{"id":11881,"date":"2014-05-23T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2014-05-13T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:53:57","slug":"gardening-mama-2-forest-friends-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/gardening-mama-2-forest-friends-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MAMA_BOX\"<\/a>Spring is in full swing, and what better way to celebrate the season than with everyone\u2019s favorite video game Mama?\u00a0 From the popular Cooking Mama franchise comes the sequel to Gardening Mama for 3DS.\u00a0 Play mini-games to earn seeds, and then grow flowers, fruits, and veggies in your garden.\u00a0 Give your crops to your forest friends who are running their own shops in the woods.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like a Harvest Moon game for young kids.<\/p>\n

Each day in the game lasts for about five to ten minutes, and gives you plenty of time to do what you need to do.\u00a0 Each morning one of your forest pals will wait at your doorstep, and request flowers, fruits, or veggies for their shop.\u00a0 There\u2019s a bunny who owns a flower shop, a penguin who runs an ice cream parlor, a bear who has a restaurant, and more!\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve noted their request, you can check your mailbox to see if any of your friends needs help gardening.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll play gardening themed mini-games using the stylus and touch screen.\u00a0 You may have to water flowers, pick veggies, make juice, and much more.\u00a0 There are more than 50 mini-games in all, so you\u2019ll be kept busy for quite a while.<\/p>\n

Winning mini-games earns you new seeds to grow in your garden.\u00a0 The good thing is that you don\u2019t have to perfect the games in order to get the seeds.\u00a0 After each mini-game, a meter will fill up depending on your score.\u00a0 You can keep retrying the mini-games until the meter is full, and when it is, you\u2019ll get your reward.\u00a0 This keeps the game from becoming too frustrating for younger kids.<\/p>\n

After that, you can tend to your garden.\u00a0 Plant new seeds, water each one with the touch screen (take care not to overwater), and play mini-games to keep bugs and other pests away from your plants.\u00a0 After a few in-game days, your plants are ready to be harvested.\u00a0 You can give them to your animal friends to help grow their shops, or store them in your shed for later.\u00a0 Fulfilling your animal pals\u2019 requests earns you shopping tickets that you can use to buy decorations for your garden.\u00a0 You can also level up the shops and your garden, giving you more room to grow things.<\/p>\n

Aside from the main part of the game, you can also play each unlocked mini-game separately, or take photos with the 3DS camera and decorate them with Gardening Mama themed stickers and frames.\u00a0 Really the only problem I had with this game is that some of the mini-games were tough to figure out at first, and the font is a bit hard to read sometimes.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still a great little game for kids and the young at heart.<\/p>\n

\"MAMA_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Alcohol Reference.\u00a0 Alcohol Reference?!?\u00a0 Well, in one of the mini-games, you stomp a tub full of grapes like how you would make wine, but the game doesn\u2019t tell you that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Kids could think you\u2019re making grape juice for all they know.\u00a0 Reading skill is necessary for the text instructions, and younger players may need help with some of the harder to figure out mini-games.\u00a0 Luckily most activities also have picture cues to help you as well.\u00a0 The game could be considered slightly educational as you get to see how plants grow and what they can be used for.\u00a0 Too bad there\u2019s only one save file.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a great kid\u2019s game, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is in full swing, and what better way to celebrate the season than with everyone\u2019s favorite video game Mama?\u00a0 From the popular Cooking Mama franchise comes the sequel to Gardening Mama for 3DS.\u00a0 Play mini-games to earn seeds, and then grow flowers, fruits, and veggies in your garden.\u00a0 Give your crops to your forest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}