Game update: 09/10/13

The Halloween fun continues this week.

Notification for latest Halloween 2013 update

The focus is on the graveyard, where the spirits are in full swing. Here's a list of everything new:

Tables:

• Tombstone Table - 80,500 coins

Chairs:

• Tombstone Chair - 1 gem

Wall decorations:

• Ghost Lanterns - 3 gems

Floor decorations:

• Graveyard Divider - 3 gems

Wallpapers:

• Graveyard - 27,900 coins

Counters:

• Tombstone Counter - 44,000 coins

But this is not all. Android users now have access to a Halloween edition of the game, downloadable on the Google Play Store:

Halloween 2013 edition of Restaurant Story for Android

This special version contains everything from last week's big update as well as some of last year's Halloween content, including the Monster Oven and Witch's Stove. The old stuff is not yet available for us iOS players, but I am optimistic that it will be reintroduced for a limited time soon. And there's still no sign a special version for iOS - I doubt we'll get one now.

So, a light update really compared to last week, but I'm still satisfied. It's good to have another theme within Halloween being covered following on from pumpkins and laboratories.

The items all come together well - I've got a few neighbours who will probably be placing some of the Tombstone items in a graveyard area, probably on Astro Turf floor tiles for maximum effect.

However the price of these items does cast a shadow over the cemetery. The Tombstone Table is more expensive than any previous table with the exclusion of last week's Vampire Bat Table. As is often the way, to pair the table and Tombstone Chair will require gems with the chair coming in at one gem each. And the Tombstone Counter is among the more expensive too.

 Halloween 2013

 08/10/13 Recipe report

 02/10/13 Goals
 02/10/13 First update

It's good to get a Halloween divider as I don't think there was one last year, but again the price is a turn off, with the Tombstone Divider costing 3 gems a go. If you want to buy several of these to fence off a section then that will burn a hole in your pocket.

Finally, the Ghost Lanterns don't look remotely scary to me! After a quick search, I discovered that these do exist and are used as a decoration at Halloween - I never knew that! But then I'm not a big celebrator of Halloween.

So the costs attached to most of the new content this week is putting me off, but I'm sure plenty of players will go ahead and spend big to make their restaurants look the part as Halloween edges nearer.

In the mean time, I'll be finishing off the Halloween goals and cooking the many new recipes including another which was released for the Basic Oven today:

New recipe on Basic Oven

Fresh from the garden, the Mud Pudding appears to come with a juicy spider on the side. Very fancy!

As for it's data, well it's a mixed bag. On the upside the 56 XP is among the best for 5 hour dishes, although this is still well down on the Frontier Breakfast's (Cowboy Stove) massive 91 XP. The downside is that the Mud Pudding gives the least portions of any 5 hour recipe, and consequently it's profit is pretty lousy too.

But hey, think of that moist mud sticking in your throat...

To tidy up some other business, the Candy Apples released two weeks ago for the Basic Stove have been moved further down the recipe list, now settling as the second to last dish.

Finally, please note that the Old West goals expire this coming Tuesday. So if you haven't completed them and want to, I say prioritise it over Halloween. Although the spirits may take offence at such action!