There are few issues on this world that deliver folks collectively fairly like a home-cooked meal. Breaking bread round a desk, reminding us of what issues most – connection, group, and household. Dosa Divas, the newest recreation from Outerloop Video games, makes use of that theme as a base and mixes in a touch of company quick meals takedown, a sprinkling of mech customization, and a handful of scrumptious turn-based RPG goodness to ship what’s shaping as much as be a pleasant deal with with loads of coronary heart.
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In Dosa Divas, you play as sisters Amani and Samara, working to take down a big quick meals empire with the help of their customizable Spirit Mech companion, which they trip round in. Throughout this yr’s Summer season Video games Fest, I had an opportunity to take a seat down and get a small style of the sport. A lot of my time was spent battling company goons, harvesting components, and getting ready meals for the villagers. The cooking theme has seeped its method into almost each side of the sport, from its aspect quests to its fight, and performs a key function in therapeutic and transferring on from previous pains, in addition to reconnecting.
Adopting methods from many beloved RPGs, together with the timed fight of Paper Mario, with the boosting and elemental guard break mechanics from Octopath Traveler, Dosa Divas’ fight manages to really feel each acquainted and recent on the identical time. As a substitute of your extra anticipated elemental attributes, resembling hearth, ice, or wind, Dosa — holding with the meals motif — as an alternative options taste profiles as their varied attributes, resembling spicy, salty, bitter, or candy, as a number of examples. Each has its personal cute little image related to it, and I discovered this all to be such a artistic and intuitive method to maintain the cooking theme entrance and middle whereas not reinventing the wheel of a mechanic that many RPG gamers are conversant in. And being cooks themselves, it solely is smart that their weapons of selection are additionally cooking instruments, together with a badass spatula nunchuck.
The sisters aren’t alone, nonetheless, touring round in Goddess, their spirit mech that jogs my memory of the Trotmobiles within the PS2 RPG, Steambot Chronicles. Goddess doesn’t simply aid you get round, although, as it is going to additionally assist out the sisters in fight. However maybe essentially the most attention-grabbing a part of this spirit mech is the choices gamers must customise each its coloration scheme and its armaments. I’m somebody who wholeheartedly believes that mechs could make something higher, so their inclusion in Dosa Divas solely serves to make me extra excited for this recreation, and the truth that I fiddle round and tweak it’s icing on the cake. Whether or not or not Goddess can really make cake, nonetheless, stays to be seen.
Even from this early look, it was clear that one of many large themes in Dosa Divas is how meals brings folks collectively, which is one thing that I wholeheartedly imagine. As you discover the totally different areas within the recreation, you can see varied components in recipes to cook dinner for people dwelling within the close by village. Townsfolk, identical to actual folks, every have totally different tastes and preferences and would require you to provide you with totally different recipes and collect components to meet their requests. On the floor, this will not be too mechanically totally different from a typical merchandise supply miniquest, however maybe it is as a result of I like to cook dinner; I discover delivering meals to folks much more charming and significant, which provides to Divas’ general enchantment.
Even with its seemingly strong RPG mechanics, what has actually caught with me essentially the most with Dosa Divas is its message and theme, and the way properly the staff at Outerloop Video games has blended all of it collectively. I really like the spatula nunchucks, I am additionally down for some customizable mech goodness, and what’s to not love about smacking round some corpo-flunkies, however the concept of connecting folks via their stomachs simply speaks to me on a deeper degree. I am desirous to get my fingers on the total recreation when it is launched subsequent yr. Hopefully, the staff will embrace precise recipes for all of the scrumptious meals from the sport in order that I can attempt my hand at them myself.
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Dosa Divas launches subsequent yr on Steam and consoles.