To make Cream Puffs, for example, you'll first have to sift out flour (with gentle taps on the sieve), then boil the mixture (adding ingredients by dragging and adjusting the heat at intervals), pour while mixing (stirring with stylus circles and stopping at the correct times), squeeze the dough onto a tray (holding down the stylus until the dollop is the right size), set the oven (memorizing and inputting the temperature setting), cut the puffs in half (with a quick flick of the stylus), and finally fill them with whipped cream (by tracing concentrically smaller circles with a steady hand).Įach of these steps is scored and timed - very generously - and you’ll receive a medal at the end for your efforts. Once you pick a treat to make, Cooking Mama's classic gameplay template kicks into gear: you'll move through the recipe step-by-step, where each step takes the form of a touch-, gyroscope-, or microphone-based microgame that mirrors the real-world work required. Crêpes, pancakes, chocolate truffles, fruit tarts, cream puffs, cakes, pies, Swiss rolls, and many, many more are among the early options, and completing recipes will unlock more, so there's a good sense of progression running through your rough puff rolling.

Though there are several modes to choose from when you first step into the kitchen, the main stage of Sweet Shop is the excitingly-named 'Let's Make Sweets!', where you'll set to work making any of the 60 mouthwatering delicacies Mama's prepared to teach you. Though it’s not as complete a package as Cooking Mama 5, and its lack of challenge will keep plenty of players away, the spotlight on sweets is a great fit, and sugar fiends and younger players will have a great time helping Mama out in the kitchen. After several DS installments and Cooking Mama 4 and 5 on the 3DS, she’s back for one last hurrah on Nintendo’s stereoscopic wonder with Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop. Starting out from her humble beginnings as a short-order chef, using quick WarioWare-style touchscreen minigames to simulate the in-kitchen experience, she’s expanded her empire to gardening, arts and crafts, and even childcare.

Of all the heroes of the DS’ Touch Generations era, Office Create’s Cooking Mama has been one of the most enduring - and prolific.

Mama's kitchen game