There’s a good deal of variety in the stylus actions - cracking an egg feels totally different from sifting flour - but since recipes use similar techniques, you’ll become familiar with the basic building blocks over time. There’s also a bit of room for creativity in some dishes the last step in making sushi balls is to choose your favourites and arrange them as you like in a handsome presentation box.
It’s easy to pick up, and it’s also a lot of fun - twirling, sliding, and tapping to cook feels a bit like a more sedately-paced, food-based take on the WarioWare formula, and the stylus control gives a sense of hands-on satisfaction to your homemade creations. The individual tasks in each recipe are simple and straightforward, and while they don’t offer much in the way of challenge they use the 3DS in fun ways that kids will get a kick out of. Whipping up each dish is accomplished via a series of discrete micro-games, which use a combination of stylus, tilt sensor, and microphone inputs to craft a fun, arcade-style cooking experience. Here you’ll find sixty recipes for everything from sweet treats and appetizers to full meals and more, and while the menu tends towards traditional Japanese dishes, there’s a wide range of flavours overall. Stepping into Mama’s kitchen, most players will want to head straight for Let’s Cook, the bread-and-butter of the Cooking Mama experience. A serious lack of challenge means it won’t be for everyone, but kids and foodies with a taste for cute cuisine and simple, stylus-based mini-games will find plenty to like in Mama’s latest culinary adventure. Mama may have branched out since then, but her flagship title’s stayed a steady course of cooking fun across several sequels, including Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit, the newest 3DS release in the series.
Majesco’s Mama is nothing if not prolific with nearly a dozen main titles and spin-offs on DS, 3DS, Wii, and iOS, spanning genres as diverse as gardening, babysitting, and crafting, it’s easy to forget that it all started with a whisk in 2006’s Cooking Mama for the DS.
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