For each recipe that you complete, you will unlock a new recipe.

These bonus stars unlock things in Mama's Gallery. On some steps, you are able to earn bonus stars, if you complete them in half of the allotted time or less. If you don't though, you will get a silver, bronze, or green star, depending on how badly you did. If you complete the task on time, you'll get a gold star. There are only so many ways to use a knife, after all. For each step, you will be given arrows that show you what you need to do. Some of them only require one step, some have 8 or more. For each recipe, you will have a different number of steps to prep and cook the food. In Let's Cook, you will start with the option of several recipes to choose from. Not all of these options will have games available to play yet though, so you will need to start in Let's Cook to unlock more.

From the Main Menu, you have: Let's Cook, Let's Combine, Let's Help, Let's Play Together, Mama's Gallery, and Options. Mama will help you.' Be prepared for her thick accent though! I find it amusing.Ĭooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic is basically a collection of mini-games. Even when her eyes are flames, she doesn't yell at you. Mama will speak to you as well, either words of praise or words of encouragement. A lot of times you can gauge your timing by the sounds as well as the visual and that really does help a lot. The sounds can be quite important to hear, so I recommend that you actually listen to the music rather than your own, but you don't have to.

I'm not sure why it was funny, but the way they do things is just really humorous. I found it amusing when I would mess up and Mama ended up with food on her face or even a face full of smoke. When you fail, her eyes turn into flames. The only character in the game is Mama, but she is quite amusing though. This means that you can clearly see the edges of where you're supposed to put things or the lines on where you need to chop. Everything has sharply drawn lines and simple colors. I'm not sure how I haven't played any of the Cooking Mama games before now, but Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic is now available and it is my introduction to the series.Īt a glance, you can tell that the graphics in Cooking Mama 4 are quite simple, but that is a good thing.

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