In ‘Let’s Cook!’ mode, you have the opportunity to show off your dazzling new dishes to one of eight unlockable in-game friends. Still, once you’ve got the hang of the general gameplay, you’ll soon be unlocking new recipes and earning medals from Mama, and it will be time to demonstrate your culinary flair to your friends. It’s nice that what the game calls “happy accidents” don’t always lead to dining disaster, but these minigames can sometimes feel a bit faffy to play.Ĭooking techniques often seem a little arbitrary, too – we can’t recall the last time we put together a club sandwich by tilting each layer without toppling the pile (isn’t it more usual to bung them together by brute force?) and we’re sure most kebabs aren’t fashioned by impaling ingredients on a skewer as they fall from the ceiling.

Get it wrong, and your dinner will end up in the dog. In this mode, Mama stays watchfully by your side, offering words of encouragement like “Don’t give up,” and “A little bit!” (which had us scratching our heads rather – a little bit of what?) If all goes wrong and you end up with sea bream flying through the air, she’ll leap in to help you in one of the new minigames – control Mama successfully with tilts and waggles and she will catch your flying fish for you. Levels are timed, so there’s little for error even in the training stages, which was frustrating at first. Timing, size and strength are key to success here, and it took quite a few attempts to get the hang of some of the gestures. Even in tutorial mode, however, it took us quite a long time to figure out what the underlying aim was in each case. Cooking actions such as dicing vegetables, mixing batter and filleting fish are carried out using one of 8 basic Wiimote gestures indicated in the bottom left of the screen. ‘Cook With Mama’ is the game’s tutorial mode, although it gives little actual tutelage, leaving much of the gameplay to trial and error. World Kitchen can be played in two modes. Mama, the adorable chef with the impenetrable accent is back in the kitchen, serving up new-look 3D graphics alongside 51 fresh international recipes ranging from hamburgers to tempura. Masterchef may have left our TV screens, but its spirit is alive and well in this follow-up to last year’s Cooking Mama: Cook-off.

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