The first thing my son said when he saw this game was, "Dad, is this anything like FNAF?" Honestly, I had no idea what he was talking about. And I still don't know.
I admit, I'm not a fan of horror games. My son, on the other hand, loves them.
A colleague recently wrote about this game, you can read his impression of the PS5 version here.
And since the publishers were generous and sent us the Nintendo Switch version of the game, I decided to do my own take on it.
So, Cakey's Twisted Bakery. Where do I start?
You are in the role of a child who wakes up in a bakery, and we learn that your brother George is missing.
The first thing I notice is that it's dark. Very dark. I have a flashlight, but it's still very hard to see what's going on around me.
I wander around this unusual room and notice some colorful contraption. It's Cooker Jr. which tells you to gather ingredients to bake pies. Okay, let's look for them. On the walls you'll find posters telling you what ingredients you need to bake a certain pie, because pies are your only weapon against Cakey and his deformed friends Frostine and Candy Bane.
Cooker Jr. is your only friend
So, I find some foods that don't really work for me as pie ingredients and put them in the Cooker Jr.
I wander through dark rooms, when suddenly the game is interrupted by a mini-animation where a silhouette appears and CAKEY is written in ominous letters. I'm going to find out who it is. I open the door to the dining room, the music increases, I hear footsteps approaching and - I'm dead.
My son explains to me that the point of the game is to hide from the enemy and thus progress through the game. Okay, the next time I heard footsteps I instinctively hid under the table. Cakey passed me without even suspecting that I was below. Is it really that simple?
It turns out it is.
I find it hard to believe that he doesn't see me
The enemies are quite unintelligent and each one has a certain weakness that you have yet to discover - and then destroy them by shooting explosive pies with secret ingredients that they are especially sensitive to - acid, ice, fire, etc.
After you destroy an enemy, a key will drop out, which opens the way to other parts of the bakery and facing a new enemy. Although they have different characteristics and behavior, the way to fight against them is the same. Avoid them while collecting food and then destroy them with pies.
In all its dark atmosphere, neon signs and signs are a very nice detail. The sound, that is, the lack of it, makes a great contribution to the atmosphere, and the occasional sound of steam escaping or the footsteps of monsters roaming the bakery will constantly keep you on the edge of your chair.
The game is quite short and you can finish it in a few hours, even if you don't know what you are doing.
I have no desire to play it again, but I am not the target audience either. Because, as I mentioned at the beginning, I'm not a fan of horror games, and this one didn't make me change my mind either.
A copy of the Nintendo Switch version for review purposes was provided by the development studio TinyMindz.
