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Cooking Mama

Platform - Nintendo DS
ESRB Rating - Rating Pending
Features:
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  • Videogame Handheld Software Nintendo DS Games
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3 Star Rating
Anonymous

Now if only you could eat it...

(Review From Amazon)
General Comments:
Cooking Mama is a well done and unique game to be certain; I've never played a funner cooking game in my life. Unfortunately, that's not saying much. As a starter, let me say I do enjoy cooking in real life when I can. I enjoy cooking or other people or improving on existing dishes. With Cooking Mama though, there is none of this joy that makes cooking enjoyable.

What works for Cooking Mama?
PROS

- High quality graphics and sound; the food browns, the ingredients swish and sizzle, and the effects sparkle.

- Tons of recipes, both Japanese and worldly.

- Many different difficulties of recipes and tasks, with a lot of work being needed to perfect things but not too much.

- The ability to alter recipes and share them.


What doesn't work though?
CONS

- Apart from a separate practice mode, there isn't really much too this game beyond getting medals on all the recipes.

- The large number of recipes repeat a lot the same tasks; stirring in recipe X is the same as stirring in recipe Y. This means that while there are over a hundred recipes, the number of activites you do ends up being a little less than that.

- This is a cooking game; why is that a con? It is a con because a game cannot replicate some of the best parts of cooking. You cannot smell or taste what you cook, and apart from sharing recipes, there is no sharing of your creations.

- The gameplay ends up being too rigid; cooking is more fleixble and artistic then this game lets on, and it can make cooking feel more frustrating than it actually is.
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Cooking Mama is well done, for a cooking game. In the end, that ends up being both its blessing and its curse. If you are looking for a way to practice some cooking basics, get some ideas for recipes, or just a way to kill time on your DS it's hard to go wrong with Cooking Mama. However, if you're looking for variety in minigames, a vehicle to teach you to cook well, or a game with many modes and months of replayability, you'd be better looking elsewhere.


4 Star Rating
Anonymous

Good game for toddler

(Review From Amazon)
General Comments:
My son is 3&half years old, he loves playing with this game. Not a very simple game. You got to unlock more different dishes once you've finish making one dish. It is a bit hard to slice things, but the rest is very smooth. You'll learn how to made each dishes in real life. I think that's the bonus..haha..similar ingridents. Worth playing! Even I enjoy playing this game with my son. How said cooking is just for girls?


3 Star Rating
Anonymous

Fun for a while

(Review From Amazon)
General Comments:
Cooking Mama for the DS is one of those many games that feel right at home on Nintendo's dual screened money making handheld, and it pretty much does it's job providing a brief, but fun, collection of cooking themed scenarios to breeze through. Using the stylus and touch screen to prepare your various dishes for dining pleasure, Cooking Mama will look adorable even to the most jaded of gamers thanks to it's cartoony yet unbelievably charming presentation. There's a nice amount of different combination dishes to cook up, but sadly it won't take you long to march through the game at all. This is simplified even more thanks to the fact that Cooking Mama is about as far as can be from offering any sort of real difficulty whatsoever. Despite all that though, Cooking Mama has a great deal of charm to it that will put a smile on your face no matter what; which in itself is a welcome feature in any game. It's not very deep, if at all, and offers little in terms of replay value, but Cooking Mama is a worthwhile, and affordable, distraction while it lasts. Great for kids if you're a parent looking for a fun and non-violent game that's easy to get into.


5 Star Rating
Anonymous

My daughter loves this game!

(Review From Amazon)
General Comments:
I love the idea of a game system allowing children to learn something, like this one. I bought her Cooking Mama, Sims 2 Pets, Big Brain Academy, and Happy feet. Her favorite game is this one. It has even taught me some techniques for cooking that I never knew before. It's a lot of fun for my 11 year-old daughter.