Overcooked was one of my favorite games of the year it came out. So much fun playing it with family over the holidays, and I was super excited when I heard of a sequel coming out. When I first played it, with the same family members no less, I bounced off of it really hard. A combination of an attitude too focused on winning rather than having fun as well as some minor changes in how the game is played really got in my way of enjoying it. I went in with a better attitude this time and ended up loving it a ton, just like the first. It took me and my brother (and sometimes with my sister as a player 3 as well) around 8 or 9 hours (we played it for like, all of one day) to get 3 stars on all the levels in the main campaign.
Largely, Overcooked 2 is more Overcooked. Two to four players go around a kitchen in various immensely hazardous circumstances trying to fill the orders as they come in. One button to pick things up and put them down, and another button to operate machinery (chopping food, pushing a button, etc), a button to dash, and the joystick to move. A game so simple it even has a one-handed mode where you can share the controller with a friend so you can do two players with one controller (although sadly not with the Switch Joycons, those have to be used sideways, much to the annoyance of me and my one-handed friend I tried this with months ago :/ ). There are all sorts of chefs you can be but it's only cosmetic. Some are returning from the last game, some are brand new, but you unlock them by completing more stages, so as long as you're playing, you're unlocking. This should be very familiar to anyone who played the first game. Overcooked 2 makes some important changes to this though. Most importantly, the button to operate machinery also now THROWS food. Anything that isn't a plate or a bowl can be thrown, and many levels require throwing food back and forth between you or at least have their difficulty greatly mitigated by throwing. Another minor but still important change is that the sink is now two spaces instead of one large area. No longer can you wash dishes by standing anywhere around the sink, it HAS to be in front of the basin. Not a huge change in the grand scheme of things, but when washing dishes is so important to serving meals on time, it can impact how your muscle memory works, particularly when you're people who played so much of the first game like we did. I would say overall they aren't bad changes, per se, but you end up throwing food when you mean to chop it a LOT, and I really dislike throwing not being a dedicated button. A lot of the appeal of Overcooked for me is in its easy to learn, hard to master design, and adding more commands you can possibly do detracts from that for me. Verdict: Highly recommended. I would say I still prefer the first game over this one, but Overcooked 2 is still a fantastic game. A free holiday DLC level pack just came out for it, so they're still updating it. I'm not sure if we'll ever see (or need, quite frankly) an Overcooked 3, but I've really enjoyed what we've gotten from this style of hectic, co-operative game.
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