Gourmet Sentai – Bara Yarou^[a] is a surrealistic side-scrolling beat-’em-up developed by Winds and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Super Famicom in 1995 only in Japan.

On January 30, 2018, the game was re-released by BlazePro/ Piko Interactive.^[1][2] In addition, Piko Interactive created and published a US SNES cartridge in 2019, for the first time with a full official English translation, titled Gourmet Warriors.^[3]

Gameplay

Each of the five stages has a time limit; players lose all the ingredients that were acquired when the timer reaches zero. However, the game has no concept of how many lives the player can have in the game; it’s an automatic game over if the player dies. Focusing on the time limit is important if the player wants to recuperate his lost strength after the fight with the level’s boss. One of the game’s notable features is that a button is used to make the character use various sentai poses when held down and used with the directional pad; while it is not beneficial, this was added to make the character flex his or her muscles for show.