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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! (Switch) Review
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Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 game details The most exciting and intense restaurant sim in existence has returned. This game is easy to learn but very difficult to master. Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 is your chance to finally become the best chef in the world.
by Joel A. DeWitte - May 6, 2019, 10:43 pm EDT
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There’s a strange appeal to playing something emulating an undesirable task. While my experience in the food service industry was at times a horrible grind, there’s an appetite for games that mimic aspects of that job while also gamifying them to turn the real-life work into an engaging experience. For those with a reliable group of friends to play couch co-op, there’s the Overcooked series. For the rest of us, there’s Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, a solitary experience that evokes the tensions and triumphs of working in a kitchen without the hard labor or putrid odors.
This restaurant simulator is about spinning plates—completing orders and cleaning tasks as they are received accurately before customers get tired of waiting. Where Overcooked is about moving characters on-screen between stations to coordinate between friends and complete orders, Cook, Serve, Delicious is about dexterity between your left and right hand to curate each order according to the customer’s request via menu prompts. Orders and clean-up tasks are queued on the left side of the screen. Each order has specific requests: one customer might want their hot dog on a plain bun with just ketchup; another might want a pretzel bun with the works, and each accoutrement means going into sub-menus on the right-hand side and pressing the corresponding button for each.
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Cleaning tasks similarly require a sequence of button presses to complete, each with a different order of operations that take varied amounts of time. Selecting the task to clean a toilet opens the menu on the right-hand side of the screen, where you have to hit the X button to wash the toilet and then the Y button to use sanitizer before the task will be marked as complete. Others are more involved, such as taking out the trash before it overfills, which requires spamming the button input to simulate cramming it down into the dumpster, or washing dishes, which is a six-step affair. Failing to complete these chores affects your end-level rating.
Success depends on effective time management. Prep work beforehand is possible for some menu items, shortening lead-times. Cooking hot dogs or pretzels at the start removes one step in completing an order. Using all that food ingredients that have been prepped requires either setting aside time to stage another set of food items, or cooking them individually for each order afterwards. There is an ebb and flow of customers, so it’s critical to use slow periods to complete prep work where possible, setting the table to handle rush hour periods with the speed necessary to assemble orders that satisfy customers. While input combinations for various food items are first being learned, each extra second becomes a precious commodity. Effective planning and execution results in placing higher on a three-tier rating system, and this leads to unlocking levels (of which there are many) and restaurant furniture used in assembling your own absurd restaurant backdrop.
There’s something about the presentation that is simple, yet delightful. The start menu has a silly, upbeat jingle repeating the title as a constant refrain, with food falling from the sky in the background. The restaurant backdrops have a basic art design, but the food itself contrasts with this, being hyper-detailed in presentation as if a photo were scanned. A bell chime rings with each order that adds to the tension during peak hours. In assembling a dish, the food shakes and a plopping sound is made when adding toppings, giving satisfying tactile feedback. It is all very unassuming and charming.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! caught my interest with its presentation and gradually won me over with a surprisingly comprehensive and diverse set of levels that are challenging without being unfair. If you can ride out an initial hump of stress in learning how to play, then much like leaving work at the end of a long shift, you’ll find a strong sense of satisfaction cooking and serving delicious digital food.
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- Healthy number of levels
- Sense of fulfillment in achieving high ratings
- Simple, pleasant presentation
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Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! | |
Release | Apr 10, 2019 |
Rating | Everyone 10+ |
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Developer(s) | Vertigo Gaming |
Publisher(s) | Vertigo Gaming |
Director(s) | David Galindo |
Designer(s) | David Galindo |
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Composer(s) | Johnathan Geer |
Series | Cook, Serve, Delicious! |
Engine | GameMaker Studio |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One |
Release | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux PlayStation 4
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Genre(s) | Simulation |
Mode(s) | Single-player, local cooperative |
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2 (stylized as Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!) is a restaurant simulation game released in 2017, developed and published by Vertigo Gaming for PC, and Mac. The game was released on September 14, 2017, for PC and Mac through Steam[3] and Good Old Games,[4] for the PlayStation 4 on December 18, 2018,[2] and for the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One on April 10, 2019.[5] It is the sequel to Cook, Serve, Delicious!.[6]
Another sequel, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3, was announced in August 2019.
Gameplay[edit]
As with the original game, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! has the player act as the chef and principal operator for a small restaurant. Over the course of a day, including periods of high activity, the player must cook requested orders and perform various cleanup and sanitary tasks within a limited amount of time. Most of these require the player to press controller buttons or type specific keys on a keyboard to match a specific sequence of cooking or cleaning, or to match specific order requests. Often, a player may need to start an order and wait for it to finish cooking before completing the remaining steps; during this, they can switch to any of the other pending steps and complete those as needed. Doing all the steps correctly and on time helps the player's score, while making mistakes can harm the restaurant's reputation. As the player completes each day, they earn in-game money that can be used to buy new recipes to add to the menu; part of the metagame is to continue to vary the restaurant's menu to draw in new customers, thus requiring a wide array of recipes.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! has a number of new or improved gameplay mechanics which differentiates it from the original.[7] The game greatly expands the quantity of foods that can be cooked, increasing from 30 dishes, to over 180. Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2 allows players to decorate and update their own restaurant with a variety of art, wallpapers and other furniture. The new installment also splits food into three different types: Entrees, Sides and Drinks. Sides are only ordered if they are pre-prepared in a Holding Station, and several drinks are now self-served. Entrees have stayed the same in gameplay, although some entrees like French Toast require use of the Holding Stations and cannot be made to order.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2 also introduces a Chef for Hire system; which allows the player to work at over thirty restaurants, each with its own theme and menu,[7] and a new local co-op game mode. The game also introduces the previously mentioned Holding Stations, which allows for food to be pre-prepared before customers arrive. The game has also received patches, including options that were originally removed from CSD, being reintroduced into the game. The Iron Cook and Catering events have been removed.[8]
Release[edit]
Originally, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! was scheduled for release in August 2017 for Steam, however the game was released a month later.[9] It was released for PlayStation 4 on December 18, 2018; and on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One on April 10, 2019.
Reception[edit]
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The game received mixed reviews, with an aggregate score of 62/100 on Metacritic.[10] GameSpew 'highly recommended' the game and scored 90%, explaining that the gameplay is 'easy to learn and fiendishly difficult to master',[11] and also praised the amount of patches that had been released for the game since release. However, GameSpew also stated that the customization of the player's kitchen feature 'particularly unnecessary', and did not use the function very often.[11]
Gita Jackson of Kotaku said the game was 'quite exhilarating' despite making her 'stressed' due to the 'beautiful' looking food, and said it was an achievement that the game 'washe[d] away all [her] frustration'.[13] However, GamesMaster UK were 'baffled' by the game, and could not see why the game would be popular.[12]
References[edit]
- ^'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!'. Steam. Archived from the original on December 10, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ^ ab'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! on PS4'. PlayStation™Store. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
- ^'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! on Steam'. Valve Gaming Inc. Archived from the original on October 24, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
- ^'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! on GOG.com'. www.gog.com. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
- ^'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! for Xbox One and Switch launches April 10'. Gematsu. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^'The Mouth Watering Cook Serve Delicious 2 Gets a release date'. Euro Gamer. June 22, 2016. Archived from the original on October 21, 2017. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
- ^ ab'Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 is releasing this august with new features'. Game Skinny. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017.
- ^'Steam Community :: Group Announcements - Cook, Serve, Delicious!'. Steam. December 20, 2017. Archived from the original on January 4, 2018.
- ^'A watched pot etc: Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 Delayed'. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017.
- ^ ab'Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!'. Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 17, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
- ^ abc'Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 Review: Fun, Fast-Paced Food!'. Archived from the original on March 20, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
- ^ ab'Games Master UK August Edition 2017'. 2017: 81.Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^Jackson, Gita. 'Cooking Game Looks Delicious, Feels Stressful'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
External links[edit]
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! at Steam
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2 at IGN
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! at Metacritic
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