My Hot Cooking
My first exposure to this game was on an Official Playstation Magazine demo disc from so long ago that I can’t even remember what city I was living in at the time. The game was so memorable that it stuck with me up until now.
At that time the game was labeled “I’m the Chef!” and was presented in a section of the disc dedicated to wacky game demos from Japan. There wasn’t a word of English in the game, but it was completely controlled with the recently release dual analog stick controllers.
Diagrams the showed you what to do with the sticks made figuring out the game a little easier.
I was ecstatic when I saw “My Hot Cooking” available for download on the Hong Kong PSN store. (For information on creating a HK account, please see this post) The game had a completely different name, but there was enough information provided to be sure, this was “I’m the Chef!”
The game was located under a section called PSX Classics for PS3 only. Which makes sense since the game was controlled with both analog sticks it would impossible to play on a PSP.
The game itself is super fun, but incredibly tough. Not being able to tell Kanji from Katakana sure doesn’t make playing any easier. But for the brief time you get to spend playing the game is a great experience, and you’ll find yourself playing over and over again trying to perfect everything.
The game play is simple. Customers come into the restaurant and you’ve got to keep them happy. You’ll get paid for each successful meal prepared. It’s a fast paced, seemingly never ending spree of pouring beers, cutting vegetables, stirring soups, and chasing down the dead beat customers who try to skip out on the bill.
As I’ve said all the tasks are controlled via the analog sticks and are pretty intuitive.
For cutting up something the left analog stick slides your left hand left and right, while the right stick moves your right hand and knife up and down. Don’t move enough and you’ll cut your hand, but move too far and you’ll cut pieces so large that the customers will not be pleased.
For pouring beers one hand controls the tap while the other controls the tap. Don’t pour all foam. This is an important life lesson as well.
If you want a fun, quirky, cooking game I suggest giving this a spin. It’s over 10 years old now, but still goes miles above games like Cooking Mama and Hells Kitchen that are coming out now.
33$HK, 600yen (6$ US)
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