Remy returns in another Ratatouille cash in, this time consisting of 6 mini-games
All the mini games are completed once you have filled your points bar, but you can also fail if your points bar empties. Combo multipliers can fill the bar quickly and the difficulty varies between the games.
"Slice & Dice" shows a food item on the screen, and you either tap a circle on screen, slide the stylus over the arrow, or slide back and forth over a double arrow. This game is very easy but sometimes you need to be very precise when tracing the arrow. Annoyingly to move on to the next food item, you must slide the plate away, but you need to be very precise and trace a small line, when intuitively; you want to push it away quickly.
"Food Fling" has various fruits falling from the top screen, and you have to catch and sort them out into the correct bowls. Although initially fairly fun, later variations of the game sees the bowls randomly switch places, and even more unrealistically; the fruit may switch during its fall. This is extremely infuriatingly as all your hard work of achieving the combo multiplier may be wiped when you grab what was an orange and throw it to the orange bowl, only for it to turn into a bunch of grapes just as you grab it.
"Soup Du Jour" has small food pieces falling into your soup which you can stir left or right using the d-pad. You must match a group of same coloured pieces for them to stick together, then you poke them with the stylus to remove the pieces. This takes a bit of skill, and can take a long time since your progress bar constantly decreases and it can take some time before you join the pieces together. You cannot really get enough points without removing multiple pieces in quick succession which increases your combo multiplier, and you lose your multiplier after a few seconds.
"Flip the Fish" has Linguini walking back and forth with a crate of fish which you tap to knock one off the crate and into your pans. You then flick the stylus over them to flip the fish. Points are achieved this way, and you can gain a combo multiplier by flipping them diagonal and landing them into another pan, however you may end up with them on the floor. Also, waiters will be walking past, and if you land the fish on those, you will also gain points. Keeping the fish on the pans too long will burn them, and more points are rewarded for serving a nicely cooked fish. However, you don't need to serve any since lots of points can be achieved by flipping them back and forth. This mini game was moderately fun.
"Mollusc Madness" sees many snails infest the walls, and you must throw sponges to knock them off. The snails will leave behind a trail which unrealistically blocks your sponge. The snails start of small but over time they grow. The larger snails can attack, and the largest,gold snail rewards you with a choice of power-ups. One power-up temporarily freezes all snails, and the other removes all snail trails. Removing the snail trails is easily the best, since you have a free shot at all the snails, whereas freezing them doesn't give you an open shot because the path will be blocked by the trails. A good strategy was to throw sponges to remove the small snails on the lower screen, whilst letting the snails on the top turn into the gold snails. Then hit the gold snail, and unleash the fury with the power-up to rapidly remove the snails and rack up a lovely combo.
"Cooking With Remy" has you placing ingredients into a pan and stirring them until all ingredients have been put in. Stirring raises the temperature and placing ingredients lowers the temperature as well as the temperature lowering over time. You can only place ingredients in the pan at the correct temperature (the gauge will show green). This means you must move back and forth between pans, stirring frantically and placing ingredients when possible. However, your points bar declines when the temperature is low, and when you hit the sides of the pan whilst stirring. On many occasions, you end up taking one step forward and two steps back. On the last time I played this game in story mode, I ended up playing for about 50 mins since on many occasions, after filling up 3 pans; I had less points than what I started with! It really is that punishing. Probably teaches me not to stir pans on my train journey home (kept on hitting the sides of the pan which reduces your score).
Overall, this game is a huge disappointment. The mini games aren't much fun, there is a severe lack of content, and the difficulty level is extremely punishing. Given that a lot of kids with low patience will play it, I could imagine they would give up easy. Additionally, I was expecting this game to be fairly educational to the ways of cooking, but it turns out to be fairly unrealistic. If you want a plus point, then I would say I liked the graphical style which has a paper, South-Park-esque look.