I was hoping there might be the option to step up from kitchen lackey after I’d accumulated plenty of experience, with the option of employing staff, doing rotas, choosing different suppliers, designing a shop front, booking entertainment and franchising my business out to make more money. Teaming up with a friend via split screen means the cripplingly difficult later levels are more manageable – strength in numbers means the fun factor increases too.Īs someone who has run their own café, I felt that there were a few improvements which could be implemented in future editions of CSD. Fortunately, the new local co-op mode means you’re not on your own. Completing the 350+ levels as a chef for hire is a gargantuan task, particularly as the complexity of the meals increases. While the basics of the game are simple, there’s a lot of depth here with the extensive range of foods and decorations for you to unlock and add to your own joint. Most of the time your eyes will be fixed on the top left of the screen in anticipation of the next order appearing on the list, and then across to the right to add the ingredients. It’s unlikely to make you hungry as you won’t actually get to see the food or the customers for more than a fleeting moment. The food has been lovingly rendered in great detail with over-saturated colours reminiscent of 70s food photography. As you progress to higher class establishments, they smarten up but don’t look a great deal happier. The clientele in the budget diners are a wretched bunch, propping up the bar in their dirty clothes while you’re frantically trying to cook their chicken nuggets. The ‘Rush Hour’ warning flashes up before lunch and dinner time and you’d better have fully stocked holding pans otherwise all hell will break loose when the customers pile in. Medals unlock more restaurants for you to work in, along with furniture, decoration and recipes for your own restaurant which you can redesign as you accumulate increasingly swanky accouterments.Įach ‘day’ in the restaurant lasts around 5 minutes and you’ll barely have time to blink for the duration as you’ll be run ragged trying to keep up with the speed of the orders. You can still serve a dish with the wrong ingredient in but you’ll lose your chance for a gold medal. Main dishes and sweets are hugely varied, the more lucrative ones taking several stages of detailed preparation with plenty of room for error. Your unfortunate character is tasked with doing every single job through a variety of button combos and initially this seems as arduous as a session at Starbucks in Leicester Square on a Saturday morning.
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The nearest equivalent on PS4 is Overcooked but with CSD2, the slapstick approach of physically moving around a kitchen is replaced with a static button and brain juggling nightmare. A few plays in though, you find your rhythm and soon most orders become second nature. To begin with, it’s an absolute nightmare and you’ll struggle to keep up with the relentless jobs.
Any mistakes in the prep routine result in a ‘bad order’ losing you rep and your multiplier. Once you’ve absorbed those rudimentary skills, you can jump straight in and start working for the first restaurant ‘Max Wiener’, serving hot dogs, pretzels, corndogs and nachos.Įach meal requires a combination of complex button presses, for example Square, then L1 or R1 in conjunction with the buttons corresponding to the correct ingredients.