In it, you'll be preparing a meal for the dinner of the game's namesake celebration before your guests arrive. This plays out in a series of microgames where you must prepare various ingredients, each step using up some of your time bank. The entire game takes only a few minutes, and both the methods of ingredient preparation and the hand-drawn aesthetic are likely allusions to the WarioWare series.

TET brings forth a pretty strong premise—anyone who has ever cooked against the clock before will appreciate the frantic energy the game is trying to portray—but it's not quite the finished product. If TET's goal is to whip you into a frenzied rush, its time limit is far too forgiving. And without an option to set a shorter time on replay, it's very much a one-and-done kind of product. And as a relaxing, fun novelty, TET excludes too many ingredients and steps to make it feel like you actually made anything. It's nice that the game provides a recipe for the in-game dishes at the end, but it also makes the contrast between the game's recipe and the real one all the more noticeable.

A few more steps in the game would have provided a much more immersive experience. Delicious as the real-life recipes no doubt are, taken at face value, the recipe you follow in-game doesn't seem particularly appealing. TET perhaps serves its audience best as a small act of cultural exchange, introducing players to a holiday and a cuisine they might not have been aware of. But heading to your kitchen and cooking up some real gỏi cuốn and chè chuối is certain to be more fulfilling—even if it takes a whole lot longer.