Explaining our ratings

Our ratings are given by an unbias game review team. We rate games differently depending on the system, for example, a WiiWare game that gets 35/40, might only get 15/40 if it was counted as a Wii Disc-game. They are based on the system that they appear on. 35/40 is Gold Award, no matter what system it is on, meaning that these games are the cream of the crop available on Wii and DS.

0-15/40 : No Award
15-25/40 : Bronze Award
26-34/40 : Silver Award
35-39/40 : Gold Award
40/40 : Platinum Award

Monday 30 March 2009

Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama is a sad game, because on the DS it worked perfectly. However, the Wii version is a different story. Generally speaking, the controls are broken. Simple tasks become laborious chores, and the gamer soon loses interest. So, is there anything to keep you coming back for more? Well, no - not really. The new recipes are too easy to unlock - even if you fail a recipe, you can still unlock a new one - and the gameplay doesn't really vary. But there is something that keeps drawing you back. That is the multiplayer mode. Although it plays exactly like the single player modes, it's good to know that you're being pitted against somebody on a fair field. It's not like it's just you who will have to suffer from broken controls. So the muliplayer really isn't that bad for a quick blast every now and again - if your friends have the tolerance to stomach inprecise controls. The other mode, where you cook against Mama's friends is easily the worst of the lot, because they don't suffer from any 'control issues' and so it seems nigh on impossible to beat them sometimes. Well, they would be - if Cooking Mama's difficulty issues weren't existant. Once again - it is simply too easy to beat them - even with 'broken controls'. Then, as well as this, if you happen to lose to these friends, it'll generally be because at the last mini-game your controls failed you, and they got a gold award. It's all just a little bit stupid. 505 Games obviously have a lot of work to do.

13/40

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