The True Gamer Fuel

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Stephanie Liu
May 30, 2025

Welcome to “Siliconera Speaks Up,” our newsletter for the site! This’ll be a summary of the past month’s anime or gaming news, a little reminder of things to come, and our insight on what games you should pick up next. Without further ado, let’s get into it!

Speak Up Sesh

Hello everyone, and welcome back to another Siliconera Speaks Up! Now, as you may have noticed, this is no longer a weekly thing, but rather a monthly one. It’s still the same newsletter in terms of content, albeit on a less regular basis.

With that shop talk out of the way, let’s talk games! To be precise, let’s talk about The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-. What a crazy, ambitious project! Too Kyo really lives up to their name, because no sane video game developer would have okayed a game with a hundred different endings, and that’s not even including the 30-hour prologue. That’s not the reason I’d like to bring it up, though. The real reason is…the curry.

Aniplex has uploaded the official recipe for the curry that appears multiple times throughout the game. In the story, this is a curry that calls for precise measurements, a specific spice blend, and lots of micromanaging. The Aniplex recipe isn’t that complicated, despite how daunting the ingredients and instructions may look. Aside from the wait time, it only took about thirty minutes, and the result was a surprisingly light curry with a complex flavour that’s a mix of sweet, bitter, and spicy.

I learned a lot from this recipe, as both a cook and a fan of the game. The last time I put coffee in curry, I ended up with a little of gritty bits and no distinct flavour. But in this one, it turned out fine, so it turns out I was using the wrong type of coffee back then. Now, I have no clue how much collaboration was going on between Aniplex and Too Kyo when it came to the actual recipe, but the curry doesn’t taste like curry at all. It lacks the warm and comfort I associate with a normal Japanese curry, and judging by Kurara’s…congenial personality in the game, I started wondering if this Oosuzuki curry explains some things about that. I wondered if Kurara grew up in a loveless home.

It’s kind of a crazy assumption to make just from a curry recipe, I know. But it’s true! And this sort of extra content just adds so much more fun to a game’s characters and story, even when you’re not playing it. Like how the bulk of the food in the Stardew Valley cookbook was vegetarian, or how the meticulous old man Zhongli in Genshin Impact has a particular version of Teyvat-style yanduxian (Shanghai pork soup with bamboo and tofu) as his signature dish.

Many cultures love to talk about how much they love food and how important food is them, and looking at the history of a cuisine can tell a lot about the demographic or country it’s from. So it stands to reason that the same goes for fictional people and locales. Hopefully, we’ll see more recipes that are specific to a game or character that focus on telling a story with it rather than just drawing inspiration from it. Granted, since I’m pretty sure most companies don’t have recipe developers on hand, I suppose it would be a little unrealistic to expect that for every company.

Top 10 Stories From the Past Month

  1. Blue Prince All Painting Puzzle Solutions - The Blue Prince guide never stopped being popular!

  2. Sanrio and Piapro Pop-Up Merchandise Stars Hatsune Miku, Cinnamoroll - The usual suspects—Sanrio and Vocaloid.

  3. The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy Gift Guide - Something I thought of while playing was, “Man, I really wish I could still see the hashtags I needed to filter through all these gift items,” and so I went the extra mile of including them. It turns out to have been the right choice, because this guide also remained in the Top 10 every week!

  4. Pompompurin Still 1st in Sanrio Character Ranking 2025 Poll - We needed another dog to dethrone Cinnamoroll. Poor Hello Kitty, though! She’s like the Snow White of the Sanrio mascots…

  5. Peanuts Tamagotchi Nano Turns Snoopy Into Your Pet Dog - Like-minded people who wanted to have Snoopy as a pet, our dream can finally come true!

  6. New Hatsune Miku Phone Cases Available Worldwide - Including Airpods cases and more!

  7. Ayaneo Teases New Flip 1S DS Model Based on Nintendo DS Design - The Nintendo DS was really an enlightened design. I miss the easy days of StreetPass and the creativity that the dual screen could allow.

  8. First Love and Deepspace Nendoroid is a Xavier Figure - My impression of Zayne girlies is that they’re a bit more normal than the other stans, but they spend a LOT of money. So, even disregarding my Zayne bias, I’m surprised Xavier is first. I guess he IS the poster boy…?

  9. New Sanrio Mobile Game Is Hello Kitty Friends Match - You guys really love Sanrio!

  10. Metroid Other M Samus Figma Figures Return After Over 10 Years - T-Ten years…?

Upcoming Releases

Can you believe that not only does the Switch 2 come out next week, but Deltarune does, too?

  • The Elder Scrolls Online - June 2, 2025 (PC)

  • Voidsayer - June 2 (PC)

  • Mario Kart World - June 5 (Switch 2)

  • Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - June 5 (PC, Switch, Switch 2)

  • Deltarune: Chapter 3 & 4 - June 5 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, PC)