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Restaurant hijinks, January 28, 2024by Lance Cirone (Backwater, Vermont) In this game, you run a 1940s theme restaurant, full of amusingly awful items, a band playing non-stop, and a toilet that's more high-tech than a good portion of your kitchen utensils. You are tasked with appeasing a food critic to save your restaurant. Everything that goes wrong can, in a really slapstick comedy way that lends itself to fun puzzles. The scope of the game is well-contained, mainly just focusing on finding things you need to serve your meal, and there's only a handful of rooms. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- k42write, October 28, 2023 - gattociao, August 18, 2023 - elysee, April 29, 2023 - sw3dish, October 27, 2022 >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction There's at least one in every comp: a game with great potential, clever writing, and fun portions that dissolves into a mind-numbing bugfest at its end, apparently the product of a rush to deadline and a lack of patience. In Comp03, Gourmet is the first game of that type I've played, and the letdown is as stinging as ever. If interactive fiction ever got reviews in People magazine, the write-up for this game would probably end with, "BOTTOM LINE: Good ingredients, but undercooked."
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Gourmet Night--Basil Fawlty should be so lucky, November 7, 2017This was another one I really got a kick out of, and thus, will have a shorter review than some of the others. Note: this review is based on older version of the game. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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A fun mid-length game about a series of mishaps in the kitchen , February 3, 2016by MathBrush Gourmet is a fairly well-known game that succeeds in slapstick comedy while having some pretty hard puzzles. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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Good comedy, but could use some improvements, February 1, 2009Aaron A. Reed's Gourmet puts you in the shoes, or rather the hat, of a very good chef. You have just opened a new restaurant, and its succes, indeed its survival, depends on getting a favourable review from culinary critic Mrs. Davenport, who is coming tonight. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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The most fun I've ever had with a mop, November 10, 2007Great, fun little game. The premise is that you're a chef in a newly-opened restaurant, but you're facing a few problems tonight; all your staff have called in sick, supply problems and technical issues are conspiring against you, and a hugely influential food critic is coming to dinner. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
- Nusco (Bologna, Italy), October 31, 2007 - AmberShards (The Gothic South), October 29, 2007 - Pseudo_Intellectual (Vancouver, Canada), October 25, 2007 - Sami Preuninger (New York City), October 23, 2007 - Quintin Stone (NC), October 23, 2007 Baf's GuideIn this fast-paced and funny game, you're a chef and restaurant owner trying to keep the kitchen running smoothly in order to impress an important reviewer. A wonderful example of IF comedy with an element of slapstick (something that's very hard to pull off well). The writing is also excellent, and the puzzles fit very well into the wacky storyline. In the competition version there are some bugs especially towards the end of the game that make things harder and less fun. Subsequent versions may be better. Even with this flaw, though, the opening portion of the game is extremely entertaining and worth a playthrough. -- Emily Short
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