Go Go Gourmet Review by Meryl

Chefs, start your engines! Go Go Gourmet takes you on a culinary trip. Begin as a junior cook and sauté your way up to master chef. Once I get the hang of game player, I instantly gain a hearty for the game. Folks, this does not resemble any food game you’ve played. Sure, it has a little Cooking Mama in it, but Go Go Gourmet goes goes beyond the goals of cooking up goodies and fast.

Grandpa Henry hands over his restaurant to Ginger to do with as she pleases. The catch: Grandpa’s restaurant needs a lot of work. Well, hey, it doesn’t cost us anything to get a restaurant. So Ginger (us players) goes to work for Chuck Bergerman (har har, nice pun, designers) to earn money to revamp Grandpa’s restaurant as well as learn her way around the kitchen.

Here, we don’t just run around the kitchen and fulfill customer orders. A level starts with a customer’s face popping up along with a cartoon bubble that lists all the steps and ingredients in the requested dish. A step typically consists of the ingredients to find and ends with cooking the collected ingredients or delivering the dish to the customer.

In every level, the ingredients move around the kitchen. As we work in new restaurants, the kitchen set up also changes. The stove might be on the right in one restaurant and on the left in another. So don’t get too comfy. Impossible to get bored!

You get a feel for where some ingredients will appear, so it’s not as difficult as it sounds. As you cook more recipes, you earn new recipes and ingredients. The kitchen looks barren early in the game and overflows with ingredients later on.

Before you tackle the second or third step with your first customer, customer #2 pops in. Now we must manage two orders at the same time. Be ready to manage up to four customer orders. Sounds frantic, but it’s so much fun.

Don’t expect fake recipes here. The recipes for the dishes look authentic and come to life with a photo as you deliver them to customers. As we gain experience, we move to another restaurant serving different type of food. Ginger learns Pan-Asian, vegetarian, Parisian, seafood, English cooking.

A mini-game comes in every handful of levels. One mini-game calls for catching flying items, another requires you to find ingredients as fast as you can… in the dark. These fit the game nicely and involve memorizing anything like many mini-games tend to do.

As you successfully deliver customer orders, you receive tips. Those tips go toward remodeling Grandpa’s restaurant. On occasion, Ginger hears from, but he doesn’t hear so well during the phone calls. The story moves along smoothly between levels as Ginger converses with her bosses.

However, the game has a typo or two. Tiny nitpick considering the superb quality of the game. Before finishing the game, I had already decided I want another game… and there just might be.

By the end, I feel like a pro especially when I wildly managed multiple complicated customer orders. I memorized some recipes I ran for the first ingredient as soon as I saw the customer’s order and before checking the list of ingredients.

Boy, I wish this feeling would carry over into real life. Cooking in Go Go Gourmet almost makes me want to return to cooking real meals for the family. That’s almost — something about actually chopping and shopping for fresh ingredients doesn’t have the appeal of doing it virtually.

The ingredients of good music, high addiction factor, sharp graphics, and original concept make an award-winning recipe in Go Go Gourmet. Please, sir developer, may I have some more?

We give Go Go Gourmet a 5/5 diamond rating