Gardening Mama

by Majesco

• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001M6AHHW
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 31, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,044 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #5 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Games > Simulation > Life

Product Description

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Go green in the very first gardening specific game for the Nintendo DS. In Gardening Mama, Cooking Mama, from the award-winning, multi-million selling Cooking Mama franchise, has stepped out of her kitchen and into nature for some gardening fun. Join Mama, either in single player, or with up to three friends in wireless DS single-card play as she grows, harvests and enjoys the literal fruits of her labors. Players: 1-4 Wi-Fi options: Wireless DS single-card play available via Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Key Features 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 game modes: 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. 2-4 multiplayer wireless support via Nintendo DS single-card play. Screenshots: Develop a green thumb. View larger. Play fun mini-games. View larger. Multiplayer modes. View larger. Put the stylus to work. View larger.

Product Description

Gardening Mama transforms the DS stylus into a universal gardening tool that players will use to plant, nurture and harvest flowers, fruits and vegetables. Gamers can manage their garden through the seeding, blooming and maturation phases, and then produce items from the plants they've grown (i.e. grow strawberries to make jam or raise pumpkins and then carve a jack-'o-lantern). A robust multiplayer mode lets up to four friends compete to grow the biggest harvest and Treasure Box mode lets players share items they've grown with online friends. Gamers can also decorate various gardens while creating goods like pergolas and hanging baskets. In addition, players can change Mama's outfit to their liking while customizing the screen design to their preference. Cute Treasure Chest - Keep the products you've made from your garden and trade those creations with friends online Compete against up to four friends online to harvest fruits and vegetables. The winner harvests the most!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very fun game April 11, 2009

By SammyWammy

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

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. :D

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars She's baaack... June 3, 2009

By coolgamer

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

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!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but too overly repetitive... September 8, 2010

By ChibiNeko TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   

Let me first say that I love the Cooking Mama games. I've played almost all of the games that are out there multiple times- they're just fun to replay, so I knew what I would be getting myself into when I purchased this game.

Game Synopsis: Gardening Mama takes our favorite gaming character out of the kitchen & into the garden as you attempt to grow a wide variety of flowers, vegetables, & trees.

PROS
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1) This game is incredibly simple to play. The directions are pretty clear & less gifted players will still be able to keep up with everything.

2) There's a wide variety of plants to be grown in this game, from roses to cosmos to grapes. You won't lack for things to do.

CONS
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1) Too much repetition. While there was a ton of repetition in the previous CM games, it was never as obvious as it was for this game. It's fun but a lot of it gets REALLY old after a while, which will cause many gamers to put this game to the side rather than try to play & beat it over a few days like they would the other CM games.

2) It might have been my DS, but game play was occasionally sluggish- most notably in the bonus screens & whenever I went to change things in the game like Mama's outfit. Since CM2 wasn't that slow, I was surprised to see how sluggish this was.

I also sort of had an issue with having to go back & forth between plants, but I was mostly ambivalent about that. It just got a little old when I had to do one part of my gladiolas, then go to the map & visit the orchard in order to work on my apples. There's a lot of fun to be had in this game overall, but for me the repetition REALLY got on my nerves after a while. You'll raise some flowers & everything will be the same except for the name of the plant you are growing.

Overall this is still a fun game, just not as fun as the regular CM games. It's worth playing, but I'd look for a previously played copy rather than a brand spanking new one.