CSD 3 was a great experience to play fully co-op with my friend through steam remote play. He played controller running the holding stations and I played keyboard doing the left side orders. It was interesting to see points of difference on which foods were harder/easier to prepare for each of us and to work together when things went off the rails to try to save each other.

My biggest complaint would probably be that I just think it's unnecessarily long- especially if you played any of the previous entries because many keybinds and cooking processes are the same. It felt like it could have had about 70-100 ish of the 387 lvls cut and still gave us the same great experience IMO.

The other strange thing is that balance gets really lopsided especially when it comes to holding stations- late game we found HS rank 5 foods that were autoserve (sushi and tamales) easier than a 1 star that you have to serve. This kind of led to us always running autoserve foods since they ended up making levels flow better which limited variety. Just to give you an idea of how limiting I'm talking: on some maps, having all autoserve versus all non-autoserve could be 5x more time spent in the level (and tons more chances to mess up). I think they should have encouraged the HS foods that require further interaction give you more points or maybe less orders.

All in all I'm looking ahead at CSD forever and it doesn't really pique my interest so I think this is the end of the line for me :) Great trilogy and much love to the devs!