It doesn't explain itself or its mechanics very well, and you can get stuck in the story because of it. There's a lot of these nit picky annoyances throughout Little Dragon Cafe. By the end, I realized it didn't even really matter though because if you neglect customer satisfaction rating, the game naturally progresses anyway. I found most of my failures to serve customers came down to getting stuck behind furniture and trying not to run into my staff, which is frustrating. Instead of juggling customers needs through careful time management, Little Dragon Cafe's restaurant is just kind of open-ended chaos, with no meters or indications for customer satisfaction. This is a much more shallow approach to those mechanics. While both mini-game elements are fun enough in themselves, the comparison to Diner Dash is probably a little too generous. Then there's a Diner Dash element of taking orders, serving, and cleaning up after customers. The most you can do in terms of influencing the dragon, though, is giving it certain foods to change the color of its scales.Īt the cafe, your chef prepares meals ranked in deliciousness based on how successful you are at the rhythm game. The dragon grows as the story progresses, gaining you access to different parts of the environment along with new ingredients and recipes.
The basic loop of the day/night cycle has you splitting time between gathering ingredients by exploring the world (often with the help of your dragon), and then helping your staff serve the town grub during its busiest hours. This weird juxtaposition between everyday problems, people, relationships and wholly unexplained supernatural silliness is precisely what gives Little Dragon Cafe its undeniable charm.Ī pattern emerges throughout your in-game days as a cafe owner/freelance dragon mom. The only way to save her is to raise a baby dragon, while juggling the responsibilities of running a cafe as a literal child.
He explains it's because your mom is half dragon and half human (surprise!), so something about her two different blood types isn't jiving together. You play as one of two twins who must run the family cafe by themselves for the first time after their mother falls mysteriously ill one day.Īn odd old man by the name of "Pappy," the first of many delightfully bizarre characters in the game, inexplicably shows up.
But there is an unadulterated sincerity to the relationships embedded into both the story and gameplay of Little Dragon Cafe.
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