The reputation meter can be seen at the top left of the screen and incrementally goes up every time you successfully fulfill a customer’s order. By nailing each of their requests and leaving their stomachs satisfied, you’ll not only get a nice tip but see the bar go further into the green.
If you miss an ingredient, add something you shouldn’t have, or you take too long to serve up your bowl of wonders, it puts a little dent in your reputation and sees your progress stall. If only temporarily, though.
However, if you have a full reputation whenever you’re serving up the dish of your customer’s dreams, they’ll add a little something extra to their tip, boosting the money you can make from each order. How generous!
Once your reputation bar is full, you can then take on the next Meatball Brawl challenge and try to increase your standing on the town’s leaderboard. Which, in turn, will unlock a whole range of new possibilities such as new items at Ume’s Shop, new characters to meet, places to visit, and even relationship levels to work at.
Reputation really does connect everything together in KuloNiku. Throughout the game, there are goals and accomplishments you need to achieve in order to unlock new items and equipment in the game to bolster your reputation even further.
Don’t panic, though! You can keep track of how you’re doing by looking at the journal in-between shifts. It shows your active goals, in-game statistics, as well as what relationship level you’re at with each character, the reputation level you’re currently on and how far you are from the next.