Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop for 3DS

With over 60 different recipes to create, spread throughout 160 different mini-games, players use the stylus to slice, stir, bake and decorate their creations – you can even use the microphone to blow and cool your delicacies! Create a wide assortment of delicious looking sweets and puddings, and serve customers in the shop to keep them happy. The more sweets you create and complete, the more your shop expands. You may even trigger a special event! Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop also features a competitive multiplayer mode for two to four players – challenge your friends and see who can make the tastiest treats. And just like always, don’t worry if you make a mistake - Mama will fix it for you!

Developed by Office Create and published by Rising Star Games, Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop will release at physical retail and digitally in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS in May 2017. The retail packaged version of Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop will be exclusively distributed in North America by Crescent Marketing Inc. For more information follow Rising Star Games on Twitter and visit the official Rising Star Games website.

My Thoughts

Cooking Mama Sweet Shop is a great game for little girls with no violence and even some educational value. The game teaches kids all about cooking and encourages them to help out in the real kitchen. There are over 60 recipes included and the more you play, the more mini games you unlock.  In addition to cooking, you can help Mama do the chores, gathering the ingredients, and hostess the shop where Mama delivers her orders.  Kids earn medals for getting the jobs done before the clock stops. The more delicious deserts they create. the more features they unlock.

In addition to single play, Cooking Mama can also be enjoyed with friends. If you select the
 multiplayer mode, up to three additional players can join in the fun by downloading the mini games onto an their 3DS.  They won't need an additional game cartridge, but it will only work if you're playing with someone who does have one.

What I really love about this game is that it teaches my daughter about cooking real food. Her older sister loved the other versions when she was a kid, and now she's studying culinary. Since she started playing, she developed a serious interest in helping out during dinner and has even been baking her own desserts (with supervision of course). I think this makes this game a great choice for little girls and even tweens. 

Where to Buy 
You can find Cooking Mama Sweet Shop in stores nationwide or online at Amazon.