Overcooked 2 Review
Review is for the Nintendo Switch
[Is this poster a Dawn of the Dead reference?]
Being a chef is stressful. Being one in a videogame should be easy and less taxing, right?
WRONG!
In this top-down cooking game, life in the kitchen either means success or failure. Your life as a chef depends on the timer countdown and will either result in the bread zombie creatures taking over or the customers leaving en masse.
The timer countdown feels like an imaginary Gordon Ramsey breathing down your neck, telling you to hurry up as you fail each order miserably. You served a meal or 2 successfully… Great! Now serve enough to earn the points to make your boss happy.
The tutorial holds your hand mostly and shows you the ropes, but after that… it’s game time! Whether co-op or by yourself, you’re in for the chaos each and every time. Either have the best team in town or lose and call your teammates names! The fate of these dishes rest in your hands.
The campaign storyline is fun and silly, reminiscent of Adventure Time shenanigans. You gotta’ stop the Unbread (Zombie Bread Creatures) and save the kingdom even though the king himself is the reason that the world-ending scenario is even a thing (He read the necro-nomnom-icon!). So I guess the king is Ash Williams in cartoon form with a different occupation and you’re his sidekick(s)? I’m one for digesting references.
Multiplayer is split between Co-Op and Versus. Versus has you competing with other chefs to see who is better at serving the dishes while Co-Op has you in a team of 2-4 thrown in the chaos of kitchen nightmares in wild fantasy maps.
Oh yeah. The variety of chefs that you can be is pretty sweet. I usually go for the shark humanoid or the strong-man character.
Instant replayability
Fun Multiplayer
Storyline worth the playthrough
Variety of chef choices
Hard to learn, easy to master
Family friendly
