Cooking Mama 5 – Bon Appétit

Cooking Mama 5 – Bon Appétit!, released in Japan as Cooking Mama 5 and in Europe and Australia as Cooking Mama: Bon Appétit!, is the sequel to the Nintendo 3DS video game Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic and is the fifth installment to the Cooking Mama series, the second on the Nintendo 3DS. It was released in Japan on November 21, 2013. It then released in North America on September 16, 2014 and in Europe on March 6, 2015. It contains over 60 recipes and new household activities/games. Similar to other Cooking Mama games, the player cooks various meals using the 3DS’s touch screen.

Following the instructions of the titular “Mama”, the player uses the stylus or their finger to perform different kitchen tasks, including chopping vegetables, slicing meat, flipping food in pans, and arranging the final items on the plate. Each of these tasks is performed by completing a mini-game which usually lasts less than 10 seconds. The gameplay structure consists of the player progressing through a series of short minigames. At the end of each minigame, players are given a score, and at the end of a dish given a final score based on their performance over the entire dish.

The game features a total of 60 different dishes and 30 non-cooking related minigames. Cooking Mama 5 also features local multiplayer via Download Play, allowing players to compete against in each other in 15 different cooking tasks taken from the main game. Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! takes place primarily in the kitchen of Mama’s shop. Throughout the game, the player will visit different locations in the shop, including the foyer, the kitchen, the backyard, the garden, the playroom of Mama’s presumed child, and the patio. The player will also visit the beach during a minigame.