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A "Kitchen" suitable for certain tastes
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Oct 19, 2008
Member since Jan 2008
20 out of 20 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Don't like cute, culinary choices? Looking for a more hardcore cooking experience? Tired of Mama (from Cooking Mama) talking to you like a good little boy/girl? Then step into this game.
Here, Chef Ramsey will yell at you in order to get you to serve your customers as fast as you can.
You control both the waiter and the cook here. As the waiter, you seat your customers, take their order, serve the prepared meals and clean up afterward. Just like Diner Dash.
As the cook, you have to prepare up to six ingredients with a single button push (depends on level of difficulty.)
Then, you put the right combination of ingredients in a pan or oven. When that happens the resulting dish will cook for a set time, indicated by a number next to that dish. After that, you drag it to the serving area.
Every time you use an ingredient, you have to prepare it in order to use it again. Also, different dishes require different cooking times.
Strategy and timing are everything here. You have to plan which ingredient goes where and also have to put in the last ingredient in each dish so that all the dishes will finish cooking at about the same time so you can serve them all at about the same time. This is how you get a great rating.
If you're slow, or if you slip up, a gauge on screen will rise, and Ramsey will scream at you. It falls if you give fast service and you prepare meals and serve them properly.
If the gauge fills up, you fail the level and must start over again.
You pass the level if you serve a set number of customers properly. You get a rating from one star (terrible) to five stars (perfect) and move to the next level.
The game looks good and I had little trouble with the controls, but the gameplay can get stale very quickly.
If you don't mind being verbally assaulted by Ramsey and are looking for a hardened mix of Diner Dash and Cooking Mama, rent the game and give it a try.
Otherwise, steer clear.
Here, Chef Ramsey will yell at you in order to get you to serve your customers as fast as you can.
You control both the waiter and the cook here. As the waiter, you seat your customers, take their order, serve the prepared meals and clean up afterward. Just like Diner Dash.
As the cook, you have to prepare up to six ingredients with a single button push (depends on level of difficulty.)
Then, you put the right combination of ingredients in a pan or oven. When that happens the resulting dish will cook for a set time, indicated by a number next to that dish. After that, you drag it to the serving area.
Every time you use an ingredient, you have to prepare it in order to use it again. Also, different dishes require different cooking times.
Strategy and timing are everything here. You have to plan which ingredient goes where and also have to put in the last ingredient in each dish so that all the dishes will finish cooking at about the same time so you can serve them all at about the same time. This is how you get a great rating.
If you're slow, or if you slip up, a gauge on screen will rise, and Ramsey will scream at you. It falls if you give fast service and you prepare meals and serve them properly.
If the gauge fills up, you fail the level and must start over again.
You pass the level if you serve a set number of customers properly. You get a rating from one star (terrible) to five stars (perfect) and move to the next level.
The game looks good and I had little trouble with the controls, but the gameplay can get stale very quickly.
If you don't mind being verbally assaulted by Ramsey and are looking for a hardened mix of Diner Dash and Cooking Mama, rent the game and give it a try.
Otherwise, steer clear.