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Cooking Mama DS
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67 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critics What's this?

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7.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Summary: Learn how to cook with your Nintendo DS! As a budding chef you must first prepare foods then combine raw ingredients together as you cook them on the stove. Follow real recipes or experiment with your own combinations to create a culinary masterpiece with your stylus. Create 76 different, real world dishes from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls. By mastering the first 15 recipes you can unlock 61 increasingly complex bonus recipes to expand your skills in the kitchen. The stylus is your master kitchen tool. Use it in more than 200 mini-games to chop, slice, pan fry, knead, grate, mash, tenderize, mix, peel, carve, roll and more. Once your dish is ready, you can even use the stylus to prepare the final layout of your meal. Cool food down by blowing into the Nintendo DS microphone. Combine recipes to create more advanced dishes. Share recipes with up to 4 other people or transfer a saved game to a friend via the DS wireless link. Earn bronze, silver and gold medals based on the quality of your cooking. Practice mode lets you finetune your cooking skills without being judged. [Majesco]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 35
  3. Negative: 2 out of 35
  1. AtomicGamer
    90
    Overall, Cooking Mama is an oddly entertaining game.
  2. IGN
    70
    Cooking Mama does what it sets out to do very well, even if its concept will never be a true gaming classic. It's a really good niche-filler that utilizes the DS well.
  3. NTSC-uk
    40
    Although there are a few clever mini-game ideas worth seeing, overall it will not hold your interest for long, which is disappointing since the whole concept of using the DS touch screen to control your way around the kitchen seems so natural. [JPN Import]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. ChrisW.
    9
    I consider this game to be a must own next to any warioware or brain age game. For only $20, this title gives you hours of minigame psuedo-cooking fun. Some recipes are simple enough that you could make them in the real world if you were so inclined. I really enjoyed this title, one of my best DS purchases yet. Very fun!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. JennB.
    8
    This goes well with those who enjoy mini games. Being obsessed with simulators, I was instantly addicted. For only $20, its worth picking up.
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  3. IrishChai
    7
    There have actually been a couple 'cooking' games on the market before but I think they were always limited to obscure Japanese imports that never saw an English or American release. This game does a pretty good job of doing the same thing those did; introducing some fun minigames based entirely around cooking. I don't know exactly what it is that makes these games so addictive, but I can highly recommend giving this series a try when you have a few extra dollars. At it's current price, it's a great deal for some casual fun when you are in the mood for it. I only rated it a 7 because honestly the premise is extremely basic, and it's almost a direct copy of the earlier import cooking games I had played, but it's still a fun experience for the price.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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