Cooking Mama

Advantages: Fun & Addictive
Disadvantages: Repetitive For The Older Gamers

...Cooking Mama is a brilliant game for any age, however, it can get repetitive for the older gamers after a while. The game involves you making meals for Mama and she gives you a score out of 100 on how well you did, and depending on your score you can get a bronze, silver or gold medal. When you complete a meal it unlocks others for you to complete, and you can also combine different meals to make a new one. When I started to play this game I could not put it down because its so addictive to play. My favourite part of the game has definately got to be dicing and slicing different foods, however, I find peeling the shell off the boiled eggs really hard to do and still have yet to complete it! I don't know whether thats just me though that finds it so difficult!! Haha. Overall, it is very good value for money and I recommend this...

wondergirlxx 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

cooking mama!!

Advantages: Cooks 120 diffrent recipes.
Disadvantages: there is a timer and you have to do it before the time runs out!

...Cooking mama on ds is kind of easy to play, just follow the rules really. This game has not been out for that long i thought i would buy it cause it looks quite good i always play it so be warned it addictive, u can get this game from any game store and tecso and adsa and stores like that, Gamestation,Eplay and game there really good store you can buy this game from. This game is round about £20-£30 now and is worth the price, the game age around to play it is 3+ it is easy like i have said but some parts are difficult to do. ~How to cook~ theres is many diffrrent ways to cook such as cutting and you have to move the knife one side and it cuts. ~other ways to prepare to cook~ tenderizing= you hate to move it from side to side as quick as you can but the meat is really tough to cut, slicing...

Paigeoleary 11.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

Cooking Mama DS - A Game For Everyone

Advantages: Bright - Vibrant and easy to play
Disadvantages: tedious, very tedious.

...I purchased Cooking Mama when it was released around Christmas time in 2006. It was not a game that I had asked for Christmas and while shopping it caught eye with its brightly designed and cartoon graphics on the front cover. I quickly picked up a copy and purchased it with delight. Cooking Mama is a cooking themed game that offers the player a chance to make 76 different recipes with an anime chef called cooking mama - Once you have made your recipes Cooking Mama will always rate how well you have done in creating different parts of the dish and how well you bring it all together. You go through the game doing different techniques such as pouring, chopping, slicing, frying, boiling, grating all the ingredients and cooking them correctly they give you t up and down. All is clearly shown to you and you can be shown various he...

Gemshaw 26.09.2009 · Read review
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Cooking Mama Review

Advantages: Innovative use of the DS controls
Disadvantages: If you're not a fan of cooking, you probably won't like it

...Cooking Mama challenges players to use their stylus as a master kitchen tool to cook lots of real world dishes ranging from pepperoni pizza to cabbage meat rolls. The game makes good and inventive use of the DS stylus and microphone with players use the stylus to chop, slice, pan fry, knead, grate, mash and peel. You can even share recipes with your friends via the DS's WI-FI settings, this gives the game extra depth as you try to out-cook your friends! This a break from traditional games as there are no levels to complete, no boss to beat and no power ups to collect, instead you cook a wide variety of dishes hoping to get approval from Cooking Mama. Each stage is timed adding excitement and even frustration at times as you try to make the best dish possible. Some of the tasks you wonder why you have to do them as they're so simple...

Walter_Kovacs 14.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

Don't worry - Mama will fix it

Advantages: Fun anime style graphics, good for young gamers, good for leisure gamers, very addictive
Disadvantages: Too easy for seasoned gamers, not action packed or full of puzzles

...I asked my other half to rent me a copy of Cooking Guide so I was a bit surprised when she came home with this. I did question the choice the response was ?It?s got cooking in the title hasn?t it??. Since I had paid to rent it I thought I would give it a go, after all, I had little else to do that evening. ****What do you do?**** The aim of this game is to prepare a variety of meals in a step-by-step manner. Each stage is marked a fail, good or very good and once you have prepared the dish in full you are awarded a mark out of 100 and achieve a fail, bronze medal, silver medal or gold medal as appropriate. That is all there is to it. There is no purpose or depth to this game. ****Controls**** This game fully utilises the touch screen and stylus of the DS. The stylus is the ?ultimate? cooking utensil of the Cooking Mama...

yackers1 19.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

"Mama!", "Go shove your head in the oven!"

Advantages: Inuitive gameplay, Origional, has an off button
Disadvantages: Boring, has no story line or plot, has no real difficulty, is repititive!

...Cooking Mama. How i wish i could boil her. The mama drives me insane with her demands. Peel eggs, chop onions and boil this. When has your mother told you off for not chopping onions quick enough!? Why destroy my mind and will to cook by having HITLER as in game mother! The gameplay is boring, has no story line or plot, has no real difficulty and is repititive, repititive, repititive! The Good. Cooking Mama is definetly origional. You can't find another game like it (for a good reason). The gameplay takes full advantage of the DS's treasure trove of functions and encourages different types of movement with the stylus. Wether you're flipping octupus balls or peeling the shell of an egg the DS has a function for it. Unlike many other games, the mic is used during the game. Mainly to blow and cool down items etc. The gameplay is good...

hudinisghost 30.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

Just as good as mama's!

Advantages: Amazingly fun, Innovative, Completely Interactive, Can play Anywhere!
Disadvantages: Sometimes too easy, You cant use it to learn to cook =(

...Cooking Mama! a random name for a completely random game. this game is completely out of the blue with nothing else like it on the market, you have no storyline or plot etc. and you Just Cook! You have to pick a recipe and then follow it through to the end. This involves: chopping up meat and vegetables, simmering, frying, boiling, creating little "parcels" or spring rolls, decorating and as such with your ingredients, you then get rated on how well your food was made and then get a medal for your efforts (bronze, silver, gold). The food you can make varies in difficulty from easy things such as "Cup O' Ramen", The "Pot Noodle" equivalent, to beef stew, spring rolls, soups, steaks, rices, pasta, spaghetti and a wide range of seafood dishes. One of the great things about this game is it allows you to mix recipes, pick some...

Bluebolt44 01.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

Mama! No! I didn't mean to burn the chicken!

Advantages: fun, addictive, pick up and play anywhere!
Disadvantages: too easy in places

...When I picked up Cooking Mama in Game in Reading, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. The box proclaimed that it was the most unique game ever, and I certainly believe that it lives up to that! In Cooking Mama, you basically prepare a meal in several different stages, getting a mark (fail, good, very good) for each stage and then an overall mark out of 100 and a grade of fail, bronze, silver or gold. The meals are prepared using the DS touch screen and stylus, and you've never experienced anything like this- you'll be slicing vegetables, peeling carrots, kneading dough and quick chopping, all with a simple drag or tap, as well as mixing ingredients, stewing following the on screen instructions (this is a bit like a dancemat, where the intructions come up in order and you have to follow them in the set time), frying and much...

madlilnerd 03.01.2007 · Read review
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Bambino Mio and all they have to offer.

Advantages: Can be used with more than one child to save extra money , 100 % cotton
Disadvantages: Quite costly

...wash in boiling water? Nope, they just go in the washing machine - Great! I tried all the different nappies and one stood out, Bambino Mio, it was easy to use, the design was nice and it looked to be the most comfortable for my baby, it wasn't bulky either, so I went out and purchased a few more wraps and nappies and claimed back £30 of my spend. Bambino Mio nappies are made up of 3 separate parts... Mio Nappy - this is a cotton towel like pad. The pad is made up of layers of cotton so it absorbs well, the middle of the pad is a bit thicker than the rest. Bambino Mio say it can be folded in different ways to suit the baby's shape and size, however I have always just folded it into 3, when you buy nappies you get a little folding booklet which shows 3 different folds, the basic fold where you fold into 3, the extra absorbency fold...

kalliemaile 13.07.2008 · Read review
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For the mamas and papas amongst you

Advantages: great quality
Disadvantages: expensive

...Babies are expensive. We used to be under the naïve impression that babies are very small, so how much stuff could they need. After much aimless wandering around Mothercare and Mamas and Papas we realised the error of our ways, there seems to be no end to the stuff that babies need and this is before you get to the stuff that you want to buy that they could probably do without. We spent a horrendous amount in Mamas and Papas whilst Scarlett was still a bump! Mamas and Papas always seems to me to be like the ?designer? shop of the baby world. Whilst Mothercare is practical and quite down to earth. Mamas and Papas seems a bit more upmarket. Well as upmarket as baby stuff gets! Flicking through their catalogue its full of slim models in white linen outfits holding pretty babies who look more like their younger brothers and sisters than...

ricci 31.01.2005 · Read review
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