how I expected to feel while playing this game
how I feel while playing this game
It's still serviceable, but compared to the first one CSD2 isn't great. There's a tremendous lack of direction presented to you through some of the worst menu navigation I've experienced in a video game.
To their credit, they really upped the quality of the overall presentation of this one. The food itself looks great, there's a nice variety of customers, and actually making the food is still satisfying. Being able to customize your own restaurant decor is a nice touch (that I felt immediately overwhelmed by). The different restaurants that you can temporarily work at is also a great idea, giving you the option to focus on more specific food types. Holding stations so that you can prep food beforehand are a very cool idea, but the overall execution of the game itself is much more difficult to handle, and in a way that's less challenging and more frustrating.
A major gripe I have is that the overall pacing of progression is just not there. I can't imagine playing this game before the first one. There is no sense of gradual progression in building up your restaurant, as you can effectively choose to make any kind of food you can afford. It was nice being originally limited to corn dogs and pretzels when you're starting out in the first game so that you can get used to the way that the game works, focusing on a small handful of things at a time. CSD2 has similar progression with its new system of working part-time at other restaurants in the building, starting with a hotdog restaurant and moving on to more complicated eateries, but the pacing along with the medal system feels...directionless?
Most important, there are way too many god damned chores.
There's no way any restaurant would need to set roach traps five times in one day. There aren't that many roaches.
I don't hate this, but it's not as good as the first one.
how I feel while playing this game
It's still serviceable, but compared to the first one CSD2 isn't great. There's a tremendous lack of direction presented to you through some of the worst menu navigation I've experienced in a video game.
To their credit, they really upped the quality of the overall presentation of this one. The food itself looks great, there's a nice variety of customers, and actually making the food is still satisfying. Being able to customize your own restaurant decor is a nice touch (that I felt immediately overwhelmed by). The different restaurants that you can temporarily work at is also a great idea, giving you the option to focus on more specific food types. Holding stations so that you can prep food beforehand are a very cool idea, but the overall execution of the game itself is much more difficult to handle, and in a way that's less challenging and more frustrating.
A major gripe I have is that the overall pacing of progression is just not there. I can't imagine playing this game before the first one. There is no sense of gradual progression in building up your restaurant, as you can effectively choose to make any kind of food you can afford. It was nice being originally limited to corn dogs and pretzels when you're starting out in the first game so that you can get used to the way that the game works, focusing on a small handful of things at a time. CSD2 has similar progression with its new system of working part-time at other restaurants in the building, starting with a hotdog restaurant and moving on to more complicated eateries, but the pacing along with the medal system feels...directionless?
Most important, there are way too many god damned chores.
There's no way any restaurant would need to set roach traps five times in one day. There aren't that many roaches.
I don't hate this, but it's not as good as the first one.
I managed to get a 5-star restaurant by making nothing but egg drop soup with a side of egg drop soup every single day for a few in-game weeks so maybe this game stinks actually
The shifts that are presented to the player can be either very fun or very infuriating. If you decided to go down the path of working at chilly bowl or that sports bar, the game presents a challenging yet fun menu to overcome over the coming shifts, but if you chose something like the Chinese restaurant, it is exceedingly difficult beyond the point of completion, unless you want to waste hours upon hours practicing just one menu. The ability to open your own restaurant was a really cool concept, and, for the most part, it succeeded in creating a bubble of creativity that provided a decent amount of entertainment.
Fun, simple game. And it looks great and really adds to the experience. I didn't expect to like it and only grabbed it because it was on such a good sale but quickly got hooked.
Amongst a plethora of cooking games, none have the satisfaction in the sound design of Cook Serve Delicious. Putting a burger together or filleting a fish just feels so good, and CSD2 added some awesome new elements to the already hectic gameplay.
fun and relatively mindless, added a bit much busy work with working the menu IMO
Um dia chamaram esse jogo de "Cu Que Serve Delícias" e sinceramente nunca mais fui o mesmo.
Very addicting for the first couple hours, then I gave up and will probably never play it again
Less stressful than the 3rd installation.
A worthy sequel to the first game with improved gameplay elements!
just like a classic webbrowser game but really blown out with features. dine n dash on crack.
Absolutely love this series of games. Very fun and challenging typing game about running restaurants. Easy to learn but with plenty to master. I've only got the extremely difficult final Contrast Coffee shift to gold medal, then I'm 100% finished with the game.
It was fun while it lasted, but I kind of plateu'd in skill once I got to around 2.5 stars. Playing on steam deck is hard too, I think I can't really progress anymore.
This log/review is really deatiling my time with the playstation port however I have HUNDREDS of hours of CSD2 on Steam and Switch, frankly this game is the peak of restaurant sims. My addiction with this game is mildly embarassing but if CSD 2 only has 1 fan left alive on the planet I guarantee that man is me