Simple fun that lacks substance
posted by LuciferH (ALBUQUERQUE, NM) May 30, 2007
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The game is definitely fun. But only for about the first 5-10 minutes. After that it's a "do the exact same tasks but in a different order with different animations on the screen"
It's kind of mindless, but for some reason I find some of the tasks to be so much fun I want to do them over and over, which is good because I HAVE to do them over and over. These tasks include chopping, grating, baking, pouring molds. But most of the tasks I hate and don't want to be done, like cracking eggs (which is really hard for some reason) stewing, removing yolk (which I SOMEHOW messed up by tossing said yolk across the room) and pan frying (which lacks instruction)
On the topic of lacking instruction, the game has a lot of that. Before each cooking task is a paragraph of instruction that sometimes fails hard. example: fill cup with water. "move the wii mote up to turn on the water, wait until it's at level, move the wii mote down to turn water off." I say "okay I can do that. wii mote up. huh? the water's not starting? kinda jiggle wii mote. ...What? I failed? how?" things burn because they don't tell you what needs the least amount of time to cook, sometimes the wii mote doesn't catch your pounding moves, you can fail at any time for any slip up, etc.
Overall, I'm SO glad I just rented it. Totally not worth my money, and barely worth my time.
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