Imagine shepherding rice balls from one end of a chasm to the next while another player just seems determined to bump into you. The Daily Dot reviewed Overcooked 2 on the Nintendo Switch, which doesn’t always have its own voice chat functionality from game to game, making communication between players a bit of a nightmare. Where online multiplayer really struggles thus far is playing with strangers.
These issues were very infrequent and minor, but they can still throw a player off his groove. Suddenly being shifted around the kitchen due to lag was a common occurrence, made more annoying if we happened to be standing next a chasm, a rushing river, or chef-smashing sedans. Some minor bugs threw sessions for a loop too, including meat somehow landing in the same table square as a rice pot, or the aforementioned joystick refusing to budge. Lag will factor into how quickly you serve that dish, and in a game with plenty of dishes to bungle and (literal) pitfalls, it’s enough to drive a man (or his partner) mad. If you’re playing with friends, one player simply hosts a session, allowing buddies to join.įriends better hope that they’re playing on some killer Wi-Fi, though. Now, with the online multiplayer that was absent from the first game, culinary antics are no longer just a couch-based affair. These levels are a fun evolution on what’s come before, and you won’t grow bored if you’re always wondering what will come next. Another level forces chefs to dash across a busy street to serve their dish, and another features a large platform hanging above a pit that can be moved via a joystick. One level features two connected hot air balloons, which then plummet to the earth as a storm strikes, where they then land onto a kitchen from a previous level, shifting the gameplay to an entirely different rhythm. Overcooked 2 flips this around, with many more kitchens featuring a unique gag or an outright evolution halfway through.
In the first Overcooked, most kitchens had unique designs, but were mostly stationary, with some standouts like two food trucks that connected and split every 30 seconds.
While the basic gameplay hasn’t changed that much, the kitchens you’ll play in certainly have. If you missed yelling at your friends to “just get the damn chicken,” then Overcooked 2 will fulfill that need a thousand times over. Up to four chefs run around a kitchen, grabbing ingredients, chopping and grilling ingredients, washing dishes, and serving it all to (hopefully) grateful customers. (Sometimes it’s also about apologizing to your partner for falling into a pit with that plate of cucumber.)Īt its heart, Overcooked 2 maintains the original’s zany sense of discord and coordination. It’s also about life presenting so many tasks to tackle at once that you just sort of stand there gawking open-mouthed at the sky while everything burns around you. It’s never just about getting a sushi out on time. Such is the way of Overcooked 2, the sequel to 2016’s kitchen coordination calamity. You haven’t lived the Overcooked 2 life until your romantic partner tells you to go f**k yourself over a botched beef burrito.
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