Review: Cooking Mama for Nintendo DS

I bought a DS at the beginning of this month. I remember that I bought New Super Mario Bros. and Brain Age the first day I had it, and I'm pretty sure the next game I bought was Cooking Mama. This game is, as I've said in other places, crack in video game form. Seriously. It's really nothing like actual cooking, unless cooking, like most other things, is really cute in Japan. Cooking in Cooking Mama consists of about 20 stylus-based skills, like chopping (tapping the stylus against the screen really fast in a line,) tenderizing (tapping the stylus against the screen really fast around a piece of meat,) cutting (moving the stylus up and down really fast to saw through meat,) and peeling (moving the stylus up and down really fast to peel potatoes or carrots.) It sounds really repetetive, and I guess it is, but it's fun as hell. There are 76 recipes total, most of which have to be unlocked by either finishing a recipe or changing recipes a few steps into them. It's surprisingly easy to get good at, and a lot of the tasks are right-to-left oriented, which is really great for left-handed people like me.

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And yes, it's in English. I just liked this image a lot. Speaking of which, mouse over the images for text. I just learned to do that. Go me.