This could really have been a fun game - Rorys Restaurant tries to marry the concept of Diner Dash-like time management games with the match-3 format, and it does seem good at first... until you start advancing in level.

The purpose of the game is to serve customers what they ask for before they run out of patience. Dishes are prepared by matching the required number of match-3 ingredients. There is a minimum goal to be met every level, and if you fail to meet that goal, you cannot progress further until you do. There are upgrades in the form of recipes and ingredients, which you buy with coins. Nowhere are you told how on earth you earn these coins, and as a result I always found myself short of them. As you progress, more customer types are added, each with different characteristics (e.g. some have less patience, some must be served first, etc).

The biggest problem with Rorys Restaurant is that you are completely at the mercy of the AI and what matches it gives you. There is no "reset" button so you can't reset the board if you can't find any matches, and neither is there a "reshuffle" button. Instead, you just have to hope that as you clear the board by matching stuff, the AI will drop you the food tiles you need. All this while having to make sufficient matches before customers' patience runs out. What a terrible, terrible idea.

Because of this fatal flaw, you will very often find yourself failing to meet the minimum level goal, and struggling to even pass a level, let alone meet the "expert goal".

It's obvious that no one thought this through or tested this game's playability before rolling it out. Unless they find some way to fix this, this game will remain in my trash heap.

[h1]Good concept, but fatally flawed execution[/h1] This could really have been a fun game - Rorys Restaurant tries to marry the concept of Diner Dash-like time management games with the match-3 format, and it does seem good at first... until you start advancing in level. The purpose of the game is to serve customers what they ask for before they run out of patience. Dishes are prepared by matching the required number of match-3 ingredients. There is a minimum goal to be met every level, and if you fail to meet that goal, you cannot progress further until you do. There are upgrades in the form of recipes and ingredients, which you buy with coins. Nowhere are you told how on earth you earn these coins, and as a result I always found myself short of them. As you progress, more customer types are added, each with different characteristics (e.g. some have less patience, some must be served first, etc). The biggest problem with Rorys Restaurant is that you are completely at the mercy of the AI and what matches it gives you. There is no "reset" button so you can't reset the board if you can't find any matches, and neither is there a "reshuffle" button. Instead, you just have to hope that as you clear the board by matching stuff, the AI will drop you the food tiles you need. All this while having to make sufficient matches before customers' patience runs out. [b][i]What a terrible, terrible idea.[/i][/b] Because of this fatal flaw, you will very often find yourself failing to meet the minimum level goal, and struggling to even pass a level, let alone meet the "expert goal". It's obvious that no one thought this through or tested this game's playability before rolling it out. Unless they find some way to fix this, this game will remain in my trash heap.