CheatCC says, "Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop is an adorable and entertaining title that will offer hours of virtual cooking enjoyment to anyone who hasn't had their fill of the genre from the past two games. There's always plenty of chopping and cooking to do even though the new shopping element is downplayed and isn't integral to the gameplay. With more recipes, more mini-game tasks, a few additional side activities, and plenty of unlockables, there's a lot to explore here. The problem is it's all pretty much more of the same stuff you've already seen in the past few games. Without tempering your expectations against that hard fact, you're probably going to be a little bummed by how similar this game is to its predecessors."
"Many video game characters can hand out whippings and look cool doing it. Blowing stuff up, saving worlds, ext. How about the other talents that go unnoticed? You know, cooking." -Play Legit
My personal favourite is the chef from Breath of Fire II who tries to BBQ you.
Not mentioning anybody from the Ar Tonelico games is blasphemy. Only they could come up with "tasty" things like BBQ Soda.
With the launch of Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic later this month, it got us in the GGUK office to thinking about new directions that Mama can take in the future, new games which she could be part of. It all started with some fairly sensible ideas…
CFD!'s Aubrey Klanecky takes a look at Mama's third DS excursion:
"I can’t cook. Period.
"Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but really, I’m terrible at cooking. My ability stops at Hamburger Helper, and even then I have a bad habit of messing that up. So it may come as a surprise that I LOVE Cooking Mama. I borrowed the first game from CFD!’s EIC, Rob Thomas, out of boredom, and fell in love. However, by the second one, I found that the honeymoon was quite over. While I enjoyed playing it, it was the same old thing over and over again. Cutting up vegetables, stirring the pot… there was nothing new! No innovation! So I was wary when I heard that the third installment of the DS series was coming out. How did it fare? Well, you’ll have to click the jump to find out!"
