Gardening Mama

 DS
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60

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  • Summary: 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 in the first ever gardening game for Nintendo DS. Use the stylusCooking 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 in the first ever gardening game for Nintendo DS. 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. [Majesco]    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
  1. Nintendo Power
    80
    If you liked Cooking Mama, give this one a try. [Apr 2009, p.88]
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  2. NintendoWorldReport
    70
    While Gardening Mama comes very close to being a leader in the series, glitchy controls and gameplay that can become tedious and boring hold it back from being a truly enjoyable title.
  3. GameSpot
    70
    Mama's minigames bloom nicely in their new garden thanks to improved game design.
  4. Nintendo Gamer
    61
    A cute enough attempt to perk up the Mama franchise but a mere change of scenery isn't enough to disguise the same old gameplay. [July 2009, p.74]
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  5. Nintendo Life
    60
    The controls may be to simplistic to be engaging and the absence of instructions can lead this casual game into frustrating territory. Nevertheless, even with the simplistic controls and lack of guidance the player will still feel that same sense of accomplishment and pride when you master Mama’s tasks.
  6. Kombo
    50
    Gardening Mama and Cooking Mama might as well be the same game. The change of setting is nice but that alone doesn't differentiate it enough from past Mama games to make Gardening Mama feel completely home grown and fresh.
  7. Metro GameCentral
    40
    Mama's sideline in gardening proves to be just as shallow and repetitive as her cookery courses.

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  1. koolkris200
    May 28, 2011
    10
    this is a fun game because you can plant and make food for your mama family it is a fun way to learn how to take care of your gardenthis is a fun game because you can plant and make food for your mama family it is a fun way to learn how to take care of your garden ................................................… Expand
  2. nintendo-sekta
    Dec 20, 2018
    10
    Это игра прикольная. Геймплей разнообразен из-за чего в неё интересно играть. Игра долгая и это идёт ей в плюс.Это игра прикольная. Геймплей разнообразен из-за чего в неё интересно играть. Игра долгая и это идёт ей в плюс.

Awards & Rankings

97
#97 Best DS Game of 2009
86
#86 Most Discussed DS Game of 2009
58
#58 Most Shared DS Game of 2009