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Little Dragons Café (PS4) Status: Stopped playing - Something better came along I started playing this game on Sunday 13 February, 2022 // I stopped playing this game on: Sunday 27 February, 2022
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February 13, 2022 09:58:32 PM
I think the box says that this game is by the creator of the original Harvest Moon. So, that sort of sets the tone... Basically it's a bunch of kids that run a cafe in hopes of raising a baby dragon (it starts out really cute and small) to save their mother, who is half-dragon, who has fallen asleep because her dragon blood doesn't play nice with her human blood. By the end of the prologue I'd picked up a cook, a musician, and a strong woman in "arabian nights" costume to help. Weirdly I'm the character who is running around doing most of the work - outside you collect ingredients, inside you take orders, cook, pick up. What's nice is that you don't have to do the inside the cafe stuff - AFAIK I'm the only one who collects ingredients. You're supposed to get more recipes and ingredients to make better meals so your cafe gets more famous and that pushes the story along. Right now there's a little kid who calls himself a warrior - but he has a giant spoon and...something's going on but I mostly go from cut-scene (they trigger automatically) to running around outside trying to get as far as possible while gathering ingredients. This usually takes the whole day...and everyone else goes to bed early while I'm still wandering around. The cooking stuff is neat - it's a rhythm action minigame, do well and the food comes out better. The wandering around outside is pretty janky - there's a not-very-responsive jump button. Oh, the dragon poops which is manure you can use to get better ingredients or hurry up the progress on a garden that grows stuff just outside your house. It's very cute. I'm not sure how much longer I'll play.

Little Dragons Café (PS4)