![]() Some ports of Cake Mania have different titles the Wii version is known as Cake Mania: In the Mix!, and the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable versions are titled Cake Mania: Bakers Challenge. There are several different bakeries as well as a bonus quest, but the gameplay is so repetitive that you're not likely to play long enough to enjoy it.Windows, Adobe Flash Player, Nintendo DS, Palm OS, Java ME, Mac OS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, WiiĬake Mania is a cooking time management video game developed and published by Sandlot Games in 2006. The game's also quite difficult, so you're constantly on edge while you're playing. There's no creativity involved-you're just tapping icons. What it all boils down to is that running this bakery isn't a whole lot of fun. The music isn't very good at all, but the songs play quietly in the background where they're less likely to grate on the nerves. There are a few sound effects here and there, though they're not of a very high quality. Many of the icons are small, which makes them hard to tap and see. ![]() It's extremely colorful, but the graphics are grainy, and it seems as if little effort was put into optimizing the visuals for display on the DS. You might be able to squeeze a couple minutes of fun out of it, but the gameplay gets old quickly.Ĭake Mania isn't much to look at, either. If you were hoping for some multiplayer action or some other types of game modes, you're out of luck there's nothing else to do here. Faster ovens, better microwaves, and faster frosters will in theory help you get ahead, but by the time you're able to afford these items, the customers are less patient and more particular about their cakes. You can purchase a display case in which you can place a premade cake with a 20 percent chance of selling, but you never have time to make extra cakes. You can upgrade your kitchen in a number of ways to help serve your customers better. ![]() You can hand out cupcakes to refill the meter a bit, but the time it takes to go get a cupcake negates any positive effect the cupcake has. Certain customers, like Cupid and the Easter Bunny, are less patient than normal customers, so you must make sure you tend to their needs before their patience meter runs out. Since each step in baking a cake takes a few seconds, one mistake often means the difference between meeting the quota for the day and having to do the entire level over. You almost always have more than one customer onscreen, so you're constantly multitasking, which is often difficult because the icons onscreen are tiny and it's easy to tap the wrong ones. This sounds easy, but it's really anything but. When it's all finished, you take the cake to the customer, collect their payment, and do it all over again for the next customer. If they want a decoration, you pick up the cake and press a button to decorate it. When the cake is ready, you carry it to the bottom of the screen and ice it. After a few seconds, the cake they want to order appears onscreen, and then you walk over to the oven and press the button that corresponds to what type of cake they want. When customers walk in the door, you walk over to them and tap the menu icon. The game is played entirely with the stylus, and you move and perform actions by tapping a location or item on the touch screen. You work in a bakery and it's your job to take customers' orders, bake cakes, decorate them, and then serve them. Determined to "show the big bad big box business who's boss," Jill sets out to reopen her grandparents' beloved bakery.Ĭake Mania was originally a Flash game, so it makes sense that its gameplay isn't overly complicated. When she returns home from school, she's shocked to learn that her grandparents' bakery has gone out of business. In fact, it's a serious problem not to be taken lightly.Ĭake Mania places you in the role of Jill, a young woman fresh out of culinary school. Cake Mania is repetitive, frustrating, and surprisingly difficult.Ĭake Mania is not nearly as delicious as it sounds. Don't be fooled by the game's cover art, which makes the game look as if it's geared toward young girls. ![]() But that's not the case with Majesco's Cake Mania on the Nintendo DS. It's a well-known fact that cake is awesome, so it would stand to reason then that a game about cake would be awesome as well.
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