double cheeseburger, medium fries is a pretty mediocre game. it's free, so obviously im not expecting AAA quality, but it's still a bit lackluster. the game's description also has no mention of there being a story to the game. the game is advertised as essentially fast food employee simulator. but there is a very short story mode, which really doesnt hit for me.
the art is cute, both the pixel art and the more detailed art in the cutscenes. the backgrounds and characters all look really nice.
the gameplay itself is... okay. flipping the burgers can be a bit finnicky and annoying, but its not too horrible. frying stuff is super easy. the worst part is making ice cream or sundaes. the ice cream stacks horribly and it's super easy to accidentally leave gaps, spill it, or create gravity-defying ice cream cones. the additional tasks between waves of customers are pretty standard. not interesting or enjoyable, just standard tasks for working at a fast food joint.
the story itself is also pretty mediocre. its not really fleshed out and a lot of it doesnt really make sense. theres also only two days of the story, so you dont really get to learn about the characters, their stories, or anything of value. when you go to the park on day 2, there's a few different minigames for you to do. the most notable is the swings, as once you complete the task, the swing genuinely breaks. no clue why it does that, but it is kinda funny to watch lillith fly into oblivion.
there's some additional modes that you can unlock as you play the game and unlock the different endings.
you've got poetry mode, which allows you to share lillith's poetry with penelope. but they aren't really fleshed out poems or anything meaningful, it's just two random lines that you can string together that almost always make no sense. than you can say that it's not good, it was okay, or it was really good. this mode adds nothing to the characters or story, and its kinda just bad.
after getting the true ending, you unlock the epilogue. this is probably the best of the additional modes. there's really no gameplay, you just get to see how penelope and lillith are doing after the events of day 2. its probably the best part of the story, as its really the only meaningful part of the story.
the other mode is endless. it's what it says on the tin-- its just allowing you to endlessly cook. there's no new dishes you can cook or minigames, it's just an extension of the main gameplay loop.
