The Tale of Food - Closed Beta First Impression, Game Content & Gacha Rates

2023-03-16

A new Gacha Game featuring “Husbandos” only characters is finally being released on the Global Market, and also any character named by Food! In Tale of Food, you are the son of Yizhi, the great Food God. As the descendant of the Food Lord, you own the best restaurant in the world, but one day, a new restaurant is about to start its service just in front of yours! The Lord of the “Realm of Melanya” doesn't believe you deserve to be the Food God cause your father married a mortal woman, so he’s here to claim the Food God Title! The same time this guy tells you this, one of the ancient beasts, Taotie, is being released from his century seal and now being a threat to your entire city! Gather new “Food” characters, fight monsters and enemies and become the Food God you need to be in this new husbandos collection game!

What is The Tale of Food?

The Tale of Food is a new Turn Based Gacha RPG where you can fight enemies as the God of Food. Each character in the game is called by a food name, and there’s only male characters. You can team up with 4 Characters, each with different roles based on the skills they have (Poison, Heal, Dispel, Control, Burst etc) so they can deal Damage, Support the team with healing, Disrupt enemy formation with Stuns and Poison Etc. The game offer a lot of PvE Content, such as Main Story with both Normal and Hard Difficulty, Resource Stage as Daily Farming Content to obtain Item for “Star up”, Utensils (Equipment) and Exp Items. There’s also a “Manor” system with your own house to decorate, Farm, Kitchen and Restaurant Mini games and much more! If you like Turn Based RPGs with Husbandos, The Tale of Food is the game you are looking for!

Game Content

Main Story

Main StoryThe “Main Story” is the first Game Content you will unlock while playing The Tale of Food. In this game mode you can discover the game main plot, while also complete stages in both Normal and later on Hard difficulty. Each stage rewards you with different items, such as Bunny Bun (Exp Items), Shells (Gold), and also Jade and Characters (even SSR!) as a first time completion. Each stage costs Stamina. After you complete a stage for the first time, you can also use Auto Farming for free (paying only stamina, no tickets required). You can use both “200% Efficiency Run” to spend double stamina to receive double drops, and “Fortune Bag” to increase your chance of obtain better drops in Main Story Stages.

Groove of Harvest 

Groove of Harvest 

The “Groove of Harvest” is the first Daily Content you unlock in The Tale of Food. In this game mode you can fight different stages to obtain “Star Up” materials for your Characters.

Cashew Grove

  • A Battle that requires “Heal Prevention” Characters. Winning the stage will reward you with “Nut”

Hazelnut Grove

  • A Battle that requires “Healing” Characters. Winning the stage will reward you with “Hazelnut”

Walnut Grove

  • A Battle that requires “Pierce/Def Drop” Characters. Winning the stage will reward you with “Walnut”

Almond Grove

  • A Battle that requires “Poison” Characters. Winning the stage will reward you with “Apricot”

All stages cost Stamina, and you can complete those stages both alone or with other players by creating a room. If played solo, you can also use Auto Farming, 200% Efficiency Runes and Autumn/Fortune Charm Bag.

Rabbit Roulette

Rabbit Roulette

The “Rabbit Roulette” game content lets you consume stamina to play a Roulette. If you are lucky, you can receive a great quantity of Exp Items, if you are not, a fight will come out and you will receive a good quantity of Exp Items. The higher the stages, the more stamina they will cost.

Apex of Phantom

Apex of Phantom

The “Apex of Phantom” game content lets you complete stages to obtain Utensils. Those items can be equipped by Characters to obtain stats and special passive abilities. Each stage requires stamina. 

Manor

Manor

The “Manor” game content lets you play various mini-games that let you gather food, currency, and character affection.

Study

  • The Study Room is the Main Character Room. Here you can receive messages from others Characters and also interact with them with special Chat

Home

  • The Home is your house. You can invite up to 4 Characters to live with you. Here you can also convert Grain obtained from battles into Exp Item, Increase the Comfort with Decoration and visit other players houses.

Farm

  • The Farm lets you gather a lot of basic ingredients that are needed to cook new food into the restaurant. You can level up the farm with Special Currency and Shell, and also place Characters as Guards to increase the currency you get.

Kitchen 

  • The Kitchen is the place where you can send your Character to work as Chief. After cooking a Recipe enough times, you will unlock a new one. You can sell cooked recipes in the Restaurant, or submit them in a Banquet.

Restaurant

  • In the Restaurant you can sell dishes you have prepared in the Kitchen, have Banquet to receive special items, and also have “Peak Hour” to increase your Selling for a short time

Characters & Utensils

Characters

Characters

The “Characters” in Tale of Food can be enhanced and made strong in multiple ways, let’s see how to make your characters stronger.

Roles

  • 100% Hit = This Character is specialized on Hitting the target while ignoring Dodge

  • Sunder = This Character is specialized in reducing the target Defense

  • Heal = This Character is specialized in Healing teammates and protect them

  • Poison = This Character is specialized in Poisoning the enemy, reducing his %HP every turn

  • Purify = This Character is specialized in Cleasing teammates from debuffs

  • Burst = This Characters is specialized in Dealing Great Damage and amplify damage the target receive

  • Heal Prevention = This Character is specialized in Preventing the target from receiving Healing

  • Support = This Character is specialized in assisting teammates in various ways (Buff/Debuff etc)

  • Dispel = This Character is specialized in removing Buffs from Enemies

  • Control = This Character is specialized in inflicting Crowd Controls on Enemies (Stuns, Paralyze, etc)

  • Immune = This Character is specialized on making teammates immune to damage

Level Up

  • You can complete stages or use Exp Items (Bunny Bun) to increase a Character Level. Each time you reach a Level cap (Ex: 20) you need to “Star Up” your Character to further increase his level

Star Up

  • With Star Up you increase your Character Max Level. Also increase Base Stats and unlock Special Rewards

Ascend

  • You can Ascend your characters by using Dupes or Special Items (Spices). Every time you Ascend your Character you receive a Passive Bonus. You can Ascend your Characters 7 Times

Utensils

  • The Utensils are Character Equipment that you can obtain while playing the game. Utensils give your character new Passive Ability. You need 3 Utensils of the same type to active the passive bonus

Utensils

Utensils

The “Utensils” are the equipment for your Characters. There’s 3 utensils you can obtain, Spoon, Cup and Bowl. Three of the same set of Utensils are required for activating the passive ability of the Utensil. They can also have SR or SSR rarity. Here’s some of the best Utensil you can obtain in the game

Utensils

  • Underglaze Red = When using attacking Skills, 30% Chance to trigger 1 Extra Normal Attack

  • Gold Leaf = Enter Berserk Mode at start of battle for 1 turn, increase damage by 30%

  • Hair Crystal = Recover 15% HP When health is lower than 30%

  • Pastels = When Applying effects to any target, 20% chance to increase duration by 1 turn

  • Agate = When using Healing Skills, increase healing ability by 10%

  • Rosewood = Crit Chance +30%

  • Black Pottery = Crit Damage +60%

  • Red Gold Flower = When attack lands, 50% chance to lower Target attack for 2 rounds

As the start of the game, only SR Utensils can be obtained while farming Apex of Phantom, while SSR Utensils while be unlocked later in the game

Gacha Rates

Limited Time Summon

Limited Time Summon

The “Limited Time Summon” in The Tale of Food is the “Rate-Up” Banner in the game. It features 2 Characters at once with increased rate. You can summon in this banner with Soul Core, with a cost of 1 Soul Core for a single summon and a cost of 10 soul core for a x10 summon. You can also exchange Jade for Soul core (180 Jade x 1 Soul Core). Here’s the rates:

Characters

  • SSR Characters = 2% (50% Chance for Rate Up)

  • SR Characters = 12%

  • R Characters = 45%

  • N Characters = 41%

Pity

  • After 50 total Summon without on SSR Characters, the drop rate of SSR Characters increase with every future summon:

  • 50-61 Summons = 2% Each every time

  • 61-70 Summons = 3% Each every time

  • 71-80 Summons = 5% Each every time

So you are Guaranteed to obtain an SSR Character at 80 Summon. Chance of being the Rate up Character is 50%

Wishful Summon

Wishful Summon

The “Wishful Summon” in The Tale of Food is the “Normal” Banner in the game. It features any Characters in the game. You can summon in this banner with Soul Core, with a cost of 1 Soul Core for a single summon and a cost of 10 soul core for a x10 summon. You can also exchange Jade for Soul core (180 Jade x 1 Soul Core). You are also Guaranteed to obtain 1 SSR Character on the first 20 Summons. Here’s the rates:

Characters

  • SSR Characters = 2%

  • SR Characters = 12%

  • R Characters = 45%

  • N Characters = 41%

Pity

  • After 50 total Summon without on SSR Characters, the drop rate of SSR Characters increase with every future summon:

  • 50-61 Summons = 2% Each every time

  • 61-70 Summons = 3% Each every time

  • 71-80 Summons = 5% Each every time

So you are Guaranteed to obtain an SSR Character at 80 Summon. Chance of being the Rate up Character is 50%

Special Summon

You are Guaranteed to obtain 1 SSR Character between the first 20 Summons.

Should I Play It? Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Nice 2D Graphic for Characters and Chibi for combats

  • Fully Voiced Characters

  • Nearly 0 Loading time

  • Enough Good Combat System with 2X Speed

  • Stamina Friendly

  • Auto Battle & Auto Farming System

Cons

  • Require Dupes for Awakening

  • No Animation Skip

  • Must like Chibi Combat Characters

LDPlayer

LDPlayer

With LDPlayer 9 you can play The Tale of Food on your computer! Enjoy a big screen and forget about Battery Drain or Overheating problem of your Phone. You can also let your Characters Auto Farm be easy on your Computer. Download LDPlayer 9 and play The Tale of Food in the best way!

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