About Epic Egg Hunt 2021:
You play as a new arrival in a foreign country where you’ve bought property. The city is very much focused on cuisine, with powerful groups of chefs and food critics, and you – having recently discovered a knack for cooking yourself – decide to make your living as a chef. You obtain ingredients by planting and harvesting crops, summoning and slaughtering livestock, or catching fish. You’ll meet many characters in a fairly long and complex (though mostly linear) storyline, make friends, and run your own restaurant for which you create the dishes as well as the furniture. The story takes place in an elaborate, imaginative fantasy world with magic, dragons, ghosts, cat people, rat people, some steampunk-ish technology as well as magical contraptions, and a history of power struggles between several nations. I massively enjoyed the writing. The author shows a great ability for comedic dialog where the characters keep coming back and one-upping each other, and he often applies an absurdist flavor of humor that I cherish. The tone ranges from sarcastic and satirical to whimsical and playful. The lead-ups to the abundance of twists and punchlines in the dialog are excellent. I also liked that the writer did not shy away from serious topics like the conflict between immigrants of adopting the culture of their new home versus preserving their cultural heritage, or questions whether food critics should stick to talking about the food or consider a broader context. The very enjoyable jokes and humor did not prevent the writer from also introducing interesting thoughts and opinions about the topics they tackled,
