Gardening Mama 2 Forest Friends For 3DS Review

** I was sent a copy of this title for the purpose of this review. However, my own opinion was used and not influenced in any way.

Gardening Mama 2 Forest Friends For 3DS Review

Ashes Thoughts (Age 9)

It’s like having your own garden where you have to earn seeds and shopping tickets. As soon as you do the first plant then you can have all sorts of different colors of roses and other flowers. Then the fruit and veggies come in. Then you can start to grow carrots and chestnuts and stuff like that. Then when the trees stop producing you can make fire wood out of them. There is even a dog, cat and bunny that need your help. The bunny likes to sell bouquets of flowers and stuff and the cat is like a makeup shop and then there is a dog that likes to work at a home store and they need you to bring a certain amount of food and flowers and stuff. You also get to grow bananas and there is night and day and each morning they are bigger and you even have to slap at flies by using bug spray and stuff and then they grow. If you fail it will wilt but if you succeed then they will grow back again. It’s like growing a garden in the real world but in a video game.

From Press Release:

Plant the seeds of friendship!

Make your woodland friends happy by harvesting flowers, fruits and vegetables they can sell in their forest shops. Get growing with 50 fresh plants, new activities and creative gardening fun!

Mama is going green again in a brand new stylus-based experience that challenges players to grow 50 fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables her animal friends can sell in their woodland shops.  Additional gameplay features of Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends include:

• Use the stylus as your master gardening tool to plant seeds, bulbs and saplings, then care for them with water and fertilizer.
• Grow 50+ different types of plants including beautiful hydrangeas, juicy watermelons and sizzling hot peppers!
• Nurture, harvest and deliver garden items to six different animal stores including: Bear’s Restaurant, Rabbit’s Flower Shop, Cat’s Beauty Shop and Squirrel’s Cake Shop. Fulfill their shop requests to earn garden points!
• Trade points for items and decorations that let you create a one-of-a-kind, custom garden. Use shop tickets to purchase more flowers, fruits and vegetables to enlarge your garden and make it more productive.
• Earn rewards such as new varieties of seeds, flower bulbs, and trees from your animal friends so you can expand your garden and they can grow their shops into bigger businesses that attract more customers.
• New activities with multiple variations star Mama’s friends and family featured throughout the Mama games. Sort, pick, clean, organize, mow, arrange, water, harvest and much more!
• Keep your garden healthy by protecting your plants from viruses and bugs.
• Customize and decorate your garden with 100+ items: fences, fountains, playground equipment, topiary, pergolas, sculptures, benches, pets and more. Even dress up Mama in fun new outfits!
• Use Spot Pass to receive new garden backgrounds.

Developed by Cooking Mama Limited, Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends releases this April on Nintendo 3DS. For additional information on the Cooking Mama franchise please visit: www.CookingMamaUS.com.