Cooking Mama is one phenomenal game that more or less saved Majesco’s bacon when it was first released all those years ago. Of course, who could forget their first experience of dicing and slicing in the virtual kitchen, having a hot MILF supervising your every step? I must say the final cooked picture that was shown is definitely mouth watering by all accounts, making me order an extra large pizza during my gaming sessions on the DS. Since then, Majesco has come up with a sequel on the DS, a version for the Wii and its latest iteration for the handheld platform with the title Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop.

In Cooking Mama 3, players use the stylus as the ultimate cooking utensil to shop and chop their way to the top in eight gameplay modes and 200 fun mini-games. In Let’s Match mode, aspiring chefs can create their own dishes by combining ingredients together in delicious new ways. Cooking Contest lets you face-off against up to three friends in 20 multiplayer cooking challenges. Three different customization modes enable players to dress up Mama with earned outfits and accessories, change up the game screen or decorate each finished dish in their scrapbook with animated stickers. Cooking Mama 3 also supports gameplay connectivity with Gardening Mama so players can use items grown in Mama’s garden to whip up their favorite dishes in Shop and Chop.

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop is rated E for Everyone and ought to be a purchase parents can make right off the shelf regardless of whether their kids love the game series or not. It isn’t that cheap any more with a $29.99 compared to the $19.99 I paid for the first Cooking Mama title. Guess with pedigree comes a certain level of price one must match up to.

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