You *can* use coins to buy these outfits, but it’s often better to use the coins elsewhere. The claw machine is used to unlock new outfits and accessories for the Spongebob and crew. You get tickets from it, which can then be used for on a claw machine. It’s mostly just to check off you doing as much work as possible, but also has a second use. There’s quite the extensive achievement list in Krusty Cook-Off. You perform fast enough to deserve a tip, right? More money means more upgrades! Add things to your restaurant, change the tables, and floor, chairs, etc…Doing this can make your tips better. You can upgrade your ingredients to earn more money per sale. This all might come off as overwhelming? Time to upgrade your kitchen then with money earned from sales and tips! Add more drink dispensers, add more grills, more plates. Maybe multiples of the same, maybe include a drink, maybe add a a side. Like in life, some customers are really hungry, so you’ll have to prepare more food at once. There’s few ingredients to ease you in, more added around the time a new story beat pops up.

The game, and each level starts out simple. Some folk like them plain (me included), some like a bit of everything. Not everyone likes their pancakes or burgers the same way though. A customer asks for something, you prepare it and send it out. Krusty Cook-Off is one of those kitchen simulators you see on mobile platforms. Don’t worry, you’ll cook burgers and much more later on, but for now we have out first level, our tutorial. There’s barely a story in the game, but the general theme seems to be that Mr Krabs comes to the revelation that more money is to be earned in ventures outside of Krabby Patties, so he has Spongebob set up a Pancake stand, and that’s how our story begins. Art is all rather highres, but cutscenes feel cheap with the lack of voice acting and heavy reuse of animations.

In addition to that, there is no voice acting, even small voice bits in cutscenes or gameplay. The game functions just find without it, well even, but it seems like such an odd thing to not include. I do have a few issues with Krusty Cook-Off however, so lets get those out of the way right now. Spongebob: Krusty Cook-Off does it right! And just by removing the stamina system. Not exactly taking advantage of the fact you’re now on a console and that you paid for the game. Unfortunately, games often don’t do this right. In addition, some games really could use the buttons as opposed to just a digital control method. The touch screen makes it a perfect match. I’ve always been in support to porting mobile games to the Nintendo Switch.

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