Dosa Divas Brings the Heat With Turn-based Combat and Spicy Meals

Hello everybody, I’m Chandana Ekanayake, the Co-Founder and Artistic Director at Outerloop Video games. The group and I simply launched Dosa Divas, a story RPG all about cooking scrumptious meals, reconciling with family members, and rebuilding communities. You possibly can play the sport beginning as we speak on Xbox Sequence X|S.

As you information sisters Samari and Amani, together with the spirit-mech named Goddess, on their journey, you’ll encounter company goons working for LinaWorks, an evil quick meals empire constructed by Samara and Amani’s estranged sister, Lina.

Like our earlier sport Thirsty Suitors, Dosa Divas options turn-based fight closely impressed by JRPG video games like Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler, providing you with quite a lot of acquainted mechanics corresponding to boosts and defend breaks reimagined to suit Dosa Divas’ meals and cooking theme, proper right down to weapons like the Spatchuks and Wokarang.

Motion-packed Turn-based Combat

Whereas Dosa Divas’s turn-based fight is simple on its floor in order that anybody can leap in and play, there’s a number of depth beneath. When you get a really feel for all the pieces working in tandem it turns into a strategic, energetic dance.

Every enemy you encounter has a weak point to one in all 5 assault sorts – Salty, Candy, Spicy, Bitter, or Savory. By selecting the right taste profile together with your class-based potential, you’ll decrease their guard to stun them and knock them out. Assault at simply the proper second with the motion button, and you’ll deal additional injury by getting one other hit in. Likewise, if you happen to don’t block simply as the enemy is about to land a success, you’ll take the full drive of the injury.

As a way to preserve this approachable for everybody, no matter your expertise with turn-based fight or JRPGs, the sort matching is stored easy. Spicy assaults will decrease shields on enemies weak to Spicy assaults, and so on. When an enemy’s defend breaks, they’re Stuffed or shocked for quite a lot of rounds, letting you do large injury. You don’t have to memorize a weak point chart as all the pieces is laid out for you.

Boosts additionally allow you to multiply your injury, however you solely have a restricted quantity at your disposal as you achieve them on new turns. When dealing with off in opposition to a number of enemies without delay, it’s necessary to plan your turns rigorously.

Assault enemies with matching taste sorts to interrupt their shields and put them right into a Stuffed or shocked state for quite a lot of turns. Whereas enemies are Stuffed, they’ll take double injury from any of your assaults together with Boosted assaults.

Every member of the get together will be taught new taste primarily based Expertise which use Spirit Factors and have energetic timing like urgent quickly to shortly punch with Goddess, maintain for a rising Spirit Ball with Amani, or timing bounce Sam’s wok again and forth to hit an enemy a number of occasions. New Expertise get unlocked as you assist every village in addition to by an improve system.

And as you progress by every spherical of fight, your Final meter will slowly replenish till you’re in a position to unleash devastating group combos to hit a number of targets, buff up the complete get together, or replenish all of your Enhance Factors.

You’ll have the ability to improve assaults, unlock new Expertise, get bonuses on Good Blocks, add extra Enhance factors all through the course of the sport as you face enemies that hit a number of occasions on a flip and can debuff your get together. Fortunately you’ve been cooking a number of scrumptious meals that can be utilized in fight to replenish Well being and Spirit Factors, take away any debuffs, or buff up the complete get together.

An Historical Spirit-Mech Able to Take On Evil Company Goons

Tagging together with Samara and Amani is Goddess, their historic spirit-mech with fantastical skills like Mecha Stomp to assist them take down Lina’s forces. Appearing as the Tank, Goddess can take some heavier punches than Samara and Amani, however can dish it out simply as a lot. As you degree up, you’ve gotten the choice to pick bodily, well being, or spirit bonuses relying in your playstyle.

Exterior of fight, Goddess could be custom-made with varied components that you would be able to combine and match, together with customized wraps and equipment to make her your individual.

Enjoyable truth: Goddess is impressed by the kaleidoscopic, elaborated embellished auto rickshaws or tuk-tuks discovered throughout South Asia and South East Asia.

Cooking Up Flavorful Meals and Dishing Out Highly effective Punches

The center of Dosa Divas, as emphasised in its title, is meals. Narratively, we needed to discover meals’s significance in reconnecting communities with one another and their tradition, and dropping conventional meals is a device of cultural erasure, however meals in Dosa Divas additionally serves as a device for you in fight. By cooking up completely different dosa recipes by a number of mini video games, you achieve fight buffs that increase your protection, energy up your assaults, replenish your well being, or treatment standing results. There’s nothing a pleasant house cooked dosa can’t repair ought to you end up overwhelmed down.

Out Now on Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox on PC

After practically two and a half years of growth, the group and I couldn’t be extra excited so that you can leap into Dosa Divas! The sport is out as we speak on Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox on PC.