Cooking Master tips?

[bkdubs123]

I ADORE the remake. Best game I've played in ages. I plan on platinuming it (ps5 user here, just here for the up to the minute discussion), but getting these Cooking Master challenges is more of a brick wall to me than beating Iseria Queen!

I can barely crack 7k points in a match vs Some Royal Chef, who beats me even then, but most of the time they KO me with huge, sudden spikes to my pressure. Meanwhile, I can't pressure them at all because they literally get a perfect ring of 8 dishes every single time. Going back for rare ingredients when I'm pressured never seems to get me anywhere. And I'm supposed to keep grinding this for another 70k points? And then there's harder cooking challenges??! 😩

Any tips?

[Powersword]

Yeah I don’t understand the thing at all. Needs loads of help too. Hated that game in the original too

[bkdubs123]

I just want a good weapon for Ashton 😭

I don't understand why "Some Royal Chef" is such an absolute monster. On ps1, I remember beating Yarma himself, but it feels like I'll never get past this challenge!

[di eshor ribly]

For best results: Get Cooking up to level 10, craft the Sharp Kitchen Knife, and unlock the Taste talent.

At the start of the cooking show, spam collecting ingredients until you hit 80/80. Cook with random ingredients (time concerns), repeat until you run out of ingredients. If there's a minute or so left go collect 30-40 more ingredients, cook until the last second. I don't worry about pressure, that's a side effect of doing a good job on the timing mini game.

The timing mini game is all up to you, but assuming you don't miss most of the food you should start to average 7-13k points per round. It varies a little bit based on the ingredient, Vegetables seems to be a low point category.

[bkdubs123]

Well my main killer is the pressure though. I'm not great at the timing game, I'll admit, but when the Royal Chef smacks me with half a bar of pressure all at once and I'm focusing on just cooking as fast as I can, I immediately fail the next go hard. So then I try to scramble for more rare ingredients to lower my pressure and I'll get a few or none. She dominates with perfect 8 dishes at a time literally every time 🥺

[Powersword]

The timing expectation thing seems to change a lot based on the ingredients or what you’re trying to make? Sometimes it’s easy to time sometimes it’s super fast

[di eshor ribly]

It's pretty much all in the timing, once you get that down you'll conquer Cooking Master. It's really a matter of bulk cooking. Whoever turns in more, wins.

Some other things to keep in mind: if you get all of your timings as 'perfect' or 'good' (aka, don't miss any) you get double points for that set.

If you start getting pressure the timing gauge will speed up, it's something to pay attention to.

Turning in food lowers your pressure, and adds some to your opponent. Some rare ingredients though don't seem to change pressure, instead it's just worth a ton of points. I don't focus (or even pay attention to) rare ingredients. I'm more worried about getting the next batch of food on to the table.

In my case, it is quite literally "spam grab ingredients, then spam cook, as fast as possible". It seems to do the trick, I've beaten Yarma (with the whole team nonetheless, just to hear their Chef titles). It amuses me that Noel is basically the only one who likes his nickname.

[Powersword]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

It's pretty much all in the timing, once you get that down you'll conquer Cooking Master. It's really a matter of bulk cooking. Whoever turns in more, wins.

Some other things to keep in mind: if you get all of your timings as 'perfect' or 'good' (aka, don't miss any) you get double points for that set.

If you start getting pressure the timing gauge will speed up, it's something to pay attention to.

Turning in food lowers your pressure, and adds some to your opponent. Some rare ingredients though don't seem to change pressure, instead it's just worth a ton of points. I don't focus (or even pay attention to) rare ingredients. I'm more worried about getting the next batch of food on to the table.

In my case, it is quite literally "spam grab ingredients, then spam cook, as fast as possible". It seems to do the trick, I've beaten Yarma (with the whole team nonetheless, just to hear their Chef titles). It amuses me that Noel is basically the only one who likes his nickname.

Cheers I’ll try that . I love that fact précis is the only one who calls them out for eating raw living slimes. Something like ‘what’s wrong with you people?’

[di eshor ribly]

All the Expellians act like they've been insulted, yeah lol.

The Humans/Tetragenes/Nedians are just awkwardly like "yeah, cool story bro".

[bkdubs123]

So random ingredients, try to nail all 8 with no pressure. I'll do my best! 🫡

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by bkdubs123:

So random ingredients, try to nail all 8 with no pressure. I'll do my best! 🫡

You can get 10 per set. It depends how many of each ingredient you get, and what you have left. Sometimes you'll only get 1-2 in a set. Best of luck to you! Yarma's tougher than the Royal Chef.

[Almighty Boof]

I agree that it is mainly about getting the timing down. It will definitely come with practice.

One tip I saw somewhere is to not cook stacks that have less than 10 in them and once you get to a point where none of your stacks have 10, go back and fill all the way back up with ingredients. Be sure to check the clock though, you may not have time to grab all 80/80 and cook enough food to come out on top.

To beat Yarma, you pretty much have to get a perfect on each round of cooking. There is randomness to this, since the ingredients you get are random and so is the "theme," which some are easier than others.

The good thing about Ashton's weapon is that the points you get are cumulative, so even if you lose, you have still gained all those points (so the 7k you gained are still there). The bad thing about Ashton's weapon is that it is arguably the weakest of the ultimates.

[Cipher]

As someone who's beat Yarma, my biggest tip is to turn off the BGM before you do the minigame. And also to realize that this minigame isn't a cooking minigame at all but rather a rhythm game. But the stupid BGM makes it hard to concentrate on getting the rhythm down correctly. Also, maxing out the Courage skill will help with dealing with pressure from opposing chefs. Also, as far as weapons go, IMO, Mephistofar and Gemini are superior weapons to the weapon you get from this for Ashton. And the Holy Sword Farewell and Levantine blow it out of the water.

[Desire]

It was a very smooth run for me, basically just putting someone with Taste talent, LV10 cooking, and own Keen Kitchen Knife. Rena is definitely the easiest pick because she comes with the talent and base cooking. Keen Kitchen Knife can be crafted, much easier if you have Opera.

I got Ashton's wep as soon as I beat Yarma (probs the 100k is accumulated score). But yeah as some people said, Ashton's UW isn't the best because it has fire element by default, which can be a problem if what you're facing absorbs fire. He's off better with Farwell/Levantine as per usual