Utilizing food in video games as a way to heal, increase specific skills, or provide any sort of buff has been a core mechanic for decades. So it’s hard to encounter a game nowadays that doesn’t have some cooking mini-game or challenge. But aside from impressive feasts of medieval meats or the foraged greens of open space, there’s still a mass of sugary treats to tempt any sweet-toothed ga

There are a surprising number of games that feature a frozen tuna as a weapon - which, to be fair, is already fun. However, Shadow Hearts 2 adds some pretty excellent embellishments. If you read the description for this weapon, you can learn its entire backst

Monster Hunter Freedom was the series' first installment on a handheld console, the PSP, which made a huge difference when it came to the games' most core component: multiplayer. The series is now known for highlighting fellowship over all else, bringing players together to hunt the seismic beasts with unadulterated cooperation and team chemistry, and Freedom was the start of t

Final Fantasy 7 has a number of pretty funny joke weapons. However, the most iconic one has to be the Nail Bat. When you acquire this legendary piece of equipment it most certainly packs a punch, so it isn't unusable. Unfortunately, it also has a grand total of zero materia slots, so that is a bit of a prob

It can be difficult to rank monsters by power level. Because the beasts of Monster Hunter are so diverse, it often feels like comparing apples to oranges. The specific placements on this list can easily be swapped around. Still, these monsters are about as powerful as they can get without dipping into Elder classificat

The Zinogre is fearsome in either its regular form, which first debuted in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd , as well as its variants, either the draconic Stygian Zinogre or the Thunderlord Zinogre. In any of its forms, the Zinogre holds so much electricity in its body that it can use it to power up like a Super Saiyan, but in the case of the Thunderlord Zinogre, it spends the entire hunt charged

One of the most lauded party games in recent memory, Overcooked brings all the stress and hecticness of a real kitchen environment directly into the player's living room . Players must work together to prepare meals for their guests, dealing with shifting environments and many, many ingredie

Sure, you can fight people using an axe, but what about fighting people with the thing that the axe chops down? Fire Emblem Fates allows you to do just that. You can bring this giant chunk of wood into battle and bludgeon your opponents with

Covered in chocolate shards and topped with perfectly rounded cherries, the recipe can be found on various computer screens following Chell’s near-death experience. But they aren’t typical cake ingredients and call for more unusual things like fish-shaped candy-coated peanut butter pie

Since this delicacy is based on the Tea-Break Pancake, the recipe can be purchased for 2’500 Mora from Good Hunter after hitting Adventure Rank 15. But to make the special edition Lighter-Than-Air Pancake, players need to practice the recipe with Noelle rather than any other charac

The Monster Hunter series has always seemingly had a fascination with food. From its barbecuing mini-game, to the attention to detail found in the cutscene where your food is prepared, this is a series that has a culinary curiosity. It shouldn't be a surprise, then, that it has a number of joke weapons based on f

Glavenus is one of the four mascot monsters from Monster Hunter Generations , which was first released on the 3DS as Monster Hunter X . Compared to the Astalos, Mizutsune, or Gammoth, Glavenus is the most fearsome of the trio. With its Great Sword-like tail, Glavenus is especially tough to face if you let it sharpen while preparing to attack, giving it the edge over players... litera

Geralt appears in the New World via a portal but he isn't the only inhabitant of the Continent to make their way to Monster Hunter: World . An ancient Leshen, one of the cooler monster designs in The Witcher 3 , has also made its way here and Geralt must team up with others in order to track it and bring it down. Ciri even makes an appearance Look At This the end of the trailer, as her ability to travel through space and time lets her potentially cross over into just about anything, maybe even Cyberpunk 2077 , the next CD Projeckt Red g

Typically, Sweetrolls take inspiration from a Gugelhupf cake, but in more recent additions to the Elder Scrolls series, they’ve appeared more like a Bundt cake. But either way, fans of the series struggle to go a day without wanting to sink their teeth into o

As with Genshin, getting a good meal can make your life a whole lot easier in Monster Hunter . Before heading out on a mission, be sure to stop by the Canteen and get a meal cooked up for you, whether that's a large feast in World or some dango in Ri