I think that this game is really interesting - the idea of a more hectic cooking mama game has legs, mixing the likes of fast paced Wario-ware microgames with cooking themes can be very fun. The real issue i have with this game is that there's a lack of instructions - i'd say i'd fix it by either designing it to have more immediate controls or by having more clear instructions for what you have to do, maybe with instructions that only come up at the beginning of the recipe. There's also some problems with player feedback - don't leave the player too in the dark about whether they're doing things right or not. Otherwise, this game is very good, there's a lot of creativity with the theme, and with more elbow grease i could see something like this do fairly well as a full game.
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Thanks! A lot of this was planned but unable to get finished in time. One thing we wanted to do was in the scoreboard give hints about what they did wrong in the cooking process. I think with a couple more days we could have had more of this. Next time we may shorten the game so as to have more of these types of things.