Nintendo continues its crusade into the casual gaming arena, and having told us we're overweight (Wii Fit), dim (Brain Training), half blind (Sight Training) and terrible at maths (Maths Training), the firm is now focusing on teaching us to cook.

But this is no Cooking Mama. Instead this is, almost literally, a cookbook on cartridge. There's no game here: it's a series of recipes that the software is happy to guide you through.

You'll find nearly 250 different recipes included, and choosing which one to tackle is just one way that Cooking Guide manages to make the process more straightforward. You can search by country of origin if you want to, or you can pick an ingredient from a list and all the recipes containing it will appear. From there you can check out what you need for each recipe, before choosing which one to try to cook.

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And here's where Cooking Guide should hit its stride. For the program talks you through the process (and you can adjust the speed of the speaking voice to your preference), tells you exactly what you need and guides you through it all vocally.

And to be fair, there's a lot of detail here and some imaginative recipes that can be tackled by cooks of all levels of experience. While we couldn't track down Jamie Oliver to be sure about it, the bulk of the inclusions here are friendly, not daunting, and from what we tried, were decent enough to tackle.

The downside for us, though, was the voice control. To get away from using the stylus, Cooking Guide allows you to shout out if you want the program to repeat something, go forward, or go back a step. The problem is, as we've found before, that the DS microphone lacks the necessary precision to make this work. We got fed up in the end when the program kept repeating an instruction while we were almost on our hands and knees begging for it to move on to the next step.

That aside, though, Cooking Guide keeps its promises. Well presented and packed with detail, it's a diverse way to tackle a bit of cooking. We'd have preferred a friendlier price, and voice recognition that, well... worked, but it's a friendly way to improve your culinary scope.

A neat idea, quite well executed. A few rough edges, particularly on the voice recognition front, and an expensive price tag bring it down slightly, though.