Directions are clear, with players getting covered in flour, water and whatever else if they’re over eager in their approach.

Making remarkable use of the touch screen through being entirely stylus-based activities, that will intuitively see players stirring, shaking, kneading, slamming, slicing and rolling their way toward their desired concoction. Mama gleefully grades your efforts throughout, and you’ll want to be achieving gold medals at each stage. Recipes are broken down into numerous preparation stages, with those at the easier end of the spectrum seeing you tackle five whereas the more advanced recipes can reach twelve. Flicking through the available recipes, players will be tasked with cooking up anything from Chicken Nuggets and Doner Kebab right through to a Mozzarella Salisbury Steak.

Professional cooks we are not, but the process is replicated by the central Let’s Cook mode in Cooking Mama: Bon Appétit!. “Nothing tastes quite like Mama’s cooking,” the game’s blurb exclaims, although we all know that our own creations often never quite reach the tantalising imagery that accompany the recipes themselves. It is in Mama’s Challenges where you can expect to spend the majority of your time, in which you’ll discover six gameplay modes that look to keep you entertained. That’s not necessarily a bad thing for those that have enjoyed what has come before, but anyone hoping for a sprinkling of new ideas will discover that Japanese developer Office Create have largely stuck to the same ingredients to tickle your tastebuds. Cooking Mama: Bon Appétit! has us back in the kitchen to whip up a culinary storm, although the game’s beaming mentor is still relying on the same well-worn recipe book to satisfy punters.

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