Summary
Five different cooking games, sharing similar traits and differences… but are they worth playing?
Story
With the exception of Papa’ s Hot Doggeria the story of Papa is a long story of deception, where he tricks you time and time again to run each of his businesses… a burger place, a chicken drumstick… I mean wings joint, a taco stand, and a imitation Blizzard dessert place. Tricks include dumping the taco place on your for surviving a ridiculously long eating contest, and dumping two places on you as prizes in contests, one presented to you cliche Publishers Clearing House winner style.
Graphics
Basically it works though for the life of me the horrid char a free design reminds me of The Oblongs, a show on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim… ew.
Controls/Feel
F or the most part controls are uniform, but change from game to game in slight quirks as different games has different cooking mechanics. Not quite Cooking Mama and more Yummy Yummy Cooking Jam in scope and feel, though not as tight as Yummy.
Performance
Ugh. While most of the game mechanics work there is a persistent universal failure of the game mechanics in the toppings section of Hot Doggeria, Taco Mia and Freezeria. Your supposed to be able to drag I ingredients and sauces back and forth creating a layered effect, but this only works in demo mode only! I would say this is a fluke, but this is persistent in all three games and don’t appear in Wingeria or Burgeria because they don’t use that particular toppings game mechanic. Yes, I know each of these games are cut and paste copies, but it’s a special kind of lazy to cut and paste programming glitches into your games not once, not twice, but three times.
Misc
Easiest games is Taco, Burger and Freezeria. Medium is hot dog, with the hardest being wingeria due to all the precisely timed spinning you need to do to the drumsticks.
Final Thoughts
As much as these are pretty easy to pick up and play, they’re also pretty pointless. You earn money and levels, but nothing comes of it. You can’t upgrade kitchen equipment, buy new recipes, or anything to justify owning any if these past the guilty pleasure of these games. Kinda fun, but n o t very deep.
Pros? Guilty pleasure cooking games.
Cons? Pity they all lack the depth of a Order Up or Cake Mania
Price Free x5
Device Tested On : Amazon Kindle Fire HD
Reviews thanks to Android app store