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Gardening Mama is little more than a collection of mini-games, around the theme of gardening. Trading items and multiplayer aside, the bulk of the game involves bouncing back and forth from one crop to the next, playing fun little mini-games. Compared to the more involved dynamic of building resources house, barn, etc. Multiplayer helps create more replay value, but we predict this one won't be in rotation long after the garden is full.

There is a nice diversity in the mini-games here that is commendable. Typically, you'll see the same activities repeated ad nauseum through games like this; Gardening Mama isn't infinitely diverse, but it does a nice job of introducing new mini-games as you open new areas and plants. The planting and harvesting processes tend to be similar, but you'll find constant variation.

One planting process may involve a tilled row, compared to pushing individual seeds into the ground. Some seeds even need to be prepped before planting.

Before and during the harvest, you'll find some fun games like chasing mice as they try to abscond with apples, or brushing bugs off stems with a toothbrush. There isn't a big deal made of how "real" the depictions of planting are here, but you get the sense that the overall treatment of each planting process is at least based in reality. Navigating the game's interface is simple, and most Gardening Mama mini-games are easily understood as you open up more and more of the garden.

The challenge comes from executing a few of the games, and it's not always clear whether this is intentional challenge or poor use of the hardware. Stylus gestures in some mini-games just don't seem to register as well as others, so you'll want to advise younger players to use the Practice mode on any new plantings. There are also options to replay an entire challenge, which may be as simple as two or three mini-games and as involved as a series of four or five mini-games.

You are scored on each mini-game that makes up a challenge, so you can bomb a mini-game without blowing the entire thing. This format is smart in that it allows less experienced players to get through with a decent score, but provides incentive for more seasoned gamers to hit a home run. Fundamentally, Gardening Mama is sufficiently challenging for the Tween market but doesn't hold water as an enduring gauntlet for older kids. There aren't many features of the DS that go unused in Gardening Mama.

Tapping, sliding, tracing, and even blowing make an appearance. Not many are used in combination. A sequence of mini-games may use all or most of these, making the process of planting, maintaining, or harvesting a pretty complex activity in aggregate. As mentioned earlier, some of the tracing mechanics in particular are poorly implemented. It's nice that Gardening Mama doesn't force you into the strict "color between the lines" approach taken in other games, but in some instances, it would have been helpful to see more structure.

Not knowing where you need to draw lines or what constitutes a good job almost ensures that you'll do a poor job the first few times. Lucky breaks aside, of course.

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