The C-Word
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Fat Conan and I have been playing “Cooking Mama” on the DS this week. It’s the first thing to get us excited about cooking since the dawn of Nigella Lawson (ah, Nigella; you may have the unnerving height and unconvincing lady-name of a Soho transvestite, but you could clarify our butter any day). While “Cooking Mama” doesn’t stimulate quite the same parts as the aforementioned kitchen kitten, it does hit all the marks you could want in a fusion of Warioware and Gordon Ramsay’s “the F-Word”. It’s fun, it’s actually pretty tough and Mama (of the title) seems easily riled for a game that’s aimed squarely at kids. Don’t get me wrong though: Mama gets quite irate, but manages to fall short of the sweary rages that Mr. Ramsay is capable of spewing upon his staff.