I actually found it lots of fun, but I progressed too quickly. Ok, so I decided to try it on Easy and things were a little more forgiving. I first tried the game on Medium and got so frazzled, I shut it down on my first burger level. There are three difficulty settings: Kiddie Size (Easy), Regular (Medium) and Jumbo Sized (Hard). But it can come back to bite you because if you have nowhere to drop that patty or fry order, it will burn and you'll have to throw it away, resulting in a monetary loss. Same with the fries - you can get a little ahead of yourself that way. If you stick to beef burgers (as opposed to also throwing veggie burgers into the mix), then its easier because you can always have an extra patty on the grill for that next order. If you want a really frenetic experience, buy all the recipes you can and stress out. The more you can make, the more varied the orders that will roll in, and the more money you will make.Īt first, I was buying all the recipes I could, but then I found that you could still make plenty of money with just a few recipes and not lose your mind trying to memorize them all, so I played it more low-key. As you make more and more money and progress through levels of the game, of which there are 60, more recipes become available for purchase and these up the difficulty because they have more varied ingredients. Soon, through some strange twist of events, you meet a local tiki god and he is so impressed with your cooking prowess that he offers you additional recipes for purchase. You begin with 3 recipes: the basic hamburger, ketchup fries and a vanilla shake. So the place is a little run-down and lacks a bustling tourist trade, but you can bring it back to the height of its glory and that's your goal. At the end of the day, they are so pleased with your performance that they give you the business! If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. You snag a job helping an elderly couple run their beach burger shack. You are Patty Melton, a lovely young girl shipwrecked on the island of Tikikola. So the story goes a little something like this.
Oh and then there's the tiki god who mumbles happily and incoherently when a new recipe becomes available, but more on that later. He pops his head in to wrap up the orders and process them on, so you'll see his face a good bit. He will berate you when you screw up and praise you when you excel. He is completely annoying and also really funny, as he mumbles in French. He begins the game with a tutorial, teaching you the ways of the grill and beyond.
Pretty much the only voiceover is Pierre, your guide. Sound effects include timers going off, meat sizzling deliciously, fries frying and shakes being blended, along with delightful music tinkling and ambient customer noises dotting the background. Your customers are varied and entertaining in appearance and your main character is absolutely kewpie doll adorable. Although the concepts are somewhat similar, Burger Island is a game all its own.Īs far as locales, you'll be spending your time looking at either a grill, a fryer or a counter, so you probably won't have too much time to see the various customers munching on their chow and filtering in and out. When I first opened up Burger Island, I was expecting something of a Cake Mania clone.