Yakiniku Bugyou Bonfire! (2003)

Developer: Media Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Genres: Puzzle, Simulator

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How it feels

A breezy, oddball cooking-puzzle game where you scramble to grill meat to order for a parade of eccentric customers before their patience runs out.

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About

Yakiniku Bugyou Bonfire! if the sequel to the Playstation One game Yakiniku Bugyou, a a game sponsored by actual chain restaurants from Japan (the Gyu-Kaku: a well known chain of korean style BBQ places). When cooking food, various customers line up across the top of the screen who have been plucked from the spectrum of society. There's a fiery redheaded punk rocker, a somewhat flabby house frau, corpulent ones and a number of svelte maidens from fifteen possible customers who all have different preferences - rare, medium rare, well done or black. Stray from their desired meat treatment and face the wrath of a spurned and furious consumer. Do it just right and watch as your patron masticates a little morsel of heaven. Along with meat, meat, meat and more meat, other foods may be burnt as ordered up by the customer such as the occasional sprig of some vegetable or a slice of melon which are also thrown on the grill for some enzyme destroying heat. Yakiniku Bugyou Bonfire!: Hungry? Still on Atkins and chowing down pork pies, haggis, sausages and steak like the next blackout was around the corner? Never fear... Yakiniku Bugyou Bonfire is here. With a virtual pimp cooking hand wrapped around a virtual pair of chopsticks, players throw meat on a grill and burn, cook and char it to perfect consistency for the hungry masses. Those would be your ravenous customers who are anxiously awaiting a meat meal to sate their pangs. When cooking food, various customers line up across the top of the screen who have been plucked from the spectrum of society. There's a fiery redheaded punk rocker, a somewhat flabby house frau, corpulent ones and a number of svelte maidens from fourteen possible customers who all have different preferences - rare, medium rare, well done or black. Stray from their desired meat treatment and face the wrath of a spurned and furious consumer. Do it just right and watch as your patron masticates a little morsel of heaven. Along with meat, meat, meat and more meat, other foods may be burnt as ordered up by the customer such as the occasional sprig of some vegetable or a slice of melon which are also thrown on the grill for some enzyme destroying heat. Graphical stylings include grill lines on meat when they've been sufficiently seared and smoke trails that rise from the grill as the meat sizzles and bubbles.

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