Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends (Nintendo DS)
From 505 Games
Customer Reviews
Fun for all ages!!
I got this game for my daughter last year and we still play it now, There's something quite therapeutic about peeling veg with your stylus, chopping onions etc. There are many things to do and many recipes to unlock. Me and my kids love it.
Cooking Mama 2
I really liked cooking mama 2 but in my opinion it is quite short. Although you can change mama's clothes and decorate her kitchen! There are tons of recipes, at first you start of with 2 characters and only a few recipes but as you play the game you can unlock more characters and recipes, but if you don't like cooking or prefer adventure don't buy this game. This was my first nintendo DS game. I liked it but I completed it in a week. In my opinion you should get this game but it isn't very adventurous.
A great game...for awhile...
First of all, can i just say that on Cooking Mama 2, the actual game play is very, very good. It's a classic game for all ages that takes full advantage of the DS's touch screen. The mini-games are fun and the graphics are not amazing but are suitable for the type of game.
Now we come to the let downs. Firstly, as i find with a lot of games like this, it is just too short! OK, so it has more than the original, and the new deserts that are not in CM1 are a deffiant bonus, but after i had completed it, i found myself wondering what to do.
The Cooking with Mama mode is simply easy because anything you do wrong, mama will fix, and you carry on, but once you have mastered the all mini-games (which does not take longer than a few hours of gaming) the Cooking with Friends mode (where mama cannot fix your mistakes) is a breeze.
Some people may argue that getting gold in all the recipes takes up along time, but personally, after doing all the recipes, i had no motivation to go through them all over again. Quite simply, I got bored. The mini-games got repetitive, mama's voice drove me insane and in the end, I gave up.
I'm really sorry but I just can't bring myself to give this 4 stars, what i would like to say is that Harvest Moon and Pokemon Diamond are bot fantastic and well worth the money, so save your pocket money and buy them, because they are worth the extra cost.