{"id":12561,"date":"2014-10-10T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2014-10-08T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:51:45","slug":"cooking-mama-5-bon-appetit-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/cooking-mama-5-bon-appetit-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit! (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MAMA_BOX\"<\/a>Everyone\u2019s favorite maternal video game character is back and needs your help in the kitchen again with Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit! for Nintendo 3DS. Just like the others, play touch screen mini-games to cook 60 different recipes, then help Mama around the house, yard, and shop with brand new mini-games, and test your skills at the Cooking Dojo!<\/p>\n

Cooking Mama 5 has many modes, but the main one is Let\u2019s Cook! This is the game that most fans will recognize.\u00a0 Choose a recipe, and then play a sequence of mini-games to cook your food.\u00a0 Use the stylus and touch screen to chop, pour, stir, and much more.\u00a0 Depending on how fast and how well you perform in the mini-games, you\u2019ll earn bronze, silver, and gold medals.\u00a0 Each time you complete a recipe, you\u2019ll unlock more games and recipes to try.<\/p>\n

Most of the other modes are mini-games, too. But these are single games that record your high score.\u00a0 In Let\u2019s Help Mama!, play mini-games to help Mama do chores around the house, like feeding pets and more.\u00a0 In Let\u2019s Help Harvest!, you\u2019ll step outside to help Mama with yard work like picking vegetables, similar to what you would do in the Gardening Mama titles.\u00a0 You\u2019ll prepare food for customers and take their orders in Let\u2019s Help in the Shop!\u00a0 And finally, in Let\u2019s Study!, play mini-games to practice spelling, math, and more.<\/p>\n

If you want an extra challenge, there is the Cooking Dojo mode. Here you prepare special recipes but you only have a short amount of time to do it all.\u00a0 And if you mess up once, you have to start all over.\u00a0 There is also a multiplayer mode called Let\u2019s Play Together, but since I couldn\u2019t get anyone else I know to play a Cooking Mama game with me, I don\u2019t know what that is like.\u00a0 You can also edit how Mama and the kitchen look in Mama\u2019s Gallery, and receive more items to decorate via SpotPass.<\/p>\n

The only complaint I have with this game is that the font for the in-game instructions is a little hard to read, but luckily most of the mini-games are easy to figure out just by playing, as they usually give you picture cues to tell you what to do. Also, there really isn\u2019t anything different to set this game apart from the rest of the series.\u00a0 Aside from Mama now being all animated in 3-D on the top screen, there really isn\u2019t anything new in this game.\u00a0 But for a new generation of kid gamers, this would be fresh to them.\u00a0 So as it stands, this is a pretty good game for kids and fans who can\u2019t get enough Cooking Mama.<\/p>\n

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Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit! is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference and Comic Mischief. The alcohol is only used in the game for cooking.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text instructions, but there are picture cues to tell you what to do during the games as well.\u00a0 Sometimes it can still be hard to understand what to do in some of the events, but as long as your kids aren\u2019t anal perfectionists, they won\u2019t get too frustrated as the game still lets you progress no matter how good or bad you do.\u00a0 Cooking Mama 5 could also be considered educational with the measuring and counting parts of the cooking games, as well as the Let\u2019s Study challenges that deal with spelling, math, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone\u2019s favorite maternal video game character is back and needs your help in the kitchen again with Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appetit! for Nintendo 3DS. Just like the others, play touch screen mini-games to cook 60 different recipes, then help Mama around the house, yard, and shop with brand new mini-games, and test your skills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}