my son lost interest in it rather quickly. He really enjoys cooking & watching Food Network & Iron Chef on TV. he had asked for this game for Christmas & played it a lot at first, but it seemed like he lost interest in this game pretty quickly.

It is a fun, mindless game for kids & adults.

I am one of Cooking Mama's biggest fans, and on an impulse I purchased Iron Chef Supreme Cuisine for DS to take with me on a long road trip. I was hoping for similar entertainment to Cooking Mama, and I did indeed get the same game concept out of this game, just not near the same enjoyment...or any enjoyment...at all.

In Iron Chef you can compete on a career level or quick challenges. You start by selecting your competition (based on difficulty) and then a secret ingredient (in the career mode the secret ingredient is selected for you). Next you create your menu by choosing which dishes you're going to do. Then the challenge begins and you're off performing various cooking tasks such as chopping, grinding, frying, etc...to compose your dishes.

Now, how is this different from Cooking Mama you say? Well, first off, while in the challenge you have no indication whatsoever of what dish you're on. All tasks for each dish are thrown at you in one long sequence. So once you're done chopping onion, you go on to chop more onion, and you may do that two or three times before you get a different task.

Also, the dishes are all the same no matter which secret ingredient you do. I had assumed that each secret ingredient would introduce new dishes, but nope, the dishes are mostly repeated from previous challenges, and they just incorporate the new secret ingredient. For example, in the venison challenge you'll have "venison hamburgers" whereas in the boar challenge you'll have "boar hamburgers". Same dish, same tasks, different secret ingredient. The game almost seems deceiving stating that there are hundreds of dish variations, but in all actuality the dishes are repeated and it's up to the player to choose which dishes to put on their menu. Within the first three theme ingredients you will have already made the majority of the dishes that the game has to offer.

One thing that drove me crazy about this game was that the movements that you make with your stylus to perform the tasks is never consistent. You could slice perfectly in one task, and do it EXACTLY the same way in the next slicing task and the game tells you you've failed. It's either not calibrated right or the game just randomly selects your achievement of performance. I think it's most likely the prior.

The game does offer goals for which you can earn awards and medals for various achievements, such as performing 50 boiling tasks, or beating the top three career chefs. But I got about halfway through this game and sold it because I was too frustrated with how erratic the game was at scoring my performance.

I really think this game is not worth the money and is a waist of time. There are so many other good cooking-style games for the DS, I encourage anyone considering purchasing this game to select something else.