Blackspoon Arena

An underground arena where individuals from the gastronomy industry come to prove themselves worthy of getting their projects fund. From agronomists to scientists and Chefs, if it can improve the gastronomy, they are welcome.

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Story Mode

Buccerino comes to the Blackspoon Arena after being invited by 8 individuals that want to support him to open a new restaurant.

When Buccerino presents himself to the investors they ask him to prove that he is a Chef, but not only a simply Chef, a master of the Great 8, the world's greatest cuisines. Buccerino, thinking he is ready, asks how he can prove himself already. Luckily, there is a tournament happening in the Blackspoon, there is a new trend in agriculture, teamed up with science, to build massive vegetables and they want to see how these gigantic beings behave in various cuisines.

Buccerino is asked to fight them and cook eight of the greatest dishes the world has ever seen, one for each of the Great 8.

Not knowing any of these, Buccerino finds himself unsettle. His dream seems distant, almost unreachable at this point. He thanks for the opportunity, but moves away from the Blackspoon. As soon as he leaves the gates, the very 8 individuals who invited him, reach him out and offer him their assistance, as they are each a master of one of the Great 8, but they offer their help and guidance under a condition: to help them figure out and fight back the ones behind the First Cooking Crisis.

After learning the necessary dishes from the masters, Buccerino comes back to the Blackspoon Arena to put his abilities to trial.

Story Mode Gameplay

At any time of the Story Mode selection screen, the player can select the Blackspoon Arena. A battle against waves of enemies starts. Each wave represents a dish from one of the Great 8, and the enemies in the wave shall be defeated following a recipe that uses techniques and utensils to prepare the ingredients properly for the recipe.

Players may be able to make some progress, but the idea is that it is impossible to finish the challenge without every utensil obtained through the other 8 Chef Masters.

At the beginning of each wave, a recipe is shown to the player, displaying the enemies, the technique that shall be used to defeat them and how many should be defeated using such technique. It will look like a spreadsheet:

Ingredient	Quantity	Technique
Tomato	2	Minced
Tomato	1	Squashed
Onion	2	Diced
Carrot	2	Sliced

Different weapon attacks will trigger different preparation techniques. For instance, a Chef Knife can have 3 different attacks and each can trigger a different finishing that will tell how the ingredient was prepared, e.g. sliced, diced, minced...

The player must match the recipe to succeed in defeating the wave, otherwise, players fail the wave. Upon completion, Buccerino will unfold the story starting to go after the ones behind the First Cooking Crisis.

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Arcade Mode

On Arcade the Blackspoon Arena turns into a score attack. Players can choose a character to play with and after selecting they have to fight against ever harder enemies' waves. There are no obligations to follow recipes whatsoever. Scores are saved to a high score table.

This is a fun way to play as different characters and build up expertise with their techniques.