playingstory | Some Like It Hot: Chapter 0

Name: Some Like It Hot
Status: Incomplete?
Site: https://augmentedex.itch.io/some-like-it-hot
Pairing: Gen
Description: A coffee making simulator with some text overlay

This game is a bit of a weird one. I honestly don't know if it's complete or not. The full title is Some Like it Hot: Chapter 0, suggesting that there is supposed to be more, but the story part of this game doesn't set up anything resembling a plot. The game as it is looks to be divided into two sections: A choiceless little story about the PC working their last day at a cafe before going to college, and a "Rush" mode that is just serving up orders within a time limit. The more arcade like bits are essentially the same thing as all the food service games that came before this. You move the right stuff in the right places and then serve up the order. I need to be in a very particular type of mood to enjoy those sorts of games, because otherwise they feel like "soulsucking grind sims" so I wasn't going to spend much time in the Rush mode, making fake lattes over and over. And the story is again kind of non existent. You chat with your boss and two customers about superficial small talk like things, and then the game is over.

Ultimately I'd call this game a nothingburger. My understanding is that there are a couple games like VA-11 Hall-A and Coffee Talk that basically have the exact same premise but maybe saw their projects through to real completion, so even without having played them I'd probably suggest them over this.