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April 25th, 2007, 09:03 GMT · By

Having Trouble with Cooking Mama?

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Cooking Mama: Cook Off is a video game for the Wii, developed by OfficeCreate and published by Majesco. As any game for the Wii, its main purpose is to provide loads of fun for the players with the Wii's one-of-a-kind motion sensitive control system. The game however, once released proved to be quite difficult and frustrating
for the player, regarding controls. Simple operations such as rolling truffles or cracking eggs are impossible for the player to do, if not using a set of instructions. Speaking of which, here are some tips on how to successfully flip items in the frying pan, stir soup, crack eggs and more, using the Wii Remote, coming from the publisher via Joystiq:

- For rolling truffles, place the Wii Remote flat in the palm of your hand, as if it were the truffle. Once in your hand, roll the Wii Remote in your hand as if it were the truffle.
- For egg cracking, hold the Wii Remote up in the air vertically and bring it down as if there were an invisible bowl in front of you.
- To grind meat, hold the Wii Remote horizontally in your hand and make the crank motion as if there were a meat grinder in front of you.
- For stirring, hold the Wii Remote upside down and stir as if it were a spoon.
- To flip items in the frying pan, flick your wrist as you would with a real pan. Three flips consecutively will earn you bonus points.
- Cracking 3 eggs with only one initial attempt will earn you bonus points.
- In certain recipes, you can turn the heat up or down on the stove before the direction reaches the line.

I have to say, with the instructions given here, not even retards could miss. Do this and that... as if it were in front of you...? Jeez! Well, I guess it comes in handy actually picturing the meat getting tenderized, while you twist and turn the Wii Remote around. Now that everything is clear, print the instructions list and go grind your virtual meat, stat!

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Comment #1 by: Ashley on 31 Jul 2009, 03:47 UTC reply to this comment

Would be wonderfully helpful... if there was an instruction set on using the Wii remote with Cooking Mama: World Kitchen.
I can't figure out how to complete a "boil it" to save my life... and I've done every recipe up to page 5 already.
Never get more than halfway with "boil it" and I hold the remote exactly like the screen shows me.
To top it all off, I've looked for help all over the net on this... nothing.
However... I may try the stirring technique from this review on the "boil it"... hopefully that will help.

Comment #1.1 by: Susan on 05 Apr 2010, 17:20 GMT

Yea, the "boil it" is so stupid! It pisses me off, I'm trying to find the trick to it too because it's so impossible. I've tried letting the temperature rise a bit but not to much by that it burns (you do this by not stirring) and it seems to cook a bit faster but when I stir the temperature would go down and it would slow down again. So I've been playing around with that. I'd only stir it when I put an ingredient. So far we'll see what happens. Hopefully that will give you something to figure out too?

Comment #1.2 by: SC on 19 Jan 2011, 02:34 GMT

Susan, your comment got me there! Instead of constantly stirring, your goal is to keep the gauge on the right side of the screen in the "blue" for as long as you can. So don't stir, wait for the gauge to rise to almost yellow, then stir a little bit to get it back down to blue. This makes it boil much faster.

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