Brain Full of Games

Old post: 2023.07.30 Overcooked

Took a brief vacation from Tears of the Kingdom to try a game that has been recommended to us by about six hundred people: Overcooked! And it has not disappointed! (My only recommendation, if you haven’t played yet, would be to sort out your controller drift… or else you and your family members may begin screaming at the TV and each other). I haven’t played such a fun and silly co-op in ages. The premise of the game is that you’ve been sent back in time to learn how to cook so you can defeat a giant onion who is destroying the world? Wait or are you working for the onion. Maybe the creature is a meatball. Whatever I don’t give a shit, you cook stuff in different timed levels with various challenges (for example: you are on a moving truck and need to jump across the open highway to another truck, you’re on ice and are slippin and slidin everywhere). It’s fun, it’s challenging, it requires a lot of patience and true love for your family. It has been nice to take a mental break from exploring to complete straightforward tasks. Can’t wait to get a better controller so I can really enjoy this game.

Update: 2025.12.05

I got that fabled working controller while I was in Japan and… this did not help with family fights. It turns out if you are prone to arguing with your parents, you are probably going to fail at this.

On the other hand, my husband and I don’t argue, and we have had a lot of success with the game. We did think, at times, that the designers hadn’t really properly tested certain levels: there were some that seemed oddly easy, for where they were in the game, while others were borderline impossible and entirely luck based. Ah well. Still a really fun game! I’m looking forward to trying some of the extra levels and challenges.