Bistro Days

Boring.

All the routes are fun, but Lily is best girl.

[h1]Spoiler Free Review![/h1] I'd heard mixed things about Bistro Days, but the nice quality artwork and cute premise drew me in nonetheless. It does have very minor drawbacks, but overall it's a thumbs up from me. Let's dive into why! The artwork is indeed very appealing to look at (especially the food art!). When it comes to the backgrounds, there are various scenes that could have done with a new bespoke background, but instead, the shot simply zooms to a smaller portion of the same one. This doesn't entirely set the scene in some instances, but then as a game dev myself, I completely understand how expensive and time consuming art creation can be, so I can't exactly fault them for getting as much use out of a small bank of content as possible. The backgrounds themselves are lovely and colourful. The sprites are where the artwork really shines - they're detailed, with plenty of facial expressions, and the fact that they all blink independently of each other during conversations adds an extra nice feel to things. There's good use of movement with the sprites too, so it does feel like you're interacting with people as opposed to just looking at a bunch of images. The sou…

This is a nice story about an aspiring (but as of yet, unsuccessful) food blogger who is invited to be a part of a cooking competition, and has to work together with one of the girls to make a winning recipe. The story isn't too impressive or exciting, but it is solid, and each route has two endings depending on if you helped the girl of her choice overcome her issues. It also has great pictures of food and cute CG's of the girls, so that's a nice bonus.

A very sweet visual novel featuring cafes, cooking and cats. Whilst I've only completed one path so far, I can say it's been a very nice story. The graphics are lovely - both characters (which are partially animated) and CGs too There are a few grammatical errors near the start, but they don't distract from anything. Well worth getting and playing, even if it's just for the food.

It's such a cute and fun little game. Love the characters and the story! I hope the creators make more visual novel games like this as I just feel so sad that there's no more Bistro Days to play. Definitely my favorite VN game I've ever played.