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As a follow up to the Farm Life and Midnight Play Pack post, I present you with more (possible) casual game titles from Ubisoft. They just trademarked “Gourmet Chef” and “My Fashion Studio”, which sound like sequels to last year’s Imagine: Master Chef and Imagine: Fashion Designer.
I mean these trademarks could be for My Prince of Persia: Fashion Studio and Lost: Gourmet Chef, but those probably won’t happen. Actually, these games might not be part of the Imagine series at all. Gourmet Chef could be Ubisoft’s version of Cooking Navi and My Fashion Studio might be a fashion training game. I doubt it will be a localized version of My Stylist though since Sony has not released the PSP Camera in North America.
I wonder what the profit margin is on these Imagine and Petz games. I imagine it must be good. Ubisoft wouldn't saturate stores with these kinds of titles if they weren't making money.
I rather have the sequel to KuruKuru Princess. Hope they bring that one over like they did the first one.
I like to think myself as an open-minded gamer, so even though I’m not a big fan of the fashion designer stuff, I harkened back to my childhood of playing paperdoll dress up and tried out Imagine: Fashion Designer.
Needless to say, I quickly regretted my decision. It’s quite dull, and no matter what you choose, none of your clients are ever happy with what you choose. The game isn’t really a game, more like pick whichever you think matches the clients wants, cross your fingers, and hope they like it enough to at least pass you to the next stage.
Ironically, Fashion Designer: Style Icon (by 505 Games) is a much better choice if your lil’ kid wants this sort of game. It was an interactive process where you actually cut the fabric, do all the sewing, picking of patterns, and makes you feel as if you’re doing something.
Rather disappointed that Imagine got a sequel whereas Style Icon did not. So yeah, not holding my breath that Gourmet Chef will be anything better than ‘Mama’.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
If “Gourmet Chef” is anything like Cooking Navi I would definitely buy it.