Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop

by Majesco

Product Features

• Earn bronze, silver, and gold medals from Mama based on the quality of your cooking.
• Use the stylus as your ultimate cooking utensil to chop, grate, slice, stir, spread, sprinkle, roll, and much more in over 200 different mini-games.
• Create 80 new recipes including: chili con carne, mushroom quiche, Eggs Benedict, tulip chicken, pumpkin gnocchi, and many more.
• Six gameplay modes including old favorites and new additions to the series.
• Recipes progress from simple to complex, from small to large dishes, so do your best to meet Mama's expectations and impress your friends.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002JCMYW4
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 20, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #938 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #2 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Simulation > Life
  • #48 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > All Games

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Fresh from the harvest in Gardening Mama, Mama’s heading back to her culinary roots with Cooking Mama 3: Shop and Chop. Packed with six game modes--including two new to the game franchise--all new recipes, ingredient shopping, dish combinations and multiplayer cooking challenges, Cooking Mama 3: Shop and Chop lets players explore their inner creative chef with everyone’s favorite kitchen cutie at their side. Traditional Cooking Mama play. View larger. New game modes like Let's Shop. View larger. More than 80 recipes. View larger. Gameplay Like all Cooking Mama releases, Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop is a collection of frantic mini-games designed to test the players skill in the kitchen. Shop & Chop's tally of these mini-games weighs in at a whopping 200+, and cover every aspect of meal preparation, including mixing, frying, chopping, baking, slicing, grilling and more. Inputs during these are mostly registered by using the DS/DSi stylus, or the user's finger on the touchscreen, with some dishes only requiring the completion of a single mini-game, while others consist of several. Along the way Mama will always be with players, offering guidance and support, and in the case of a particularly poorly prepared meal, even a little bit of disappointment meant to inspire the player to do better. Shop & Chop contains more than 80 recipes. in all, and includes multiplayer game support for up to four players in single-cart DS wireless download play. Game Modes Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop also contains gameplay variety through the several different game modes included. There are six of these in all, combining favorites from earlier game releases, and a few brand new ones. Modes available include: Let’s Cook - Even if you make mistakes Mama will help you complete the recipe so you can continue cooking. Let’s Eat - You’re on your own without Mama’s help. Now it’s just you, the food and your hard-to-satisfy friends who will try out your creations and judge you based on how they taste. Mistakes made during preparation will affect the final taste so use caution in the kitchen Combine and Create - Mama’s been teaching you for some time now, and she’s decided it’s time for you to exercise your creative muscle. Take steps and ingredients from different recipes and create your very own concoctions. Let’s Shop - Did you ever wonder where Mama gets all those fantastic ingredients? Head to the store to pick up the things you’ll need to prepare so many delicious dishes. Time Challenge - Play against up to 3 friends using local Wi-Fi play. Face-off in timed cooking challenges to determine who is the fastest chef Picture Diary - Keep a scrapbook of your favorite dishes in this digital picture diary. Key Game Features Create 80 new recipes including: chili con carne, mushroom quiche, Eggs Benedict, tulip chicken, pumpkin gnocchi, and many more. Use the stylus as your ultimate cooking utensil to chop, grate, slice, stir, spread, sprinkle, roll, and much more in over 200 different mini-games. Six gameplay modes including new additions to the series. Recipes progress from simple to complex, from small to large dishes, so do your best to meet Mama’s expectations and impress your friends. If your friends think your dish is delicious, you’ll unlock another new friend. Earn bronze, silver, and gold medals from Mama based on the quality of your cooking. Multiplayer support for up to four players in single-card DS wireless download play.

Product Description

Fresh from the harvest in Gardening Mama, Mama's heading back to her kitchen roots with all new recipes, ingredient shopping, dish combinations and multiplayer cooking challenges. Explore your inner creative chef with everyone's favorite culinary cutie! Six gameplay modes including new additions to the series: -Let's Cook: Even if you make mistakes Mama will help you complete the recipe so you can continue cooking. -Let's Eat: You’re on your own without Mama's help. Now it’s just you, the food and your hard-to-satisfy friends who will try out your creations and judge you based on how they taste. Mistakes made during preparation will affect the final taste so use caution in the kitchen! -Combine and Create: Mama's been teaching you for some time now, and she's decided it's time for you to exercise your creative muscle. Take steps and ingredients from different recipes and create your very own concoctions. -Let's Shop: Did you ever wonder where Mama gets all those fantastic ingredients? Head to the store to pick up the things you'll need to prepare so many delicious dishes. -Time Challenge: Play against up to 3 friends using local wi-fi play. Faceoff in timed cooking challenges to determine who is the fastest chef! -Picture Diary: Keep a scrapbook of your favorite dishes in this digital picture diary.

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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still fun!, October 26, 2009

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L. W. Blake (Making Nice With My Col-Erase Pencils) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop (Video Game)

I'm a big fan of the Cooking Mama franchise, and I think this is a good addition to anyone who liked the previous Mama games. The game is broken down into several elements, some familiar, some brand-new. The familiar elements are, of course, cooking with mama, in which you practice and make recipes. What I like about this portion of the game, which is new to Cooking Mama fans, is that once you obtain all the recipes, you unlock what I suspect are sixteen new recipes. I've only recently unlocked the hidden recipes, but the game description says that there are 80 recipes and with only 64 of them, I think that's how many are left. You also have cooking for your friends, which is a tried and true test of your cooking skills. What IS different about this segment of the game is the recipes each of your friends has. In Cooking Mama 2, each of your friends had a set of recipes, but in this game, you can access your entire recipe list from each friend. However, you seem to only be able to unlock new friends if you cook for ALL of your friends. (You can't just make food for just one of your friends. You can't seem to get new friends this way.) And then there's the Diary section and the always fun designing your kitchen and dressing up Mama.

What is NEW about this game is the ability to shop for Mama. The Shop portion offers you five "levels," during which you need to buy the items on Mama's list. Each level is progressively harder than the last, and by the end, you're just running for your life, trying to get everything Mama needs before time runs out. As you manipulate the mini Mama (those who have Cooking Mama for the Wii will know who I'm talking about) through the grocery store, watch out! You can bump into other customers and set off mini games! (The games are fun but they suck the time out of the clock.) The other section I like is the one during which you can mix and match recipes to create new dishes. I like the format they came up with for this game. The choices are limited, which means that there are a controlled number of dishes you can come up with. I don't know how it was for other gamers, but I think too many choices are not that great since you can make too many combos (I often lost track of what I combined with what).

Majesco has made some of the more familiar tasks, such as dicing, mixing, and frying, different, so that it's providing the gamer a bit more of a challenge the previous Mama games. The new additions of the Shop and the Mix have extended the game play nicely. It had always been a complaint of mine that I finished Cooking Mama too quickly, but I feel as if I'm getting a little more bang for my buck. And the chance to send the fruits and vegetables I've grown in Gardening Mama to my Cooking Mama 3 kitchen is a great way to incorporate both games.

My only complaint about this game is that the items you get from achieving bonuses (you know the ones--for when you finish a task before a certain time limit) is not very clear. It just tells you that you got a new item, but you're not sure if it's an item you use in the Diary or if it's something Mama can wear. Other than that, I'm glad to see that Majesco has challenged once again with good, wholesome game-playing. Yay Mama!

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mama is back in the Kitchen and better than ever, October 29, 2009

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Steven R. Shroyer "DSfanatic 2010" (Kent Ohio) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop (Video Game)

Okay in a review of Cooking Mamma 2 I compared it to The Godfather part 2 because it was one of the best sequels I have played. But we all know how bad the third film in a series is. Spider Man 3, Shrek the Third even the Godfather Part Three was didn't live up to expectations. So you'd probably think Cooking Mama's 3rd DS outing is really bad. WRONG!!!! It trumps the first two games by doing two things. One Staying true to the first two's formulas and Two adding a shopping feature.

The gameplay is the same play mini games to cook food but there is a twist. In the let's shop mode you shop for items trying to avoid customers who will lead to mini games themselves. For example if you bump into the store stocker you will have to play a mini game where you have to pick up his items. This alone is worth the 27 dollar price tag just to see a ticked off store stocker yelling at you to pick up his vegetables.

There is also new recipies like candy apples, and marshmallows(perfect for a halloween play session) and creme brulee.

I love this series not only for it's constant replay value but because it realy tends to trancend genre fans. You can be a Halo fan and still play cooking mama because you can take the same quick reflexes used for that game and apply it to a recipie in this game.

So pick it up sit down and play, Mama needs some more help and only you can do it.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great game from Cooking Mama!, October 24, 2009

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V. Lai "Lady Gamer" (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop (Video Game)

Worth the money. Many new recipes to try, many options to play. Having it since first day release, and still have long way to finish the game. I like it very much, so as my 8 years old daughter.