GameZone writes: "My Healthy Cooking Coach isn't big on entertainment, but it accomplishes what it set out to do. A healthy, personalized cooking coach that feels mostly like a digital recipe-reader won't win any awards, however. Even the most desperate of foodies won't find much here to satisfy their cravings for a high-quality cooking trainer. This is a serviceable cooking aid at best, but it won't make you an accomplished chef simply by using it".
A look at the world's most popular cooking sims. Which ones will actually teach you something about cooking, and make you a better cook? Which ones were designed purely as entertainment? Which are good and which are bad? The article serves as a side-by-side analysis of all the top cooking games to figure out the above.
Although My Healthy Cooking Coach lacks several of the bells and whistles exclusive to Personal Trainer: Cooking, it does boast a nice personalization setup giving you recipes that are geared towards your palette. It also shuns PT:C "Intro to International Cuisine" theme and instead gives you 250 (260 on the DSi) recipes geared for a healthy low calorie lifestyle.
At ten dollars more than PT:C, it's hard to recommend this game over Nintendo's offering, especially as Nintendo offers video footage of proper cooking techniques and better voice recognition software, but MHCC is still as cheap (if not cheaper) than most paperbound cookbooks and makes a great supplement to your virtual cookbook library and takes up less space to boot.
