Indeed, it's a fully realized version of Overcooked 1, where everything just feels a bit more polished and filled.

The story feels pretty uninspired and nothing more than a backdrop, this does end up hurting the game with an even weaker finale than the first game. However, the game-play here is just better than 1. There's much more creative levels that invoke a lot of interesting coop challenges, the levels switch things up consistently to make it a fun play-through from start to finish. The huge improvement with level diversity, the ability to throw food, and the new foods to make really keep this from feeling like a pointless sequel.

I struggle on what else to say, Overcooked 2 is the correct step from 1. I would've liked to have a better story and more inspired music, but this is no doubt an all-time coop classic.

Overcooked RANKED

What happened to the series I love. Seriously Mega Man X through X4 are excellent games with 5 being a very good game. Then X6 was a slap in the face money grab after the series was suppose to be finished with X5. Then X7 was one of the most abhorrently made games of all time. While X8 was a major step forward from X7 it still is a far cry from what this series was. It legitimately makes me sad that one of my favorite series ever died and in such an awful fashion to boot.

I digress. Mega Man X8 is not an awful game by any means but it definitely isn’t a quality game either. Instead of going back to the basics that made the series great they decided to give every level a gimmick. Some are ok and some are outright bad. The worst level by far was Giga Bolt Man O War’s stage. You are on the slowest floating type thing in the world with controls that make you think it’s part of X7 with no explanation on controls and it is at best bad and at worst infuriating.

I’m going to cut this review shorter than most and just say the story is ok, the music is ok, the art is ok, the gameplay is ok the game is just ok at best.

If you ever want to play this series, and you really should, just play through X-X5 like Keiji Inafune intended and not what he was against which is what Capcom ended up giving us for some extra cash.

Mega Man X Series Ranked:

https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/mega-man-x-series-ranked/

My 2024 ranked:

https://www.backloggd.com/u/DVince89/list/games-i-played-in-2024-ranked-1/

It looks clunky and dated even for its time, often runs like dogshit, the controls and the combat will make you wanna smash your keyboard, the early bosses can be game-breaking if you're not prepared for them the right way...and yet I could not stop playing this for 50 hours until I reached the end. Incredibly immersive and atmopsheric dark fantasy storytelling with rich lore, great dialogues and instantly memorable characters, moral choices with real impact, a world that feels dirty, violent, chaotic, lived in and tangble in its own pseudo-reality. There is just a certain energy brimming here that even its sequels could only recapture in moments. Very rough, yet special.