First, here are some screenshots which have been released recently:

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Apparently, this game is gonna be called Cooking Mama World Kitchen, and it’ll be, what, already the fourth installment in the Cooking Mama series… which is gonna be available in stores sometime later this year. It looks like now you’ll be able to see your own character performing the different cooking tasks during the minigames… and, well, that’s the only new addition I’ve managed to come up by looking at the screens above. The rest seems like the usual slicing, grinding, egg-cracking stuff we’re already familiarized with.

I’d say something like “Hopefully, they’ll fix most of the flaws from the first Wii game!”… but they didn’t do anything of the sort with the DS sequel, so it’s safer to think that they won’t solve anything on this one either.

Well, after a few hours of gameplay, I’ve managed to complete this little Nintendo DS game called Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends (which is actually the third one on the series since a sequel for the Wii came out before this one), and now I guess I can safely this: if you really enjoy cooking… avoid these kind of games!

At first, it feels like it’s gonna be a lot of fun since you’ll be able to cook a lot of different international dishes and stuff, but the truth is that most of the time you’ll find yourself feeling either tired of doing the same things over and over again, or annoyed at how the food always ends up looking like total crap no matter how well or badly you did on the minigames.

Also, Mama seems to think that pounding my own hand while making mochi is reason enough to give me a silver medal… even if I managed to complete the minigame on time. Maybe a little blood fell into the rice without me noticing and that ruined the whole dish, or maybe Mama is actually judging my levels of stupidity, but I don’t really care anymore since I’m finally done with this game.

Whatever. I think it’s about time for me to move on to better stuff… or at least better games (like the upcoming Higurashi no Naku Koro ni DS remake or that one JP-only game that’s actually like a recipe book and it shows you how to cook for real).