Cooking Mama 3 Shop & Chop Review

Playing games on my 3DS an 2DS was a big part of my childhood. One of the games that still stick with me to this day is Cooking Mama and more specifically Cooking Mama 3 Shop and Chop. In this game, you can choose one of the many foods to try to cook and Mama will rate the quality. She will encourage (but not assist) you on through each step of the cooking process. If you do great you get a gold medal, if done good you get a silver metal, and bronze if you did bad. This game has a problem where vague instructions left me sometimes scrambling to figure out what to do. For example one task that was pretty frustrating was peeling potatoes (which would take about 10 seconds to complete). For each step you would get a varied amount of seconds to be able to complete them. It took repeated tries in order to figure out the correct procedure for certain tasks and even though cooking requires practice and repetition, this doesn't always make for a fun game. Even though at times it got old fast I always managed to come back to it. There was this one mode of the game where your job was to go shopping. In the store you would have to avoid adults and Children, which would be the ones who ask you favors and pretty much slow you down. You have a time crunch and you can't spend too much time in there. Overall although simple, Mama will keep you coming back for more lessons.

Summary

• Make Mama proud

• Nintendo games

• Avoid people and get medals