iPad Review: Order Up!! To Go

Ah lovely. To learn how to cook food, delicious food, make it perfect, serve it to happy customers who like their meals fresh and hot, and earn some money. That’s indeed the life, but a little busy. And that’s what you’ll do in Order Up!! To Go. Order up - it’s time to start slicing, dicing, frying, and cooking away!

Seeing how this is a free game, it seemed quite intriguing, especially when it reminds me of Burger Bustle and all those cooking games, though I worried a little about quality and how fun the game was. Luckily for me, Order Up!! To Go alleviated those worries for me. I thoroughly enjoyed this game.

First on the menu, though, is the gameplay. So you drop from a place from who knows how high up and land in a trash bin (you know, technically, you’d died from the impact because you don’t have a parachute on, plus you kinda stink as well from falling, but we care not for technicalities). You go to Burger Face where you learn the different techniques of preparing food and making your customers happy. Cook patties, pancakes, eggs, slice tomatoes and leaf lettuce, grate cheese, fry fish and fries, and fill up drinks. Once you get the hang of it all, it’s quite easy. Except for the flipping. Several times I made the motion to flip over my ingredients and they wouldn’t flip. Turns out I didn’t have enough curvature in my motions. Sadness indeed.

You’ll at times get one order, but other times you’ll get multiple orders. And that’s when you learn how to multitask. After all, you discover that customers pay you the most when their food is nice and hot and money is always good. So how do you go about doing this? You learn to set ingredients all at once on their different stations. The key is to complete all steps except for one and not complete that last step until you have everything else completed. Confused? Here’s an example:

- Say that you have a burger + fries and pancakes to complete. Well, the pancakes and patty cook on the same grill. Whereas the burger has four ingredients, there are only two for pancakes. So, I would complete 1/2 steps for pancakes and 3/4 for the burger, then cook the last steps. You can also leave the fries out to “dry” and not package until at the end.

I got really good at multitasking. Though, you have to time everything well if you want to keep the food at perfection. And knowing the perfection freak I am, I’m always aiming for that, ha. The movement and graphics are really smooth. That’s what you’re always looking for in a game. If a gameplay is choppy and buggy, you don’t feel incentivized to play. But with the flawless graphics and whatnot, I really wanted to keep on playing (but unfortunately, studies call).

It’s a fun game and it’s definitely a stress reliever. Not only that, but you want to make your restaurant the best that it can be. And that way, you get more customers. Woohoo!

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