Cooking Mama for DS!

Amano Jacu · Jan 15, 2006

Again, a game that can only be conceived in DS:

IGN said:
The DS has hardcore game audiences, girl audiences and even older audiences. Now Taito is attempting to introduce another audience to the platform: moms! Featured in the latest issue of Famitsu is Cooking Mama, a stylus-based game that lets players experience cooking!

In Cooking Mama, you follow recipes to prepare a number of real world dishes, from fried eggs to cabbage meat rolls. You make use of the touch pen for cutting vegetables, mixing ingredients in a fry pan and even preparing the final layout for your meal.

The game features real recipes and promises to teach players how to cook. Players will also be able to make their own recipes if they're in the mood for experimentation.

Taito's new DS support doesn't end there, though. The company is also at work on a new puzzle game called Monster Bomber. In this title, you shoot out colored balls at colored enemies that approach the bottom screen from the top screen. Your goal is to destroy the enemies, which can be done by shooting them with like-colored balls. The game promises all the expected features of a puzzle game, including combos and wireless play.

Both Cooking Mama and Monster Bomber are set for Japanese release on 3/23. They will be preceded by the Japanese release of Top Gun on 2/23, also from Taito.

kernow · Jan 15, 2006

omfg what a gimmick

whats chimp have to say to this one?

Verythrax · Jan 15, 2006

kernow said:
omfg what a gimmick

whats chimp have to say to this one?

I doubt that he will read this cause he poked his eyes with the stylus due his extensive thumb injury caused buy his GBA dpad.

ray_7 · Jan 15, 2006

lol bring on the beef teriyaki... :drool:

Nesagwa · Jan 15, 2006

Isnt there a game like this on PS2?

Tung Fu ru · Jan 15, 2006

weird

TravistyOJ · Jan 15, 2006

I love this kind of stuff, too bad we will probably never see it in the states, maybe i should get a japanese DS.

Blaine · Jan 15, 2006

TravistyOJ said:
I love this kind of stuff, too bad we will probably never see it in the states, maybe i should get a japanese DS.

Save yourself the $300. You can't find DSs in Japan and they're selling at a $150 premium.

Just get a US DS, since there's no difference (no territory lockout, pictochat even has katakana characters).

Lagduf · Jan 15, 2006

I
LOVE
TO
COOK.

Give me this game now.

rarehero · Jan 15, 2006

eh. id rather cook in real life,
i'm getting better at it i think.

SouthtownKid · Jan 15, 2006

Are you guys serious? This is really a game you want to play? Are we going to see games about cleaning your apartment or washing your car? To each their own and everything, but I really don't get this.

hermegildo · Jan 15, 2006

What a shit game this will be.

SouthtownKid said:
Are you guys serious? This is really a game you want to play? Are we going to see games about cleaning your apartment or washing your car? To each their own and everything, but I really don't get this.

But it's innovative, AND it uses a touchscreen!

:rolleyes:

Lagduf · Jan 15, 2006

Hey some people are suckers for gimmicks.

I'm one.

SouthtownKid · Jan 16, 2006

Lagduf said:
Hey some people are suckers for gimmicks.

I'm one.

Okay, gimmicks can be great and whatever. But it's cooking. Cooking that you don't get to eat when you're done. Is there a mini-game that simulates eating the food and taking a 10 minute dump when you finish? How long will it be before they start making games that simulate the job you already do 9-5, six days a week?

(edit: not you, Kernow. It would probably be fun for you to pretend you had a job)

DIY · Jan 16, 2006

omfg i want this game, i got no money for it though :crying:

ForeverSublime · Jan 16, 2006

IGN said:
Now Taito is attempting to introduce another audience to the platform: moms! Featured in the latest issue of Famitsu is Cooking Mama, a stylus-based game that lets players experience cooking!

American developer, Might-O, is working on a new DS game where people can use the stylus to write news articles. Might-O is trying to bring an old demographic back to gaming: narrow minded males!

Lagduf · Jan 16, 2006

SouthtownKid said:
Okay, gimmicks can be great and whatever. But it's cooking. Cooking that you don't get to eat when you're done. Is there a mini-game that simulates eating the food and taking a 10 minute dump when you finish? How long will it be before they start making games that simulate the job you already do 9-5, six days a week?

(edit: not you, Kernow. It would probably be fun for you to pretend you had a job)

So I take it you aren't a fan of games like Harvest Moon or The Sims?

ForeverSublime · Jan 16, 2006

There's a fine difference between "simulation" and "representation". Shame on them for creating a consistant, realistic, motif.

SouthtownKid · Jan 16, 2006

Lagduf said:
So I take it you aren't a fan of games like Harvest Moon or The Sims?

I guess I just feel like I already spend enough time cooking for myself. Maybe a game that simulates sleeping or taking a nap?

Zenimus · Jan 16, 2006

It's an interesting new idea for a video game. It could be fun if it had a tutorial round to teach it to you, and then place you in various scenarios and challenges. Imagine: Since you're supposed to be the "cooking mama", a challenge could revolve around your husband inviting a bunch of stressed out Japanese businessmen to dinner at your home, in an effort to get a promotion of some sort. If you're too slow or you make a bad dinner, the husband will get fired and your family will go poor.

Or maybe there could be an Iron Chef cooking competition game, where you can play online against other players for timed challenges.

I don't know. It sounds strange to have a cooking game, but I wouldn't brush it aside immediately. Could be fun.

Amano Jacu · Jan 16, 2006

SouthtownKid said:
I guess I just feel like I already spend enough time cooking for myself. Maybe a game that simulates sleeping or taking a nap?

I'm not saying this will be a must-have game, but you are forgetting that it can also teach you how to cook, and some new recipes. When I have to cook, I'm usually limited to pasta and meat. It would be nice to learn something new, and practice it on the touch screen before having to actually eat it. Nothing worse than having to eat a first-time experiment that went bad.

SSS · Jan 16, 2006

The possibilities are endless with the DS. Imagine an abortion sim, where you play as a back alley doc using the stylus to guide a coat hanger as you try to hook a fetus. Good way to get a female audience.

Shawn Carr2o · Jan 16, 2006

Cooking Mama looks cute and fun. :tickled:

Amano Jacu · Jan 16, 2006

SamuraiShodownSensei said:
The possibilities are endless with the DS. Imagine an abortion sim, where you play as a back alley doc using the stylus to guide a coat hanger as you try to hook a fetus. Good way to get a female audience.

Well, in Trauma Center you have to operate at open-heart and kill with a laser a scorpion-like monsters that is tearing apart a heart. Does that count?

kernow · Jan 16, 2006

SouthtownKid said:
Okay, gimmicks can be great and whatever. But it's cooking. Cooking that you don't get to eat when you're done. Is there a mini-game that simulates eating the food and taking a 10 minute dump when you finish? How long will it be before they start making games that simulate the job you already do 9-5, six days a week?

(edit: not you, Kernow. It would probably be fun for you to pretend you had a job)

FLAME ON

go back to your shitty playmore samurai spirits ripoffs man :shame:

if you weren't interested why the fuck are you in this thread posting?

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