Members of the public will visit your shop and buy your creations for in-game currency which can then be used to buy various decorative items such as wallpaper and shelves and also accessories for Mama. You receive either a bronze, silver or gold medal once you’ve finished, depending on how you fared and your creation can be put up on display in your shop the more you display, the more your shop will expand in size and the more recipes will become available to create. A lot of recipes allow you to decorate your finished product however you’d like, which feels quite rewarding and adds a tiny element of personalisation to a game that’s otherwise just following guides.Įach dessert has multiple stages of cooking and you are scored depending on how well you perform the techniques in each section.

You follow dessert recipes in the form of mini-games using the touch screen and it can be anything from melting butter in a pan to folding crêpes and coating apples in caramel without burning them. It involves you creating a whole plethora of desserts and then selling them to the public in your very own sweet shop – with the help of Mama, of course. This spurred me to then buy it on the Nintendo DS and my mind was completely blown with the idea of portability – I could make so many dishes on the go! Sadly, my Cooking Mama adventures stopped here as my gaming interests changed with age… Until now, that is.Ĭooking Mama Sweet Shop is the latest game in the franchise to hit the Nintendo 3DS, a whopping three years after it released in Japan. Booting the game up would bring me hours upon hours of joy and I have many fond memories of waving my Wiimote around to create several different courses and meals. I first played Cooking Mama back in 2006 on the Nintendo Wii and it was glorious.

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