Food Truck Chef – Full Course Edition .Version 1.0.2 12
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a world renowned chef or making yourself so stressed out, you developed frown lines like Gordon Ramsay ? If so, look no further, as this time management boredom buster Food truck chef is cooked up – just for you.
Developed by the award-winning company Nukebox studios, who created fan favourite IP’s such as cooking channel and room flip. These mobile phone games grew to be giant in their respective marketplace, stacking up millions of downloads and bringing smiles to faces all around the globe, and this title is no different. Brought to life by this amazing team of small hand picked developers, who have worked tirelessly to craft such enjoyable games, have now managed to bring food truck chef not only to mobile, but to Nintendo switch and PC.
As you boot the game up, you’re welcomed with the title screen of your trusty food truck and your only employee red headed girl-next-door Sarah.The art style is simple at best and definitely not going to knock you off your chair, but oddly has it’s own charm. All the characters seem as if they have been airbrushed, but this gives the title a clean look overall. The graphics are pretty good, my only issue is the movement sometimes seems doll-like and i’ve noticed some of the eyes of the characters bulge profusely and make them look like some sort of reptilian creature.
Simplistic gameplay but addictive
As for Gameplay, at its core is mainly about time management and has similarities to the cult classic overcooked. While at first seems as simple as riding a bike, it soon stacks up to being more like riding a unicycle while juggling flaming plates of hot ragù-all while being blindfolded. What starts as a small relaxing game, soon turns into a hectic barrage of angry customers. They face palm and make disgruntled sounds as they wait far too long for their order, which in the early stages always just seems to be pasta, as this is the only recipe that you have unlocked. In time you add more recipes by fulfilling the laborious daily quests such as serve 50 red pasta dishes or serve 40 cups of coffee.
You will earn experience points and game currency to purchase upgrades for your food truck, or new recipes for your hungry punters to indulge in. You can even buy exciting exotic exterior items that all grant different effects. For example, buying speakers to increase the customer patience or buying a Spanish guitar to improve your customers tips. If that’s not enough, you can buy one of those tall, cylindrical inflatable air dancers that are normally outside used car show rooms. I don’t know what this achieves, but it’s pretty damn cool.
Hundreds of levels
The game is separated into over 700 levels which is housed in a overworld, from here you can move your little food truck down the generically designed game board (very similar to how the Super Mario world overworld looks and works), to each level which has a star rating. Your goal is to achieve the highest star rating possible within the time limit, three being highest and zero being the lowest.
As you make it further through the game, you come across all different cuisine based cities with mouth watering names like waffle street or bubble tea street, all of which will have fanatic foodies desiring corresponding cuisine. To unlock these, you have to tap furiously, cooking meals and sliding over soufflés. Now it has been ported over to consoles you can use the control pad, which is a feels a bit sketchy if I’m being honest. You can feel that it wasn’t designed initially for this but regardless you can still use it, but it’s easier just to tap and cover your glorious switch screen in greasy finger marks.
The overall the game is pretty enjoyable and it is a perfect game for dropping in and out sessions, such as if you were on the bus or on a break at work. I think could quite easily burn hours on this game and get hooked on trying to satisfy every hungry customer. The only drawback I could find with playing this game was the soundtrack. It was so monotonous. It’s essentially three chords on a ukulele on repeat over and over again, and it’s about as pleasurable as putting a cactus in your ear, but for the price tag of £11.69 you can’t really complain. Due to these reasons I would give this a 5.5 out of 10, so, if you’re in need of a quick boredom buster definitely give this game ago.
