Sushi! Waxy’s Sushi Party

By: Derek Yu

On: October 20th, 2008

Sushi! Waxy’s Sushi Party is a new action game from Srehpog, the creator of the popular Zeldalike, Ark 22. It’s hard to describe the game mechanics exactly – as a sushi chef, your goal is to manage orders and send out bills. Orders are represented by colored dots that move across the bottom of the screen. To complete an order, you have to hit the right button when the dot is over the matching color.

But what makes the game so challenging is… math. Not only do you have to take orders, but you also have to add up the bills in a timely fashion, which involves some quick addition and multiplication skills. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty useless without a calculator these days. Throw in some impatient customers waiting for their food and, well, I think the screenshot above accurately captures the kind of gourmet clusterbombs that can blow up in your face during this game (or is that a win pose?).

Interestingly enough, at the end of each round you can raise the prices of the various sushi you’re serving. But it’s important to take into account how this will affect your bill calculations in the next round. If you suck at simple arithmetic as much as I do, you might want to keep all the dishes at the same price, and perhaps also at multiples of 50.

All in all, Sushi! is a polished and enjoyable title that’s also lovely to look at. But it’s also rather stressful with all different stuff going on! Waxy, please hire some assistants for God’s sake!

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(Thanks, ChevyRay!)