{"id":16838,"date":"2017-09-15T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16838"},"modified":"2017-08-23T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:16:21","slug":"meshi-quest-five-star-kitchen-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/meshi-quest-five-star-kitchen-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshi Quest: Five-Star Kitchen (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Run your own fleet of restaurants and feed customers in Meshi Quest: Five-Star Kitchen.\u00a0 You\u2019ll prepare (mostly) Japanese cuisine like sushi, yakitori, curry rice, ramen, and much more!\u00a0 It\u2019s a free-to-play downloadable game for iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is very similar to other cooking style games that require a lot of multitasking.\u00a0 Customers will come in asking for certain dishes, and you must tap and drag ingredients on the bottom of the touch screen to cook them and place them on dishes to serve to the customer.\u00a0 Then they\u2019ll leave and you\u2019ll collect money.\u00a0 The faster you serve them, the more money they\u2019ll give you and it\u2019ll boost your score, too.\u00a0 In fact, if you can serve several customers in a row, you\u2019ll rack up combo points as well.\u00a0 But if you take too long, the customer will leave and it\u2019ll break your combo.\u00a0 You win the level if you pass a certain score.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t, you\u2019ll have to try the level over again.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve played games like Diner Dash or Cake Mania, you\u2019ll know what to expect here.<\/p>\n

Winning nets you experience points, coins, gems, and stars, all of which unlock different things.\u00a0 When you have enough experience points, you\u2019ll gain levels.\u00a0 Reach certain levels to unlock new restaurants.\u00a0 Coins and gems let you upgrade your restaurants or buy new ones.\u00a0 Gems are harder to earn than coins, though.\u00a0 Some upgrades will cause customers to give you more money, while others will let you prepare food faster or more efficiently.\u00a0 It\u2019s always fun to go back to earlier stages with your current upgrades to earn stars easier.\u00a0 Speaking of which, depending on your score, you can earn three stars per level.\u00a0 Get enough stars and you\u2019ll unlock cats that\u2019ll hang out outside your restaurant and act like some of the in-game achievements and earn you bonuses.<\/p>\n

Meshi Quest does have a few problems here and there, though.\u00a0 You start off with the sushi bar, but I found it more challenging than some of the later kitchens you unlock, like the yakitori and curry stations, so difficulty can be a bit unbalanced.\u00a0 The game may also be harder if you\u2019re not as familiar with Japanese food.\u00a0 The customer will show a picture of what they want to order, but it\u2019s the final product.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to remember what your ingredients will look like when they\u2019re done, like the tuna and salmon sushi.\u00a0 The yakitori ingredients are even less distinct.<\/p>\n

But honestly, for a free-to-play game, Meshi Quest is of a very high quality.\u00a0 You aren\u2019t limited to how many times you can play in one sitting before you have to wait a while, there are no in-game ads that I can see, and the in-game purchases are minimal.\u00a0 Making progress and unlocking restaurants is a bit slow going, but it\u2019s not TOO bad.\u00a0\u00a0 And the game runs very smoothly, too.\u00a0 Only crashed on me a couple of times, but I didn\u2019t lose my progress or anything.\u00a0 If you enjoy cooking games, you should definitely give this one a try.<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the higher challenge level.\u00a0 The game could be considered slightly educational as it promotes multitasking skills and shows what kinds of food people eat in different parts of the world.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Run your own fleet of restaurants and feed customers in Meshi Quest: Five-Star Kitchen.\u00a0 You\u2019ll prepare (mostly) Japanese cuisine like sushi, yakitori, curry rice, ramen, and much more!\u00a0 It\u2019s a free-to-play downloadable game for iOS and Android devices, but reviewed on iPad here. Gameplay is very similar to other cooking style games that require a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}