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Personal Trainer: Cooking ds Game Reviews
Personal Trainer: Cooking
Critic Score
Metascore: 81 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.6 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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(Also known as "Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What To Eat?") Cooking Gide is designed to take the user through every stage of cooking. Its recipes are enhanced with many demonstrational videos which go beyond the capabilities of printed cook books. Additional functionalities are included to facilitate the cooking and preparation process.

PUBLISHER: Nintendo
DEVELOPER: Nintendo
GENRE(S): Cooking
PLAYERS: 1
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: November 24, 2008

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

90
IGN
Cooking's touch screen interface is clean, but the voice commands and audio help are what really make traditional cookbooks seem outdated. This "Touch Generations" title may be intended to draw more non-gamers into the fold, but this is software that truly is for everyone.
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84
Cheat Code Central
This package surpasses the novelty of having a slew of recipes and a personal backup up chef teaching you the ropes.
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83
Game Revolution
It's informative, useful, well thought out, and exhaustive in it's attention to detail.
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82
NGamer UK
It's great for anyone who wants to learn to cook a bit more adventurously or simply expand their repertoire with something that isn't a celebrity cookbook. [Sept 2008, p.71]
80
AceGamez
It is an interactive cookbook and a truly excellent one at that.
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80
EuroGamer
This is a well-made package that takes advantage of the handheld's capabilities as much as you could hope any interactive recipe guide would.
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80
Modojo
Personal Trainer Cooking has plenty of tasty looking meals and a marvelous user interface.
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80
GameDaily
Personal Trainer Cooking is an ideal companion for budding chefs interested in learning their way around the kitchen.
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70
Worth Playing
Personal Trainer: Cooking is perfect for bored housewives (or husbands — let's not discriminate) who have extra spending money and a passion for new flavors and tastes.
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70
Pocket Gamer UK
Absolutely not a video game in any shape or form – but something that's more immediately useful than Brain Training and its ilk.
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70
N-Europe
Sizzling just below perfection yet leaving a pleasant taste in the mouth, Cooking Guide is a unexpectedly novel idea pulled off successfully
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70
DarkZero
Of course, it won’t make cooking any more entertaining if you already find it a bit of a chore, but if you just want to be entertained you could also sit back a look at Gordon Ramsey curse his way through an episode of The F Word.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

sneppo gave it a10:
This has 245 recipes and is briliant and easy to use. You can search recipes by keyword or country. You yell continue for the next step so that when you are cooking, you don't need to touch the DS. I love it!

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