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''Venba'' is a cooking-based PuzzleGame made by Visai Games released on July 31, 2023 for the PC, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS. It tells the story of Venba, her husband Paavalan, and her son Kavin, and their experiences as Tamilian immigrants in Canada, including their struggles with finding work and adjusting to the language and culture; it also looks at the conflict between Kavin wanting to fit in with his Canadian peers and his parents wanting him to preserve their culture, as well as the gap between them.
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''Venba'' is a cooking-based PuzzleGame made by Visai Games released on July 31, 2023 for the PC, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, Platform/NintendoSwitch, Platform/PlayStation5, Platform/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS.Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS. It tells the story of Venba, her husband Paavalan, and her son Kavin, and their experiences as Tamilian immigrants in Canada, including their struggles with finding work and adjusting to the language and culture; it also looks at the conflict between Kavin wanting to fit in with his Canadian peers and his parents wanting him to preserve their culture, as well as the gap between them.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Comes up so often it somewhat straddles the line between this and MaliciousMisnaming, though the game keeps it ambiguous whether their is any malintent. Notably, nobody seems to be able to get Paavalan's name correct; as shown in Chapter 3, Kavin has to spell his name out while calling his office regarding [[spoiler:why he is running late from work]], and his ID card, shown later in the chapter, says "Pavluhn". This is comparatively downplayed when it comes to Kavin (and one dialogue option suggests that the two deliberately chose a name that would be easier for people to pronounce), who seems to have been called "Kevin" as a child.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Comes up so often it somewhat straddles the line between this and MaliciousMisnaming, though the game keeps it ambiguous whether their is any malintent. Notably, nobody seems to be able to get Paavalan's name correct; as shown in Chapter 3, Kavin has to spell his name out while calling his office regarding [[spoiler:why he is running late from work]], and his ID card, shown later in the chapter, says "Pavluhn". This is comparatively downplayed when it comes to Kavin (and one dialogue option suggests that the two deliberately chose a name that would be easier for people Canadians to pronounce), who seems to have been called "Kevin" as a child.when younger.
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kavin is shown as struggling between his Tamilian heritage and his Canadian upbringing, manifesting in a deep discomfort with the former in order to fit in with his peers. As a child, he has to often be cajoled into speaking Tamil and seems to prefer his friends' AccidentalMisnaming of him as "Kevin" to his real name; as a teenager, he refuses to take his mother's biriyani to college and later states that he felt great discomfort when taking his mother's food to lunch at school in an unsent message to Kris.
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kavin is shown as to be struggling between his Tamilian heritage and his Canadian upbringing, manifesting in a deep discomfort with the former in order to fit in with his peers. As a child, he has to often be cajoled into speaking Tamil and seems to prefer his friends' AccidentalMisnaming of him as "Kevin" to his real name; as a teenager, he refuses to take his mother's biriyani to college and later states that he felt great discomfort when taking his mother's food to lunch at school in an unsent message to Kris.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Venba and Paavalan are immigrants to Canada, and the game shows their struggles in finding work, as well as their struggles with adjusting to the language and culture of their new home; these concerns somewhat collide in Paavalan's case, being a writer who is fluent in Tamil but less comfortable with English. Kavin, being first-generation, is a ChildOfTwoWorlds who rebels against his parents' culture and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to fit in with his peers]].
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* CoolTeacher: Venba seems to have been one back home, though in Canada she doesn't have the opportunity to
* AnImmigrantsTale: Venba and Paavalan are immigrants to Canada, and the game shows their struggles in finding work, as well astheir struggles with adjusting to the language and culture of their new home; these concerns somewhat collide in Paavalan's case, being a writer who is fluent in Tamil but less comfortable home. Notably, their choices of career back home (schoolteacher and writer, respectively) mean that their relative discomfort with English.English affects them significantly; Paavalan has to work in a completely different field while Venba can only work as an assistant teacher managing supplies; her applications for Secondary Teacher are consistently rejected [[spoiler:till Chapter 5, by which point she seems to have decided to return to India]]. Kavin, being first-generation, is a ChildOfTwoWorlds who rebels against his parents' culture and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to fit in with his peers]].
* AnImmigrantsTale: Venba and Paavalan are immigrants to Canada, and the game shows their struggles in finding work, as well as
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* MinimalistCast: Venba, Paavalan, and Kavin are the only characters we see on screen.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: For Kavin.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: For Kavin.Kavin, complicated by him being a first-generation immigrant.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking his mother's soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking his mother's soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It is ambiguous what happened to Paavalan in Chapter 3. It is obvious that [[spoiler:he was attacked, given that his things are everywhere and he has a slash on his head; however, it is unclear if this was a mugging gone wrong or an overtly racially motivated attack. The game does imply the latter when, in Chapter 6, Paavalan says that the incident may be the reason why Kavin doesn't want to stand out, but it remains unclear.]]
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Comes up so often it somewhat straddles the line between this and MaliciousMisnaming, though the game keeps it ambiguous whether their is any malintent. Notably, nobody seems to be able to get Paavalan's name correct; as shown in Chapter 3, Kavin has to spell his name out while calling his office regarding [[spoiler:why he is running late from work]], and his ID card, shown later in the chapter, says "Pavluhn". This is comparatively downplayed when it comes to Kavin (and one dialogue option suggests that the two deliberately chose a name that would be easier for people to pronounce), who seems to have been called "Kevin" as a child.
* AmbiguousSituation: It is ambiguous what happened to Paavalan in Chapter 3. It is obvious that [[spoiler:he was physically attacked, given that his things are everywhere and he has a slash on his head; however, it is unclear if this was just a mugging gone wrong or an overtly racially motivated attack. The game does imply the latter when, in Chapter 6, Paavalan says that the incident may be the reason why Kavin doesn't want to stand out, but it remains unclear.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It is ambiguous what happened to Paavalan in Chapter 3. It is obvious that [[spoiler:he was physically attacked, given that his things are everywhere and he has a slash on his head; however, it is unclear if this was just a mugging gone wrong or an overtly racially motivated attack. The game does imply the latter when, in Chapter 6, Paavalan says that the incident may be the reason why Kavin doesn't want to stand out, but it remains unclear.]]
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kavin is shown as struggling between his Tamilian heritage and his Canadian upbringing, manifesting in a deep discomfort with the former in order to fit in with his peers. As a child, he has to often be cajoled into speaking Tamil and seems to prefer his friends' AccidentalMisnaming of him as "Kevin" to his real name; as a teenager, he refuses to take biriyani to college and later states that he felt great discomfort when taking his mother's food to lunch at school in an unsent message to Kris.
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* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Kavin is shown as struggling between his Tamilian heritage and his Canadian upbringing, manifesting in a deep discomfort with the former in order to fit in with his peers. As a child, he has to often be cajoled into speaking Tamil and seems to prefer his friends' AccidentalMisnaming of him as "Kevin" to his real name; as a teenager, he refuses to take his mother's biriyani to college and later states that he felt great discomfort when taking his mother's food to lunch at school in an unsent message to Kris.Kris.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Dialogue boxes are coloured depending on the speaker: Venba's are pink, Paavalan's are purple, and Kavin's are blue. The TranslationConvention is also expressed using colours: white text indicates that the characters are speaking in Tamil, while yellow text indicates that they are speaking in English.
* ComingOfAgeStory: For Kavin.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Dialogue boxes are coloured depending on the speaker: Venba's are pink, Paavalan's are purple, and Kavin's are blue. The TranslationConvention is also expressed using colours: white text indicates that the characters are speaking in Tamil, while yellow text indicates that they are speaking in English.
* ComingOfAgeStory: For Kavin.
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* MeaningfulEcho: In Chapter 1, when Venba and Paavalan are in bed after they discover that she is pregnant, Paavalan worries about whether they should go back to India or raise their child in Canada. Venba is less worried, insisting that "[the child] will turn out just fine"; when Paavalan asks her how she is so sure, she says, "It's our child. How else could they turn out?". In Chapter 2, about six in-game years later, while Venba and Paavalan (and an asleep Kavin) are in bed, Venba confides in Paavalan about being unable to connect with Kavin and her worry about his lack of connection with his heritage. While Paavalan is also concerned, he does insist that "He'll turn out just fine"; when Venba asks him how he is so sure, he says, "He's our child. How else will he turn out."
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venpa venba]]) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
* PaintingTheMedium: Apart from the TranslationConvention, Kavin's dialogue is often stained over, reflecting Venba's increase inability to understand him.
* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* TranslationConvention: The language being spoken by anyone in a scene is ColorCodedForYourConvenience; dialogue spoken in Tamil is shown in white, while that spoken in English is shown in yellow.
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venpa venba]]) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
* PaintingTheMedium: Apart from the TranslationConvention, Kavin's dialogue is often stained over, reflecting Venba's increase inability to understand him.
* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* TranslationConvention: The language being spoken by anyone in a scene is ColorCodedForYourConvenience; dialogue spoken in Tamil is shown in white, while that spoken in English is shown in yellow.
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* MeaningfulEcho: In Chapter 1, when Venba and Paavalan are in bed after they discover that she is pregnant, Paavalan worries about whether they should go back to India or raise their child in Canada. Venba is less worried, insisting that "[the child] will turn out just fine"; when Paavalan asks her how she is so sure, she says, "It's our child. How else could they turn out?". In Chapter 2, about six in-game years later, while Venba and Paavalan (and an asleep Kavin) are in bed, Venba confides in Paavalan about being unable to connect with Kavin and her worry about his lack of connection with his heritage. While Paavalan is also concerned, he does insist that "He'll "he'll turn out just fine"; when Venba asks him how he is so sure, he says, "He's our child. How else will he turn out."
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* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem(specifically (specifically, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venpa venba]]) about the protest and about her, leading the protest to gather steam, the school to relent relent, and her to fall in love.
* PaintingTheMedium: Apart from the TranslationConvention, the speed of text indicates the comfort the speaker has with the language; both Paavalan's English and Kavin's Tamil are written slowly to show their limited fluency. In addition, Kavin's dialogue is often stained over, reflecting Venba'sincrease increasing inability to understand him.
him; notably, [[spoiler:his dialogue in Chapter 7, all in Tamil, is the only time the staining does not occur, indicating that mother and son finally understand each other]].
* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking his mother's soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* TranslationConvention: The language being spoken by anyone in a scene is ColorCodedForYourConvenience; dialogue spoken in Tamil is shown in white, while that spoken in English is shown in yellow.''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem
* PaintingTheMedium: Apart from the TranslationConvention, the speed of text indicates the comfort the speaker has with the language; both Paavalan's English and Kavin's Tamil are written slowly to show their limited fluency. In addition, Kavin's dialogue is often stained over, reflecting Venba's
* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking his mother's soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in
* TranslationConvention: The language being spoken by anyone in a scene is ColorCodedForYourConvenience; dialogue spoken in Tamil is shown in white, while that spoken in English is shown in yellow.
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* MeaningfulEcho: After Venba and Paavalan discover that,
* MeaningfulName: A "Venba" is a type of poem, while "Kavin" means "beautiful".
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a venba) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
* MeaningfulName: A "Venba" is a type of poem, while "Kavin" means "beautiful".
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a venba) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
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* MeaningfulEcho: After In Chapter 1, when Venba and Paavalan are in bed after they discover that,
* MeaningfulName: A "Venba"that she is a type of poem, pregnant, Paavalan worries about whether they should go back to India or raise their child in Canada. Venba is less worried, insisting that "[the child] will turn out just fine"; when Paavalan asks her how she is so sure, she says, "It's our child. How else could they turn out?". In Chapter 2, about six in-game years later, while "Kavin" means "beautiful".
Venba and Paavalan (and an asleep Kavin) are in bed, Venba confides in Paavalan about being unable to connect with Kavin and her worry about his lack of connection with his heritage. While Paavalan is also concerned, he does insist that "He'll turn out just fine"; when Venba asks him how he is so sure, he says, "He's our child. How else will he turn out."
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as she tells Kavin in Chapter 3. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically avenba) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venpa venba]]) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
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* ShoutOut: The scene where Kavin drinking soup leads to him flashing back to his memory of [[spoiler:[[spoiler:Venba learning about her mother's death]] visually evokes Anton Ego's flashback scene in ''Film/{{Ratatouille}}''.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It is ambiguous what happened to Paavalan in Chapter 3. It is obvious that [[spoiler:he was attacked, given that his things are everywhere and he has a slash on his head; however, it is unclear if this was a mugging gone wrong or an overtly racially motivated attack. The game does imply the latter when, in Chapter 6, Paavalan says that the incident may be the reason why Kavin doesn't want to stand out, but it remains unclear.]]
* ArcWords: Every chapter of the game quotes the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kural Thirukkural]], as shown on a calendar in the house.
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* MeaningfulName: A "Venba" is a type of poem.
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as told to Kavin. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a venba) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
* MeetCute: Venba's story of meeting Paavalan, as told to Kavin. Venba was part of a group of teachers and students who had organized a protest at the private school she was teaching, and Paavalan was an IntrepidReporter who interviewed the protestors, including her. He then wrote a poem (specifically a venba) about the protest and about her, leading the school to relent and her to fall in love.
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* AnImmigrantsTale: Venba and Paavalan are immigrants to Canada, and the game shows their struggles in finding work, as well as their struggles with adjusting to the language and culture of their new home; these concerns somewhat collide in Paavalan's case, being a writer who is fluent in Tamil but less comfortable with English. Kavin, being first-generation, is a ChildOfTwoWorlds who rebels against his parents' culture and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to fit in with his peers]].
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Adult Kavin is a writer like his father; he also grows a similar beard and has glasses like him, to the point that he [[spoiler:wears his glasses during his visit to India]].
* MeaningfulEcho: After Venba and Paavalan discover that,
* MeaningfulName: A "Venba" is a type ofpoem.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Adult Kavin is a writer like his father; he also grows a similar beard and has glasses like him, to the point that he [[spoiler:wears his glasses during his visit to India]].
* MeaningfulEcho: After Venba and Paavalan discover that,
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[[caption-width-right:1000:''Think well before you dare, and never ruminate once in action.'']]
''Venba'' is a cooking-based PuzzleGame made by Visai Games released on July 31, 2023 for the PC, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS. It tells the story of Venba, her husband Paavalan, and her son Kavin, and their experiences as Tamilian immigrants in Canada, including their struggles with finding work and adjusting to the language and culture; it also looks at the conflict between Kavin wanting to fit in with his Canadian peers and his parents wanting him to preserve their culture, as well as the gap between them.
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!! This game provides examples of:
* [=TropeTitle=]: List of tropes that are fixtures of the series.
* [=TropeTitle=]: Any tropes in which the show is already cited can be retrieved from the Wiki if you text-search in a separate window on the program name.
[[caption-width-right:1000:''Think well before you dare, and never ruminate once in action.'']]
''Venba'' is a cooking-based PuzzleGame made by Visai Games released on July 31, 2023 for the PC, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS. It tells the story of Venba, her husband Paavalan, and her son Kavin, and their experiences as Tamilian immigrants in Canada, including their struggles with finding work and adjusting to the language and culture; it also looks at the conflict between Kavin wanting to fit in with his Canadian peers and his parents wanting him to preserve their culture, as well as the gap between them.
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!! This game provides examples of:
* [=TropeTitle=]: List of tropes that are fixtures of the series.
* [=TropeTitle=]: Any tropes in which the show is already cited can be retrieved from the Wiki if you text-search in a separate window on the program name.
