Platform: Nintendo DS
Rating:Everyone
Genre: Simulation
Number of Players: up to 4
Publisher: Majesco Entertainment
Release Date: November 13, 2007
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Writer: Vainya

Rating : 7.0
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Cooking Mama 2

Hot on the heels of her award-winning debut title?s sales success, Mama returns to the kitchen with new recipes, ingredients, and friends in Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends.Think your dishes are delicious? This time, only your hungry friends will be the judge of that!

Graphics:
Very colorful, and um, pink. The graphics are simple and to the point. The food although it is drawn in a cartoony style looks deliciously pleasing and you’ll wonder why you can’t eat the dishes you make. Graphics score: 7/10

Controls:
One word sums this section up: frustrating. The instruction manual said you had to be a master of the stylus and they weren’t kidding! Everything takes precise usage of the stylus and, well sometimes that backfires horribly, leaving you pressing hard on your poor touch screen to get any result. Controls score: 4/10

Flow:
The game’s flow depends on what you decide to do. There are recipes, and as you master them, new friends and recipes show up. Everything is at your own pace until you start cooking. Once that happens, everything is timed. If you take too long, you fail and have to start the whole thing over. It is just like cooking in a real kitchen! Other than that, the flow isn’t anything special. Just think of the recipes as separate
mini-games. Flow score: 7/10

Fun Factor:
The recipes are real recipes, and if you want you can try them in your real kitchen. Not really sure if that’s a great idea, but that is just how fun the game is. You will spend a fair amount of time in Mama’s kitchen trying to perfect meals for your picky friends to get the ultimate 100 score. Cooking is never boring in this game! Fun score: 9/10

Female Aspect:
The main character in this game is Mama who of course is female. Also she has many female friends you are cooking for. The game is overly pink and is about cooking so this game is attractive to females. Besides all of that, the game is very easy to pick up and play, no cooking skill required. Female Factor score: 6/10

Replay Value:
The replay value of this game is very high. There are so many things to
unlock from items to trophies that you will be playing this game forever trying to unlock them all. Also you want to impress your friends so why not try to get a perfect score of 100? Replay Score: 9/10

Vainya’s comments:I’d say go out and get this game, it is a must buy. I haven’t played any of the Cooking Mama series and I was able to jump in and have fun. I now see why everyone loves the Cooking Mama series. I even have my sister, who doesn’t play games, addicted to it. So in that sense, it is a very fun game that anyone can play – even if you aren’t a master chef.