Manitas Kitchen Reviews

As much as I hate to leave a negative review - I can't really recommend this game.... I see the passion and love, but sometimes it's not enough You can absolutely try this out, but be aware of the faults of this game [hr][hr] [b]The good:[/b] [olist] [*] Cute artstyle and characters [*] I like the prehistoric setting [*] Pizzas [/olist] [b]The bad:[/b] [olist] [*] Modern technology is such a whiplash, since you yourself are in a cave with torches of all things... [*] VERY repetitive. You'll drop the game quite quickly most likely. [*] The game drags on.... after the update it's much better, but still it takes so long for things to happen... [*] I feel like the story wasn't explored\explained enough... [*] The game is... easy. I was never stressed out.... [*] The ending wasn't satisfying. [*] Playing with a gamepad is still a torture for your thumb when you knead the dough. [*] Sabotages are just annoyances that siphon your money. [/olist] [b]Bugs, glitches and suggestions:[/b] [olist] [*] If you put pizza in the oven and don't do anything you'll have to make another input in order to take the pizza out. It's a little thing, but over time it becomes quite frustrating.... [*] Sometimes Order list bugs out and doesn't get shown or gets stuck in the side of the screen. [*] Marsh's ability doesn't bake the "4 cheese" pizza. I think there's a check if pizza has sauce and since this one doesn't have it - it stays raw. [*] "This is too much" achievement is bugged and didn't unlock after reaching 100% stress. I had to use the unlocker. [*] [spoiler] I had to serve the special "Alpazzino" pizza before I had the dialogue about the secret ingredient. It happened on the next day, but still.... I was so confused.[/spoiler] [*] There is no check if the pizza was already prepared for Trexio's ability. For example the first pizza is BBQ, the second one is P-Rex. You do the BBQ manually and use Trexio's ability to do the P-Rex... But end up with BBQ, since it's first on the list and they have the same sauce. You do learn to work around it, but it's very frustrating. [*] Collini has the most useless ability by far... You just don't have to use him at all, since the sauce minigame is very simple. Also his last upgrade straight up never worked for me and it needs to be reworked. I think it'd be better if he sauced the dough that Freckles kneads, not Trexio (with Freckles you yourself almost never prepare the dough.) [*] The recipes should include which sauce is used for the pizza, not just the ingredients. [*] I think you should be able to finish the orders when the restaurant closes. It's so frustrating to lose almost done pizzas. Plus you lose potential cache... [/olist] [hr][hr] This is all I think! Even if I criticized the hell out of this game - I'm still happy to see that the Devs didn't abandon it after release. It's their first step and I hope that they'll continue to improve!