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Great fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game yesterday, and i like it a lot, is very fun , game dificulty grows ith the time, but is very interesting you will love it, I travel a lot, and a wait time at the airports so it will help me to relax. I really recomend this game

Great version of Sandlot Game's online game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Having been a fan of the download game "Cake Mania" since it came out I was thrilled to hear about this release for my DS. Now I can make the mad cash baking cakes while I wait in lines at the movies, or airports or anywhere! The best thing about it is when you beat the main game it unlocks the "Back to the Bakery" game and there are 36 more levels to play!

Good for me.....and my daughter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm 35, she is 10. How can one game amuse us both? It get progressively harder/faster as you move through the months. It is a feel good game, even with the cranky bunny customer....

Mmmmm, Cake...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played Cake Mania from Sandlot Games on my computer over the holidays and thought it was great...since then, I haven't had time because of work and other things. Then I found it on DS and began playing it again. It's really a lot of fun and challenging too. I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes a great game that is both challenging, original and fun.

Surprisingly Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I always saw it on MSN games but never played it. I know my wife did until the trial version ran out. I bought it for her on a whim and she loved it. I tried it and now I can't stop playing. It's highly addictive. For $20, it's a great deal. Can't wait till Diner Dash comes out now.

Fun but very frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: April 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely not a relaxing game to play. There are many things to juggle and a lot to keep track of. I actually tell my husband when I'm going to play just so he won't talk to me otherwise he'll break my concentration. The frustration comes into play most when frosting a cake. The frosting icons are small enough so that when you mean to hit one with your stylus you can actually wind up hitting another and that ruins a cake. There seems to be very little room for error in this game. For the $20 cost it's probably worth getting and you won't feel so bad if you decide to stop playing due to the high stress level the game creates.

Wonderful Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Cake Mania is an excellent game. I started playing it at Yahoo.com, but my computer didn't like to keep up with the graphics. I was thrilled when it came out on DS. I haven't yet completed the game (I have about 2 levels left). I really enjoy this game even though it can be frusterating. The main problem with this game is how sensitive it is. The decorations are extremely hard to hit and if you hit the wrong one...[...]. But I must admit I have the most trouble with the frosting buttons, ecspecially the one nearest to the customers. I have chosen to just not use it since I usually press the wrong button and it stops the flow of baking/frosting/decorating. But other than that little problem with the game it is an excellent fun game to play. It has become one of my favorite games!

I Love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a fun game to play I bought a nintendo DS just to play this game due to me having a mac computer they do not make a computer verison for mac only windows.

Love this game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Something about this game is addictive. It's simple yet challenging and fun for all ages. My kids 25, 17, 13 and 11 all play it.

Culinary Chaos! (spolier warning)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You play as Jill, you are trying to raise enough money to help your grandparents buy back their bakery before the evil new mega mart on the block runs them out of business for good. Despite the fact that you are basically doing the same thing over and over, you are having so much fun you don't really care. Customers order cakes, you take their order, bake it, frost it, and give it a design if necessary, then collect your money and on to the next customer, its that simple. There really isn't much else to the game, yet as another reviewer says there is hardly room for error in this game. It starts off simple but eventually more customers file in at at a faster rate, the cakes get more complex, and meanwhile customers lose patience.

But to counter this you can use your money to buy more ovens, frosters, etc You can also upgrade the equipment you already have to run a more efficient kitchen. You can even buy products to settle down customers so they won't storm off and cost you money. For example, customers will have more patience if you give them free samples of cupcakes.

From a technical standpoint, the main problems I had was that some of the cake topper icons were small and too close together so if you picked the wrong one you were stuck with a cake no one wanted costing you money (unless someone came in and bought it later). Also, I had a problem with the Halloween two layer cakes at first because the Jack O' Lantern and Rectangular shapes looked so similar it was hard to tell what shape was at the bottom. I ended up making the wrong cake a few times, costing me money.

The game comes with the expansion pack CAKE MANIA: BAKE TO THE BAKERY. This is unlocked after you beat Cake Mania. The storyline is different but it is basically the same thing just harder. The customers order more complex cakes and come into the store faster etc. This is really a great game for the price, but if you don't like repetitive games and like diverse gameplay it is not for you. Like one person already said, the challenge is in the constant multi-tasking.

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