Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop (2017)

In Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop players make and create a wide assortment of delicious looking sweets and puddings, and serve customers in the shop to keep them happy! There are 60 different recipes to create by taking part in over 160 different mini-games. Players use the stylus and even the microphone to cool, slice, stir, bake and decorate their creations. And just like always, don't worry if you make a mistake - Mama will fix it for you!

SimulatorNintendo 3DS

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Warm, plot-driven, spare and classical in form.

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MMOGamesLori DierinzoMay 20178/10
To summarize, 'Sweet Shop' is a great addition to the franchise that has a few areas needing improvement. Shop customization and 'World Challenge' are great additions, however, the multiplayer is lacking. Overall, it should be a great addition for fans of the Cooking Mama series or a nice introduction for younger gamers.
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Player.OneBob FeketeMay 20174/5 stars
If you're looking for a great Cooking Mama game, you'll find something to enjoy in Sweet Shop.
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PS3Blog.netMay 201780/100
As someone who had never played a Cooking Mama game before, I have to say I really enjoyed my time playing this one on 3DS for my Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop review. The cute art style is certainly charming, and the gameplay is fun and paced just right. If you're a fan of the series, then you're going to love this one. And if you're new to the franchise like me, this is certainly a great place to start!
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DualShockersLou ContaldiMay 20172.5/10
Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop is by no means a broken game. It just wholly lacks any soul or incentive to be better than any previous game in the series. With shoddy systems, repetitive gameplay, annoying sound design and better iterations of the game elsewhere, dessert diversity wasn't enough to keep me interested.
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TwinfiniteTaylor DanielleMay 20172/5
Cooking Mama: Sweet Shop simply adds another title to the Cooking Mama formula without really making an effort to improve on an already rather lackluster series. The gameplay involves little more than simply swiping and tapping as you're told and how well you manage to do that has no actual impact on your experience within the game.
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About the game

Platforms: Nintendo 3DS
Developer: Office Create
Publisher: Rising Star Games
Released: May 18, 2017

IGDB rating 6.1/10 from 6 ratings.

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