Gardening Mama (DS)

Have you spent endless hours playing Cooking Mama 1 & 2 trying to perfect your cuisine and aim for the full 100 points. I know I have. It's not a brilliant series of games but makes superb use of the stylus. Gardening Mama follows suit. I eagerly awaited the release of this game from the creators of the popular DS and Wii game - Cooking Mama and Cooking Mama 2. One - because I enjoyed the Cooking Mama series and two - because gardening is one of my passions. The layout of the game is the same as Cooking Mama, with around four or five different menus. The menus are easy to figure out without having to read the instruction manual. The ...  Read the complete review

This review is of the Nintendo DS game, Gardening Mama, developed by Cooking Mama and published by Majesco and Taito. This game is from the Cooking Mama series, and involves building up and tending your own virtual garden. The game play involves trying to grow your own plants in a garden, including flowers, vegetables and fruit. There is a wide range of different plants to be able to grow, which does all have an educational side to it. You play numerous mini games, which you are then rated on as a percentage and give a gold, silver or bronze award, similar in principle to the Cooking Mama game. There are lots of these mini games to play through, ...  Read the complete review