#kyuidime

Unfortunately, I had to quit playing Kyuidime several months back, when the app stopped working for me after an update.

In a last-ditch effort to try and continue playing Anthropomorphized Food Female Battle & Softcore Simulator (okay, I kid about the Softcore... maybe), I deleted the entire app and reinstalled it, hoping the data had been saved to the cloud.

It had not.

Kids, the lesson here is to backup your game data, all the time, every time.

But losing eight-plus 5-stars was too much for my heart and so I sadly gave up on the game. I still follow the Twitter, though, and the game recently updated to put in their own New Year’s event, featuring Soba Noodles, Ozoni Soup, and Amazake - common New Year foods in Japan.

As always, the best part of these designs is finding the food in the characters’ styles - for example, Ozoni has mushrooms and fishcakes in her clothes and even her obi has the bowl and lid the soup is served in. And if we’re really pushing it, her breasts are probably the mochi. (Toshikoshi) Soba’s noodly nature is best established with her straight long brown-gray hair, with the green onion topping best represented by her green dress. And Amazake is just a straight up mess.

How’s this for spookums - after an update, CuiDime has basically crapped out on me, so I can’t get past the title screen.

Just like with the tumblr phone app, I’m gonna hang onto it and try to get through, because ~~my food girls~~ but it’s a little bit saddening.

Only a little, since Shiny Colors is back in my life.

Some of my favorite character designs from CuiDime so far: Omurice, Caesar Salad, Muscovado Pudding, and Lobster Pasta.

It’s better if you don’t see the damaged versions, just appreciate the tiny details.

With Otome Yusha officially out of commission as of yesterday (until February at least) and always on the hunt for more gacha, I downloaded a couple of more games to try!

This is Cuisine Dimension; or CuiDime/KyuiDime for short. If you’ve played Food Fantasy - which is actually going to be released in Japan soon - you’re not too far off. You’ve been transported to the titular Cuisine Dimension, born from the magic imparted onto food by the people cooking it. The dishes become Cui.

Of course the same magic infuses wasted ingredients and terrible food, so you get Dark Cui as well - and now you, Chef, have been transported here by Witchy, the girl with the witch hat, to save this Cuisine Dimension. If you can survive having eaten her terrible cooking first, of course.

Look, I never claimed this was original.

So here we are, more anthropomorphic foods, and you journey out into the world with the foods to fight bad things. Along with the Human Dishes being your battle avatars, there’s a lot of the submenus within submenus feel that was part of what turned me off Food Fantasy.

The major difference is that you don’t have a restaurant to run, which is a nice simplification. Oh, and that everything is very heavily geared towards gamers who like pretty ladies, if the screenshots above haven’t been clue enough.

Every character I’ve come across in CuiDime so far has been explicitly female, unlike Food Fantasy, which had about 60:40 ratio of female:male characters. On top of that, if your characters suffer enough damage in battle, their main picture becomes a very disheveled and probably not-work safe version like poor Omurice on my main screen. Don’t worry, you can heal them, so Omurice will be back to normal in maybe 25 more minutes at the time I’m writing this post.