Magical Delicacy

Such a cute little romp. Story is pretty thin, but the art style is so fun. The game offers relaxed, standard, and challenging modes; plus the option to adjust a bunch of setting individually to create your ideal platforming experience. And while the game teaches you the basics of the cooking mechanics, it leaves you a lot of room to experiment and figure out recipes on your own.

Great gameplay and amazing graphics. Completely finished the game and achievements and still itching for more. Absolutely will recommend this game to friends and when meeting new gamers. Love to the devs and artist. <3

A cozy and wonderful game with a great story, charming characters, and beautiful art. The difficulty feels just right, and it quickly became one of the best games I’ve ever played. Highly recommended!

Magical Delicacy is a short and sweet metroidvania style platformer and cozy game that scratches that itch for turn your brain off fun and just follow directions. The town of Grat is fun to explore, and while the story and its citizens aren't the deepest of characters, the general sense of comfort that comes from the game lends itself to a short lived, but fun wave of immersion. I do wish there was a bit more to the cooking elements of the game, and more room to explore different recipes, but at it's price point and getting about twenty-five hours of playtime to platinum and without having any real complaints about the game. I think it is well-worth it, provided you enjoy platforming.

Magical Delicacy was a big surprise for me, especially considering the mixed reviews, which I usually listen to and abstain from buying. I wasn't expecting to love it this much, and I can now say it's one of my favourite games I ever played. I feel like the majority of people who didn't like the game (based on reviews and other online discourse) just didn't know what they were getting into. Magical Delicacy is a cozy, combat-free metroidvania with cooking/crafting elements. It is NOT for everyone. Cozy gamers expecting farming and life sim elements with customization will be disappointed, as well as seasoned gamers looking for a challenging platformer. At its core, Magical Delicacy is about platforming, exploring, collecting ingredients, unlocking abilities and new areas, and trying to cook the right dish for every customer you meet to make the story progress. The cooking mechanic is well executed and really lets you experiment and discover. There are many, many ways to get to the desired result, which makes progression feel less linear. It's rarely punishing. Heck, it even inspired me to learn more about actual real-life cooking! The atmosphere and vibes are really what stuck with me. The art style is gorgeous, and it's paired with a charming and whimsical soundtrack as well as many ethereal locations to discover. The characters you meet are quirky, diverse, and endearing, and will definitely make a lasting impression on you! The main story is engaging and perfectly "witchy". The lore behind Magical Delicacy's world was deep and lovingly crafted. I even read and enjoyed the item descriptions! Something also worth mentioning is that you progress at your own pace. No deadlines and no rush whatsoever. The fact that you don't have to go to sleep at night and unlock different areas at different times of the day makes it way cozier! I also appreciated that the devs added a lot of accessibility features along the way, like an easier gameplay mode where you start with more resources, as well as an "easy platforming" option which removes even more friction while playing. On the other hand, there are also things I wish would have been made differently: - The money/reward system isn't perfect and feels disproportionate at times. - The window shop mechanic wasn't really useful for me, and I didn't feel the need to use it. - Some of the kitchen upgrades weren't necessary, and I ended up paying for wasted space. - The gardening system was underwhelming and could have been more developed. Magical Delicacy definitely isn't a perfect game, but i honestly don't think it needed to be. It gave me exactly the kind of cozy, low-pressure adventure I was looking for, and I ended up loving the world, the characters and the overall vibe way more than I expected. If you're looking for a cozy game that isn't another farming/life sim, and you enjoy exploring, collecting, cooking and uncovering a charming little world at your own pace, I really think it's worth giving a chance!

Un juego cozy con mecanicas de cocina (crafteo) y plataformas. Recomiendo leer las instrucciones sobre las mecanicas ya que tienen su complejidad. En cuanto a las plataformas, no tiene mayor dificultad, pero si llevan un tiempo. La historia es simple pero te va llevando con las misiones. Tiene muy buenas opciones de accesibilidad, que van desde evitar los eventos de reaccion hasta poner tipografia para dislexia. Tiene bellos personajes, aunque sin romance. Tampoco hay eventos de decisiones o parecido, asi que puedes jugar sin preocupaciones de sacar un final malo. Ideal para relajarse

Jogo bom pra relaxar, se tenho uma crítica é que o final deixa a desejar, fica aquela sensação de "é isso?", mas no geral foi uma boa experiência.

It's cute and I'm not MAD at it, but I had to return it because the game was still somehow...too complicated? There's platforming, which I expected, but there's like....a LOT of it. A LOT. I figured that the in-game settings would make it less painful (I have accessibility needs), but it seemed to help minimally, if at all. If anything, it removed some hazards, but the platforming was still egregious. And even with the in-game map, I still got lost a LOT. Multiple maps will have multiple entrances and exits and, like a Metroid-like, it can be really difficult to parse all of the information given. You can purchase the ability to see icons for things like ingredients and vendors a little later down the line, but that doesn't help when it comes to figuring out how to GET to those spots. The cooking system is interesting and I liked it! A lot! But I hated trying to actually GET the ingredients!! And you have to purchase new cooking stations, which wouldn't be so bad if they weren't as expensive as they are. There are quests, in fact, that rely entirely on you getting said cooking stations. And you can't make money outside of quests and breaking tiny jars all over the place until, I assume, you get to a further point in the game. Unfortunately, I couldn't GET to that point because my wrists started screaming from all of the jumping necessary to traverse around. As an example: I needed bread to make sandwiches. Okay, cool. Go to the baker. They don't have BREAD, but they have the RECIPE for bread. Okay! You can only buy it with a currency called feathers, though, which you get by platforming around and opening chests and MAYBE there are feathers inside. Sure. Fine. I hop around left, right, left, up. My wrists are screaming at this point. I find a feather! YES! Return back to the baker and get the recipe for bread!! BUT...I need an oven to make the bread. Go to the blacksmith and I can not, in fact, afford to buy the oven. So I need to break tiny jars all over the place in order to get the money to buy the oven. Most jars will have maybe 3-4 of the currency I need. It's more than 100 of the currency to buy the oven. I'm in agony. I had to stop playing. Much of this could be resolved if they: - Gave you a reliable way to make income earlier in the game - Condense the number of cooking utensils in the game (let cauldron recipes be pot recipes, I'm PLEADING) - Place the markets closer to each other/require less aggressive platforming to get to shops - Change up the feathers/trinkets?/beads system. The currency I need to buy recipes shouldn't be hidden in tiny chests. It's a great game if you have good wrists and patience and like platforming and don't mind getting lost and figuring out where you are. I just can't play it. Which SUCKS.