Game #1070: BurgerTime Party!

 Also featuring hot dogs.

 Doesn't matter how you slice it, BurgerTime is an all time classic, so it was bound to get a remake of sorts, enter BurgerTime Party! This is a multiplayer-themed revival of the arcade classic but re-envisioned with an art direction reminiscent of Cuphead, and it kinda works.

 Not much has changed, so the game is little more than pure Arcade action. There's no plot, no complicated game mechanics, nothing of the sort, just you, maybe another players, and killer sausages, eggs and donuts ready to put your 2-D cooking career to a stop. You, as Peter Pepper, are only armed with a limited-use pepper spray that can stun enemies, and must step over every piece of a burger (Buns, meat, lettuce, tomato) to make it fall down. floor by floor, to the bottom floor. Once every bit of every burger on the screen makes it to the bottom you win the stage. Every stage is a single-screen affair, filled with various floors and ladders to take you everywhere you need to, as well as various baddies that will chase you. There are a few mechanics that will make your job easier and earn you extra points, for instance, if you drop a piece of the burger directly on top of another, this other piece will also drop down a level, thus, possibly, setting of a chain reaction. If you drop a piece of burger with at least an enemy on top of it, it will drop more than just a single floor. Using both mechanics together will net you tons of points and make your job easier.

 The game offers a surprising amount of very brief stages divided into four modes: Solo, which has stages that feel a bit more like puzzles, in which you need to reach a certain point threshold to unlock every set of stages. Main Burger, that can be played with other players and has stages that are a bit more straight-forward, less thinking of how best to score points, Competitive, which has you competing against other players and Challenge Mode that features even more stages divided into difficulties.

  To spice things up this game introduced a few new elements. First of all, there are long hotdogs every now and then instead of burgers. The new enemy type, the donut, can charge towards you which can throw you off at first. Various new floor types, such as slippery ice, heat that can kill you and floors and ladders that crumble after a while. In multiplayer you can revive other players and your pepper reserves slowly recharge over time. It's enough to keep things interesting without changing things too much.

 Well, it's nothing to write home about, but it's a decent multiplayer game and not a bad take on BurgerTime. It's not a very involved game, or the one with the most depth, but if you're into Arcade-style games it might be up your alley. 

 6.0