{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-13T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-08-13T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T21:48:10","slug":"order-up-for-wii-uh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"“Order Up!” for Wii: uh-oh."},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it plagiarism when the original concept isn’t all that…erm…original to begin with?
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\nI was pretty surprised to hear about the new Wii game, called “Order Up!” as it is very similar to Ore no Ryomi 2. Let’s list a few details:
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\n-You start off as a cook taking orders at a restaurant, using different recipes.
\n-You have up to four tickets at a time waiting for you, and you have different ratings based on how you cook the food (good, bad, perfect, etc.)
\n-You must wash dishes and other minigames to keep the health inspector happy
\n-The ultimate goal is to appear on a cooking TV show and showcase your talents
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\nThankfully, that’s where the similarities end. There’s lots of interesting features to Order Up! that it’s not really a rip-off of ONR2 (which itself was a rip-off of Ore no Ryouri for the PS1) but more of a slower paced restaurant sim. It’s an interesting game, and it just shows how cooking games in general are taking off (Iron Chef America and Hell’s Kitchen and Cooking Mama are some other cooking sims headed to Wii). Take a look:
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\nIf anything, it just proves how ripe the cooking\/restaurant genre really is. There’s so much untapped potential here, and even with this game released I feel there’s still more gold to mine from it. Still, it’s interesting to see a new take on what was a non-existent genre just a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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