Future cooks will have a blast with Majesco Games and Taito’s COOKING MAMA for the Nintendo DS. A collection of cooking mini-games, COOKING MAMA is amusing and incredibly cute, and it includes a ton of different foods and challenges. COOKING MAMA is made up of several dozen cooking mini-games, and the goal of each mini-game is to gain a new recipe. Each generally involves cooking a dish or specific type of food, and the game includes 76 different dishes ranging from spaghetti to rice to kebabs and more. Making the dishes involves everything from cutting vegetables to measuring ingredients to actually mixing it all together and then making sure nothing burns. COOKING MAMA completely relies on the DS stylus to do everything, and the controls are very well done, so gamers won’t find themselves frustrated. Once players complete a recipe, they can go back and cook it again to get a higher score. The graphics of COOKING MAMA are very bright and cute and definitely anime-inspired. The sounds and music, also, are bright and cheery, creating a very charming atmosphere. While it may not include fast-paced combat or edge of your seat driving, COOKING MAMA is fully of challenging mini-games that will have any chef sweating it out til the last minute.
