Why We Eat
This is going to get a bit Jaden Smith, but bear with me.
We eat food because of flavour, because of texture, because of smell (core mechanics, metagame, base setting, et al).
But we are initially attracted to food because of how it looks (story & art).
We “eat food” and “play games” with our eyes at first, but we fall in love with our food and our games with our head and our heart.