I have been in love for 11 years, and my partner and I no longer quarrel. We can say that short quarrels are short before one of us sinks into the hole and asks the other to hug.
But when we argue, it's always about fools: who puts the best effort into any day? Where is my damn thing, and isn't there now? The children have been in hell, so we are mocking each other while fucking. Yes, when you were away, I ate the last onion ring. Under that fool umbrella, there are 2 overcooked foods.
In China, players are nicknamed "overcooked" divorce kitchens "because of its sheer, unfiltered anger that manages to spring into your soul. But when you sync and pin a round, there is nothing more appropriate than it.
Overcooked 2 made me shout "throw my damn spaghetti" when I was seven.
-Kirk McKendall (@MckKirk) August 7, 2018
Anyone working in the kitchen will understand the stresses of the work environment. I know it's not exactly Michelin's star quality, but I worked in a bar in Wetherspoon during my dark teens, sometimes I would open the kitchen, cook all morning, go home, then wash clothes, and change at night clothes. Bar shift.
Yes, I am essentially a microwave technician and occasionally fry things, but let me tell you: kitchen work is hell. You spent the morning preparing and everyone decided to eat once. Every time a new order is received, the ticket screen beeps, and as everything around you burns, you run out of plates and you start losing track of who wants what. I'm not proud of it, but I used to put a soft, cold potato on my chef's head and it exploded on contact. He was stabbed in my defence. Cooked food perfectly captures the same hell, unwashed dishes, flying ingredients, and everything else.
Because this is essentially a playable stress dream, it is difficult to quantify what makes it one of the best cooperative games around. Let's take a look back at my Overcooked partner-my actual, real-life best friend: my partner. She doesn't play video games. I cannot emphasize too much. During our 11 years together, I tried and gave up trying to get her involved. She can't refuse. She will play Farmville until her eyes bleed, but the fact that she didn't grow up in the game means that the controller is new to her.
With its genius simplicity, overcooking overcomes this obstacle. You have a button to throw things, one to pick up, one to dash, and that's all. The only confusion at first was the fact that she had shredded and chopped on the same button, so she often threw important ingredients directly into the abyss instead of putting them down before shredding.
In the early days, I was in the position of head chef and made a request for what I needed to do, until I finally reached a point where if there was a soft cold skin potato around, I would definitely send it directly to my bald head.
Then, the truth is I'm very happy with Overcooked. I don't like to slow down. This meant that sometimes I would knock her directly into the void and the ingredients she kept throwing away.
But something happened at some point-we started to sync. Through repetition and perseverance, we became foodies. Now that we've completed the entire campaign for Overcooked 2 and swept three stars at each level (except for two of those bastards who need to control the platform with a joystick), we've even completed the DLC. I think we will eventually try to get four stars, and it seems almost impossible even without them. Yes, we try to use children to help solve this problem, but this makes us want to abandon them.
Can anyone smell it? It smells like … um … loves to cook. 😋 pic.twitter.com/uOh3bpX3YM
— Co (@Overcookedgame) January 16, 2020
The Overcooked 2 team just posted some new information on DLC on Twitter, and I can't wait to know what kind of scary mechanic they created this time. We already have backpacks, water guns and coal fires. Hopefully the next DLC comes with a jacket potato plush and you can throw it on the head of a loved one. Broke us more, cooked team. Hurt us more.
