Cooking Mama Sweet Shop Review

<p><em>Cooking Mama<&sol;em> is a game series many DS owners are familiar with and a few remember fond memories of the charming franchise&period; The latest title published by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;risingstargames&period;com&sol;us&sol;"><strong>Rising Star Games <&sol;strong><&sol;a> &&num;8211&semi; <em>Cooking Mama Sweet Shop<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; gives players more of a reason to remake recipes aside from enjoying the process&period; With this installment&comma; players along with Mama are in charge of a pretty shop&period; After finishing a recipe&comma; Mama asks you to place the food on display so customers may purchase a treat&period; The money earned from the shop can then be used to customize the kitchen and shop itself&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a straightforward game with little to be confused about yet the fun lies within the simplicity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;125679" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-125679" style&equals;"width&colon; 693px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;" wp-image-125679" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;24211517&sol;Cooking-Mama-Sweet-Shop-pic-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Cooking Mama Sweet Shop &sol; Rising Star Games" width&equals;"693" height&equals;"383" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-125679" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Cooking Mama Sweet Shop &sol; Rising Star Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>There are no complicated mechanics to learn or stats to memorize&period; The entire franchise offers light-heart entertainment to enjoy&period; Any mistakes the player will make are all fixed by the character Mama&period; And after she proclaims &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s Ok&comma; Mama will fix it&&num;8221&semi; the recipe you messed up ends up looking completely perfect&period; In spite of your game experience&comma; you will still spill batter and miss cracking the eggs into the bowl&period; This makes playing it all the more fun and silly&period;<em> Sweet Shop<&sol;em> could have benefited from a bit of money management&period; To make the game challenging&comma; the developers could have added in the need to use funds from sales to purchase ingredients for the baked goods&period; This would have added an extra incentive to sell more food&period; At least the money has somewhat of a purpose&colon; to customize the shop and kitchen&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s fun to pick out outfits for Mama and to redecorate the shop and it makes the game feel more personable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;125678" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-125678" style&equals;"width&colon; 504px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-125678" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;24211435&sol;Cooking-Mama-Sweet-Shop-pic-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Cooking Mama Sweet Shop &sol; Rising Star Games" width&equals;"504" height&equals;"614" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-125678" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Cooking Mama Sweet Shop &sol; Rising Star Games<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The simple chibi style of animation is adorable and looks great in the 3D mode&period; The 3D portion of Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s handheld is a debatable feature yet it does add some extra depth to the otherwise basic style&period; Most of the time you will find yourself looking solely at the the bottom screen due to most of the interaction is through the touch screen&period; OFFICE CREATE&comma; now titled Cooking Mama Limited&comma; the developers of the series&comma; has done a fantastic job of integrating the 3DS touch screen&period; Using the stylus&comma; players must stir&comma; mix&comma; knead&comma; add ingredients and much more to complete a recipe&period; Time limits make these mini games more of a challenge but after practicing awhile players will be able to cook as well as Mama herself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Competing through Download Play locally is a treat to experience with friends&period; As long as one person has a copy of Sweet Shop up to 4 3DS&sol; 2DS owners can enjoy the competition feature&period; Laughing and complaining to each other over the process of completing recipes is a little extra special feature built into the game&period; One of the most charming aspects of<em> Sweet Shop<&sol;em> is the ability to make recipes in a virtual setting that you normally wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t make in your own real life kitchen&period; It even may inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and bake a treat you never thought about before playing&period; With so many heavy story-driven games and titles requiring critical thinking skills&comma; <em>Sweet Shop<&sol;em> is a welcomed treat in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A Nintendo 3DS review copy of this game was provided by Rising Star Games for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><em>&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;