``Most negative reviews for the game say that it's too easy.... and now the complaint is that it's too hard. You just can't please people.``
Well they will alway have complaint but you say that like it was the same people that say otherwise. People who think the game is to easy are happy with this update. Thing is you dont have to do 4 stars the game was without 4 stars and its give a repleyability with a harder chalenge for those who really want to push it to ther max to see what they can do and be proud. But the noob prefer to prevent you from enjoying it because they want 4 stars to. But then the pro will say its to easy. We can add a 5 star with the actual score of the 4th and 4th a bit lower
but even with that they will cry they cant do the 5 its to hard. The noob must understand that this chalenge are for those who want it and this is after u completed the game. U dont need that for extra level or important thing.

And btw its only stars like if u was a dam kids a school in 1-2 primary and was like omg i got 3 stars on my papper from the teacher im so happy. You know what score you have done and u should be happy beating it there no obligation to get the stars visual thing to be happy of your performance. Even if the 4th stars is an atestation of your skills. Its would not mean much and would not worth it if it was not hard enought. Look at all the speedrunner fighting each other and working so hard just to win phew seconds on there time.

Finally succeeded in getting 4-star scores solo on all maps.

It's incredibly punishing, and I'd have to say that on a couple of maps, they're borderline not-fun at all. The ones that does come to mind as being extremely annoying to do, however, are 2-3 (cannot miss a single cycle of plate switches) and Kevin 3 (that garbage hole in the top can actually eat plates and mixing bowls!).

Other than those, the sense of achievement in pulling off something that you think is impossible at first is incredible. Sure, some of them I ended up abusing the clock lock at the start (2-6 comes to mind), but for most part they do encourage (and require) you to use precision and a LOT of throwing to do. I found that if I weren't using a keyboard for entry, it would be next to impossible to achieve the level of throwing precision needed to get those ingredients to the right places.

Endless mode when?

My saved game appears to have been wiped out... Did something happen, or is the problem on my end?

The 4 stars is too hard for co-op with our children.

My co-op partner and I managed to 4-star everything. It was frustrating and anger inducing on some levels but getting that 4th start always made it worth it. Anyone else who has done the same found what the "treats" are? We searched the map and character select for anything new and didn't see anything.

Dan then dont play 4 stars with your children. The base game was WWWAAAAAAYYYY to easy. Much easier than overcooked 1 was. It's way to easy to get max stars and the star requirement to go to the next level is pointless, you could probably get 1 star or even less on some levels to go through the whole game