On the subject of each meals and cellular video games, appearances matter. If one thing doesn’t look good, you in all probability received’t eat it; and if a cellular sport seems like trash, you’re in all probability by no means going to play it. Fortunately, inbento is knocking it out of the park on each fronts, utilizing tasty Japanese boxed lunches (bento) to organize an lovable puzzle sport for Android.
On this easy, wordless story, you play as a candy mama cat making lovely bento for her kitten. Mimicking the passage of time, your bento change into greater and extra advanced as you beat progressively more durable ranges and your kitten grows up. This tremendous cute sport might not reinvent the puzzling wheel, however its fantastic presentation and execution make it an outstanding addition to any puzzle lover’s library.
Every puzzle is laid out like a recipe. Your job is to exactly match your bento to the cookbook with the handful of scrumptious meals you’re given, like chunks of salmon, roe, rice, and extra. The trick lies within the order of placement, and when and the place you utilize just a few additional components that may radically alter your bento. You have to use all out there items to succeed.
There are fourteen sections so that you can unlock, every with 9 puzzles to beat. Don’t let the painfully easy first couple of ranges idiot you, both. After the sport has an opportunity to show you the fundamental mechanics, inbento begins to ramp up its problem by including just a few twists to the system into the combination.
For instance, most items of your lunch will be rotated, however perhaps on this specific puzzle two of them are locked in place. Or perhaps your bento is already full, however now you want to use sliders or swappers to get your components into the appropriate spots. The deceptively minimal aesthetic masks a surprisingly difficult expertise.
The sport’s acoustic piano soundtrack and enjoyable sound design put the ending touches on this pleasant meal. I particularly love the satisfying squishy sound that performs when you’re shifting items of your bento round.
I don’t have any main critiques for inbento, however I might have appreciated the inclusion of a touch system (just like the one from Line Blaster). There’s additionally no choice to skip ranges, which may change into problematic within the difficult latter ranges. If you end up caught, you just about haven’t any different alternative however to show to the web for the answer.
The inclusion of a touch system would have been good.
At $2.99, inbento is a premium puzzler with 120+ ranges to overcome. Relying on how briskly you play, the expertise is perhaps over earlier than you realize it, however if you happen to take your time and play a handful a day, you can also make this meal final a bit bit longer. Play Move subscribers may decide up this charming title totally free.
Not solely does your three bucks assist an indie developer, however 1% of inbento’s income is donated to Animal Rescue Polska; a pleasant contact that I might like to see extra builders embrace of their video games. A powerful contender for our checklist of finest Play Move video games, inbento is an appetizing puzzler that I might extremely suggest to simply about anybody.
