I’ve had tons of fun playing Overcooked 2 with friends. Overcooked 2 is a coop game that revolves around using simple controls to make recipes in kitchens full of environmental hazards and OSHA violations.
To get a platinum star, you need to get double or triple the score required for 3 stars, which means submitting every order as quickly as possible and taking advantage of every timesave possible.
In some levels, an easy timesave is to throw ingredients across the room and into pans. This is usually a low risk-high reward strategy. It saves lots of time, and if you miss your throw, you can easily go pick up the ingredients off the floor and put it in manually.
However, some levels have big gaps in the floor, or take place in the sky on moving platforms. In one level, the pantry, the cutting board, the dirty dishes, the sink, the pots, and the pans are all separated, requiring you to pilot the platform to each station to get anything done. You can pilot the platform to each station and get 3 stars, but there’s simply no way to get platinum with that strategy. To get platinum, you need to throw ingredients from the pantry into the pots and pans accurately and quickly, without letting anything fall into the chasm beneath.
Throwing ingredients itself is quirky and fun, but not very important. The addition of gaps that thrown ingredients can fall into and the possibility of moving a platform to close the distance provides an exciting choice to make. Platinum stars require players to strategize and reckon with that risk-reward dynamic.
