Buffet Knight - Decadent Full Course

Wow an amazingly designed game. It's a mix between Kirby and Zelda and I think it hit the mark perfectly. The adventure is well thought-out and has plenty of upgrades to find. The puzzles are pretty good. Of course the music is on point too. Hard to believe this is an RPG maker game. My one complaint is that you can overwrite your save during the ending, making you unable to go back and get the remaining achievements in that save. But very cool game!

A respectable, appropriately priced action adventure: think Zelda: Link to the Past + Kirby's Dreamland. Soundtrack is 8-bit NES style. I'll keep this short. Gameplay is top-down, gameplay is inhaling enemies and the environment as ammo to shoot back at enemies. There are five dungeons that can be approached in any order, each with a level gimmick that turns into a permanent power-up when the dungeon is over. There's a handful of things to explore and bypass using said power-ups, and there's a sort of EXP system for eating things that you can invest into stats for yourself: health, ammo capacity, inhale speed + range, and ability to inhale bigger and sturdier objects. Is this game of the year? Of course not, but it's definitely one of the more fleshed-out offerings you can find for such a cheap default price at $5 USD. I played it for around 6 hours, and I could probably squeeze another couple of hours out of it if I bothered to get 100%, which I don't really plan to do. There are actually multiple endings too, and it probably doesn't take too much time investment past the first ending to get the rest (I also didn't do this.) Overall, this is alright. Nothing spectacular, but be…

I only played a tiny bit of the game. But I can already tell it's not for me. This game is like Kirby meets Zelda. Eat things, shoot the food at enemies. Go on a grand adventure. It's very railroady at the start, but I imagine it opens up. I'm recommending it based on what I saw, and based on knowing that a lot of friends will enjoy it, even though I didn't. For instance, the controls are 100% remappable, even on PC, despite what the games one negative review states. You don't have to play directional keys, Thank gods. If the controls weren't remappable, I would've given it a negative. Because that's really bad for accessibility. My favourite option in the settings besides this, is the ability to turn off talking sounds. You know how a lot of these games will play a noise every time a letter comes up? (Why do games do this? It's so annoying!) Well, this game let's you turn that off. The music is cute, the characters are cute. The writing so far is cute. You push boulders, you suck boulders toward you with your incredible lung capacity. You avoid traps and kill enemies. The combat is top down dodge and shoot. Shift(Default) to strafe (move while pointing the same direction) Tha…

A fun, light-hearted action adventure game about eating everything in sight. I like that every action ties back to eating - it's how you attack, fill your item dex, level up and interact with many of the puzzles. With secrets to find, reasonably tuned difficulty (at least on hard) and a few customization options to change things up, I found myself enjoying the game from beginning to end. The narrative is simple and sparse, though some of its beats hit better than others (commenting on bad working conditions at the fast food factory at one point, then killing tribal-coded humanoid acorn enemies in another).

Pretty good game! It's exactly what it looks like on the cover: Silly, lighthearted fun where you go around on a wacky adventure, great for anybody who wants a relaxing little romp through a goofy world where nothing is that deep. The combat's on the easy side and it only gets easier the farther you get [especially if you like exploring], but the puzzles are actually solid to even really hard at times; I can only imagine the first person to ever find the secret boss took a good few hours trying to figure out the like seven step mystery to it. Or maybe I'm just stupid and missed something for said boss, that's also possible. Best way I have to describe this game for people who want to know what they're getting into is it's like if Gamefreak made a 2d zelda game starring Kirby instead of link (just without the lore a normal kirby game has), since it really does feel like a lot of the design ethos of Kirby can be felt in this game. It's not even because both have inhalation as a key mechanic, either. The game's really easy to get into but has a shocking bit of depth to it, especially if you want to go for 100% like me. Lastly, if you're somebody like me who enjoys doing achievements …

I received Buffet Knight - Decadent Full Course from the developer through the Steam Curator Connect program about a year ago, and I apologize for not giving it a try sooner, since it's pretty neat. In short, it's a bite-sized (pun intended) top-down Zelda-like if you were playing one as Kirby, and I had a better time with it then with any Zelda game. It's also probably the most interesting game I've received a review copy of. You play as the titular Buffet Knight, a weird little purple dude with a mouth, a knight helmet, and no other distinguishing features. After hearing stores from his grandma about her time as a knight and her search for the fabled "Divine Taste", the greatest flavor in the world, he decided to follow in her footsteps. But on the day he completes his training as a knight and is invited to a banquet at Gourmet Castle, the evil Demon Chef attacks and steals all the kingdom's food! Buffet Knight sets out on a quest to retrieve the stolen food stores and face the Demon Chef. To get there, you'll need to explore varied nearby lands, each with its own dungeon, enemies, puzzles, upgrades and accessories, and of course- things to eat. Eating things and then spitt…