The announcement trailer focused on narrative and aesthetic rather than the mechanics of gameplay in stunning cell animation, it dramatised the game's titular protagonist as it escapes the sacrificial altar to start its own cult of adorable animal followers, exacting revenge in the name of a mysterious entity known as The One Who Waits.Ĭult of the Lamb is animated by Half Giant, an Australia studio. In the year since his studio Massive Monster's fourth game was announced at the European trade fair Gamescom, Cult of the Lamb has become one of the most keenly anticipated video games of 2022.Īhead of its global release on Friday, pre-orders alone had driven the Melbourne-made indie to the top of the sales charts on digital video game marketplace Steam.Īt its Gamescom debut in August 2021, Cult of the Lamb immediately distinguished itself from other games. "I was refreshing the Steam store page yesterday, and watching the numbers continue to go up … this is in a totally different league to our previous games." We didn’t try the thing ourselves, however Ramen Burger, a few stalls down from Raindrop Cake, had a much shorter line.On the precipice of release day, Cult of the Lamb's creative director Julian Wilton was still pinching himself: "I haven't taken it in yet, because my priority has been getting the game out," he told ABC Arts. (Photo credit: DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith)Įach “cake” - prepared off-site, according to creator Darren Wong - was stored individually in a plastic container filled with water, from which staff carefully removed the jelly-like things, placed them in bamboo sheaths with the flour and syrup, then served.īuyers seemed satisfied, poking excitedly at the alleged treats with spoons before slurping them down. Behind her, buyers on a pre-paid list wait for their cakes. In fact, there were so many people waiting at the food festival for this dessert puddle (amid gusting wind and near-freezing temperatures, mind you) that the Raindrop servers kept a handwritten list of pre-paid customers, to whom they doled out the gelatin snacks at $8 a pop.Ī staff member at the Raindrop Cake station at Smorgasburg on Sunday takes orders from customers for the vegan, zero-calorie desserts. Popularized in Japan, the Raindrop Cake debuted in the states this weekend at the summer season opening of Smorgasburg - in Williamsburg on Saturday and Prospect Park on Sunday.ĭespite its odd appearance, when we checked it out Sunday, the Raindrop Cake station had the longest line in the whole place. This time around, it's a murky white gelatin, made mostly of water and agar (a vegan-friendly alternative to gelatin, according to the Huffington Post), and topped with roasted soybean flour and brown sugar syrup. It's New York’s latest, must-have food gimmick: the Raindrop Cake.įollowing its success with the Cronut, Ramen Burger and rainbow bagel, the city’s Evil Foodie Cabal has dreamed up yet another way to get people to stand in line. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.
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