Confused. It says “Remember this” and then the screen shows me three colored bowls. I assume I need to get the bowl it showed, but it doesn’t do anything, and I’m just stuck on this page with three bowls.
Such an emotional journey. I just loved it, there was cute graphics, relaxing sounds and interesting story and dialogue. Only thing I hope there would have been was subtitles on voice acted parts but other than that it was so great!
I really love the game art and the calm environment makes the game seems cute and peaceful. i could give more than 5 stars just bc of the game art lol. Nice game, I love it
It's been nearly a year since my grandmother, who raised me, passed away, and I've been working on trying to transcribe her recipes onto my computer. I found this game and started playing by sheer coincidence. I didn't know about the grieving aspect of the plot, so it kind of hit me unexpectedly with heaviness. Of course, I did really like the game. A lot was funnily on the nose. I recall at one point I was making one of my grandmother's recipes and it didn't turn out right. I got really angry and people were telling me that it still tastes fine. They didn't understand why it set me off so much. I childishly kept yelling about how I wasn't going to ever be able to make it right and how it was "gone forever now." Really I felt guilty about not having cooked with her more often or not having paid enough attention, not acquiring enough information while she was here, not being able to do it like she did, so I thought it was interesting how a lot of Mei's dialogue sort of mirrored that as well. I think this game did a good job with using food/recipes to symbolically represent the stories, information, and memories shared with a loved one, and with the past as a whole. Coincidentally we also had a mother's day gift for when she returned from the hospital that she never got to receive, having died on mother's day, so that part also unexpectedly got a lot heavy for me when I played. Overall I hadn't set out to play a particularly emotional game, but I ended up liking this game quite a bit. If you'd excuse the sappiness, I never really had allowed myself to process my grandmother's death and reflect on it, and this game provided a bit of that, so I'm glad I got to play it.
Hi, Emily (the writer) here. This game is actually inspired by my grandmother. I grew up with her cooking, and Chinese people don't really write down their recipes, they eyeball and improvise. Now that I'm an adult, I have no idea how to recreate any of her food, which makes me feel like I've lost a part of my cultural identity.
I have a nonexistent relationship with my parents, so while I've had an Asian American upbringing, nothing is tying me to my Asianness anymore. The food at restaurants tastes nothing like home. I can barely speak and understand mandarin. Through mourning the loss of my family, I am mourning the loss of myself.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me. I'm truly touched by your comment -- this is the reason I make games!
Such a sweet and positive take on everyday life for some people. The idea that Mei wanted deep down to be forever connected to her mother through her favorite dish is soothing :)
This game was awesome, I love everything - from the art to the music to the voice-acting. It was a great experience and I'd do anything to relive it again :) You guys did a great job :D
Incredibly heartwarming game. The character designs and backgrounds were beautiful! The music fit well. The mini-games and dialogue choices kept me engaged. (Also adds some replayability.) It was surprising to hear voice acting and it was well done for what it was! My only nitpick is that I wish there were subtitles during those voiced segments.
I did run into a bug where you can get softlocked. If you don’t advance the dialogue in one room, the next room won’t let you interact with anything and you get stuck. (Not sure if this is the same issue as you mentioned in the "important" section of the description.) I happen to get a separate video of this occurring, let me know if you’d like to see it!
Regardless, it was a great experience! Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you so much for making a video --woah! Yes, we are aware of the softlocking bug as we made this game in three days, so there may be a few errors with it (We plan on making a full version sometime though, so stay tuned!). We plan on adding subtitles for the full version.
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Confused. It says “Remember this” and then the screen shows me three colored bowls. I assume I need to get the bowl it showed, but it doesn’t do anything, and I’m just stuck on this page with three bowls.
You have to drag the smaller bowls into the big bowl. The hitboxes are imperfect so you may have to try a couple of times.
I really like this game! It was very emotional, I hope I get to see more of your works in the future, Best of luck! :D
Aw, thank you!
Absolutely love this game! Please keep up the good work <3
Thank you! P.S. I like your pfp :)
Loved the mini games throughout and the overall story, were you guys inspired by What Comes After(It’s pretty similar to this one)?
One of our team members came up with this idea having never played What Comes After before. I have played the game, so we definitely used it as inspo!
what a beautiful game!! 10000000000000000000000000000000/10 <3
Ahh thank you!
Such an emotional journey. I just loved it, there was cute graphics, relaxing sounds and interesting story and dialogue. Only thing I hope there would have been was subtitles on voice acted parts but other than that it was so great!
We're planning on adding subtitles for our full version. Thanks so much for playing our game on your channel!
this games amazing!
Thank you :)
I wasn't expecting something so sad! But I really enjoyed playing this game.
Thank you so much for posting a playthrough of our game!
Of course! It was fun to play (also surprisingly sad).
Asian here? yiieee
I really love the game art and the calm environment makes the game seems cute and peaceful. i could give more than 5 stars just bc of the game art lol. Nice game, I love it
Aw, thank you so much!
This game was pretty good! I like it!
Aw, thanks!
The game doesnt work for me, it just gets stuck on the ingredients page.
We aren't aware of a bug like this, you do need to press "E" to advance during the intro though (including the ingredients page).
Okay, thank you. I tried doing that the first time,so it might be an issue with my keyboard and not the game.
This was soooo a other than that this was very good :)
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Thank you!
It's been nearly a year since my grandmother, who raised me, passed away, and I've been working on trying to transcribe her recipes onto my computer. I found this game and started playing by sheer coincidence. I didn't know about the grieving aspect of the plot, so it kind of hit me unexpectedly with heaviness. Of course, I did really like the game. A lot was funnily on the nose. I recall at one point I was making one of my grandmother's recipes and it didn't turn out right. I got really angry and people were telling me that it still tastes fine. They didn't understand why it set me off so much. I childishly kept yelling about how I wasn't going to ever be able to make it right and how it was "gone forever now." Really I felt guilty about not having cooked with her more often or not having paid enough attention, not acquiring enough information while she was here, not being able to do it like she did, so I thought it was interesting how a lot of Mei's dialogue sort of mirrored that as well. I think this game did a good job with using food/recipes to symbolically represent the stories, information, and memories shared with a loved one, and with the past as a whole. Coincidentally we also had a mother's day gift for when she returned from the hospital that she never got to receive, having died on mother's day, so that part also unexpectedly got a lot heavy for me when I played.
Overall I hadn't set out to play a particularly emotional game, but I ended up liking this game quite a bit. If you'd excuse the sappiness, I never really had allowed myself to process my grandmother's death and reflect on it, and this game provided a bit of that, so I'm glad I got to play it.
Hi, Emily (the writer) here. This game is actually inspired by my grandmother. I grew up with her cooking, and Chinese people don't really write down their recipes, they eyeball and improvise. Now that I'm an adult, I have no idea how to recreate any of her food, which makes me feel like I've lost a part of my cultural identity.
I have a nonexistent relationship with my parents, so while I've had an Asian American upbringing, nothing is tying me to my Asianness anymore. The food at restaurants tastes nothing like home. I can barely speak and understand mandarin. Through mourning the loss of my family, I am mourning the loss of myself.
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me. I'm truly touched by your comment -- this is the reason I make games!
This game is so pretty and calming! Thank you for making it :)
Thank you!
*I implore people to dive into this visual novel*
Such a sweet and positive take on everyday life for some people. The idea that Mei wanted deep down to be forever connected to her mother through her favorite dish is soothing :)
Here's my readthrough* for all to explore, Enjoy!
Thank you so much for posting our game on your channel. I watched the playthrough and loved it!
The writing is great on this game, it was like reading a good book. Thank you!
Thank you!
This game was awesome, I love everything - from the art to the music to the voice-acting. It was a great experience and I'd do anything to relive it again :) You guys did a great job :D
Thanks so much!
WAHOOOO
:)
Incredibly heartwarming game. The character designs and backgrounds were beautiful! The music fit well. The mini-games and dialogue choices kept me engaged. (Also adds some replayability.) It was surprising to hear voice acting and it was well done for what it was! My only nitpick is that I wish there were subtitles during those voiced segments.
I did run into a bug where you can get softlocked. If you don’t advance the dialogue in one room, the next room won’t let you interact with anything and you get stuck. (Not sure if this is the same issue as you mentioned in the "important" section of the description.) I happen to get a separate video of this occurring, let me know if you’d like to see it!
Regardless, it was a great experience! Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you so much for making a video --woah! Yes, we are aware of the softlocking bug as we made this game in three days, so there may be a few errors with it (We plan on making a full version sometime though, so stay tuned!). We plan on adding subtitles for the full version.
We appreciate your comments :)
A very pleasant experience. Greatly enjoyed the audio and story. Nice job! :D
Thank you so much!