gardening mama is not as good as cooking mama.it is more harder to understand and to play.
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Gardening Mama
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Offshoot of Cooking Mama, with plants.
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for Ages 8 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Gardening Mama was written by Marc Saltzman
As with its popular predecessor, Cooking Mama, parents need to know Gardening Mama is a safe arcade-like simulation that doesn't contain any controversial content. This Nintendo DS game lets kids – an kids at heart – try their skill at gardening using the stylus pen.One mode does allow you to trade items with a friend using the Nintendo wireless connection.
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- Families can talk about whether or not the Mama-style game-play should branch out into multiple themes or is Majesco watering down the brand with mediocre offshoots -- as PlayFirst did with its countless Diner Dash sequels? Did you learn anything about gardening by playing this game?
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What’s the Story?
If you've had your fill of flipping burgers, sautting vegetables, and frying eggs, trade your skillet for a gardening hoe in Majesco's GARDENING MAMA, a new Nintendo DS game that borrows from the frantic play from the original Cooking Mama but now lets you get your knees dirty, virtually speaking. As the name suggests, this family-friendly title places you in a garden and your task is to maintain the growth of flowers, fruits, and vegetables.
In the main mode you'll only be able to cultivate a few items at first but as your thumb gets greener you'll unlock many new kids of seeds. All the mini-games require a number of steps such as using your stylus pen on the touch screen to add fertilizer to the soil and mix it around, dig a hole and drop in a seed or bulb from your bag, water them, maybe spray pesticide, blow bugs off the plant (using the Nintendo DS's built-in microphone), and so on.
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If you find frantic games like Cooking Mama a fun and engaging time waster, then you'll probably like this $30 portable game, too. That said, it's more of the same -- just with gardening tasks as opposed to kitchen-centric ones -- but players should find this sequel nicely adds increasingly challenging steps, unlockable bonus items (ranging from garden gnomes to new outfits for Mama) and multiple game modes (including one that lets you trade items with a friend over a wireless connection). Close
Publisher’s Details
Released on 4/13/2009, price $29.99, not online enabled
ESRB rating: E (for (No Descriptors))
ESRB rating: E (for (No Descriptors))
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BOOORING
Hate it. It's so boring!! It's educational but boring.
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- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
gardning mama
it's a fun and a classic game.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
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