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This is a fun and challenging cooking game with some authentic cooking techniques thrown in. The combination of Japanese visuals, real stylus cooking and of course Mama herself took me from skeptic to enthusiast in no time at all.

Having just endured the tedium of Imagine: Happy Cooking, Cooking Mama was like a breath of fresh air! I was quite curious as to how this would compare with its Wii counterpart Cooking Mama (and Cooking Mama 2), which I didn't enjoy all that much - finding it to tricky to perform the cooking tasks with the Wii-Mote and a generally confusing feel to the game.
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Gordon Ramsay, Keith Floyd, Worral Thompson, Ainsley and co please step back, enter Cooking Mama. Available for the Wii and Nintendo DS. Whatever goes into this review, it is unlikely to worry the creators Majesco and Taito, as it's already sold an astonishing 2.6 million Worldwide at the time of writing (Oct 2008). The question on my lips was, is it gonna rise like Jamie Olivers bread, or shall we stick it on the back burner? If you think that was a poor joke, don't respond by flaming me.

The precept for this title is that the gamer follows various unlockable recipes in order to knock up a tasty creation. The recipes are from different Countries and feature all manner of ingredients and dishes. You will find yourself knocking up sandwiches, stews, soups etc. All this involves peeling, chopping, cutting, turning and many more bits of cusine related dexterity. A recipe could have say between 1 and a dozen different steps that have to be performed. For example to make a pasta you firstly chop the onion and garlic, cut the meat, add the salt... I'll stop there, you get the drill. The final step usually involves the actual cooking phase during which the gamer has to add the ingredients, adjust the temperature, stir the items and heat accordingly.
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