Let's get cookin', Mama! Now you can learn how to cook on your Nintendo DS! Prepare foods, combine raw ingredients, cook the meal and present your culinary masterpiece to Mama for your final score.

User Reviews about Cooking Mama

This is a pretty darn good game. It's plenty of fun, and there are a lot of recipes to play. I also like the ability to change the recipe while making it. My only complaint is that sometimes certain processes in recipes are very frustrating, for example: circling portions of ingredients to stuff things with. This is pretty difficult to get right 5 or 6 times in a row. I've gotten "gold medals" on every recipe except ones that require me to circle certain portions. Other than that though, it's easy to play. -- Fun, relatively easy, but a bit frustrating

My 6 year old daughter told me about this game because she played it using a friend's DSi. By her description, I thought it'd be boring, but we bought it anyways and I have to say it is not so bad. She likes it and plays with it without getting bored after 1 minute, as I thought it would happen. It is not the most fun either, of course. -- Not as bad as I thought it'd be (6 year old girl)

If you are looking for a super challenge go else where. I loved this game for the fact that it was just simple cooking fun. You get to chop, slice, dice, mix and many other cooking functions. Doesn't teach you how to actually cook; this is just a ddr version of cooking basically. Once you get the hang of doing each function it makes game play a lot smoother. Also, it was neat that they give you the option mid-cooking a recipe whether you want to subsitute or add other items to make a whole other dish. The practice option came in handy for some of the less simple functions. Some of the tasks you do are timed while others you finish when you finish. -- It's Cooking Time

There are three good things about this game:
1) Some of the graphics in the game are neat
2) Actually gives you ideas for real meals if you're not much of a cook!
3) and the ability to unlock new recipes is a plus

However I find there are too many more "cons" than pros:

1) the fire in her eyes when you fail scares my 4-yr old niece, (the other kids aren't scared but they're not happy with it either) of course she still comes back to play sometimes...but really why did they find it necessary to put that in...?

2) Sometimes no matter how well you think you've followed the instructions/stylus movements, especially when it comes to mixing/stirring etc you still get a less than perfect score- what's up with that?

3) One particular recipe tells you NOT to put too much filling yet the only time you score well (i.e. do not fail) is when you do just that!

4) The combos are the most unimaginative ever, so I never bother to use the option to combine anything anymore.

5) A feature of several dishes, the straining of any boiled item is programmed for failure or meagre results because of the position of the pot over the strainer, bad game design I guess.

6) I know 30 minute meals are all rage since Rachael Ray (whom I love to watch btw) but that does not mean that every cook must work with a time constraint, and certainly not newbie cooks. I find a lot of the cooking times in this game are set to be too fast so that persons now learning, or smaller kids, have to spend more time in practise mode than really necessary if the game had simply been better designed to accomodate newbies.

7) Why are there no desserts?

The game is not a favorite in my home, although the kids will try it from time to time. It's a brilliant concept but not very well executed in this particular game. -- Did nobody find those fiery eyes disturbing?