Beyond the gardening there's some collecting, decorating and dressing-up elements, which give a little more breadth to the title. You can find and swap garden items like gnomes and plant pots and new outfits for Mama in multiplayer, as well as playing mini-games together. But it's not a great multiplayer experience and actually shows how weak the games are taken out of the context of messing around on your own for 10 minutes while waiting for a train. There isn't much to Gardening Mama, but it's cute and casual and that's what the DS does best.
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Get ready to help devastate an entire forest by growing produce for your furry capitalist friends under the watchful eye of Mama - who is, of course, running this entire operation. Seeds of friendship are nowhere to be found, as your woodland neighbours only drop by for a stock refill. Luckily, the threat of being driven off your farm in an Orwellian coup is minimal, as their grasp of commerce is about as firm as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man’s resolve to finally start that diet.
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8bitfix writes: Cooking Mama graced our Nintendo DS systems with the first title in the franchise, Cooking Mama, back in 2006. Since then, she has been back with more titles, not only for the DS, but for the Wii as well (also iPhone and iPad). Taking us into our virtual kitchens to cook up some fantastic recipes, sharpen our skills, decorate our kitchen and Mama herself with accessories, and most of all, not to burn our food and make her angry and see that fire in her eyes.
