![]() If you found the music from the first game to be charming, prepare your ears for more of that, as it’s an absolute joy to listen to while cooking and exploring the beautiful world map. Granted, all these levels I only played once, but still, that trend continued as the game got progressively more difficult – and that spike happens real quick. While I got three stars on 1-1 through 1-6 without issue, I scraped by with one on the hidden level. That’s right, there are secret levels to be unlocked if you meet certain conditions, and these are the hardest challenges you’ll face in the game. ![]() This time there’s a bit more to it, with switches to find in order to progress through the minor labyrinths the game offers, especially with the secret levels. ![]() Outside of the levels proper, the game brings back the world map that you’ll drive around. I expected the craziness to be amplified, but my imagination completely undershot what the team came up with. It’s really something to experience it’s like an Uncharted moment within a silly game about cooking. Then the thunder and lightning sets in, and soon you’re going down and in a completely different kitchen with an entirely different course being served. Soon the winds pick up, moving the setup of the kitchen, which is pretty ordinary for the game. The first stage to really get me was 1-6, which has you cooking in a hot air balloon. If you thought the levels were a bit out there in the first one, you haven’t seen anything yet. It’s almost as if this was the game the original wanted to be, and now that the team had the money they could actually create what they set out to make originally. The introductions of how the mechanics work are much more polished this time around, as is everything else. There’s always something to be done in this, and wasted time is wasted money, which is essential for progression. Earlier on this will help with productivity when one is cutting up food as the other washes dishes, for example. If you’re playing alone, you will control more than one character, as this is essential for levels that split up the characters. The majority of this game will be spent cooking food and keeping up with customer orders, whether you tackle it alone or with up to three others. Instead, you’ll be appealing the masses with your cooking skills, and those skills will be put to the test in the most dynamic kitchens of rather precarious natures. The characters you may already be familiar with are back, but this time you are facing hordes of zombie bread thanks to a pretty famous book with a slant for food – you won’t find a boomstick here though. None of these have any sort of advantage over the others that I’m aware of, and every time you boot the game it’ll randomly select a new one for you, although you can certainly choose whoever you want. The game comes with a huge assortment of characters to play as, with a number of them being unlockable. If you thought Mario Party was the game to play to ruin your marriage or friendships, clearly you haven’t played this. You’ll find yourself yelling things out like “I’m grinding the meat, give some flour,” and in a household that barely makes something more substantial than ramen, it’s comical. And while the entire story mode is definitely able to be completed in single player, you lose a lot of the majesty that makes the game so fun. It’s one of the most stressful co-op games you’ll ever play, should you choose to play with others. However, if you never had the opportunity to play the first, let me tell you what you can expect from this. I will say it right now – if you liked the first entry, you should buy Overcooked 2. You may be wondering what exactly that would entail, and the answer is everything the first had, but amplified by ten. Ghost Town Games was put on the map from the game’s success, so it’s no wonder that they would go on to create a sequel. I wholeheartedly attribute its popularity to Greg Miller talking it up constantly and spawning an excitement for the game among others I’m still amazed that it went on to win a BAFTA. Sadly, that was my initial thought seeing Overcooked when it first came out. There are some games that you see and think will be nothing more than filler in a week’s releases.
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