Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic

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Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic
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Developer(s) Cooking Mama Limited
Publisher(s)
Composer(s) Masayoshi Ishi
Series Cooking Mama
Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • NA: November 16, 2011
  • AU: November 24, 2011
  • EU: November 25, 2011
  • JP: December 1, 2011
Genre(s) Simulation, minigame
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic [lower-alpha 1] released as Cooking Mama 4 in Japan, Europe and Australia, is a 2011 video game for the Nintendo 3DS and it was the sequel to the Nintendo DS video game Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop and is the fourth installment to the Cooking Mama series. Kitchen Magic is the first Cooking Mama game to be released for the Nintendo 3DS and features 200 mini-games using the touch screen and 60 different recipes.

Contents

The successor to this game, Cooking Mama 5: Bon Appétit! for the Nintendo 3DS, was released on November 21, 2013.

Development

The game was released on November 2011 in North America, Europe, Australia and December 1, 2011 in Japan. It was first announced in May 2011. [1]

Reception

Cooking Mama 4 received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. [2] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one seven, one eight, and one seven, for a total of 30 out of 40. [3]

Notes

  1. Cooking Mama 4 (クッキングママ4, Kukkingu Mama 4)

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