That's right, with the recent popularity of "The Legend of Shawarma", this joke that once came to my mind because my friends liked to play cooking games.

On station B, in the video that pops up by searching for "The Legend of Shawarma", there is a "Legend of Shawarma" with more than one million views, a high-difficulty live situation, a smooth operation, as high as a terrible APM, and at the same time, it also has extremely high requirements for the order and accuracy of the operation, although in the eyes of the public, cooking games are all "casual games", but the requirements for brain power and hand speed of cooking games are actually not "casual" at all.

Cook? Alternative audio games!

Well, although it is a bit inappropriate to say this, after watching the extreme operation of several bloggers who play cooking games, I have a sense of awe for players who play cooking games to the extreme, like watching music game bosses. The combination of different ingredients, the arrangement of the cooking sequence, the coordinated operation of the left and right hands, and the arrangement of the order of packaging and serving, there is indeed the taste of playing music games "reading music", and even the situation of being so busy that the knots of the hands are perfectly reproduced, and it is also very important to pay attention to the coordination of a hand and brain, but the most important music and rhythm content of the music game is missing. But in terms of hand speed and coordination, the current cooking mini-games are indeed testing the limits of human beings more and more, just like audio games.

From "Downstairs Breakfast Shop" to "Chef the Airplane" to "The Legend of Shawarma", I was amazed by the hand speed and CPU computing power of each proficient player. First of all, in the breakfast shop, you have to eat xiaolongbao and egg baked cakes, and the rice noodles and grilled chicken feet and rice rolls all have to be customer one after another, you have to deal with eight or nine rice pots at the same time, and you have to take time to squeeze different sauces, and you can't make a mistake in serving, when I watch my friends play, she can't wait to grow a pair of hands, and then more brains, she also invited me to pass the test with her, and the two people are responsible for different food partitions, but maybe I'm too stupid to keep up with her rhythm, and in the end I was in a hurry and the result was worse.

In Douyin's "Plane Chef" video, the operation of the high-level players is very smooth, a stylus fingertip rotates, brushes and brushes keep clicking on the screen, various ingredients are classified and combined, the tip of the pen is on the screen, the plate is accurately divided, and then a little stroke, the food is stuffed into the mouths of the passengers on the plane who are waiting to be fed.

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In addition to marveling at the hand speed of the bloggers, you will even feel that their smooth operation is a bit of artistic beauty in it, and therefore the video views of "Plane Chef" on Douyin are extremely high, with 760 million views, videos with more than one million likes, bloggers who have gained hundreds of thousands of fans by "Plane Chef", and viewers who don't play games but love to watch videos......

In "The Legend of Shawarma", it is still the same recipe to open the game interface, operate various pots and pans in the kitchen, combine various ingredients, and meet the needs of guests, which is the same as the cooking games that have been popular in the market, and even the picture is simpler, and the physical type is more single, but the requirements for hand-brain coordination are as high as ever.

It is said that in the later stage, Gao Yu can just look at it, and the fingers can appear inertia to click to complete a set of processes, which looks as efficient and orderly as an automated assembly line.

To be honest, watching Gao play "Plane Chef", I was just as confused as watching the music game boss play the music game

A lifelong lover of food and challenges

For me who simulated food management or cooking games late to the pit, when it comes to the game of "food", the deeper memory is actually the restaurant management game of Cairo game, which is different from the current mainstream cooking game, in the cooking game I used to play, I often emphasize the word "management", purchase materials, arrange menus, entertain guests, and then upgrade the restaurant, expand, attract more guests to unlock more menus...... This is a common arrangement in most food-themed mini-games in the past, and you basically don't need to cook each step yourself, either unlock the automation, or have the chef do it.

Of course, it is not that there is no need to simulate the process of "cooking" step by step of the small game, especially for the Chinese who like to play the family and the real cooking game since childhood, and can pinch out the kitchen utensils with plasticine to make a table of meals, in the early years, the major web game platforms have appeared simple small games focusing on the cooking process, but at that time the cooking game was more simple, and there were few goals and guide the design of mobilization, many times the players themselves made it around, the picture and game feedback were quite simple, and there was a lack of continuous game motivation.

With the advent of the era of touchscreen mobile phones, coupled with the demand of players, and the demand has always been, more and more games focusing on the process of "cooking" continue to appear. Compared with other casual games of the same type, you can find that the popularity rate of this kind of "cooking" food game is extremely high, almost every year can produce a hit, and the popularity lasts for a long time, and more importantly, their players have a high degree of overlap, you can rarely find players who "single-push" a cooking game, and these players are very receptive to new games of the same type and willing to try.

In one of my pads, there are several cooking games such as "Breakfast Shop Downstairs", "Plane Chef", "The Legend of Shawarma", "Little Master of Food", etc., and from time to time I will go to find new cooking games. It's a bit abstract to say that, but in her story, she just has a natural love for mini-games related to "cooking", although the gameplay of these games is similar, although she doesn't know how to cook herself, but she loves to try cooking games, just like watching cooking shows and food videos, but at least she really "does" in the cooking games. In her opinion, cooking games are a love of "food", but also leisure, relaxation and simplicity. But for other players, the love for cooking games starts with "food" and continues with challenges, and the coordination of extreme hand speed and brain power, passing more levels, is the key to making them want to stop this kind of game. In a sense, the levels and challenges of games like Pop are similar, with interesting themes, simple and easy to get started gameplay, strong guided design and challenging levels, so that cooking mini-games can also give players a unique sense of achievement. Even for some players who can't sit still, the performance of a game at the end of the game is a loss of challenge. Like the players who challenge a single player to clear the game in the cooperative game "Messy Kitchen", like the player who repeatedly brushes the level in the difficult level of "Plane Chef" to get better results, like the player who has played the gameplay thoroughly and begins to study how to play with more beautiful movements......

To be honest, according to the level settings of the cooking mini-game that are getting more and more difficult now, and the player's more and more difficult operations, I do think that although there are no competitions, it is like many games speedrun, or difficult challenges, it does have a lot of ornamental and technical power. Although everyone is here for "food" and "leisure", it seems that it is not impossible to have a "cooking simulation" that is "exciting" and "challenging" like "i wantna".

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