Toca Kitchen Sushi is video game cooking at its most delicious Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Toca Kitchen Sushi is video game cooking at its most delicious Yum. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 3 Apr 2019 8 comments The thing I like the most about Toca Boca video games, I think, is that they are so confident in what they're doing. This shows itself in the way they present their objectives. There is something obvious and appealing to do, but no punishment for doing it wrong, and no clear point at which the thing you're doing is completed so the whole thing has to end. In a game like Toca Nature, in which you are presented with an open landscape that you can cover with trees, lakes, and mountains, this meant that there was no way to save what you were doing. Each creation lasted as long as you wanted to look at it, and would be erased forever when you moved onto something else. Nature could be investigated, but it could not be owned. In Toca Kitchen Sushi, which is the team's most recent digital toy, and also the thing that my daughter and I have truly fallen for over the last month, your job is to make dinner for a range of patrons at a sushi restaurant. But you can make whatever you want. You can take as much time as you want, and deal with any of the ingredients in any way you please. And if the patron doesn't like what you've served them, you can swap them out for another patron. And then, once they've eaten, you can go back and cook something new again. It never has to end. The effort here has been spent on the interactions, the way the carousel spins as you select ingredients at the start, and the way a squid, say, will flop onto the table or the way an octopus tentacle will reveal a coiled, muscular rubberiness as you move it around. Once you've grabbed the stuff you want to cook with, you can unleash a variety of tools on them. There is a mixer of sorts that turns things into tubes. There is a frying pan and there are knives. Best of all, because this is sushi, is the wrapping table, where you can select rice, seaweed and other things I am ashamed to say I don't know the names for, and wrap the tubes you have made with the tubifier machine inside them. Or you can wrap whole ingredients. Or you can wrap wraps. In fact, we have discovered, you can wrap things pretty much forever, creating denser and denser rolls of sushi, candy canes jostling with kohlrabi, the whole thing moving forever towards the point at which surely it must collapse into some super-dense sushi singularity, an umami core from which not even light can escape. Then you plate it and it trundles off towards the patron. At this point, my daughter selects the hottest of hot sauces and slathers the whole thing with it, staining it a distinctive wasabi green. Finally, the patron eats it. In general, because of the wasabi element, steam will erupt from their ears. And then they will smile with delight, because something can be hot and spicy but also delicious. And then we head back to the ingredients carousel to do the whole thing over again. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 15 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store