Diner Bros 2

Segunda parte del juego que tanto me gusta, Diner Bros, con nuevas mecánicas como poner el restaurante como tu quieras, a diferencia del primero y con recetas más loco y con un aire más caótico que el primero. Si el primero te gusto, este es obligado, tanto solo como en coop. Recomendado 100%

As someone who has played hours upon hours of Overcooked, Overcooked 2, Overcooked All you can Eat, and PlateUp, I just want to say I (along with my family) really like this game. The campaign format is really nice and the movement upgrades are a cool addition. Unlike plateup, which has gameplay centered around some unfun aspects like dish cleaning/ restocking and slowing the player down in muck, it's nice to get movement upgrades that have me mad-dashing around the kitchen. Each of those aforementioned games fills a certain niche, and I feel like Diner Bros successfully creates its own lane. Campaigns, upgrades, expansions, rearrangements, NPC servers for 1-2 players, and (the number one differentiator) the unique customers make this game one worth considering in your rotation of top down cooking games. I really am looking forward to any potential future expansions.

Very fun, chaotic cooperative delight, silly and colorful even fun as a solo game. Love to play this one.

It is a fun and chill game with your friends/family/partner. Good game for the price.

We did have a lot of fun here, love a good couch co-op, but - and this is a big but... My god, the order interface can be infuriating. At first, it was just a mild annoyance that the game has no option for 'large icons'. (There's an option to make them smaller for some reason - they're painfully small by default unless your monitor is the size of your wall) But then... enter the Donut Bros stage. I cannot tell the difference between orders for sugar & vanilla donuts. There's a teeny-tiny little icon in the top corner, inside of another tiny icon for the donut itself, to represent which topping the donut has if you can't tell from the image alone, which I cannot. But this icon-inside-an-icon itself is so small that I can't make it out either. It caused a whole lot of eye strain, let me tell you. The Server did eventually mitigate that issue a little bit, meaning that I didn't really need to care as long as I always kept one of each prepared, but... Then it got worse. As crazy as the coffee/tea orders can get, you eventually unlock different SIZES of drinks - and oh boy, trying to guess whether someone has ordered a coffee with milk, sugar, vanilla or chocolate is one thing, but then realising that you did the entire thing in the wrong cup because the stupid large cup icon is a couple pixels bigger than the regular cup? And then, the restaurant expanded, growing in size, zooming the camera out, making everything in the world smaller again, meaning even more reliance on the teeny-tiny icons... Legitimately killed my desire to keep playing. It wasn't as much of a problem on the other stages (besides the damn Cheesy Fries), but it's a big fat steaming issue in Donut Bros. --- Please, take a note from Plate Up!'s book. They have an accessibility setting to show large, clear, alphanumeric letters to allow people like myself, with failing eyesight and regular-sized television screens, to be able to figure out what our customers are ordering. Which is, y'know, a pretty important piece of information to convey in a game like this.

The gameplay isn't that much different comparing to Diner Bros 1. Overall, this game is more of a graphic, texture, and UI "adjustment" (I wouldn't necessarily call it an upgrade) to its previous installment; there is not much change in terms of gameplay and mechanics. If you don't like the first Diner Bros, this one probably wouldn't change your feelings either. If you haven't played the Diner Bros series, buying this one would suffice. There are many design oversights especially in the UI design. Some dishes are just too similar to each other and it hurts my eyes just to read them. Like French fries vs. French fries with cheese or noodles vs. rice. Also, once you put ingredients into the pot, you cannot check what you put until you take them out. How the AI waiter function is obscure and you just have to figure out what she would do yourself without clearer instructions. The final 4-star achievement is tedious as you mindlessly grind the level just to reach $9999 for that. The difficulty meter is hidden in the settings instead of the menu, and I only discovered that near the end of the second chapter, while my wife and I already found the game a bit too easy. None of the complaints I have for this game are critical enough to give it a thumbs down, but there is neither anything worth praising about. Diner Bros 2 is really a bland and uninspiring co-op cooking game that stand just above of other worse first-person cooking simulators.