Gardening Mama
Gardening Mama
- 2-4 multiplayer wireless support via Nintendo DS single-card play.
- Everyone?s favorite Mama from the best-selling Cooking Mama series stars in the brand?s first offshoot.
- Use the stylus as your master garden tool to take care of flowers, fruit trees and vegetables in Mama?s garden.
- Experience unexpected garden results based on your care?flowers can bloom different colors, fruit trees can grow different fruits, etc.
- Multiple game modes including: Let’s Grow It, Let’s Enjoy It, Let’s Do Gardening, Let?s Harvest Multiplayer, Treasure Box and Dress Up.
Gardening Mama for Nintendo DS…Cooking Mama’s stepped out of her kitchen and into nature for some gardening fun! Join Mama from the award-winning multi-million selling Cooking Mama franchise as she grows harvests and enjoys the literal fruits of her labor! Everyone’s favorite Mama from the best-selling Cooking Mama series stars in the brand’s first offshoot; Use the stylus as your master garden tool to take care of flowers fruit trees and vegetables in Mama’s garden; Growing live products means that you may experience unexpected results based on your care–flowers can bloom different colors fruit trees can grow different fruits etc. Multiple modes of play include: LET’S GROW IT: grow many kinds of flowers fruits and vegetables. Manage your garden as it seeds blooms fruit bears fruit and matures. Fertilizer and soil conditions will affect your results. LET’S ENJOY IT: produce items from the flowers fruits and vegetables you have raised (i.e. grow strawberries and make strawberry jam; grow flowers and press them into an album; grow pumpkins to make jack o lanterns etc.). LET’S DO GARDENING: Follow Mama’s expert guidance as you decorate various chapel house and store gardens while making gardening goods like pergolas and hanging baskets and planting flower beds and trees. LET’S HARVEST MULTIPLAYER: Compete against up to four friends online to harvest fruits and vegetables. The winner harvests the most! TREASURE BOX: Keep the products you’ve made from your gardening and trade those creations with friends online. DRESS UP: Change Mama’s costume and customize your game layout and design. The better your score in the other modes the nicer items you can earn to customize.
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Review by SammyWammy for Gardening Mama
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I got this game since I previously played Cooking Mama and Cooking Mama 2 (Dinner With Friends) and I was very excited about it. Now I’ve played it a few times, I’m very happy to have gotten it. With this game if you have previously played either of the Cooking Mama games, then you’ll probably have an idea of what to expect. The format isn’t greatly different from them, it’s still very easy to pick up and figure out.
What I love about these games are, kids can have so much fun with them but an adult can also have a go too. Some of the task may be a little easy for an adult but some may not be (especially if you’re going for gold).
If you haven’t played any of the Cooking Mama games, then the style of the game is a little something like this, your goal is to plant something, such as a tulip but its broken down into stages, seeding, digging a hole, and so on. Theres nice obvious instructions on what to do for each task that needs to be done in order to plant something. There is also directions for you to follow, which is very helpful. My cousin loves this game too as it gives her an idea of how to garden, in a fun way.
Review by coolgamer for Gardening Mama
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Mama is back! And this time she has traded in her whisk for a shovel! That’s right..Mama gardens now!
The setup is virtually the same as in Cooking Mama. You garden things and then you get a grade for it. There are a couple changes that are worth noting however:
One bonus is that the game is in bird’s eye view; you get to roam the garden and select what you want to grow. More options become available as you progress and your garden expands into new areas. You also get more plants to grow as you go along.
Another nice thing is that you can change Mama’s outfits and even decorate your garden with the bonus prizes you earn. This is fun when you want to take a break from gardening.
The major difference with Gardening Mama from Cooking Mama is that instead of just cooking a dish and being done you have to allow your plants to grow. So when you garden something you are not done for a while. There are many steps to garden until you get a finished product. Sometimes you can even make food from a plant. It can get kind of annoying waiting for plants to grow because you have to watch them. If you forget about one Mama will come on the screen and alert you, which gets tedious. But other than that waiting for plants isn’t too bad.
I would recommend this game for any Cooking Mama fan or anyone wanting to try out the series. It is very fun alone or in single-card download mode. The developers have been consistent with the look and gameplay of the series, which keeps it familiar yet still refreshing. A must for all Mama fans!
Review by Tammy Erwin for Gardening Mama
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I like most others that have reviewed this item, loved the Cooking Mama games. I figured since I liked those then I would definitely like this game, boy was I right. This game is very fun, and addictive. I have to say that I like it better than the cooking mama games. It is set up alittle different than the cooking mama games but nothing major to make it difficult to play.
In this game you will grow different kinds of flowers, vegetables, and fruit. You receive gifts as you do things to get your plants to grow. It’s a really nice addictive game. I have had this game for about a month now, and still have not completed the game, and I play it every night for at least 1/2 hour before I go to bed. If you liked the cooking mama games, and enjoy action/arcade/time management games you will really enjoy this game and will not be disappointed!!
Review by uber_neko_zero for Gardening Mama
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I bought cooking mama, though I have not had time to play it *yet*. I have, however, played it on iphones in the store and was immediately in love. I sprung for the DS version as I read that it is longer and a better value. That being said…
I was given Gardening Mama just last night and was thrilled. (I love plants as much as I am into cooking.)
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I opened it up straight away and popped it into the DS. The first things I noticed were:
1. A color scheme that, unlike the cover image, was various shades of pinks and peach and yellow, which made menus and such hard to read. (The cover image shows bright, distinct colors. Lots of variance.) = headache
2. The menu options SHAKE (or dance, if you will). In an annoying way, like someone waving something under your nose and saying, “lookit! look it! look what i havvvvvvve!!! can you see it, can you see eeeeeet?” Added to the already difficult to read menu, the added feature of shaking………. = HEADACHE
3. Still wanting to love this game, I ventured onward, figuring that once I got used to the game, I wouldn’t actually need to read the menu. I would just know which region of the screen to tap. So I started a game. MOAR SHAKING MENU ITEMS AND INSTRUCTIONS. At this point I am getting downright irritated with whatever person on the design team that decided that this was a GOOD idea. Like I want to smack them, or force *them* to stare at the menus and such until they get the same headache I am getting. (Maybe this only affects people who are prone to getting motionsick. I don’t know.)
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As for the gameplay, I think it feels pretty similar to what you could expect from Cooking Mama, which is to say, you won’t always know what you are expected to do but you eventually figure it out. There is a practice mode also which is great for that ‘figuring it out’ stage.
I think that this game has a lot of promise. Unfortunately, for some, that promise might include a tension headache.
Review by The Green Lion for Gardening Mama
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I picked up Gardening Mama just a few days ago when I broke down and bought myself a DSi. I had never played Cooking Mama, but when that game had first come out on the DS I was working at EB Games/Gamestop and I remember how popular it was. Since I like flowers and I assumed it was based off of the popular Cooking Mama, I picked it up and tried it out later that day. I played it while doing laundry, and before I realized it THREE HOURS had gone by! The game really is fun, and quite addicting! I’m hoping to pick up the original Cooking Mama soon.