{"id":19802,"date":"2020-01-20T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19802"},"modified":"2020-01-05T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T19:01:40","slug":"waku-waku-sweets-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/waku-waku-sweets-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Waku Waku Sweets (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You are a young lady who wishes to be the town\u2019s best pastry chef.\u00a0 The Pastry Fairy hears you and decides to help make your wish come true (I can\u2019t make this stuff up folks).\u00a0 To do so, you must rise in the ranks of desserts and sweets making, winning cooking contests and making people happy.\u00a0 Waku Waku Sweets is a cooking game for all ages exclusively on Switch.<\/p>\n

When you start your career, you\u2019ll view a map of places to visit in town.\u00a0 You can visit a couple of places per in-game day.\u00a0 You\u2019ll start at the bakery you just got hired on, and anytime you come here, you\u2019ll make a dessert from one of the recipes you have.\u00a0 You won\u2019t get to keep the dish, but you will earn money.\u00a0 Spend the money you earn at a couple of shops on the map.\u00a0 One shop sells recipes so you can cook more things.\u00a0 They also sell items to decorate your room with.\u00a0 Another store lets you buy clothes and change the style and hair color of your character.<\/p>\n

When the day is done, you must go back home.\u00a0 But you can still do things in your house, like dress up in the clothes you bought, and cook more sweets.\u00a0 The confections you make at home won\u2019t earn you any money, but you can keep them.\u00a0 Other spots on the map may have exclamation points above them.\u00a0 Visit them to talk to a person who may want a sweet to snack on.\u00a0 If you have one in your inventory, you can give it to them to make them happy.\u00a0 The game says that the dessert fairy needs people to be happy so she can make your wish come true, but there\u2019s nothing in the game indicating how far or how much \u2018happy\u2019 you need.<\/p>\n

But there is one thing you can see to tell how to progress.\u00a0 Make enough three-star sweets and a rainbow meter will fill.\u00a0 When it is full, you can enter a cooking contest.\u00a0 If you win, your rank will go up and you can buy more recipes and cook more sweets, and then the process starts over again.\u00a0 To cook your masterpieces, you\u2019ll play mini-games that represent each step of the recipe.\u00a0 It\u2019s very much like Cooking Mama.\u00a0 You can use regular controls or motion controls, both work very well.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s super easy to make 100 percent complete dishes as long as you follow the on-screen instructions shortly after they\u2019re presented.\u00a0 The lighter difficulty makes this game great for younger players or beginners.<\/p>\n

I only had a couple of minor problems with the game.\u00a0 The play is very repetitive, as you must make recipes multiple times before you can get more, and many of them are almost the same thing just with a different step thrown in.\u00a0 Like swiss rolls and strawberry rolls are pretty much the exact same process, except you must cut up strawberries in one.\u00a0 The other problem I had with the game is that since it is very Japanese, some players may not be familiar with the sweets you must make in the game, and it can get a little confusing.\u00a0 For instance, someone may want you to make Wagashi, which is a category of Japanese sweets.\u00a0 And dorayaki is in that category.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know that at first, so I wasn\u2019t sure what to make for someone.\u00a0 And the only reason why I knew what dorayaki was is because I\u2019ve watched the Doraemon anime<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 But otherwise, this is a suitable cooking game that would fill the void for anyone who enjoys Cooking Mama.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised there isn\u2019t a real Cooking Mama game on the Switch already.\u00a0 The Wii had like, three.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text.\u00a0 Parents can even choose how long kids can play in this game.\u00a0 Waku Waku Sweets is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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