Customer Reviews

Iron Chef America/Supreme Cuisine

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

If you want a fun cooking game DO NOT buy Iron Chef America. This is one of the most repetitive and boring cooking games I've ever played. I rank it at the bottom of the cooking game genre.

It seems like every dish has the exact same steps. If you've completed one dish, you've completed them all. There's no variety. And there's no explanation as to how the judges make their decision. They just either like a dish or hate it. How do they make their decision? Who knows. There's no logic to it at all.

Then when you finish cooking, you have to plate your dishes. But this seems to have no effect at all on your score. It's just another pointless part of the game.

This game is a big disappointment. It received 2 stars because of the good graphics. Too bad the developers put more care into the graphics than into gameplay.

I enjoy the original Iron Chef, and hoped this game would live up to its name. But no. I should have left this one where it was. It was fun for about 30 minutes, but then I realized it was a waste of money. I collect Nintendo DS cooking games, but this one is getting traded-in at Gamestop.

I repeat: If you want a fun cooking game DO NOT buy Iron Chef America.

I am one of Cooking Mama's biggest fans, and on an impulse I purchased Iron Chef Supreme Cuisine for DS to take with me on a long road trip. I was hoping for similar entertainment to Cooking Mama, and I did indeed get the same game concept out of this game, just not near the same enjoyment...or any enjoyment...at all.

In Iron Chef you can compete on a career level or quick challenges. You start by selecting your competition (based on difficulty) and then a secret ingredient (in the career mode the secret ingredient is selected for you). Next you create your menu by choosing which dishes you're going to do. Then the challenge begins and you're off performing various cooking tasks such as chopping, grinding, frying, etc...to compose your dishes.

Now, how is this different from Cooking Mama you say? Well, first off, while in the challenge you have no indication whatsoever of what dish you're on. All tasks for each dish are thrown at you in one long sequence. So once you're done chopping onion, you go on to chop more onion, and you may do that two or three times before you get a different task.

Also, the dishes are all the same no matter which secret ingredient you do. I had assumed that each secret ingredient would introduce new dishes, but nope, the dishes are mostly repeated from previous challenges, and they just incorporate the new secret ingredient. For example, in the venison challenge you'll have "venison hamburgers" whereas in the boar challenge you'll have "boar hamburgers". Same dish, same tasks, different secret ingredient. The game almost seems deceiving stating that there are hundreds of dish variations, but in all actuality the dishes are repeated and it's up to the player to choose which dishes to put on their menu. Within the first three theme ingredients you will have already made the majority of the dishes that the game has to offer.

One thing that drove me crazy about this game was that the movements that you make with your stylus to perform the tasks is never consistent. You could slice perfectly in one task, and do it EXACTLY the same way in the next slicing task and the game tells you you've failed. It's either not calibrated right or the game just randomly selects your achievement of performance. I think it's most likely the prior.

The game does offer goals for which you can earn awards and medals for various achievements, such as performing 50 boiling tasks, or beating the top three career chefs. But I got about halfway through this game and sold it because I was too frustrated with how erratic the game was at scoring my performance.

I really think this game is not worth the money and is a waist of time. There are so many other good cooking-style games for the DS, I encourage anyone considering purchasing this game to select something else.

This is, by far, my favorite DS game so far, but it's too easy. I beat all challengers in just one day, except for the chairman of course, whom I have failed to still not beat yet.

My daughter loves to watch this show, so she really enjoyed this game. It is similar to Cooking Mama, but with a lot more skills. The only let down was that in order to play against someone on their DS, they need to have the game also. You can't use just one disk to share.

my son lost interest in it rather quickly. He really enjoys cooking & watching Food Network & Iron Chef on TV. he had asked for this game for Christmas & played it a lot at first, but it seemed like he lost interest in this game pretty quickly.

It is a fun, mindless game for kids & adults.

The Iron Chef was in great condition and I was very satisfied. Very fast shipping and the price with shipping was very reasonible. I recommened you to take a look at this game or others just like it. Thank You.