In Cooking Mama 3, players use the stylus as the ultimate cooking utensil to create 80 all new dishes including chili con carne, tulip chicken, mushroom quiche and more. For the first time players can shop for the necessary ingredients before they start cooking in 200 different mini-games that let them chop, grate, slice, and stir up phenomenal foods. Cooking Mama 3 also lets aspiring chefs create their own dishes by combining ingredients together in delicious new ways. In addition, the game features multiplayer cooking challenges and five other gameplay modes. As recipes progress from simple to complex and from small to large dishes, players must do their best to meet Mama's expectations and impress their hungry friends. If friends think a dish is delicious, gamers will get to unlock another new friend!
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These series of cooking, gardening and crafting games are essentially minigame collections similar to Warioware, with the difference being the fact, that the games here are tied to a dish, and if you fail one minigame, you need to start the whole dish all over again. This exciting gimmick is the main reason why I am seriously addicted to the charming graphics and gameplay loop of Cooking Mama, and the third entry brings enough new stuff to the table to make me feel entertained.
Shop & Chop features a new mode, where you can essentially shop around, collecting ingredients for Mama, while avoiding certain people at the shop. This little mode features new minigames, 4 levels, and I found it a bit gimmicky, but overall, it became a nice addition.
I really liked the customization, and that after a few dishes, you can essentially unlock new hats, clothes, and stuff by an another minigame, which is luck based, but fun.
Overall, Cooking Mama 3 is the ultimate Cooking Mama game on the DS, the literal last of it's kind, as the other games for the system were not centered around cooking. If you enjoy Warioware, or just silly minigames, check this one out! Who knows, you might be even better than mama!