It’s been an overall positive experience. Sometimes I will point out something for Sam to do better, and unsurprisingly, he will find things that I could do better as well. Instead of blaming, we each come up with positive ways to improve what we were doing to succeed.
It’s a great time to show how to react to failure on a team. Teamwork is essential in Overcooked 2, and one thing this game does well is training you to work together efficiently. The imagery, iconography, and graphics are all cartoonish and very clear with what they represent. Overcooked 2 offers a wide variety of human and animal chef avatars that are all pleasing a cute to look at. Variety of cute characters makes this very appealing to kids It’s even harder in multiplayer with increased score requirements. I’m not going to sugar coat it, though: this game is hard. Some levels can have complicated steps that take more cognitive load, but always offers a strategy that you can assign your young one that can keep them on task and contribute to winning. The crux of the game is multitasking and coordination. So it makes recipes very easy to understand and formulaic without requiring a culinary degree. If you need to produce dough for pizza, you don’t knead it, you chop it. One of the most entertaining parts of this game is how they take technical recipes that may include multiple cooking techniques and simplify them. Sam has always been a little helper in the kitchen, whether it’s helping to stir the pot or knead the dough for bread, he is eager to learn. Full disclosure, most of our experience with this game is the original with the sequel just being an improved version of the first.