Overcooked has been nothing short of a rousing success on Nintendo Switch. It had a rough launch, but with updates and improvements, it’s become a stand-out seller on the system, with Nintendo going so far as to mention the title by name in its 2017 Fiscal Year Results Briefing. It’s no wonder Nintendo decided to include the sequel, Overcooked 2, as part of its E3 this year.
I took the demo for a spin with two Nintendo representatives — getting into it so much I missed Charles Martinet walking right behind me — and had the time of my life with one kitchen in particular. Overcooked 2, like its predecessor, is a multiplayer cooking game where a team of up to four players manages a kitchen preparing food, filling orders, washing dishes, and dealing with whatever issues come up. Each kitchen is a timed challenge and players are rewarded with stars based on how well they do.
The first kitchen of this demo is pretty standard. It’s not the first in the game, but it is simple enough to get the basics across. All we are asked to do is prepare sushi, giving me the chance to re-familiarize myself with how the game plays. A new mechanic in Overcooked 2 is the ability to throw food. If there is another player across the kitchen who needs an ingredient, I can throw it to them rather than run it over myself or have them come and get it themselves. With the three of us, this element didn’t add much to our strategy, but I can’t imagine the game won’t somehow work it into the core concepts of later kitchens.
Source: Destructoid Let me tell you about this one kitchen in Overcooked 2