Cake Mania (Cake Mania Cooking (DS))

Member Name: annadivall

Product:	Cake Mania Cooking (DS)
Date:	13/08/08 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Addictive, challenging

Disadvantages: Repetitive

Cake Mania is a game where you're making cakes for customers in a bakery.

The customers come in and queue up and a thought bubble appears. You touch the customer / bubble to give them a menu then the thought bubble shows what cake they want. There are four different shapes of cake, which you bake in your oven, then there are also four colours of icing, which you choose on the icing machine. The customer selects a shape of cake and colour of icing. You press the relevant shape on the oven to bake the cake then pick it up and choose the colour of icing by touching the right colour on the icing machine. Once it's ready, you pick it up and give it to the customer, who pays the money and goes. Pick up the money and they're done.

The challenge is that each customer has some stars, which slowly disappear the longer they wait and, the less stars, the angrier / more impatient they are and the lower tips they give. As there are a whole queue of customers at a time, you need to try to coordinate your cake making to keep everyone happy.

It starts off relatively easy and the customers aren't too quick to get angry, then it gets harder as you get onto the higher levels.

The levels are all different months and in certain months, you get novelty cakes. For example, they have Valentines cakes (heart shaped), Easter cakes (egg shaped) and Christmas cakes (christmas tree shaped).

When you move onto a new level, you're given the option of buying new equipment with any extra money you made. You can buy up to 3 ovens and icing machines, which can then be upgraded, a display stand and there are two areas to buy to add decorations to your cakes. This includes little grannies (for the little grannies who shop there), wedding couples, strawberries, and more.

It's a really addictive game if you like this sort of thing. Very repetitive but challenging to try to keep everyone happy and meet your targets to progress through the game.

Summary: Cake making fun