Recent reviews by Hamakei

Not nearly as much fun as the first game. The addition of some new foods and the ability to work in other restaurants to gain experience is appreciated, but it has some serious bugs. For one, the video options simply DON'T WORK. Also, sometimes when you prepare a food for the keep warm counter, it IMMEDIATELY goes bad and earns you a negative rating which you can't do anything about.

It's also frustrating that you HAVE to turn the menu over to access the second or third page of toppings, even when you know the key to press. You can't just press K for ketchup, you HAVE to flip the page, and only then will the button actually do anything. Why?

Stick with the original. It's cheaper and better.

What a fascinating little game. Wonderful atmosphere and genuinely gave me the creeps in several places

I like most of the DLC for this game, but Geodes? Not so much. The unpredictable, wavy patterns make the puzzles considerably more difficult than other pictures of the same size.

Far far FAR too difficult compared to the first game. I get that people like the time/death challenge which is fair enough, but the casual mode of the first game allowed players to take their time and enjoy themselves. The casual mode on this one is insane compared to the original.

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This infuriates me. CC is one of my all-time favourite puzzle games and I've owned multiple copies on various platforms over the years.

Sadly it seems that the most well known version is the Microsoft port as it was included in a couple of editions of the Entertainment Pack for Windows...and that version was butchered to be playable on the primitive systems of the day. Gone was the smooth scrolling, levels were modified, the game engine was changed so some levels played differently, the music was changed, the graphics were changed... and now that seems to be the version people consider to be "the original"

This new port is...horrible. The levels are good (generally) as always, but the presentation is extremely sloppy. It looks and feels like a college student's first attempt at making a game in SDL...the layout of the game screen is lacklustre, the new graphics are AWFUL, and you can't even change the window size without restarting the game. What is this, 1996? Despite only having five buttons, you can only assign one key to each (and you can't even change 'confirm' from enter to something like space). So you can have arrow keys or WSAD...but not both, even though nothing will ever be using the other set.

The game also "feels" different, so levels which you might have been able to breeze through in the past now require a slightly different approach. And they've come up with a whole new ruleset. CC afficionados know that there are the Lynx and MS rulesets, which slightly affect the way the game plays. But rather than use one of those, they've come up with a whole new ruleset which takes parts from each. I have no idea why they did this.

The graphic sets on offer are the new god-awful one, or "Win". Every other version appears to have been wiped from existence. The animations are sloppy. I have no idea what the fireballs are supposed to be...the purple balls have shadows and appear to be hovering, making it difficult to judge their location...and the force floors are enough to give anybody an epileptic fit. Good luck making it through "Forced Entry" without sitting as far back from the screen as possible. In addition, some graphical changes make the game much easier - for instance the traps visibly change when they're open.

Why couldn't they just license Tileworld and give us that with the official level pack? That would be far better than this monstrosity.

Even for free I'd rather play Tileworld with user-created level packs. Sure some of the original game's levels are good, but they are clearly running out of ideas by the second half.

Why does crouching kill you immediately?

Unfortunately because I didn't play this P.O.S. right away when I bought it, I'm now denied a refund.

AVOID AVOID AVOID this unplayable garbage!

Mind-numblingly tedious. I imagine walking through endless dust isn't as boring as this game is.

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Now please do 100 hidden guinea pigs!

It hasn't been remastered or updated in any way, but it's the original game exactly like you'd hope. Which is awesome. And I'm certainly not going to complain for the price. If anything, it works better than the original which to me was always a bit picky with the CD checks and the screen resolution changes. But please give us the bonus level!