Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends is basically everything you could want from a quirky, touchscreen-based cooking simulation. This sequel improves on the original Cooking Mama with enhanced graphics and sound, unlockable costumes and accessories for Mama, a greater variety of recipes—from ravioli to California rolls to bagels—and the capability for head-to-head multiplayer cooking skills showdowns. Some of the minigames can get a little tiring, and many of the unlockable items have little point, but overall, Cooking Mama 2 makes for some delicious fun.

For more on this game, see 1Up.com's review of Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends.

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