{"id":20686,"date":"2020-12-16T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20686"},"modified":"2020-12-13T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T13:55:46","slug":"cook-serve-delicious-3-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/16\/cook-serve-delicious-3-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The tough-as-nails cooking sim is back!\u00a0 In the last game I reviewed<\/strong><\/a>, you cooked food in restaurants inside a high rise building, from a lowly stall in a food court all the way up to a swanky establishment.\u00a0 And now you\u2019re taking it on the road with food trucks in the sequel.\u00a0 Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! is available for nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

This game actually has a story, but it\u2019s a pretty dumb one.\u00a0 Normally story in a game like this doesn\u2019t matter to me, but this one is just unnecessary.\u00a0 Anyway, it\u2019s 2041 and the US is ravaged by war.\u00a0 The building from the last game has just been blown up, and you are saved from the wreckage by two android ladies in a rescue van.\u00a0 They see that you are the famous chef from the last game, and decide to turn their van into a food truck and help you serve food all across the country.\u00a0 The rest of the game really doesn\u2019t reflect this kind of plot, so it\u2019s really not needed.\u00a0 All the story should be is you\u2019re just cooking dishes in a food truck, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

But the story is the least of the game\u2019s problems.\u00a0 Each level is a day and you pick your destination route and have time to prepare dishes while you\u2019re driving.\u00a0 The only problem is that you don\u2019t know what your customers will want at the stops, so you could have a bunch of things prepared in reserve that you don\u2019t need.\u00a0 You can still fix food while you stop and customers are waiting, and you prepare it like in the last game.\u00a0 You must hold down the L2 button to select dishes, then while doing that you press certain face buttons to add ingredients and other steps.\u00a0 Once food is cooked, select it on the left side of the screen to serve to customers.\u00a0 Serve a bunch to customers without waiting too long to earn combo points.\u00a0 By the end of the day you can earn medal rankings depending on how you did.\u00a0 While the controls are a little better than last time, I still think they are needlessly complicated and really make the game hard.\u00a0 Maybe this style of gameplay works better on PC.\u00a0 There is a co-op mode but thanks to COVID I have less opportunities to try it.<\/p>\n

As you play, you\u2019ll earn experience points and when you get enough, you can upgrade and customize your food truck, which is neat.\u00a0 The food you prepare is somewhat photorealistic and makes me hungry, and they also have interesting facts on each dish in the catalog.\u00a0 I also like that you can pick between Standard and Chill difficulty settings.\u00a0 Chill removes the patience meter from customers and also takes out food truck attacks, but the controls still make it hard and you can\u2019t earn anything higher than a silver medal.\u00a0 Aside from the difficulty, the other main problem I had was the instructions are not very good.\u00a0 Sure there are tutorials, but at one point you must choose food for that day\u2019s menu and must pick a combo that\u2019ll fill a point meter.\u00a0 To do that you must buy new dishes, but the game doesn\u2019t tell you how to do that.\u00a0 Game developers, if you\u2019re going to make a downloadable only game with no manual, you\u2019d better make the instructions very explicit.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference and Mild Violence.\u00a0 You do cook some dishes with alcohol, and I guess the violence comes from the building being blown up in the beginning of the game.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, and younger kids may get frustrated at the difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tough-as-nails cooking sim is back!\u00a0 In the last game I reviewed, you cooked food in restaurants inside a high rise building, from a lowly stall in a food court all the way up to a swanky establishment.\u00a0 And now you\u2019re taking it on the road with food trucks in the sequel.\u00a0 Cook, Serve, Delicious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20686","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\/20686","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=20686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20811,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20686\/revisions\/20811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}