''Cooking Fighter Hao'' (sometimes ''The Blazing Chef: Cooking Fighter Hao'' or simply ''Cooking Fighter'') is an

action game An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time. The genre includes a large variety of sub-genres, such as fighting games, beat 'em ups, shooter games, and platform ...

and one of the first games from developer

Nippon Ichi is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. The company was founded in 1991 and has developed several role-playing video games, most notably the ''Disgaea'' and ''Marl Kingdom'' series. Its mascot is the penguin-like ''Disgaea'' characte ...

. The fighting is done by cooking with several materials around the battlefield.

Gameplay

Battles take place in an overhead screen, the characters being represented by

super deformed Chibi, also known as super deformation, or S.D. is a style of caricature originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized heads, and ...

characters. Each level has a type of animal (chicken, crab, etc.) which must be beaten with a weapon and then turned into a meal. Vegetables are strewn across the battle field that can be thrown into the meat to create a different meal and different methods of cooking can be used, thus creating a wide variety of combinations. The winner is determined by who gets the most points after the meals are cooked. Story Mode lets the player use Hao as he battles different chefs. Free Mode allows the player choose between eleven different chefs and a second player can join.

References

1998 video games Action video games Cooking video games Japan-exclusive video games Nippon Ichi Software games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation (console)-only games Video games developed in Japan {{action-videogame-stub