French Cooking: ‘Oui, Oui’ or ‘Wii, Wii’?
Posted on 17 April 2007 under Software
I’ll take the former for 200, Alex …
A Wii-based version of a cookoff doesn’t sound like a good idea whatsoever. As reported in this article on MSNBC.com:
In the case of “Cook Off,” this title takes the original “Cooking Mama” — released last year for the Nintendo DS — and brings it to Nintendo’s new Wii console. And in many ways (though not all), the move is a good fit … Certainly the game is easy enough to jump into, and it gets solid marks for its creative concept and for its attempts to use the Remote in unique ways. And with the move to the Wii, “Cook Off” has added a much-needed new element to the original game — a multiplayer option … Still though, there’s something missing from this recipe … even with the addition of the multi-player option the content here feels a bit thin for a console title and the challenges end up becoming rather repetitive (one can only slice and chop so much before growing weary of it) …
Ok, back the Wii truck up. Let’s take a good hard look at one particular sentence here:
Still though, there’s something missing from this recipe …
Well, gee, what might that be? Golly, I don’t know … not really sure … oh, wait, I think it’s the complete and utter inability to taste the final results!
Isn’t that what a cookoff is all about? When you go to a chili cookoff, do the judges watch the contestants make the chili, look at the completed chili in the bowl, and then judge without tasting?
Ludicrous, simply ludicrous.
They did this in the first season of the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star. It bothered the bejeepers out of me that the judges didn’t taste anything from the contestants until the third episode, and had already eliminated someone.
Software-based cooking competitions? No thanks, I’ll just phone in my entry.
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17 April 2007 @ 8:13 am Posted by Char James-Tanny
I thought it would be a fun game…turns out, it was more work than actually cooking
We never made it to the “cooking” part…we burned out when learning how to prep the food.
17 April 2007 @ 9:13 am Posted by LunaPierCook
The kids have Guitar Hero around here somewhere. The one kid who can actually play, a 14-year-old with serious David Gilmour skills, can’t play Guitar Hero at all since it’s all so incorrectly done. I’m wondering if this cooking game has the same kind of problem?