ONM writes: "Cooking Mama was released three years ago. It offered 96 different recipes and saw you making meals by playing numerous different mini-games. It was fun. Cooking Mama 2 was released 18 months later. It offered 80 different recipes and saw you making meals by playing numerous different mini-games. It was fun too, even though it seemed a bit of a cash-in for being far too similar. Cooking Mama 3 has now been released another 18 months later. It offers 80 different recipes and sees you making meals by playing numerous different mini-games. It's not fun. At least, it's not if you've played the first two games."
"Many video game characters can hand out whippings and look cool doing it. Blowing stuff up, saving worlds, ext. How about the other talents that go unnoticed? You know, cooking." -Play Legit
My personal favourite is the chef from Breath of Fire II who tries to BBQ you.
Not mentioning anybody from the Ar Tonelico games is blasphemy. Only they could come up with "tasty" things like BBQ Soda.
With the launch of Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic later this month, it got us in the GGUK office to thinking about new directions that Mama can take in the future, new games which she could be part of. It all started with some fairly sensible ideas…
CFD!'s Aubrey Klanecky takes a look at Mama's third DS excursion:
"I can’t cook. Period.
"Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but really, I’m terrible at cooking. My ability stops at Hamburger Helper, and even then I have a bad habit of messing that up. So it may come as a surprise that I LOVE Cooking Mama. I borrowed the first game from CFD!’s EIC, Rob Thomas, out of boredom, and fell in love. However, by the second one, I found that the honeymoon was quite over. While I enjoyed playing it, it was the same old thing over and over again. Cutting up vegetables, stirring the pot… there was nothing new! No innovation! So I was wary when I heard that the third installment of the DS series was coming out. How did it fare? Well, you’ll have to click the jump to find out!"
