This Cooking Mama is a blast for newcomers and chefs, and is easily the best cooking game you'll ever find.
The bad: Delayed controls, Too short, many of the recipies barely offer a challenge, Voice Audio is extremely annoying, Game is an expensive $50
Game-play: 8/10
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 9/10
Value: 5/10
Tilt: 7/10
Average Score: 7.5/10
The Cooking Mama series, although not regardly well recieved by critics, has been welcomed by many Nintendo fans, and has established the Cooking genre. It is definitly shown in Cooking Mama: Cook Off, which is both fun and a lesson in making delicious meals. In this, you'll race against time to make recepies at the perfect cooking at the perfect time. This gets great challenge in you, but there are some minor flaws.
One flaw in the game is the control. Although it's not a huge problem, few times it gets in the game. When you're peeling potatoes, chopping carrots, or scrubbing a pot, it gest delayed, espicially when scrubbing the pot, which easily gets frustrating for gamers young and old. While this gives the game a fair challenge, it's not in a good way.
Graphically, the game looks pretty good. The graphics are detailed and cartoony, and the food looks mouthwatering. The movements are also splendid and fast paced, with no annoyance what so ever.
The music is flawless. The piano music is genius, with no single annoyance at all, despite some repetitive moments. For example, the title screens music is amazing, and it's great that Majesco did a wonderful job on the music. The audio, however, is annoying. generally, it's okay, but the voicing is where it gets annoying. You know you'll go insane when you here "Good, good", "Better then mama", and "Keep going" over and over again with a french accent. The french accent isn't bad, but the way it sounds makes it annoying.
The high price of the game also sets it off. The game is $50 too expensive for an experienced gamer. Although this is a Wii game, and most Wii games have high prices, this has the highest out of all the Wii games I have played. Unless you're Bill Gates, you're not really going to feel good giving away $50 you were saving for Ice cream for you and your friends. Neverless, the games flaws aren't enough to clinch the games quality success.
This Cooking Mama is a blast for newcomers and Chefs, and is easily the best cooking game you'll ever find. This is also one of the best Childish games ever made, because although the game is rediculiously short, the game-play isn't seriously repetitive, with the exception of the music. Overall, if you want a new genre game for the Wii, then Cooking Mama: Cook Off is the game you'll want to play.