Cooking Mama (DS)

I always seem to enjoy any game that is to do with preparing food and so this was a gift for my DS that I got very excited with. Yet I was highly disappointed with it and got bored of it very quickly, never to be taken out of the box again. The aim of the game is to cook up recipes by slicing, dicing, boiling, frying, chopping etc. For this you get rewarded a bronze, silver or gold award for your skills in the virtual kitchen. There are easy recipes such as an omelette, which then progresses into more difficult things such as Japanese. In total there are 76 recipes to complete and with the easy one not taking much time at all you will whizz your way through ...  Read the complete review

I had no notion about what Cooking Mama really was when I bought the game and simply thought it would be a fun childs game. While this is basically true, this game can be easily enjoyed by absolutely anyone. The basic premise of the game is to cook dishes to perfection. You are rewarded depending on how well you do the dish with medals- Bronze, Silver and then Gold if you cook your meal perfectly. It is an easy enough concept to grasp but getting the Gold is often harder than you think! Before attempting each meal, there is the opportunity to practice it. However, a problem with this is that it still doesn't tell you how to master each technique. A ...  Read the complete review

Introduction: ~~~~~~~~~~ The first time I saw Cooking Mama was at a Restaurant, a small kid behind us was playing this game and I couldnt stop staring over my shoulder to get the name of this game. It looked so simple and so fun! I knew this game was about cooking and after I searched on Google I found the name and immediately went out and brought it. Gameplay: ~~~~~~~~ I have to say the gameplay for Cooking Mama is so simple but takes alot of practice and skill to achieve the higher rankings. Cooking Mama will instruct you on what you have to do, and you can practice the methods before making the dish. Like ...  Read the complete review

Cooking Mama... in some ways, this game should be legendary. The very notion of designing and producing a big-budget video game based on cooking was, before Cooking Mama, unheard of. And to top this off, this game was also reasonably successful and was critically well received! If you've never played any incarnation of Cooking Mama (there is also a Wii version that I have yet to experience), the novelty value of this game is tremendous. For the first 20 minutes, I was captivated and genuinely amazed at how well the concept worked and how much fun I was having. The game is split into 76 different dishes that you can make. Each of these dishes is ...  Read the complete review

I purchased Cooking Mama when it was released around Christmas time in 2006. It was not a game that I had asked for Christmas and while shopping it caught eye with its brightly designed and cartoon graphics on the front cover. I quickly picked up a copy and purchased it with delight. Cooking Mama is a cooking themed game that offers the player a chance to make 76 different recipes with an anime chef called cooking mama - Once you have made your recipes Cooking Mama will always rate how well you have done in creating different parts of the dish and how well you bring it all together. You go through the game doing different techniques such as ...  Read the complete review