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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.

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!

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.

Don't expect it to be exactly like the computer game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I initially got hooked on Cake Mania when playing it at Yahoo games and when it was available for Nintendo DS, I was so excited that I pre-ordered the game. When I finally got it a few weeks later, I was pretty disappointed as it wasn't as fun as playing it on the computer. First of all, because the screen is so small, whenever Jill moves from one end of the kitchen to another, the screen moves with it causing me to hit the wrong frosting color/cake shape/cake topping icon. Secondly, I think there's a bug in the program because the game will crash in the middle of a session or it'll fail to recognize that I picked up the cash for a customer, leaving the spot filled.

All in all, this is a fun game (hence the 3 stars) but you'll be sorely disappointed if you expect it to be an exact replica of the computer game.

Shallow, repetitive, and hardly any fun at all

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 24
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Cake Mania isn't the first flash game to find itself on the DS, nor the first game to feature a look at the culinary arts. Regardless of either fact, Cake Mania is a game that is shallow, repetitive, and overall not very fun. Playing as a girl named Jill, your mission is to run your bakery and perform tasks such as baking, serving the orders of customers, and the like. All this is done by tapping the touch screen with the stylus when various icons appear. It sounds easy, but Cake Mania features a startling level of difficulty that may surprise those who had blasts of fun with Cooking Mama. Not to mention that the sheer monotony of it all weighs in more frustration than anything else, which kills what could have been a fun concept. The game looks good with bright and colorful graphics and animations, and the game features a bargain price tag to boot, but with the repetitive and shallow gameplay, and zilch in terms of multiplayer features as well (which actually would have been welcome here), Cake Mania just isn't worth the headaches. All in all, fans of games like Cooking Mama and such may want to give Cake Mania a look, but don't say you weren't warned.

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....

PC game is Better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love Cake Mania in PC game, that is why I bought this for my NDS. Unfortunately, this isn't fun at all. Small screen and hard to control compare to PC game. Very disappointed!

Cake Mania

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Think your'e organized? Well, Cake mania puts you through the paces of a bakery store owner and I take the CAKE! This is such a fun challenging game, might I even admit somewhat addicting? Cake Mania is by far the most fun and challenging game I have ever played. I would highly recommend this game to anyone, especially those who can take the heat...if not get out of the kitchen!

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