Platform: Steam
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Price I Paid: Free! (TremorGames)
Wow, this game. Ever played the Papa's Cooking tycoon games? This game is a lot like that, but so much better in challenge, gameplay, re-playability and everything else. You'll notice straight off that I adore this game.
I honestly don't know where to start. You're a chef who's opened up a restaurant in an apartment block skyscraper thing, residents will (hopefully) come into your restaurant and eat your over priced corn dogs and drink your "Le Cheap" wine for an extortionate rate. You can choose up to four menu items at the start of the game and all food options are available (so long as you've bought the correct kitchen appliance to cook them) with a wide variety of foods, drinks, desserts and so on and so forth.
Customers will come in and out of the restaurant purchasing foods and drinks, make their food correctly, you'll get smiley faces, cook it fairly well, you'll get that "meh" face, cook it wrong or just don't cook it, you'll get a sad face and that person will most oftenly leave without paying. All the items can be upgraded, which mostly add an extra level of challenge to the game, such as a different seasoning on a fish or different ingredients in a soup.
Graphic style is nice, I'm a big fan of the comic-esq look to the game, it really is great and compliments the game very well, with a mix of graphical and gameplay strongpoints being fantastic together.
You also have to cater to other things a restaurant would, like cleaning the toilets, washing the plates and drawing criminals on a notepad to hand into the police in the middle of rush hour. Yes, there are two rush hours in the game, where more customers will come in, usually you have enough time to send off all the orders without fault, but you'll slip up on something.
I did try out extreme mode, because I'm fairly good at the game I suppose and I must say, Extreme Mode was a challenge, but if you practice it a few times it really is easy. Just more customers than usual, less time to prepare it, all the usual stuff.
You always have to complete a checklist too, which are things like pass the safety inspection, have a variety of different items on the menu and have a perfect day. Perfect days are easy, just don't mess up any orders and make sure everything gets taken care of. Sounds challenging, it isn't really, again, just practise.
One thing I noticed is that I'd only pick certain foods because of how bloody complicated some of them are, like the salad, soup and drinks machine. I just stayed away from them and I did fine, swapping Chicken and Steak for Corn Dogs and Pretzels every so often.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! is a really fun game, restaurant simulator wise anyways, but I enjoyed the game. The variety of different foods to choose from, the art style and you can tell a lot of effort has gone into the game. There's rarely a dull moment in the game, however there isn't really a benefit to buying certain foods that I found other than extra challenge.
Cook, Serve, Delicious! gets a 9/10
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