Pure soul... This is probably the comfiest game I've ever played. The pixel art is gorgeous for the character portraits, conveying the right amounts of personality for each of the 2hu characters you meet. This game also has an unexpectedly amazing soundtrack, with tons of incredible remixes of classic 2hu themes such as Lunatic Princess, Maiden's Capriccio, EoSD's Stage 3 theme, and more.
The gameplay loop of gathering ingredients, talking to the 2hu's, and hosting your izakaya at night has not gotten old after 60+ hours. Simple at a first glance, going for max profit each night really tests your knowledge of the customers you get. The system of planning a unique meal for the 2hu's from a vague list of preferences they give you makes it lots of fun to decipher what dish would be most optimal for them based on their personalities alone. Giving a 2hu max satisfaction for their meal and watching their spell card animations play, accompanied by a usually helpful buff, never got old.
Playing this game can be fun on a casual level, but going the extra effort to optimize profit via checking customer's specific tags, spell cards, and planning out multiple spell card effects combo-ing into each other added so much to the experience for me. Before optimizing, I only made around 5-10k per night at my Level 3 izakaya, but now I make 30-40k on average after slowly learning how the game's mechanics worked. The pace of managing your Izakaya and serving customers can speed up drastically depending on the strategies you create. You can either carry the brunt of the management on your own via pre-cooking foods to preemptively feed incoming customers, or you can hire assistants to serve drinks and foods to lessen the workload for you. Your options are surprisingly expansive for the seemingly simple gameplay you are presented with within the first few hours.
The game's difficulty is centered moreso on creating strategies on how to get the most amount of money per day, as each workday comes with it's share of expenses on ingredients, paying worker salaries, and other features I won't spoil. The actual debt payments are only really an issue near the beginning when your options are much more limited compared to later on. The main story does have some tricky bosses later on, not even counting the new DLC bosses the two expansions added, so the game is definitely not a walk in the park.
The translation is a bit wonky, but the amount of content you get for only 6 bucks (???) + the DLC is insane. The main story took me 60+ hours to complete, and I haven't even touched the DLC content at all. An all time favorite now, and was honestly worth playing through the Touhou games just so I could immerse myself in this game even more.
The gameplay loop of gathering ingredients, talking to the 2hu's, and hosting your izakaya at night has not gotten old after 60+ hours. Simple at a first glance, going for max profit each night really tests your knowledge of the customers you get. The system of planning a unique meal for the 2hu's from a vague list of preferences they give you makes it lots of fun to decipher what dish would be most optimal for them based on their personalities alone. Giving a 2hu max satisfaction for their meal and watching their spell card animations play, accompanied by a usually helpful buff, never got old.
Playing this game can be fun on a casual level, but going the extra effort to optimize profit via checking customer's specific tags, spell cards, and planning out multiple spell card effects combo-ing into each other added so much to the experience for me. Before optimizing, I only made around 5-10k per night at my Level 3 izakaya, but now I make 30-40k on average after slowly learning how the game's mechanics worked. The pace of managing your Izakaya and serving customers can speed up drastically depending on the strategies you create. You can either carry the brunt of the management on your own via pre-cooking foods to preemptively feed incoming customers, or you can hire assistants to serve drinks and foods to lessen the workload for you. Your options are surprisingly expansive for the seemingly simple gameplay you are presented with within the first few hours.
The game's difficulty is centered moreso on creating strategies on how to get the most amount of money per day, as each workday comes with it's share of expenses on ingredients, paying worker salaries, and other features I won't spoil. The actual debt payments are only really an issue near the beginning when your options are much more limited compared to later on. The main story does have some tricky bosses later on, not even counting the new DLC bosses the two expansions added, so the game is definitely not a walk in the park.
The translation is a bit wonky, but the amount of content you get for only 6 bucks (???) + the DLC is insane. The main story took me 60+ hours to complete, and I haven't even touched the DLC content at all. An all time favorite now, and was honestly worth playing through the Touhou games just so I could immerse myself in this game even more.