Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic

Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic^[a] 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.

Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic
Developer(s)	Cooking Mama Limited
Publisher(s)	NA: Majesco Entertainment PAL: 505 Games JP: Office Create
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

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

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	56/100[2]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Famitsu	30/40[3]
NGamer	55%[4]
Nintendo Power	5/10[5]
Nintendo World Report	5/10[6]
Official Nintendo Magazine	70%[7]
Common Sense Media	[8]

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)