Bistro Heroes

I have been playing this game for a little over a month now, and I just finished the main (season 1) story. I have to say I like the mechanics and the characters are cute. I love the art style and the food drawings are great! You receive characters as you progress through the story so there’s no gacha involved. The gacha is for cosmetics/skin and a slight stats buff. They all stacks up to give you a bigger boost, which helps with upgrading and progressing the game. You can do some stages that are way higher than your team stats with good play, so that’s a nice challenge. The combat is simple, but it has enough depth to enjoy. Toward mid/end game though, you will be doing roughly one new stage a day depending on how often you have enough income to upgrade your characters. This is where Bistro heroes shines best if you have another game that you play actively. You can come back to this game every hour or later to keep the money flows going. It takes less than a minute to boot up the game and consume all the stamina, which is nice. I hope there is more rewards and things to do for more active players, but as of now Bistro Heroes is best enjoyed casually. The game really opens up on upgrading and fun artifacts to play with after you fight the final boss of the first season, I hope the artifacts system were available a bit earlier. In all this is a game I would recommend to my friends if they look for something light to enjoy on the side that doesn’t take too much effort to play or keep up with.

This game, a small mobile game within the swathes of AAA FPS titles and remasters, is in my opinion the pinnacle of the ‘less is more’ approach in Video Game Design. It provides all the elements a good RPG, if not game, should have: Core Mechanics, Main hook, reward system, story, graphics, characters, so on and so forth. It is by no means the next Final Fantasy or Fire Emblem: Heroes, but that’s because it doesn’t have to be. Bistro Heroes is a game of two girls, in need of a meal, find a food stall in the middle of the forest managed by a silent master chef. In exchange for food and a place to stay, they bring the chef ingredients to cook from their travels to get back to the royal palace. There is a little more than I left out for briefness’ sake, but that is the main synopsis. A simple premise, a simple mechanic, a simple world. And the devs blend it all together to make it a truly wonderful experience. There is no true P2W aspect that I am aware of as of yet, though purchases are still available if desired. Devs, keep up the great work, cause you’ve really have something going here!

I picked up this game thinking it was going to be choc full of copyright free music and bland as sawdust story. I got everything but that! The game’s story is based around a ragtag party of heroes investigating an incident, and while that’s all fine and dandy, the real soul of the game is the mood that arises after a good meal. I’m sure you’ve been there after a good buffet, the table is merry with bubbly joy and raucous laughter. Bistro Heroes captures this feeling so simply and perfectly. Sure, there’s no elegant and detailed animations or award winning portraits (except for the food) but cute and cartoony movement tells you exactly what’s going on. Everything is concise in just the right places (unlike this review); no long dragged out stories, battles, or timers. I especially like the little sound effects and background, not every achievement has to signal a huge fanfare, and there’s no overbearing music to force a mood. It’s just you, your heroes, and a pile of meat skewers.