Umihara Kawase Fresh! (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Umihara Kawase Fresh!

Umihara Kawase is an action game series where the player controls protagonist Umihara Kawase to reach the end of each level. The game is highlighted by its rubber ring action in which the player uses an…

80 9 July 2019 ESRB E10+

What Umihara Kawase Fresh! is

Umihara Kawase Fresh! is an adventure game developed by Studio Saizensen and released in 2019. It was published by Nicalis, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kawase is a wandering chef in the magical world of Michelana. This time she ended up in a remote town called “Kingness,” where she starts working for a hamburger restaurant called “Tadaima Tavern.” For the time being, Umihara Kawase seems set on helping out Tadaima Tavern. Why? Because Kingness is the spitting image of a town that always appears in her dreams… There are mysterious things for sure. But since talking about them might make people look at her funny, it seems like she will keep them to herself. World: The Surface The area where Tadaima Tavern is located. All sorts of people live here. If you head to the sky, there are gates protected by guards.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Umihara Kawase Fresh! holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Umihara Kawase Fresh! launched on 9 July 2019, within three weeks of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2 and The Sinking City. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City.

Official trailer