Plates! is a simple yet fun game of reflexes; squirt the right sauce onto the plates of food in order to make them more appetising for the customers, who are presumably waiting at the end of the conveyor belts. Some plates require only one sauce, some two sauces; but make no mistake, a sauce-less plate will cost you one of your five lives!

You’ll be squirting ketchup on hot dogs, salad oil for salad, steak sauce for steaks and blueberry syrup for pancakes. Watch out though, because not all food is what it seems; hit a hot dog with a dynamite stick in it and the game is over immediately. And that’s it; no additional modes or gameplay more complicated than what you can see in this promotional video:

The game is obviously another nice little entry into the casual game space but it lacks the features of its competition. No online scoring; no achievements; no music playback; no saving your game for later. The addition of a service like OpenFeint would have made the game far more compelling to play through.

Certainly, Plates! has had lot of attention paid to its presentation and its production values are top notch; but without a real incentive to play again it’s left in the dust of games like Fruit Ninja or Doodle Jump; games that are as cheap as this one is but ones that have got value for money, and all of the online goodies that we’ve come to expect from the casual space in the App Store.

Update: Plates does come with online scoring via OpenFeint. We regret the error.

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