Cooking? And usefulness/relevance of mechanics

From a FB group, with both purifyweirdshard & Sunraiser

The Question: Would you rather find ingredients to get a complete meal later on. This by either making the food, or use the components as a currency / transmute into food to eat? Or would you rather find ready-to-eat food to save time? Perhaps you would like to see them both, as an free option for everyone, while potions are the real health and ether regain?


People responded:

Both. Definitely both. But like in Breath of the Wild, cooked food gives you MUCH better stat boosts and healing.

[Insert that meme about the Mexican girl saying 'Why not both?' here] 'cuz, really I don't see why both wouldn't work XD

Broken record here, but both. Find prepared food that can be used right away and ingredients to cook/transmute higher quality healing items, possibly even with temporary stat boosts.

never have been a fan of making foods. imo it takes away from gameplay. I like finding food as another way of gaining things such as hp/mp.

Ready to eat food! Give me wall turkey!

Doesnt matter. I rarely use food items

I can see both. Food can be used for healing, while cooked food can be used for healing and an added benefit, such as added damage or defense.

find cooked food. Absolutely no patience for 'cooking' in any game ever.

Ingredients. I think the cooking in BotW was amazing and makes me want more cooking in games.

Both. It would be cool to get, say, eggs, and bread. eat them indovidually, or combine them for egg on toast, which provides better health restoration.

-- and a dialogue --

Purify: What if the food can be my familiar?

Me: Familiar Food. Like flying pizza? - Flying spaghetti monster?

Purify: absolutely flying pizza...or rolling pizzas. A levitating plate of turkey. Donuts with wings. All of the above

Me: How about stepping up a notch: Flying Fridge!

Luke: Something that restores health slowly over time?

Me: That is probably like a gear-thing she could wear, or a skill of some kind. Maybe a shard with a passive effect like the "walk armor" in the series which generate health when walking and such. I think poison is a approach when talking about food.

Sunraiser: Well a cheesecake floating ahead of me would do wonders for my incentive to explore. 😜

Purify: I think Luke means that the floaty food would restore your HP over time since it's just kinda hanging out and Miriam is taking inferred little bites from it as times passes. *thumbs up* Anyway, food familiar is a great idea. We should tell Angel!!

Me: That is an awesome idea! I will copy all of these ideas for Angel and Mana

For some reason I can't tag Angel.