Experience the thrilling life of a famous gourmet chef and master the art of French cooking.
A look at the world's most popular cooking sims. Which ones will actually teach you something about cooking, and make you a better cook? Which ones were designed purely as entertainment? Which are good and which are bad? The article serves as a side-by-side analysis of all the top cooking games to figure out the above.
This is a wonderful collection of mini stories revolving around your nameless restaurant. You play as the nameless, faceless, speechless assistant chef to Jacques Marceau. Together with Natalie, the adorable comic relief assistant chef, the three of you help propel your restaurant to fame and most importantly, Michelin stars.
Gourmet Chef actually does a few things better than Cooking Mama. It manages to capture the feel of a real kitchen more than its competition. The game is fast paced, and will appeal more to people that already love to cook and know their way around a kitchen. However, the title loses a lot of the charm and relatability, since you're making food and dealing with characters that are, for lack of a better term, foreign.
And the game is a little bogged down with its presentation that it can be frustrating when it's not moving as fast as you need it to. Gourmet chef is still a pretty decent cooking game, though, and provides a different approach to the genre, even if the presentation is undercooked.
Presentation - 5.0
Graphics - 6.5
Sound - 6.0
Gameplay - 7.5
Lasting Appeal - 6.5
Overall -
