By now, you know what Overcooked is; if not, go away and do your homework, or experience a more modern approach with this Moving Out review (a similar style). Now that you’re up-to-speed, Cannibal Cuisine (I keep typing ‘Corpse’ – metal fans will get it) is like Overcooked, only you appease the gods with human flesh.
When peeking at the write-up for the news piece, I got the impression that it would be a fast-paced game, but easy to pick up.
My instincts continue to let me down with gaming as Cannibal Cuisine is harder than the cheese metaphor that my primary school Head Master gave when he said I couldn’t restart my art project for the 8th time.
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It’s pretty hard and fast-paced, would be one way of describing it, but I’d say it’s more frantic than anything. Any decent party game needs a character selection screen with a flood of options which you’ll mostly never use and go for the vanilla-looking bod, but pleased to see that Rocket Vulture included so much choice.
Other than a funky hat, you can change the colour of your cannibal, select a variety of weapons (cosmetic only but wicked to hit a pleb with a frying pan) and select your skill. When you start the campaign mode, however, you can choose from dash (allowing you to cross gaps), stomp (to stagger enemies), totem (for healing cannibals) and fire breath to speed up the cooking process.
Cannibal Cuisine can be played solo, but there’s room for three other players, both locally and online. As nobody else had a copy at the time of reviewing, I played locally with two different players, and though it was chaotic, it was significantly better.
Cannibal Corpse
The point of the game is to prepare dishes for the Hoochooboo deities that have arisen on your island and crave a human sacrifice. To do this, you have to slaughter unwitting tourists, combine them with an ingredient, cook it up and then serve it to the Hoochooboo.
With this taken into account, the next challenge is navigating the dangerous terrains of trampolines, one-way systems, angry deities and tourist mobs seemingly out to get you.
Cannibal Cuisine is much better on co-op – like Couch Monsters – watching other players worse than me getting frustrated as they attempted to cross a moat, only falling in once more. That took the edge off the game’s overall difficulty, as it’s on the challenging side – borderline irritating.
Cannibal Cuisine Review Summary
If you’re looking for an Overcooked alternative at a lower price, with a bit more guts, then give Cannibal Cuisine a chance, but bring some friends to play. And if it doesn’t work out for you, you could always eat them.
