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A "World Kitchen" fit for a select few
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Jan 15, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
8 out of 8 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Cooking Mama's one of the first "cooking" games to hit the market, and the premise is simple; use the controls to slice, bake, roll, flatten and do other tasks to make dishes.
In single player mode, you pick a recipe from a list given. From there, you perform the steps needed to make the dish.
Each step is a minigame where you slice, bake, flatten, or do some other culinary task by using simple motions of the Wiimote. Do it well, and Mama will be happy.
Do it badly and her eyes will light up with the flames of anger.
At the end of each dish, you get a score from 1 to 100, and unlock a new dish for you to make sometime in the future.
With about 300 dishes to play with, content is no problem with Cooking Mama: World Kitchen. There's always another dish to be discovered.
There's also co-op play where you make dishes with one friend, or you play a co-op minigame with one friend.
But the gameplay can get stale faster than day old bread. All you do here is make dishes and more dishes and even more dishes. It gets very repetitive.
The question is: Do you love cooking games? If you do, then rent it and give it a try. If not, then stay away from Cooking Mama: World Kitchen.
In single player mode, you pick a recipe from a list given. From there, you perform the steps needed to make the dish.
Each step is a minigame where you slice, bake, flatten, or do some other culinary task by using simple motions of the Wiimote. Do it well, and Mama will be happy.
Do it badly and her eyes will light up with the flames of anger.
At the end of each dish, you get a score from 1 to 100, and unlock a new dish for you to make sometime in the future.
With about 300 dishes to play with, content is no problem with Cooking Mama: World Kitchen. There's always another dish to be discovered.
There's also co-op play where you make dishes with one friend, or you play a co-op minigame with one friend.
But the gameplay can get stale faster than day old bread. All you do here is make dishes and more dishes and even more dishes. It gets very repetitive.
The question is: Do you love cooking games? If you do, then rent it and give it a try. If not, then stay away from Cooking Mama: World Kitchen.