Warm, soft pastel colours. Detailed, cute, cartoony environments. Piles and piles of puzzles. Yep, it's gotta be a Yonashi escape game! In Kitchen in Summer, you're locked cozy but busy little kitchen, full of rattling pots and half-started mise en place, not to mention a fair amount of culinary implements scattered hither and thither. To play, just use the transparent bars that appear when you mouse over the left and right sides of the screen to move around the kitchen, and click on things to zoom in or interact with them. Don't forget to examine items you're carrying up close by clicking the little magnifying glass icon, because you never know if you'll be able to manipulate them into something new or reveal a clue. Kitchen in Summer is very heavy on locks with codes to be deciphered, and you'll spend a lot of your time first scouring the room for the clues you need to do so, then figuring out how to implement them. There's a mild whiff of "adventure game logic" going on, with some items not being able to accomplish tasks that they should, and cracking puzzle solutions can mean some convoluted thinking... though it's just as possible to over think a few of them, too. But while Kitchen in Summer still isn't the longest or most complicated escape game around, it's still extremely clever and creative, working with its setting and theme to deliver some satisfyingly smart puzzles you'll need to think your way through. Yonashi knows how to make games that are cute but no slouch in the difficulty department, either, making Kitchen in Summer a very welcome escape for your time.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough
Kitchen, Chopping Board
Get knife and chopped scallions
Dining Table
Apron
Get coin from apron's pocket
Bottom Right Table mat
Get pink napkin from under the cup
Open pink napkin to get shape hints
Edamame (green soy beans)
Pop them to get the pattern
Door/Calendar/Rice Cooker
Calendar
Use pink napkin and align arrows, get numbers for pentagon, triangle, and hexagon
Note 30, 24, and 18, respectively
Rice Cooker
Note hint on pad - the answer is the multiples of the shape's edges.
pentagon = 6, triangle = 8, hexagon = 3
Enter number in to rice cooker
3, 8, 6 - note the shapes
Get the ginger and Avocado Timer
Kitchen
Floor Storage
Enter Edamame/Green Soy Beans pattern
Get Avocado Thermometer and Pliers
Closet/Fridge
Closet
Use pliers to cut wires on closet handles
Grab Avocado Weighing Scale
Fridge Door, Scratch Card
Use coin on Lucy Scratch Card
Get the hint of grams, degrees celsius, and time colon = weight, temperature, time
Inspect blue and red plates for blue and red hints
Fridge Door, Lower
Use red plates' hints on door lock
remove A, B, or C, from each row to give "five, one, and nine" = 5, 1, 9
Open fridge and take Okra from vegetable bin. Take note of...
Number of eggs, beers, and cake (count carefully!)
Fridge Door, Upper
Use blue plates' hints on door lock
Add E to each row to get "egg, beer, and cake" and enter the password = 4, 5, 1
Open freezer and take ice block
Kitchen
Stove
Turn off fire (right most knob), remove pot lid, put ice block in pot
Window sill
Put Avocado gadgets in order of Lucky Scratch hint
Order: Weight, Temperature, Time
Note the direction of the gadgets' 6 arms are pointing, from left to right
Closet/Fridge
Using the Avocado gadgets' arms hints (6 directions), enter the directions
top left, bottom right, left, top right, bottom left, and right
get grater
Kitchen
Serving Tray
Flip plates to see what to put in each
Chop the okra with the knife
Grate the ginger with the grater
Put scallions, ginger, and okra in each plate, from left to right
Get blue knob
Stove
grab key from pot
Below Sink
use key to unlock cupboard
grab bottle of black sauce
Chopping Board
Pour black sauce in to smaller sauce bottle
Inspect big sauce bottle to see the design hint (up, left, down, right, left, down, up, right)
Blue Door
Put knob on door and use design hint from sauce bottle
up, left, down, right, left, down, up, right
exit through open door, and end cut scene
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August 16, 2015 3:22 AM