{"id":18978,"date":"2019-04-29T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:53:57","slug":"cook-serve-delicious-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/cook-serve-delicious-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook, Serve, Delicious 2!! (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cook in all sorts of eating establishments and run your own restaurant in Cook, Serve, Delicious 2!!.\u00a0 It\u2019s a downloadable restaurant time management sim for nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never played the first game, though, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s been added or improved in the sequel.<\/p>\n

The game recommends that you start with the tutorial, which is a very good idea.\u00a0 They give you the basics of gameplay here, but once you start the campaign, they kind of throw you to the lions as it gets tough right from the very first level.\u00a0 You can choose to cook in established fictional restaurants in a food court on a high rise building.\u00a0 These include fast food places all the way to swanky restaurants.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to get good enough ratings to move onto the next one.\u00a0 You can also play co-op or design your own restaurant and choose what it\u2019ll look like and what you\u2019ll serve, although they don\u2019t explain how to do that part very well.<\/p>\n

But the main problem I had was the controls were just too complicated and they don\u2019t give you any wiggle room.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how the game works.\u00a0 Customers come in and you have a limited amount of time to serve them their order before they get impatient and leave, lowering your score.\u00a0 You can cook certain foods right away with the square button or put it on reserve to cook later with the triangle button.\u00a0 To cook foods, you must hold down the L2 button while pressing another button to add ingredients to the food.\u00a0 Sometimes you must cycle through pages of toppings before finding the right one.\u00a0 All the while you must make sure you press the right button for the ingredient, and all the icons for this are on opposite sides of the screen.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t even taking into account that you can play mini-games to make side dishes, drinks, and do other cleaning chores.\u00a0 Because of all this going on at once, I couldn\u2019t get past the very first level.\u00a0 The learning curve is way too steep, and could use some simplicity to make it fun.<\/p>\n

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Cook, Serve, Delicious 2!! is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Mild Violence, Mild Language, and Use of Alcohol.\u00a0 You can serve drinks and use alcohol in food, but the violence and language is just in the text only.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must, and younger gamers may find this game too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cook in all sorts of eating establishments and run your own restaurant in Cook, Serve, Delicious 2!!.\u00a0 It\u2019s a downloadable restaurant time management sim for nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never played the first game, though, so I don\u2019t know what\u2019s been added or improved in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18980,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/18980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}