Creature Kitchen

쫄보라 고릴라 나오는 부분에서 몇 번 놀랐지만.. 그래픽도 귀엽고 재밌게 했어요 ㅎㅎ 마지막 엔딩에서는 오열 ㅜㅜ 다 깼지만 계속 할거에요

Really lovely creepy/cute game with one large issue and one small issue. In the realm of good stuff, aside from one large detractor, the atmosphere is really lovely. It gives a really nice late night vibe (I'd have put a little windy-rainy in there personally, but you do get some lightning), especially if you decide to pop the radio on here and there. The environment is small but does the job of creating a sort of backyard of wonder atmosphere quite well. The graphical design, aside from that big ol' detractor I mentioned earlier, is also quite nice. It's lightly fried, which I think is the ideal graphical cook for a game like this, just a wee bit pixely and smooth. Except... Yes, we should talk about... IT... The fact that there's no widescreen support. From what I could glean on the related forums, this was a stylistic choice, and while that's obviously fair, I have to say, I personally HATED it. Were there enough content, I could have easily fried pieces of pixel bacon for hours on end, but each time I saw the massive black rectangles on either side of my screen, I cringed. It seems like this would be something from a horror-horror game, where your view was pinched in order to add to an unpleasant sense of claustrophobia. In a cute/creepy situation though, it just served to blunt any coziness that was otherwise trying to come through. To a MUCH lesser extent, it's like playing the new Hollow Knight. Story is still GREAT, environment is still GREAT, but there's this... STUFF. In the case of Silksong, it was the insistence upon difficulty to the eventual detriment of atmosphere (I just can't be irritated AND going, "Cool!" at the same time). In the case of Creature Kitchen, it's those big black rectangles to the left and the right of my viewport. As far as I'm concerned, they ain't got no alibi. The only other potential negative is the length, and that's really going to depend on your personal preferences. I like to try and squeeze at least an hour of entertainment out of each dollar spent on a given game, so this one being 100% achieved in about 4 hours only made it about halfway there. I essentially knew that going in though, neither the game nor the reviews attempt to hide its length, just something to be aware of. For all my complaining about rectangles and length, I think it's still super worth playing. It's aggressively pleasant and super late night vibey in a very warm and friendly way, and if you just put on a pair of horse blinders you maybe won't even notice the aspect ratio.