Cook, Serve, Delicious!

The game is bugged. I got stuck on the third star, right before getting the fourth. There was a bug that the last required safety inspection arrived at the 20th day but a rubbery happened that day. The rubbery made us fail two chores or so. Although we still received the "inspection passed" mail afterwards, the "pass four inspections" requirement was never checked on the checklist while everything else is passed. Continuing playing more days didn't make the inspector appear again, so we basically got permanently stuck at three star. ♥♥♥♥ this game. There were still tons of other complaints I had. The gameplay is very repetitive. Once you have enough practice, which is around two or three hours into the game, you can complete most dish very quickly. Preferably, the game wants you to try different dish to keep things fresh, but once you discover some of the most profitable one, there is barely any reason for you to change the dish, and you just rotate between two or three dish repetitively. Dish upgrades don't come soon enough, and even when you do get the upgrades, those don't raise the difficulty much and you will get used to it in the next couple runs. The co-op mode is essentially separating the whole game into two parts without making any change. You might as well play singleplayer and let your partner take control half of your controller or keyboard. Calling this as "co-op" is an insult to good co-op games. Not to mention the workload one is afforded with is very disproportionate between player 1 and 2. The one being responsible for cooking has to sweat through the whole stage like hell while the other being responsible for "expediting" (taking and completing orders) numbly sits there waiting for stuff to finish. The difficulty design is very problematic. The standard difficulty has huge down time in a stage where there is literally nothing to do, and you just look at the screen waiting for customers to come or chores to do. I don't understand why the game has to design with such a long duration each run (approximately 7 minutes each day, and you must at least play for 100 days) while there is such a long down time with nothing to do. The extreme difficulty should be the default, as you unlock dish that has no reason to be locked behind meaningless progression levels and you have way more customers to deal with. But even then, you are just busy doing things all the time and the things you do aren't challenging or fun, once the excitement of seeing something fresh has gone. I bought this game to play with my wife. After around 40 days or so on extreme difficulty, she got really bored and would want to play something else after a few runs. This game is in a way exhausting and boring at the same time, as it only makes you look busy but the things you do aren't challenging or fun at all.