Would you want to return to my home for dinner? I’ve acquired a lot of various things I can cook dinner for you. Look, listed below are a few of my favourites.
I wish to have burgers on Tuesdays however it will possibly get a bit messy!
On Wednesday’s it is ramen and oh boy do I like to stuff the whole lot in!
After which on Sundays it is pancakes and nobody can ever end them!
Which day do you wish to come?
Nour is a sport about playing around. It is a sport that, fairly actually, desires you to play along with your meals. It would current you with round 20 culinary situations after which say hey, do as you please. Throw the meals round. Have enjoyable.
And properly, I name it a sport however there isn’t any inflexible game-like construction in it. I suppose it is extra like a technical demo if you wish to be choosy, or a toy. A fidget spinner of a sport. And that somebody bothered making all this meals look so plump and fleshy and playful in any respect appears like trigger for celebration to me.
Nour works like this. You select a brand new degree from a cloche-bedecked desk, and discover it themed round a dish. Then, you press buttons (which I discover simpler on a controller) to make totally different fillings fall down from the sky. If we had been on the burger degree, that will imply patties and bacon and plastic cheese would fall from the sky, and lots of different issues. And there isn’t any restrict to how a lot you possibly can drop, so you possibly can actually pile it up if you wish to. In actual fact, it feels such as you’re inspired to. As a result of the extra you pile up, the extra your energy builds till you are able to unleash some magic.
Fast interjection: that is clearly not a severe cooking sport, though you possibly can cook dinner issues like eggs and toast the bread and color the bacon. So you possibly can cook dinner, it is simply that you just most likely should not do it significantly.
Magic! That is how ridiculous this sport is. See that image of the ramen above: that is what occurs whenever you use the “scale” spell. Pancakes do not often get that massive. Conversely, you may make issues go very small, which additionally appears foolish. And you may make issues dance, which appears foolish too. Do you sense a theme?
There are instruments, too, like blowtorches, as a result of why not? Gordon Ramsay makes use of them, and he isn’t right here to inform us in any other case, so gentle it up! Or smash the whole lot with a tenderising hammer, and uncover the unusual issues it does to items of bread.
Or… shake some salt? How jarringly tame. Although I believe the salt speaks to a hidden layer or pursuit within the sport whereby individuals do really strive to make nice-looking meals. Which may sound easy however the controls are such that it isn’t. Nour is a bit like comedy sports activities sport QWOP in that regard, in that you will know what you wish to do however be incapable of doing it, and that is the place numerous the laughs are supposed to return from. My solely gripe with Nour is that it typically comes off feeling extra annoying than amusing. I discover not with the ability to pull the digital camera round as I wish to very aggravating.
However in any other case, I really like Nour. I really like {that a} sport or a toy like this exists in any respect. There isn’t any strain, no calls for placed on you, it is only a field of enjoyable issues to play with in imaginative methods. One thing to maintain the thoughts occupied and produce you a little bit of silliness and pleasure. And who would not desire a little bit of that.
