Learn To Cook With Overcooked 2

This cooking/strategy game is popular among everyone. One of the reasons being the only game having a similar colour scheme and gameplay of the Super Mario series. Mario games are available exclusively on Nintendo Hardware, making it difficult to experience these games.

Can a cooing game be fun?

Unlike other cooking games which have a step by step procedure and minigames to make food items, Overcooked provides the experience of a 3d platformer. Player need to collect ingredients from different locations on the screen and process them to deliver the finished product.

Overcooked 2 is a game in which 1-4 players prepare dishes like sushi, pizza’s, Burgers and cakes in unconventional kitchens with unseen dangers like lava, portals, cliffs, balloons and flooding rivers to feed the Unbread. The Unbread is a failed experiment of the king which results in the rise of the Unbread and as the best chefs in town were not able to kill their hunger the king sends us to distant lands to improve our skills to beat the Zombie breads.

Even with the limited resources, overcooked doesn't feel repetitive. It makes the user chop tomatoes, cabbage and cheese to baking a pizza in the oven and mixing cake flour in a blender. The best thing is the throw functionality. It allows us to throw raw materials directly to the other side of the map or on chopping tables and frying pans.

Unlike the previous Overcooked game, the single-player campaign feels more natural. It's still a little clumsy, but the throw button removes a short idle time which was lost during ingredient movement. The single player campaign is amusing, but it's still advised to play with friends, the game is designed that way. One player washes the plates, and the other one chops the vegetables. The UI is entirely different from the first game. It looks better than the previous game but is less spec demanding.

The stress

Everything is beautiful and calm until the 30-second bell rings and the music changes. After which the game becomes stressful as hell. The total number of orders delivered are counted in the end, and the passing grade is decided.

The only thing we didn't like was the progress threshold. Unlike other games, in Overcooked you need to have a minimum number of stars to unlock a stage. This appears straightforward at first, but if you didn’t perform well in the earlier stages, then you would be seeing them again and again.

More or Less, it’s a family game with a pinch of hardness.