This Mom is NOT good in the Kitchen...
I was really excited about the game Cooking Mama coming out for the DS. I was hoping it would be an update of a quirky favorite of mine, Ore no Ryori (I got a demo of this Japanese PS1 game years ago from lupus_garou).
The problem with Cooking Mama? Well whereas Ore no Ryori had you multi-tasking (trying to serve several different dishes to many impatient customers while managing the occasional chore or crisis), Cooking Mama just has you making one dish at a time, and even that is broken into multiple steps. What should have been a frantic, WarioWare-like game turned into a very slow-paced, methodical, and repetitive flop.
*Sigh*... here's hoping for a true sequel.
The problem with Cooking Mama? Well whereas Ore no Ryori had you multi-tasking (trying to serve several different dishes to many impatient customers while managing the occasional chore or crisis), Cooking Mama just has you making one dish at a time, and even that is broken into multiple steps. What should have been a frantic, WarioWare-like game turned into a very slow-paced, methodical, and repetitive flop.
*Sigh*... here's hoping for a true sequel.