Science says that the average humanoid is approximately 70% water, but as someone who subsists solely on sarnies, I dare say that I myself am atleast50% starch-white bread. Vegetables? What are those? I only know of the three food groups: peanut, butter, and jelly.
Which is to say, that I amnotthe most gastronomically diverse individual on the face of the earth, snd I’ve never really had the desire to taste-test too much outside my culinary comfort zone. At least not until I got into the World Tour mode ofStreet Fighter 6.
Mostly, this mode sees you roaming round Metro City and capitals abroad in global pursuit of an answer to the question:what is strength?It’s an important question for sure, but I think you’ll soon find, as I did, that here in the World Tour mode, there are far more important matters than just the matter of strength at ahemsteak.
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Street Fighter 6’s World Tour mode offers more or less two major types of consumable foodstuffs. Anything listed as Takeout can be stored in your inventory for snacking on whenever, while anything Dine-In must be slurped on the spot; try as you might, you’re not going to be able to safely cram that made-to-order bowl of hot, steaming Tempura Soba in your pocket for later. Street Fighter 6 might not betotallygrounded in realism, but this much, at least, is realistic.
Whatever food or drink you’re buying—whether it be dine-in or takeout, a snack or a deep-dish—every single edible thing is elaborately complemented by an irresistible illustration and a mouth-watering description. Soup sold by a merchant in Italy is not simply soup, you see, butsavory grilled eggplant soup—sticky and thick with melted cheese, the accompanying picture illustrating chunks of aubergine (or, well, eggplant) strung together by salivatingly stringy strands of molten-hot mozzarella.
Meanwhile, in Jamaica,“a fiery explosion of juicy, zesty flavor awaits”in the form of chicken grilled a golden, golden brown, drizzled spicily with a jerk marinade. My avatar gulped this down instantaneously, savoring nothing, but the tantalizing descriptions and deliciously-drawn illustrations have stayed with me ever since, so much so that they’re starting to put me off what I usually eat. My real-world sandwiches now seem dull as cardboard in comparison to Street Fighter 6’s enticing buffet.
It’s the little things, you know? The real purpose of food in Street Fighter 6 is to grant you some boon along the lines of a hefty stat boost or a fully restored HP bar when consumed mid-street-fight. But dressed up as it is in such delectable depictions, it seems more substantial thanjusta stat booster, more significant thanjusta restorer of the health bar.
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Jamaican cuisine, Indian, vegetables tossed with rice, noodles steeped in broth peppered with shichimi topped with lemon. I ply my avatar with Specialty Biryani notspecificallyfor its promised powers, but more so because its combination of multi-ingredients and rice looks and sounds incredibly delicious. If I myself can’t gorge on it, at least my in-game stand-in can.
I can only live so vicariously through my avatar, though. Yesterday, when I paused the game to go make myself a lunch, the visions of gourmet noms that were dancing in my head immediately died upon my opening the cupboard. Therein was nothing but a loaf of day-old bread and a jar of month-old sandwich paste.
All at once I was tempted as I have never been before to order something in, somethingsensational, or to go out and buy a cookbook, get some recipes in my kitchen. There’s a whole uncharted culinary adventure waiting for me out there, but I won’t find it in my day-to-day sandwiches. For what feels to me like the first time ever, I wanna broaden my culinary horizons, and it’s all because of Street Fighter 6.
