Cooking Mama

Cooking Mama (Wii)
Cooking Mama was released for the Wii on May 11, 2007. Since it's release parents of autistic children with learning difficulties have credited the game with allowing their child to develop transferable skills in a safe environment.

The main mode presents a series of unlocked dishes that require a series of quick, simple minigames to put you through the paces of food preparation. One dish, for instance, might require you to chop a variety of vegetables, butter up a frying pan, grind up some meat, and then toss it all together into the pan while you stir, shake, and spice it. All of these actions are controlled with basic motions on the Wii Remote.

Chopping vegetables, for instance, requires you to point the remote at a designated icon on the chosen vegetable and make a slicing motion in the direction it signifies. If the veggies need to be minced from there, you simply start making a fast chopping motion with the remote. The pan-buttering game has you tilting the remote around as if it were the pan itself, and the cube of butter slides around slicking up the pan's interior. Meat grinding has you holding the remote sideways like the handle of a meat grinder, and spinning it as quickly and forcefully as you can.

The game has a wide variety of ingredients and tasks spanning 55 different dishes. At the end of each task, Mama, a bright-eyed, anime chef, grades you on your performance and assigns a score based on accuracy and how much time you took.



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