When comparing The World Ends with You: Final Remix vs Overcooked 2, the Slant community recommends Overcooked 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best games for the Nintendo Switch?” Overcooked 2 is ranked 36th while The World Ends with You: Final Remix is ranked 97th. The most important reason people chose Overcooked 2 is:
Whether you played the first Overcooked or not, Overcooked 2 is easy to figure out right from the get-go. The recipes for each dish are familiar even if you're not much of a chef, so you can remember which raw ingredients you need as you make your way around the kitchen and work with your co-op partner(s). Once you play a few rounds, you should have a good handle on things, helping you focus on getting everything done as quickly as possible from there on out.
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Pros
Pro Satisfying yet challenging combat
The combat in the game feels awesome, especially with the touch controls. Controlling two characters, fighting bosses, choosing buffs and thriving for special attacks challenges you, keeping both your fingers and eyes busy.
Throughout the narrative, you fight with a partner by your side. You tap on enemies to make your partner attack and then try to combine it with your own character's attacks. This fills up your "Sync Gauge" bar and lets you engage in a special attack. Your special attack is a minigame, where you match cards together in order to increase the damage of the upcoming attack.
Putting out a lot of damage is crucial in boss fights. These fights are very doable, but they involve some strategy and will leave you scratching your head at times.
The combat in this game makes you think on your feet and juggle around with attacks at all times, but still leave you with a satisfying feel.
Pro Enjoyable art style and overall great visuals
The game has a bold and distinct art style with vibrant colors and black inky borders around characters and enemies. Compared to the original game, released more than a decade ago, playing the new release in much sharper HD quality definitely adds to the experience.
Pro Deep gameplay
The World Ends With You: Final Remix has great depth to the game-play. The amount of options and the length of the game definitely show that this game was developed with core gamers in mind.
Pro Steady progression
There is a fair learning curve to the game that allows players to steadily learn while they progress.
Pro Simple to pick up and learn
Whether you played the first Overcooked or not, Overcooked 2 is easy to figure out right from the get-go. The recipes for each dish are familiar even if you're not much of a chef, so you can remember which raw ingredients you need as you make your way around the kitchen and work with your co-op partner(s). Once you play a few rounds, you should have a good handle on things, helping you focus on getting everything done as quickly as possible from there on out.
Pro Hilariously fun couch and online co-op for up to four players
Playing Overcooked 2 with friends is the best. There's so much going on at once in the kitchen, with barriers moving in your way, hazards popping up like cars in the middle of the road separating the two halves of your area, and ingredients, dishes, and half-prepared dishes to move from one place to another. Working together and communicating with your friends through couch co-op or online play is a constant stream of laughter and excited shouting as you mess up, learn, and hopefully get things done. If you don't have anyone to play with, then you can hop online for matchmaking instead.
Pro Fast and frantic cooking action
Overcooked 2 is really fast-paced and keeps you on your toes. You play as a chef in a crazy kitchen with a ton of things going on all at once, with you mixing, preparing, and cooking in between the chaos of moving platforms and environmental obstacles. There's a time limit constantly ticking down at the bottom of the screen; finishing your tasks on time or ahead of schedule earns you a better score in the end. Tossing ingredients to your teammates across the kitchen, or across the moving platforms or obstacles like bodies of water, is a fresh new addition in this game that wasn't in the first Overcooked, making things even faster this time around. It's such a manic yet well-done mix of many different genres and ideas that all come together in the best ways.
Cons
Con Not great in dock mode
It's difficult to play the game in docked mode.
The touch controls for slashing and drawing patterns on the screen in portable mode work well and feel right. Using the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller for moving and executing skills is a straight-up mess. It's inaccurate and you have to recenter the screen all the time.
Using the touch controls is very much recommended. Swiping and slashing is not only more accurate, but also feels more satisfying.
Con Expensive
The World Ends with You: Final Remix is a port for Nintendo Switch. $49.99 feels a bit expensive for an enhanced port that is not that different from the original game.
Con Can be incredibly frustrating
Trying to work at such a fast pace with so many obstacles and general mayhem going on at once can wear on you after a while. There's a lot to keep track of at once, and it's easy for things to spiral out of control as your mistakes pile up. If your group isn't doing well and you're running out of time, you might find yourself losing your patience with your team and yelling at them. This might not be the game for you if you don't have a team that's willing to be patient and cooperative with each other, even when you're not doing so well during a particular round.
Con Single-player isn't as fun as co-op
If you only want to play alone, then Overcooked 2 might not be the best game to pick. All the fast-paced fun from co-op mostly comes from communicating with your team and trying to pull off your task together before the time runs out. You control two characters at once while playing alone, but this still lacks the team-based chaos that makes the game so addicting. You could instead go online for matchmaking, though you might get paired with people who don't want to talk or work as an actual team.
Con The controls are a bit sluggish
There's something about the controls that feels heavy and deliberate, and not necessarily in a good way. The feeling goes against the fast-paced nature of the gameplay that demands you in one place and then the next. If you played the first Overcooked, you may notice the difference right away. This change shouldn't be too much of a hassle, though it's still noticeable.