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Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook

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for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan on January 27, 2022. It was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Switch in North America on May 23, 2023, and the European released followed three days later.
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dungeon by eating monsters. Besides hunger and dehydration, players must manage the party's happiness levels. Feeding characters food they find gross makes them unhappy, and hunger causes their
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to drop. Different kinds of recipes can help to make food more palatable, such as hiding nutritious insects inside buns. When their hunger meter runs low, any further damage goes to their
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said it is playable but becomes "dreadfully dull" due to the repetition, grinding, and lack of depth. Although
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enjoyed the character creation and the cooking, but they similarly criticized the grinding and repetition.
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itself. Despite enjoying the premise and the cooking minigame, they were disappointed that
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said the cooking minigame is fun at first, but the grinding required due to
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or the dungeon's entrance. Some equipment is retained. It uses
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to be too focused on adding gameplay mechanics rather than fun.
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Developer(s)
Nippon Ichi Software
Publisher(s)
Platform(s)
PlayStation 4
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 5
JP
AS
NA
EU
NA
EU
Genre(s)
Tactical role-playing
Single-player
tactical role-playing video game
Nippon Ichi Software
dungeon
party
procedurally generated
statistics
hit points
turn-based
tactical role-playing games
respawn
checkpoint
anime
Nippon Ichi Software

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