Honoo no Ryourijin: Cooking Fighter Hao

The master chef Hao goes in a quest to hunt down and avenge his master by
hitting every inn and restaurant he finds and picking a duel with the resident
master chefs. Instead of hitting each other senseless however, the chefs
engage in cooking fights, in which the character who prepares the best dishes
wins.

The game is played in a top-down scrolling arena, in which you control your
character and try to hunt down the animals that serve as the base of your
recipes, once defeated you must perform special moves while cooking them,
which decides the type of dish you get. Hitting each animal with the varied
vegetables and seasonings found littered across the arena also expands the
range of dishes you can create. At the same time the opposing player is
actively trying to hunt down his own animals and can hit you to try to steal
your dish (and vice-versa), the one that finishes first winning the match.

The game features colorful anime-styled cutscenes between fights, and includes
a single-player story mode and a 2-player Vs mode, in which you can freely
select from all the chefs in the game.