This game is quite fun, but a tad annoying to play if you ask me.
First off, the idea is fantastic and quite well-implemented. There's lots of ingredients that can go into making a single drink and lots of the ingredients have interesting mechanics or visuals, like the rocket drink flying away once it's empty, or the little bug thing requiring to be fed before allowing the juice to be gathered (I don't know how else to put this).
However, there's also some just straight up annoying ones that get worse as you get better gear, like a gem that once sliced up, the shards will bounce around if left alone or this green orb thing that once cut up, will teleport all over the place. These kinds of things get super annoying, since higher levels for this slicer machine, will also output more shards/pieces for the thing you are slicing up, making the game essentially more annoying the more you upgrade, since you'll have to throw away these extra pieces due to how annoying they get when left alone and you only can use one piece per drink.
Next up is the machines, there's a couple machines that can be upgraded, like the glass dispenser, glass cleaner, slicer, juice maker thing (turns objects into liquids), one that makes drinks cold or hot and you can also upgrade the small fridge. All of them except for the latter have 3 upgrades (last one only has 2) and that's a really cool idea, make the original machines slightly worse but make the upgraded ones really good and for the most part, I think this works really well and gives the player something to work towards.
However, you'll need to "build" the machine yourself after buying it, which essentially is just "put object in place, weld a couple spots that are marked, rinse repeat", which I believe is not all that fun nor interesting.
There's also a small story-line, but due to how short it is, saying anything about it would spoil it a tad, so just know there is a small plot, but it is not that interesting and is not important at all imo.
Now here's the part that bothers me the most, the lack of accessibility.
First of all, the most important thing this game needed was a button to automatically re-center your camera to be facing forward and in force your character to stand in the middle of the character. This way, if you ever put down your headset or it loses tracking or you just want to move IRL, you can press a button and be exactly where the game wants and expects you to be. A button like this, does not exist in this game and it genuinely baffles me. This game has only teleport movement and only snap-turning, but there is no way to re-center yourself in-game? It's really annoying, having to go into my Oculus software to re-center myself there since there is a countdown, and a button would greatly help re-center myself after putting down the headset to get a drink or something.
Next up, the movement. There is only teleport movement. This in itself is not bad, although I would prefer smooth movement. What is annoying though, is that the only way to move, is to hold a button (which will then reveal spots you can move to) and then you have to look at that spot. You cannot aim with the controller, you have to look at it. Which is definitely helpful some times, annoying other times. I would've liked to see an option to have both. Is the controller aiming down or up? Teleport to the area the user is looking at, otherwise use the controller to aim.
What is also annoying, is that everything uses the same height. Basically, most if not all desks or other things you interact with, have a handle that you can use to re-adjust the height of that object to make it easier for you to reach, however, modifying the height of one object, also modifies that of everything else. So the chance machine is too low, but if I raise it, I cannot reach my bar stuff easily since it'll be too high.
Talking about that, everything feels very far away, I am not sure if I am the only one who has this issue, but every time I need to dispense drinks from the left side or tap on the screen of the computer (the one you can use to buy things), I have to really reach for it, which luckily I have the space for, but is still a tad annoying.
Lastly, I'd like to mention customization. There's 3 kinds you can buy or get. You have different hands, different hats to give your robot and different bobbleheads (only 1 can be equipped for some reason).
The hats are cute and the bobbleheads are nice, however, the hands are god-awful and whoever thought of most of them, needs to play more vr games because they are just that bad.
Doing hands right in VR can be quite difficult, you want something that still looks like and feels like a hand, but not something over the top that obscures the part that really matters, the part that you can use to grab objects. Hands also shouldn't be too big (in most cases) that it will obscure what you are picking up with your hands. If you have your hands constantly near things you need to grab, having big hands would be really annoying.
The devs thought about this for a whole second before throwing all that away and added giant crab hands to the game without hesitation.
Look, it's funny for a whole 5 seconds that you have big pincer hands, but then you just imagine what it is like having to bartend with big pincers, and go back to your default hands. There's also other weird hands like the hands from the people in Wall-E (but they're more like moon gloves) as well as some other weird hands and they are just not great. Getting a glove like that is just such a waste since it is not practical at all whatsoever and it is such a shame that imo they wasted time making useless hands like that instead of making fun or interesting looking gloves that most people actually would've wanted to use over the default glove either for personal preference or variety (for me the latter would be more important).
Now, the main way you are going to get gloves or some other cosmetics, is through this spinning wheel-thing that costs you tokens to try. These tokens are not that hard to get, just get the order perfect, but what the issue is, is that you can get duplicates, and even worse, they give you like no money. First of all, there's quite a lot of unlockable cosmetics through this system if I remember correctly and secondly, you only get like 50 currency for getting a duplicate. A single customer gives more than double that, and since you are likely to get 10+ customers a shift, this means that 50 means nothing.
What's also super annoying, is how long it takes to spin. First you pull the thing on the side, wait for a bit, a little capsule will pop out and you have to open that to see what you get. Not only can you only spin once at a time (even though you will likely be able to spin twice or more per shift), it also just takes too long, mostly when all you are getting is duplicates, it's just an all-round bad system.
So overall, the gameplay is fun, the machines can be upgraded, but the customization and accessibility are awful. I still recommend it because I enjoyed the gameplay and liked upgrading the machines and stuff, but it can be annoying to play sometimes and wish that the devs tested the cosmetic ideas before just implementing useless ones.
