Overcooked Review

Set in a world no longer safe because of Spaghettification, and in order to do battle you must return to a time before the devourer appeared. Training is vital, for the next time you face the enemy, it will be the last chance to save the world: by cooking dishes like fish and chips!

Shenanigans aside, this is a surprisingly palatable (pun intended) game for something that’s very much co-op based. It’s surprisingly balanced - or there about - despite having mechanics that would otherwise need a fellow sous chef to assist in the preparation, cooking, serving, cleaning and fire fighting. It could sit as a stand alone game in that regard, although it would make a more interesting RTS - so to speak - in that regard with controlling two or more chefs as they precede to do battle against the demands of the order.

The multitasking is made to be possible in the single player, with the coordination of the two chefs taking more time to do an action with the necessary time to complete the actions. Whilst forgiving, it is still tough to do on your own with the stages not looking balanced with the extended cooking and preparing time being long enough for the stadium to move before anything can happen. And despite these tweaks, the crux of the game is still blaringly obvious that it’s couch based co-op with the campaign and versus mode being rather interesting with the level design.

Just like the apocalyptic meat ball head, I wish there was more.

Online co-op would be appreciated as my friend and I had a blast when playing together, yelling and generally bickering about picking up the prepared tomato off the floor. Failing ensued, a lot more than I expected. The gameplay whilst co-op is hectic and fast paced which, to an extent, is at its detriment with the slightly slippy controls making the need for more refined controls feel vital to beating the level - let alone get the coveted three stars. A better tutorial could’ve helped, as we didn’t figure out the dash button until I accidentally hit the B button on my Xbox controller which shot me out the kitchen and into the arctic waters.