger (Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia), especially the mouthwatering animated dishes.

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