Sushi for Robots
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Summary
Sushi for Robots is a puzzle game where… you’ve guessed it! You serve sushi to the robots using the conveyor belts given. However, things aren’t as easy as they seem. You’ll need to match each robot with their preferred sushi, and the puzzles can get increasingly more complicated as more elements are thrown into the mix, such as bridges, portals, color-changers, and more. Will you be able to solve all the puzzles?
Plotline
There isn’t an overarching storyline in this game. Still, you can learn more about each robot’s personality – there are three - from their conversations that range from board games to bad TV shows that you just can’t stop watching, which take place after you’ve solved every four puzzle levels. It feels like a bunch of good friends’ weekly get-together where they talk about almost everything under the sun.
Gameplay
The premise of the puzzles in this game is simple – you just need to match each robot with a piece of their preferred sushi by matching the colors. This means that a red sushi will only be accepted by a red robot and so on, but of course, things aren’t as simple as just matching.
You see, like most sushi you’ll order from sushi restaurants, the sushi is served via a conveyor belt of some sort… though, it looks more like a channel of water is carrying the sushi to each robot in this game rather than a traditional conveyor belt. You need to use this “conveyor” to send the sushi to the right robot. It doesn’t have to be in the correct order as long as all the robots are served.
The sushi in this game can also crash into one another, canceling each other out. Although you could technically count the moves based on the grids on-screen, but why do that when you can simply use the Play button to see your solution play out live. You can easily stop the solution as it’s running through its motions whenever you spot an error that you want to fix. If you fail, there’s also a handy Restart button that will get you back to the solution-designing phase so you can make some tweaks to your solution. In a way, the setup reminds me of Neon Noodles, except that the puzzles here aren’t programming-based.
Each puzzle in this game, at least in the default mode, also has a move limit to spice things up further. As with most restaurant-themed time management games, the robots have limited patience, and once the move limit is up, they will get angry, and you’ll fail the level.
For those who find the move limit too challenging, there’s the Creative mode that you can opt in via the menu that will remove the move limit, giving you all the moves you’ll need to solve the puzzle. It’s basically a cheat mode, but if you’ve been trying to solve a level for an hour or so and is just about to give up, this might help. Plus, some levels have multiple solutions and this is especially true if Creative mode is turned on. If you fancy finding them all, this is something that can greatly extend the replayability of the game.
Aside from the move limit, Sushi for Robots even throws in various gameplay elements to keep things interesting as you progress through the levels. There are 64 puzzles spanning four “seasons” from Spring to Winter. Each season contains 16 puzzles and four conversations. These elements mostly come in the form of “stickers”. There are two kinds of stickers here – one that has to be placed on the conveyor, and the other has to be placed outside the conveyor. Which sticker is which is clearly differentiated via the outline color of the sticker. Stickers also cannot be placed right next to robots, as indicated by little protruding stones on the “conveyor belt”
The type of stickers can vary widely, ranging from bridges that allow sushi to jump from one part of a conveyor to another, or even from one conveyor to another, to color changers that will change the color of the sushi when it passes through. There are also portals, breakers, and more that really ups the challenge and complexity of each puzzle as you progress.
Graphics/ Sound
Sushi for Robots features adorable hand-drawn visuals that give it a cozy kind of feel. The colors used here are vibrant as well, greatly contrasting the more active elements of the puzzle from its more muted background. In terms of sound, the game comes with a pleasant music that doesn’t interfere with your thinking, which you’ll need to do a whole lot of while trying to solve all the puzzles.
Conclusion
All in all, Sushi for Robots is both a fun and adorable puzzle game that fans of puzzlers would want to play. The levels are all very well-designed, starting from easier puzzles to gradually more challenging ones, with some even offering multiple solutions, provided that you can find them. For those who are stumped or simply want to enjoy a more relaxing puzzle-solving experience, the game also provides a cheat mode, aptly called creative mode, where you can solve the puzzles without having to adhere to a move limit. A game that’s worth its price tag, we definitely recommend the game for puzzle fans!