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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Dess has been playing Cooking Mama DS which has recently sparked my interest in the game again. I think Mama is the most endearing video game character ever, and it's all so cute that even when I don't sautee the onions correctly, I don't feel bad because she is there for me with her firey burning eyes of determination.

There's a Wii version called Cooking Mama: Cook Off with a trailer you can watch here.

I don't like how Mama got all "me ruv you rong time" engrishy all of a sudden, but she has a voice now(!) and I can't deny that Make food, not war is not catchy.

Otherwise this will probably be much like Trauma Center in that it's better on the DS, but I'm most likely going to get it anyway.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

Cooking Mama is sweet. I am shit at peeling carrots.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject:

i am very much enjoying cooking mama. she's just delicious. i've heard complaints that the game is too videogamey to be a cooking tutorial, but that's not an issue for me because i can't eat nearly the game's entire itenerary of dishes. making meatballs in cooking mama is, for me, the same as shooting geemers in metroid: since i'll never do it, i can accept the abstraction with which the game implements it.

i've also heard complains (from andrew toups) that the game suffers for lack of a larger context (i.e. a whole bunch of zombies are going to show up in half an hour and if we don't have a banquet of food ready for them to eat they'll eat our brains instead!). i find it refreshing that the game is about nothing less humble than making food in mama's kitchen. judging by the rest of the ds library, i could easily have seen this been a game where i'd have to read fifteen pages of dialogue about unlocking the flavor orbs to release the plate essence of the meal before every single recipe. i'm glad it isn't.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

It only suffers from a lack of a larger context if you feel that it has to be more than what it is, kind of like how Afterburner is only just a game where you fly into blue skies and shoot down jets that are trying to shoot you or how Tetris is only a game where you stack blocks and clear rows.
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