Ratatouille: Food Frenzy is a cookery simulation-styled minigame

Minigame

A minigame is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game...

 compilation video game developed by Helixe

Helixe

Helixe was an American video game developer that developed mainly for Nintendo handhelds. The company was founded in July 2000 and was owned by THQ. It developed titles for Game Boy Advance, Wii and Nintendo DS....

 and published by THQ

THQ

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 for the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

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. It was released in North America on October 29, 2007, in Europe on February 15, 2008, and in Japan on February 21, 2008. It is based on the film, Ratatouille

Ratatouille (film)

Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005...

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Reception

Ratatouille: Food Frenzy received mostly negative reviews from reviewers who criticized the lack of content in the game; the game received a 48% on Metacritic

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. IGN

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's Chris Adams felt that the game's seven minigames were too difficult for the target demographic and that it recycled content from another game based on the same movie, Ratatouille

Ratatouille (video game)

Ratatouille is a video game based on the Pixar film, Ratatouille . It was developed at Heavy Iron Studios and released by THQ, Nintendo and SCEA on June 26, 2007, two days before the first theatrical release in Russia...

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