My daughter recently received a review copy of Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends and began playing it within minutes of discovering it in the mail! She is an avid gamer on her Nintendo 3DS, and she’s always looking for good games that not only test her skill, but that allow her some creativity. She also loves any game in which she can create things and change aspects of the gaming world that she’s “living” in while playing.
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She loves to play on her Nintendo 3DS, and she’s enjoyed previous “Mama” games, like Cooking Mama and Crafting Mama. Basically, she loves playing these games because she gets to do really grown up things, but in a totally care free and exciting way. In this game, she gets to act as a florist, a gardener, a landscape designer, and more.
Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends – Key Features:
• The latest addition to the successful Mama franchise: 13 million+ games sold worldwide!
• Sequel to the best-selling Gardening Mama DS game that defined the gardening genre.
• Use your stylus as your master gardening tool to plant seeds, bulbs and saplings, then care for them with water and fertilizer. Grow 50+ different plants, from gorgeous hydrangeas to delicious watermelons to sizzling hot peppers!
• New: play mechanic! Your animal friends send you mail asking for help. Nurture, harvest and deliver garden items to 6 different animal stores including: Bear’s Restaurant, Rabbit’s Flower Shop, Cat’s Beauty Shop and Squirrel’s Cake Shop.
• Earn rewards like new varieties of seeds, flower bulbs and trees from your critter friends so you can expand your garden and they can grow their shops into bigger, more extravagant businesses that attract additional customers.
• New activities with multiple variations star Mama’s friends and family featured throughout franchise games. Sort, pick, clean, organize, mow, arrange, water, harvest and much more!
• Protect your plants from lack of nutrients, viruses and bugs to maintain a healthy garden.
• Customize and decorate your garden with 100+ items: fences, fountains, playground equipment, topiary, pergolas, sculptures, benches, pets and more. You can even dress up Mama in fun new outfits!
• Interact with your animal pals and earn garden points by fulfilling their requests. Trade points for items and decorations that let you create a one-of-a-kind garden. Use shop tickets to purchase more flowers, fruits and vegetables to enlarge your garden and make it more productive.
• Use Spot Pass to receive new backgrounds for your garden.
There are so many different things that she likes about the game. She’s told me that she enjoys that there are new mini-games delivered to her regularly through the mailbox feature, and she’s always raving about that. She never knows what to expect and is delighted by the games. They add a little something special on top of everything else!
She has been having fun interacting with the various animal pals and helping them out. She’s constantly telling me about the different varieties of flowers that she’s growing and caring for, too. Right now, she’s saving up all of her rewards to really spruce up her garden.
She also loves changing the layout and design and decorating and organizing everything. Honestly, she loves it because she likes to be the boss – and this is the perfect way for her to practice that skill.
Check out this trailer for the game, and see what you think! My 9 year old daughter loves it, and begs for screen time so she can play Gardening Mama 2.
Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends can be found anywhere video games are sold. It is available for Nintendo 3DS, and retails for $29.99.
Don’t forget that Nintendo just came out with the Nintendo 2DS and it can play regular DS games and 3DS games (in 2D, of course). That would be an even more affordable way to enjoy both types of games if you’re not interested in the 3D features!
Angela Williamson says
Sounds like a game my girls would enjoy! I’m going to look for it next time we’re at the store!