Hi there!
I'm one of the 6 judges for this RPG Maker Game Jam 2025. I was one of the 2 judges assigned to your game, and we have been assigned to rate your games according to each metric highlighted on the game's main jam page, and submit these ratings to the organisers, who will then appropriate what happens with that. Please contact them in the Q&A if you have any further questions about the judging process. The judges will work on different time schedules, so even if I may have finished playing your game, the entire process might not be finished as of yet. Many of these reviews I am posting while still judging.
All that aside, I'd like to share my VOD of me playing your game, which contains up to an hour of gameplay, and some final thoughts at the end! Depending on whether I stopped the VOD early or not, it will also contain many of the thoughts that I say to you below, which may cause repetition. So just be aware of that.
I will also attach a review below this VOD. I will not disclose my ratings for each category as of yet, but those will be revealed in due time. Not all judges are required to post a review or VOD to each game, but many will do so even if it's optional, including myself.
Here's the VOD:
I have a biased towards cooking in games. I looooooove cooking in games, and I admit that I love that. Overcooked, PlateUp!, Restaurant Simulator - I love any game where you make food, as long as it's done well. But only if it's done well.Well? In this game it's done very well. This game is a banger. Absolute banger. Polished all-round, with great graphics, with awesome story, delivery mechanics, upgrade mechanics, harvesting of birds and mushrooms (lol) and getting the orders right in the right order.
Great music, great graphics... it's hard to have anything bad to say about this game except that when expanded, it could be more flexible about orders, e.g. doing different orders for different visitors, instead of having them all the same. But for a jam game, that's a great scope decision to make the dishes all one thing so that you can actually finish this thing.
Here the dynamism that's usually afforded when trying to cook different meals for different people, is in just judging how much of each ingredient you're making so you can balance work, per se.
Wonderful portraits, voice acting, and a good story hook of trying to "prove the person wrong about your small town business" by just making good food. It's a great story hook, a fun little story that's cutely done. I want to see more! I don't have much criticism about this game. It's just a wonder all-round! Great commercial potential. Lovely all-round. Not many notes other than that! Excellent.
Every game's a gift, and keep making these awesome games <3