Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends

The hardcore will then take their unsurpassed grill skill into the Let's Cook mode where there's less hand-holding in terms of tutorial, but still plenty of sweet prizes to unlock. Most of which you can use to customizing your kitchen design, utensils, and even the titular Mama, to your absolute liking.

Cooking Mama 2 is about pleasing diverse palettes. Westerners won't go scratching their heads at strange pescatarian Asian dishes since there's plenty of American staples to gobble up this time around, such as highly nutritious hot-dogs, hamburgers and waffles.Sure to please your buddies in suburbia.

Speaking of friends, that's what the game's all about. (Duh.) When you've prodded your dish to perfection you can save it to your diaryand send to your peeps for the requisite bragging rights. Best of all, there's some single cart multiplayer modes that you can play with your friends that are promising, much like your stylus prepared meals, to be both quick and satisfying.

Mama drops it like it's hot this November, so keep up those hearty appetites, chowhounds.