Even so, the orders that come in for each stage are randomly generated each time, so replaying the same stage multiple times can still lead to vastly different experiences. No two stages are exactly alike, and the gimmicks grow increasingly more ridiculous as you progress deeper into the game. It’s that dynamic kind of gameplay that proves to be this game’s biggest draw.
You only have so much control over how efficiently each kitchen can be run, and many of them are often intentionally made to be as frustrating as possible.
Sometimes there are only three plates to work with in total, so someone will have to keep doing the dishes to keep up with the orders. Sometimes the cutting boards might be in one room and you have to walk through a portal or cross a river to get to the fryers.
You can only be carrying one item at a time, and you can’t move around everything in the kitchen to expedite things. That would be enough as is, but the difficulty comes from how limited your abilities are. For example, in order to produce an order of tomato soup you have to run over to the tomato box, then run over to a board to cut up the tomatoes, then run over to a pot to cook them in, then put it in a plate and run it out to the window. Each kitchen’s layout is different and there’s a process to producing things. Each stage will see you working to output as many orders as possible under a set time period, making everything from soups to pizza. Gameplay is extremely frantic and stressful - in many ways emulating the real experience of working in an understaffed kitchen - yet it’s some of the most fun couch co-op we’ve experienced in quite some time. Aside from occasional visits to the Onion King, the story mostly takes a backseat from that point on, but it nonetheless does a good job of setting up the “why” as you find yourself in increasingly more ridiculous kitchens and scenarios. The portal opens up in 1993 - several years before the coming of the spaghetti monster - and the Onion King tasks you with travelling the land so that you can be ready when the apocalypse comes. Despite your best efforts at feeding the monster it simply isn’t enough to sate its ravenous appetite, so the Onion King opens a time portal that you escape into. Not soon after, the source of the apocalypse - the mighty spaghetti monster - storms over to the cooks, and it’s quite hungry. The game opens with asteroids raining from the sky and a city under assault, with your cooks watching the chaos with the Onion King from a kitchen on a roof. The premise is silly and unimportant, but it adds a good amount of charm to the overall tone. Though there are already plenty of games on the Switch eShop that take advantage of this multiplayer functionality, Overcooked: Special Edition is definitely one of the best uses of it that we’ve seen so far. Nintendo has always been the king of that style of play, but the Switch takes this to a whole new level when you combine the portability factor with at least two controllers that are always ready to go.
Part of the draw and charm of the Nintendo Switch is the increased focus that it puts on local multiplayer. By the same token, we've compiled this mega-review which covers all of the content. Team17 has just released Overcooked! All You Can Eat, which pulls together the two Overcooked! games as well as all of the related DLC.
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