It’s good to see what you’re aiming for with each dish, and it spices up the gameplay a little to make it competitive. Strange, then, that multiplayer against a second real human player seems entirely redundant and broken. Somewhere into the third minigame of an eight-game dish, the two of you will pause, look at each other and say, “What the hell are we doing?”
Fundamentally this is a game that seems to lack motivation. Get the best times in some dishes and you unlock more of them to practice, which then unlocks more competitors for you to beat, in an endlessly repetitive swirl of cucumber-chopping and egg-cracking mimicry.
It’s not as though it’s all bad - the meat grinder is great, with you holding the remote like a handle and winding as fast as you can to get the meat through, and the chopping does feel kinda satisfying when you can sweep an entire pepper off the board faster than Britney Spears can embarrass herself. But with your only reward being more recipes to practice with a fairly unresponsive remote, there’s just not enough to motivate you to play.
Still, Mama herself is an interesting character. Kept in from the DS version, Mama’s eyes burn bright hellfire when you screw up a recipe, which is still entertainingly inappropriate given the smiley tone of the rest of the game. Other nice Mama responses have her covered in batter if you whisk too zealously, or painted up like a Japanese Kabuki actor. Doesn’t make up for the game’s inherent flaws, though.
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