Hidden in the depths of a recent PSN sale, I picked up Fit and Fry Organized Grill. I’m a sucker for food-related games, and this puzzle game looked well-themed. The idea is that each level presents you with a weirdly shaped grill and a collection of meat and vegetables to fit onto it. All the food must be placed, and nothing can overlap. Thankfully, you can rotate the food items, but aside from that, it’s up to you to put things together.
The cooking theme is great, although beyond grill and food items, little is done with it. There was scope for me to include items that burn or perish, or maybe even the option to chop an item of food up to add complexity. Hell, you could even have two smaller grills to make a carnivore grill and a vegetarian grill. Instead, Fit and Fry keeps things extremely basic, and it’s the game’s biggest weakness. The grill is almost always wide and open. There are rarely more than 10 objects to organise. The shape of the food objects rarely allows the player to think for more than a few seconds. If you do get stuck, a hint button can be spammed to almost auto-complete the game for you. Over the 30 levels in the game, somehow Fit and Fry Organized Chef manages to squander a great idea and its simple controls by keeping the level design extremely basic. You’ll be able to collect all the achievements in under an hour, and that’s going at a leisurely pace.
Ultimately, for a cheap platinum, Fit and Fry was serviceable but utterly unmemorable. I’d dearly love to see this concept expanded upon with more gameplay mechanics added on, or even different cooking equipment being used. I was disappointed at how little my brain was engaged and by how quickly it was all over.
For collectors and easy achievement hunters only.
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