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Cooking Mama on DS (2006)

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Average rating: 59%
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3 stars out of 5
from 335 members
 
Certificate: Certificate: 3
User collections: My Nintendo DS Collection (past & present), My Favourtie DS Games
Developers: TAITO
Format: DS
Number of players: 1
Released: 07/07/2007
Also Available on:  Also Available on: WII

Brief synopsis of Cooking Mama

Under the titular character's tuition and advice, Cooking Mama invites players to make use of the full functionality of the Nintendo DS in order to prepare 70+ different dishes. The game's menu includes easy-to-prepare snacks like fried eggs, to full cordon bleu-style masterpieces.

Dishes are created by using the DS stylus as your all-in-one multipurpose kitchen tool. Players can chop, slice, fry, knead, grate, mash, tenderise, mix, peel, carve, roll and much more besides. Once the dish is ready, the stylus can be used to add finishing touches to the presentation at table before the dish is greedily consumed by Mama's demanding customers. In a genius piece of programming, actually blowing on the DS microphone slot will cool a hot dish down.

Cooking Mama's ingredients (we hesitate to use the word 'features') include a variety of gameplay modes, including over 200 mini-games and a practice mode where you decide what to cook, how long to cook it for, and how to present it. Mama is always on hand to offer a word or two of advice if you overcook the omelettes or sizzle the sausages a soupcon too much. The central game in Cooking Mama invites players to earn awards for their culinary skills, and recipes can be traded with up to four other wannabe cooks via Wi-Fi link-up.

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Rated - 2 starsboring

A customer from Folkestone , 05/12/2008

If there was a point to this game I missed it.

You cook dishes and then get more dishes to cook.

You are awarded gold, silver or bronze depending how well you cook.

So what???

After a very short time it becomes very repetative and very boring.

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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Rated - 2 starsok

A customer from Portsmouth , 18/08/2008

this game was ok not great but ok

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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Rated - 3 starsGood Fun, but get's a little 'samey'.

JustAFanTC from Leeds [Highly rated reviewer] , 24/02/2009

There is no doubt that this game does what the Nintendo does best and utilises it's use of the stylus, microphone, combined with fast paced gaming. The only trouble is if you want a little bit more from the game, you get quite bored quite quickly.

During the whole game you can cook items from a set menu. This involves quite a few stages in which you chop, dice, cook and prepare the food, using the stylus and the microphone in many different ways. At the end, depending on the player's performance, they are graded from bronze to gold and awarded new food to prepare.

The game lets you practice each stage of preparation before you take on the actual challenge, but to be honest, that's it. Which is a little dissapointing.

True, it is a little bit more trickier than described but there really is no incentive to keep playing it over again. Maybe if their was a restaurant option, but I'm afraid there isn't.

Give it a try, but just rent it!

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Rated - 2 starsTOO MUCH HYPE

KATTZZY from Doncaster , 13/05/2009

NOT AS GOOD AS IT HAS BEEN MADE OUT TO BE. FOUND IT QUITE BORING AFTER A COUPLE OF GO'S.

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Rated - 3 starsGood Fun, but get's a little 'samey'.

JustAFanTC from Leeds [Highly rated reviewer] , 24/02/2009

There is no doubt that this game does what the Nintendo does best and utilises it's use of the stylus, microphone, combined with fast paced gaming. The only trouble is if you want a little bit more from the game, you get quite bored quite quickly.

During the whole game you can cook items from a set menu. This involves quite a few stages in which you chop, dice, cook and prepare the food, using the stylus and the microphone in many different ways. At the end, depending on the player's performance, they are graded from bronze to gold and awarded new food to prepare.

The game lets you practice each stage of preparation before you take on the actual challenge, but to be honest, that's it. Which is a little dissapointing.

True, it is a little bit more trickier than described but there really is no incentive to keep playing it over again. Maybe if their was a restaurant option, but I'm afraid there isn't.

Give it a try, but just rent it!

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Rated - 2 starsok

A customer from Portsmouth , 18/08/2008

this game was ok not great but ok

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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