Battle Chef Brigade

[Noble Gamer]

Violence:
-Characters fight and kill animals that just turn into food ingrediants.
-Only one scuffle between characters in the story resulting in punishment.
+Characters settle any disputes through cookong challenges.

Sexual themes:
-A few revealing outfits on female characters.
-A female character twice briefly indicates wanting to go on a date with another female because they're cute, and someone mentions that a supporting female character has a fiance. The love interests are not shown.

Foul language:
+I don't recall any bad language, at most a use of the Lord's name.

Substance abuse:
-Wine was used in a little cooking, one supporting character is often smoking a pipe, and food is once referenced as good as a cigar.

Spiritual themes and moral value:
-No spirituality referenced.
+A loving married couple with a child is clearly shown with one person taking care of another. The Battle Chef Brigade fights for good through cooking.

Brief curator review - Not Recommended:

A solid Match 3 hybrid game with an ok story, but a disappointing subversive, pointless use of sexual identity. Local multiplayer and challenges can avoid the campaign story.

Review

Battle Chef Brigade is a more polished match 3 hybrid game with competitive cooking and action platforming. Cooking matches consist of killling monsters and gathering what they drop as ingredients, then you arrange, cook, and mix the ingredients. They took the battle chef gameplay concepts almost as far as they can go, just short of having online multiplayer.
The couple of references to same sex attraction and an engaged couple (not shown) were out of place and didnt even fit with any storyline, as if to just normalize sexual curiosity in a pointless way. Its fruitless whether you value sexual identity or not.

Here's what you need to know about the gameplay:
+Tutorials are integrated into gameplay "jobs" between cooking competitions that earn coins to spend on stuff between matches. I found a few of the lab-type jobs more difficult than cooking matches.
+New ingredient elements/variations get introduced as the story progresses.
?Story rich campaign is dialog and text heavy, though art & the look of everything is well done.
?Around chapter 5 a perspective shift temporarily happens in the story, which I guess provides some context to the plot, but it seems kind of out of place.
-It only took me about 10 hours to complete the campaign, with a handful of cooking match retries.
?You will be unable to purchase most items from the store by the end of the game. Choose wisely, or the game will become much harder!
+Difficulty progression is very reasonable, but the last chapter really tests your cooking skills.
?Daily challenges with leaderboards and other modes are available, but I personally wasn't interested in them since I wasn't interested in split screen play.

[Spenny]

You guys are great at taking away all the fun from video games

[Noble Gamer]

Originally posted by Spencer:

You guys are great at taking away all the fun from video games

In this particular review, I admit that re-reading it I didn't say how fun the game was, and nor did I do this in my own personal review outside this forum, as I was so focused on mechanics because of how polished the game was. I'll try to make the fun factor clearer in future reviews. For this game, it was quite fun to play, though not so much fun for me to want to play it more outside of the main story. I acknowledged the scope of the content (subversive unnecessary references to ANY sexual identity) was limited and also don't believe fits a biblical worldview, whether you agree with that view or not.

I am not denying that the game was fun, because it was. In the end, I ask myself of each game here, "would I recommend this game to Christians?", which I express more in the brief review.

I think this review forum exists to look at games for what they are and also look at them through a biblical worldview. If we don't do the latter, then there's no point to this forum existing, and we can look for reviews elsewhere.

Also, I'm not speaking for other reviewers' or mods' intent here.

[Spenny]

I think it's pretty weird to have to see if someone's religious beliefs would match for a video game.