Can’t get enough of that restaurant management blitz type of games but want a different feel to it? Then Ramen Chain is the game for you!
Ramen Chain is a Japanese themed restaurant management game that lets you follow the story of Ryo Kisanagi and Hyori Nakajima as they run a small ramen shop while serving hundreds of hundreds of customers with the ultimate goal of being a famous ramen chef.
Ramen Chain starts of with either Ryo or Hyori desperately looking for a job as a chef to no success until Toshi, an owner of a small ramen stall and also luckily makes the best ramen in the world, takes you in even let you work for him. Thus, your journey to becoming a great ramen chef begins!
As usual, you start of small. You only serve a limited amount of ingredients and drinks to a limited amount of customers. But as you progress along the game, you get access to new ingredients and drinks and more customers start ordering your food up to the point where everything gets frantic and fast paced.
The fact that your ingredients also run out and you having to manually order for a new batch and waiting for it to arrive adds a bit more challenge to the game as this time, you would need to think ahead while already dealing with all the mayhem going on on your restaurant. Upgrades such as fans to increase customers’ patience and magazines to increase reputation are available to help you, though.
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Graphics: Good
Visually, Ramen Chain is easy to look at. The overall art is friendly and pleasing that you might think that this is a children’s game. This helps a lot in making players feel a bit relaxed specially on the later part of the game where customers are just rampaging on your restaurant one after the other, and you now having a bunch of ingredients and drinks to choose from.
Sound: Good
Ramen Chain provides simple and relaxing music that fits well with the gameplay, however, considering that this is a Japanese themed game, you’d think that the music would be Japanese oriented as well, which it is not.
Gameplay: Average
Strictly basing on overall gameplay, there is little on Ramen Chain that you haven’t experienced on other restaurant management games before. You still get the same feeling of being an employee of a very understaffed restaurant who’s daily goal is to not be bulldozed by the hordes of customers craving for your food. The major difference is that you get to experience this again in a different culture. Seriously, have you ever played a food game where you put soup on EVERY food that you serve? Even if Ramen Chain is not entirely unique, it still brings a fresh feel to the genre and can still get very addictive.
Sadako gave me 7 minutes to finish her order
Cons: Little to no replayability content
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