I only played it for an hour or so and I have over 70 hrs each on the first two games. This one gives you all the best parts of the first two games while eliminating the most tedious ones. I have a feeling it will be my favorite.
@@SSTVdd twitch.tv/airaplaysgames - and thanks! I'm on hiatus for a little bit while I work out some real-life day-job stuff, but I hope to be back soon.
this review was very helpful :) I recently got csd2 and I had fallen in love, but then I realized there's a third installment of the series and I was already excited!! such a fun and initiative game loop that has sucked me in
Thank you very much. I absolutely loved this review. I just got CSD and CSD2 for Christmas, and I've already got 87 hours on CSD2, and a little over half that on the first one. This one looks absolutely gorgeous, and I totally agree with you about the music that I heard in the video. Thank you for making this, I'm definitely going to get it.
Excellent review! I loved the first Cook, Serve, Delicious but thought the second game was both a bit too hard for my taste (since it's so much faster) but also a bit too easy (since actions that would be accomplished with directional keys in previous games, especially chores, are usually just accomplished by pressing buttons for ingredients now).
I'm so glad they got the attention from Epic! It really is a great game. Hope you continue to enjoy it! It's come leaps and bounds since I made this video.
I found CSD2 by chance and really loved the game though I never took the time to finish it. I find the aesthetic, the story and setting of CSD3 to be a lot more appealing to me and your review convinced me to pick it up and this time try to finish it. Thanks for this great review!
I'm so glad to hear it! This one really is amazing and the developers have done an incredible job. I hope you enjoy it as much as me. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I love your review, but I am still skeptical of playing CSD 3. I played CSD 1 last year, completed the game in 40 hours and absolutelly loved it. After finishing, I instantly bough CS2, but, for me, it was both an improvement and a dissapointment. I loved the food diversity, the prep stations, the "secundary" foods to accompany main dishes and drinks. But I didn't really liked it because I completelly lost control of the game. After a few days, I started doing the day services to other restaurants (perhaps too much: one time I did 5/6 services without even doing a single day in my own restaurant) and I don't know if that impacted my buzz, because in a few days the buzz escalated to a point of no return. I was still beginning the game and learning the new mechanics and, suddedly, I had 80% buzz and all stations occupied just as the day started, and when I say "just", I mean that happened to quickly that they all came together, like if a bunch of people were waiting at the door and suddedly asked to have their food in 5 minutes. They came so fast I don't think even a whole second happened. It was a nightmare. And it was "Classic" difficulty, I didn't try the other game modes. And then I think I just broke the buzz. Like, I would get low positive buzz and really high negative buzz, meaning that I would lose buzz despite the fact I was doing my job. I have a screenshot of the worst one: I served 123 customers in a day. 89 delicious orders, 121 perfect orders, 1 average order and 1 bad order. No chores failed. The game gave me 12% positive buzz and 13 negative buzz! Why!? I really want to take the catch of the game and continue to CSD 3, but I cannot like a game if I don't understand why I am being both rewarded and punished for. Not that I am competitive or so, but it is frustating when you are playing a game and you just don't understand what is going on. I don't care if I get negative buzz, but I want to know why, because I think that 1 bad order against 121 is excessive. I am thinking of reinstalling the game, deleting my old save file and doing another one going easy on the other restaurants and just working in them once in while, like doing a service between each 7 to 12 days.
Thanks for watching and for your comment! CSD2 was... complicated, and I think it left a lot of people feeling frustrated. (The developer has said that with CSD2 he made the game he thought people wanted, but for CSD3 he made the game HE would want to play, and the difference is significant.) I can't guarantee you would enjoy CSD3 but I can tell you how it's different from the other games, and hopefully that will help you make a decision. First of all, there is NO MORE BUZZ. Each level always has the same number of customers and your income for a level is solely dependent on how many orders you fill and which foods you put on the menu. In CSD3 you have a food truck rather than a restaurant (you can still decorate it though). It's basically linear - you follow a route across the country. But you can go back and revisit previous levels as many times as you want, whenever you want. In each level, you have a list of foods you can choose from for your menu. You have some freedom to choose which foods you will serve, but limits on which ones you can choose from. You can buy upgrades for your truck as well. Some of them add holding stations or prep stations, some of them let your food stay fresh longer, some of them protect you against attacks from other food trucks, etc. You can turn these upgrades on and off at will (though some levels will require a minimum number of prep stations). The gameplay flow is totally different. There are no more side dishes and no more "slow" periods. There are also NO CHORES. Your entire focus is on making the food as quickly and accurately as possible. Each route has a set number of stops with a set number of customers. Between stops, you prepare the orders. There are "special orders" which are usually more complicated foods which you make one at a time so they're ready by the time you reach the stop. Most of the orders are holding station orders - you know how many of each type there will be and you try to prepare them all for your holding stations before you reach the stop. (You can still make them after you get there, but there will be people waiting for their food.) There are NO MORE SIDE DISHES. The holding stations are only for pre-making food to be served to the customers at each stop. This means there is no way to make the customers more patient, though. Upgrades can help in various ways but you always have the same amount of time to make the food, and it's much more fast-paced and hectic. (There is a zen mode if you want a calmer experience with infinite patience, but you can only get a silver medal on each route in zen mode.) My favorite feature is the "serve all" button. Hit one button, and every order which is ready to go out will be served at once. Pre-made holding station orders that need no extra steps can be served in one fell swoop, and you only have to worry about the ones that need more attention, like burgers and such. The game is also eventually a LOT harder than the previous two games. Each zone you enter has new types of levels which are harder to complete (like customers having less patience, needing a minimum number of prep stations, or only having really difficult foods to choose from). It is very much just about the skill of making the foods quickly and accurately. The core of CSD3 is: making the foods, really fast, and accurately. There are periods with no customers where you do nothing but cook, and periods with a set number of customers who come in instantly so there is no time to spare (like a series of rush hours). There is no buzz, nothing like that to keep track of. You will always know why you did well or poorly because it's solely about making the orders. No mistakes? Gold medal. A few mistakes? Silver medal. A lot of mistakes? Bronze medal. Then you get the money for each completed order, some XP (and an upgrade point when you level up), and you can move on (or try the level again). It's difficult, but fair, and always clear what's expected of you. Also the music is one banger after another, and the android assistants are lovely. If you want more info before making a decision, I have a few stream archives of me playing the game live. Here's one of them: ua-cam.com/video/TJmGlbyZ-F8/v-deo.html Whether you decide to get the game or not, thanks for stopping by, and I hope this helps!
Also, another note about CSD2 that definitely confused a lot of players: the "guest shifts" at other restaurants are considered the "main game". Your personal restaurant is the "sandbox" mode and is something extra to do when you feel like it, but you're expected to spend most of the game going through the other restaurants and doing all the shifts. Most of the achievements for the game are based on that as well. It's confusing if you play it after CSD1 because in the first game it's all about your restaurant, then in the second one your restaurant is just a side thing. I almost never played my restaurant in CSD2, I just went through the other levels (and I never finished, because there were things about the game that were just too frustrating). So that may be part of why you found the game frustrating, if you were focusing on your restaurant alone. (This is not an issue in CSD3.) One final note: I've played CSD3 for 40 hours and I'm nowhere near the end. Partly because there's a TON of content, partly because it's REALLY HARD and I keep going back to get 100% gold medals on everything. So if you decide to get it, you will definitely get your money's worth. 🖖
To me CSD2 was bad. The UI has some terrible issues, and trying to practice foods was a damn mess needing you to exit out of the level and all that. CSD3 looks so much better.
The new version is overall great, but they removed the sudden restaurant chore which makes me feel lost a little bit. These chores make the game more fun and require more focus on solving unexpected situation. I like the AI serving help and the truck update system though, hope the update truck line can extend more.
There are folks who are trying to cook all the recipes from the game actually! If you check out the dev's twitter he shares them sometimes. In any case, one thing's guaranteed about playing this game, and that's that it WILL make you hungry!
Good review I'm not sure which is better, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 or cooking simulator ? I really hates race against time cooking games, I watched videos for both of the games but I couldn't decide ... Thanks!
I'm afraid I don't know anything about Cooking Simulator, so I can't really give you any advice on that. I will say that if you don't like time pressure, you might not like CSD3. It's extremely fast-paced and you have very little time to make each recipe, so you have to practice until you know them so well you can make them lightning fast. I enjoy it, but it may not be for you. Hope that helps! Good luck!
I like how you lose your place in Csd 1 even though you buy the spam block or engage in shady shit I wish in csd 2 there is a different ending which you have to insert player Id at the start and then get the csd 3 beginning. We never went iron chef mode even if we had the best fucking restaurant in the world.
Thank you so much, what a beautiful review!!
Thank YOU so much for making such incredible games, and also for letting me play the game before release so I could make this video! :D
@@SecretFoxfire :D
I only played it for an hour or so and I have over 70 hrs each on the first two games. This one gives you all the best parts of the first two games while eliminating the most tedious ones. I have a feeling it will be my favorite.
Absolutely! I'm amazed by how polished it is and they're still going to add MORE! :o
Are all the recipes the same from 2? Or is there a lot of new recipes in 3?
Fantastic review! Great editing and really nice insight into the game, and I love the addition of referring to the older games.
Thanks very much!
This review is something i would expect from a channel with 1M subs
Thanks so much for your comment! It means a lot.
Aira Plays Games what is your twitch? Will follow. Subbed on YT as well :)
@@SSTVdd twitch.tv/airaplaysgames - and thanks! I'm on hiatus for a little bit while I work out some real-life day-job stuff, but I hope to be back soon.
The music is probably my favorite improvement. 100% knocked it out of the park.
This is an amazing review! Great overview of the game and super soothing voice combined with smooth editing. Keep it up :)
Thanks very much! I'm glad you liked the video.
Making food...quickly and perfectly. It's a surprisingly deep gameplay loop. I love this series!
Such a pleasant review! I like the pace at which you talk, a lot of videos are so fast.
Thanks! I've been trying to slow down a bit when I do videos. I don't always succeed, though. I need more practice. :D
I’m on a Console and the release isn’t until October, was really nice to come across such a well done and positive review! Thank you, I’m easily sold!
Thanks so much for watching and for the lovely comment! I'm glad my review could be helpful. I hope you enjoy the game as much as I have!
great Review! i've been playing since CSD 1. Im gonna but it later today!
Thanks! This one is truly amazing, you're in for a treat. :D
The quality of this review is just .. *chef's kiss* decadent!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it.
Great, entertaining, informative! Nice personal style!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
this review was very helpful :) I recently got csd2 and I had fallen in love, but then I realized there's a third installment of the series and I was already excited!! such a fun and initiative game loop that has sucked me in
I'm glad I could be of help! The third game is definitely my favorite. :D
Thank you very much. I absolutely loved this review. I just got CSD and CSD2 for Christmas, and I've already got 87 hours on CSD2, and a little over half that on the first one. This one looks absolutely gorgeous, and I totally agree with you about the music that I heard in the video.
Thank you for making this, I'm definitely going to get it.
I'm glad to hear the video was helping! I'm sure you'll love the game. Thanks for watching!
Excellent review! I loved the first Cook, Serve, Delicious but thought the second game was both a bit too hard for my taste (since it's so much faster) but also a bit too easy (since actions that would be accomplished with directional keys in previous games, especially chores, are usually just accomplished by pressing buttons for ingredients now).
It's pretty fun just got it yesterday. Right now it is free on epic games
I'm so glad they got the attention from Epic! It really is a great game. Hope you continue to enjoy it! It's come leaps and bounds since I made this video.
Saw these games on sale, looked for review, found this one, purchased games, had great time - therefore you are now a hero ☺️
Glad to have been of help!
I found CSD2 by chance and really loved the game though I never took the time to finish it. I find the aesthetic, the story and setting of CSD3 to be a lot more appealing to me and your review convinced me to pick it up and this time try to finish it.
Thanks for this great review!
I'm so glad to hear it! This one really is amazing and the developers have done an incredible job. I hope you enjoy it as much as me. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I love your review, but I am still skeptical of playing CSD 3. I played CSD 1 last year, completed the game in 40 hours and absolutelly loved it. After finishing, I instantly bough CS2, but, for me, it was both an improvement and a dissapointment.
I loved the food diversity, the prep stations, the "secundary" foods to accompany main dishes and drinks. But I didn't really liked it because I completelly lost control of the game. After a few days, I started doing the day services to other restaurants (perhaps too much: one time I did 5/6 services without even doing a single day in my own restaurant) and I don't know if that impacted my buzz, because in a few days the buzz escalated to a point of no return. I was still beginning the game and learning the new mechanics and, suddedly, I had 80% buzz and all stations occupied just as the day started, and when I say "just", I mean that happened to quickly that they all came together, like if a bunch of people were waiting at the door and suddedly asked to have their food in 5 minutes. They came so fast I don't think even a whole second happened. It was a nightmare. And it was "Classic" difficulty, I didn't try the other game modes. And then I think I just broke the buzz. Like, I would get low positive buzz and really high negative buzz, meaning that I would lose buzz despite the fact I was doing my job. I have a screenshot of the worst one: I served 123 customers in a day. 89 delicious orders, 121 perfect orders, 1 average order and 1 bad order. No chores failed. The game gave me 12% positive buzz and 13 negative buzz! Why!?
I really want to take the catch of the game and continue to CSD 3, but I cannot like a game if I don't understand why I am being both rewarded and punished for. Not that I am competitive or so, but it is frustating when you are playing a game and you just don't understand what is going on. I don't care if I get negative buzz, but I want to know why, because I think that 1 bad order against 121 is excessive. I am thinking of reinstalling the game, deleting my old save file and doing another one going easy on the other restaurants and just working in them once in while, like doing a service between each 7 to 12 days.
Thanks for watching and for your comment! CSD2 was... complicated, and I think it left a lot of people feeling frustrated. (The developer has said that with CSD2 he made the game he thought people wanted, but for CSD3 he made the game HE would want to play, and the difference is significant.) I can't guarantee you would enjoy CSD3 but I can tell you how it's different from the other games, and hopefully that will help you make a decision.
First of all, there is NO MORE BUZZ. Each level always has the same number of customers and your income for a level is solely dependent on how many orders you fill and which foods you put on the menu. In CSD3 you have a food truck rather than a restaurant (you can still decorate it though). It's basically linear - you follow a route across the country. But you can go back and revisit previous levels as many times as you want, whenever you want. In each level, you have a list of foods you can choose from for your menu. You have some freedom to choose which foods you will serve, but limits on which ones you can choose from. You can buy upgrades for your truck as well. Some of them add holding stations or prep stations, some of them let your food stay fresh longer, some of them protect you against attacks from other food trucks, etc. You can turn these upgrades on and off at will (though some levels will require a minimum number of prep stations).
The gameplay flow is totally different. There are no more side dishes and no more "slow" periods. There are also NO CHORES. Your entire focus is on making the food as quickly and accurately as possible. Each route has a set number of stops with a set number of customers. Between stops, you prepare the orders. There are "special orders" which are usually more complicated foods which you make one at a time so they're ready by the time you reach the stop. Most of the orders are holding station orders - you know how many of each type there will be and you try to prepare them all for your holding stations before you reach the stop. (You can still make them after you get there, but there will be people waiting for their food.) There are NO MORE SIDE DISHES. The holding stations are only for pre-making food to be served to the customers at each stop. This means there is no way to make the customers more patient, though. Upgrades can help in various ways but you always have the same amount of time to make the food, and it's much more fast-paced and hectic. (There is a zen mode if you want a calmer experience with infinite patience, but you can only get a silver medal on each route in zen mode.)
My favorite feature is the "serve all" button. Hit one button, and every order which is ready to go out will be served at once. Pre-made holding station orders that need no extra steps can be served in one fell swoop, and you only have to worry about the ones that need more attention, like burgers and such.
The game is also eventually a LOT harder than the previous two games. Each zone you enter has new types of levels which are harder to complete (like customers having less patience, needing a minimum number of prep stations, or only having really difficult foods to choose from). It is very much just about the skill of making the foods quickly and accurately.
The core of CSD3 is: making the foods, really fast, and accurately. There are periods with no customers where you do nothing but cook, and periods with a set number of customers who come in instantly so there is no time to spare (like a series of rush hours). There is no buzz, nothing like that to keep track of. You will always know why you did well or poorly because it's solely about making the orders. No mistakes? Gold medal. A few mistakes? Silver medal. A lot of mistakes? Bronze medal. Then you get the money for each completed order, some XP (and an upgrade point when you level up), and you can move on (or try the level again). It's difficult, but fair, and always clear what's expected of you. Also the music is one banger after another, and the android assistants are lovely.
If you want more info before making a decision, I have a few stream archives of me playing the game live. Here's one of them: ua-cam.com/video/TJmGlbyZ-F8/v-deo.html
Whether you decide to get the game or not, thanks for stopping by, and I hope this helps!
Also, another note about CSD2 that definitely confused a lot of players: the "guest shifts" at other restaurants are considered the "main game". Your personal restaurant is the "sandbox" mode and is something extra to do when you feel like it, but you're expected to spend most of the game going through the other restaurants and doing all the shifts. Most of the achievements for the game are based on that as well. It's confusing if you play it after CSD1 because in the first game it's all about your restaurant, then in the second one your restaurant is just a side thing. I almost never played my restaurant in CSD2, I just went through the other levels (and I never finished, because there were things about the game that were just too frustrating). So that may be part of why you found the game frustrating, if you were focusing on your restaurant alone. (This is not an issue in CSD3.)
One final note: I've played CSD3 for 40 hours and I'm nowhere near the end. Partly because there's a TON of content, partly because it's REALLY HARD and I keep going back to get 100% gold medals on everything. So if you decide to get it, you will definitely get your money's worth. 🖖
To me CSD2 was bad. The UI has some terrible issues, and trying to practice foods was a damn mess needing you to exit out of the level and all that. CSD3 looks so much better.
Loved the this review. It was explained well and allowed me to get an idea if i will like this game
I'm glad to hear the review was useful to you. Thanks for watching!
This review is perfect.
The new version is overall great, but they removed the sudden restaurant chore which makes me feel lost a little bit. These chores make the game more fun and require more focus on solving unexpected situation.
I like the AI serving help and the truck update system though, hope the update truck line can extend more.
Is the game out? Couse on Steam there is still early access information without possibility to buy it :(
It just released about 5 minutes ago, and it's on sale! :D
@@SecretFoxfire Great news!
Great review and video!
Thanks very much! :D
When’s this out for the switch?
I feel like I need to buy this game to break the monotony.
Amazing Review!
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Vertigo Games Inc is Humongous Entertainment all grown up! ❤❤
But what do these foods tastes like?
There are folks who are trying to cook all the recipes from the game actually! If you check out the dev's twitter he shares them sometimes. In any case, one thing's guaranteed about playing this game, and that's that it WILL make you hungry!
Great Review
Thanks!
great review!
Good review
I'm not sure which is better, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 or cooking simulator ?
I really hates race against time cooking games, I watched videos for both of the games but I couldn't decide ...
Thanks!
I'm afraid I don't know anything about Cooking Simulator, so I can't really give you any advice on that. I will say that if you don't like time pressure, you might not like CSD3. It's extremely fast-paced and you have very little time to make each recipe, so you have to practice until you know them so well you can make them lightning fast. I enjoy it, but it may not be for you. Hope that helps! Good luck!
is there two people running the channel ?
This channel? Nope, it's just me. I changed my name a while back though and my voice has changed as well.
@@SecretFoxfire congrats on the transition
Great review,thank you very much excellent job!!!!(Not My type of game...that is why i watch review first)Nice job!!
Thank you very much! It is true that a game like this is definitely not for everyone. I'm glad you found the review helpful!
@@SecretFoxfire Yes i did!!
wow "again", next cook serve delicious 4 "again" losing restaurant....... what a "cursed" word...
I like how you lose your place in Csd 1 even though you buy the spam block or engage in shady shit I wish in csd 2 there is a different ending which you have to insert player Id at the start and then get the csd 3 beginning. We never went iron chef mode even if we had the best fucking restaurant in the world.
No hate to the game but why is it coming to ps4. This looks like a mobile game.
This would not work on mobile lol
Cook Serve Delicious! 3?!
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Great review