Dread Weight

Oh boy, I really wish I could give a neutral rating for this one, but in the end of the day, this game is a huge step down from its predecessor Cooking Companions. It aims to widen the lore, worldbuilding and gameplay, but manages to make everything worse, somehow. Everything is WAY too convoluted. Character relationships, character backgrounds, hidden paths in the story. Dread Weight seems to be meant to be played with a walkthrough and explanatory text on your second screen. Heart ratings did nothing for me this time around, since I did not care about any of the characters. The inventory holds either irrelevant objects or things that need to be used precisely at the correct time after stumbling through a precise story path. Without prompts. Playing multiple paths in Cooking Companions felt good - you knew where to go another way and the bits of lore you got were pieces of a cool puzzle; in Dread Weight multiple runs feel like busywork. At one point I simply stopped and did not care about lost bits of story.

A great follow-up to Cooking Companions! It wraps up the story very nicely, with enough details to provide enough information to give context, but not to the point where it spoon-feeds you everything. Though I'm not the biggest fan of having to loop through the game several times to complete the character relationships. I'm [b] dreading [/b] the [b] weight [/b] that players will get upon playing this game! Rating: 8/10

It's nice while it's on. Maybe a bit too much of a re-tread of Cooking Companions. I'd give it like a 6/10. I bet it's fun to watch YouTubers play it, too.

Great addition to the series and I enjoyed it. I think it was better than the original.

This game had a more in-depth story than cooking campions and a bit more world building which i always love though I dont really see how this supposed to be a cooking campion sequel seems like a lot of this game can stand on its own but eh still 10/10

It's a really good game. I enjoyed the story, the gameplay is good, and the art is amazing! I would say the story goes by very fast, but that isn't really a problem. Overall great game that I and one of my friends really enjoyed on call. The puzzles are easy if you have the stuff, and it's very replayable.