Want to learn how to cook? Its never been cheaper with the latest training simulator for the Nintendo DS.
Written by Evan Nathans (editor-at-large)
BAMN!!
With the most inane name for a game since the original Brain Training:
Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, Nintendo's latest attempt to
transmogrify their little DS console into the most wide and wacky purveyor of
EVERYTHING gets a bit stranger with the release of Cooking Guide: Can't Decide
What To Eat? Those of you who might be thinking this just another
Cooking Mama rip may want to rethink your conceptions of what gaming is all
about, as the latest salvo in the portable powerhouses growing list of the
strange and unusual is more cooking utensil than cooking game.
I'm so getting this thing come November, as the one skill I'm universally
lacking in is in the kitchen. Try as I might to follow directions and
television personalities (love you, Rachel Ray!), nothing I do turns out right.
In fact, just last week a fairy innocuous experiment with Japanese Soba noodles
reminded me that despite what you may have heard, it IS possible to permanently
fuse cheap noodles with even cheaper cookware. But time waits for no man,
and if I'm ever going to earn respect around my pots and pans (the apple peeler
is laughing), then I've got to do whatever it takes. Kind of makes you
think that if you wait long enough, everything you wanted to work on will have
been done. Isn't that right, Mr.
Fermi?
Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat? his the Nintendo DS
this November 26th. Get your reservations now, and enjoy the first trailer
and screenshots just below!
Cooking Guide turns your Nintendo DS into an interactive cookbook, complete
with recipes and video demos.
• Cooking Guide includes more than 200 recipes from around the world. So no
matter what you’re in the mood for, you can find something new and tasty to
make for dinner. Users can search a map by country to find regional dishes
or select options for low-calorie foods, specific ingredients or short
cooking times.
• Each recipe contains step-by-step directions and photos to make it
possible to prepare dishes you’ve never tried before. Use the stylus or
simple voice commands to “turn the page.” A tap of the touch screen lets you
adjust the serving size automatically, and users can write and save cooking
notes, just as they would in a paper recipe book.
• The Cooking Guide chef talks you through the entire cooking process.
Recipes include photos of the dish as well as instructional videos on how to
perform different cooking techniques, such as how to chop an onion or clean
a fish. Users can access a handy reference function to explain unfamiliar
terms and cooking techniques when they appear.
• The software includes a timer and calculator, as well as a search function
to help you find what you’re looking for. Cooking Guide also includes an
ingredient checklist to use as a shopping list – just put a mark next to the
items you need and bring your Nintendo DS to the grocery store.
For a low-priced downloadable adventure Amy may be tempting, but numerous issues prevent it from becoming the horrific butterfly it meant to emerge as.
From the first frame to the last looks and feels exactly the way a horror movie should look and feel; oozes atmosphere from every pore and keeps us on the edge of our seats in suspense.
Based on a premise that only gets progressively less likely the further it goes until it reaches an ending that might as well have been written for a fantasy novel.
