Gardening Mama 2 Overview

Gardening Mama 2 is an improvement over the first game in the series. As a spin off from the Cooking Mama series, it is very enjoyable and very casual. Unlike the first game, there is a reason why plants are grown. The forest animals ask for X amount of plant in order to get more customers to visit their stores. Of course, the player gets tickets in return which can be used to buy things in the store or lottery tickets.

Main Menu. Tend the plants is where the main game is played. Help out is the mini games that are part of the main game. Take a photo is having a frame from Gardening Mama 2 while taking live pictures. Options have the choice for spotpass.

Penguin is asking for help. Mailbox has mini games. The blue house is home. The red shed is where the harvest goes and decorate the garden. To the left is the animal shops, to the right is the shop to get items for the garden and below is the garden.

The forest animals want to open up shops nearby so they ask the player for ingredients. Once enough ingredients are gathered, give the animal the items and there will be a bar that indicates how many customers are visiting. The more customers the better and every time a request is fulfilled, it will max the meter of customers. The customer bar decreases after each day. The animal will also give shopping tickets and sometimes a lottery ticket during the result screen.

Lots of customers.

100 points to get 10 tickets. 

The mailbox is where new letters that request help arrive each day. These are mini games that need to be completed in order to get the seeds/10 shopping tickets if all seeds are gotten. 100 points is necessary to get the item. Luckily, this does not mean getting 100 points on the mini game in one attempt (though it would not have to be repeated if done in one attempt). Multiple attempts can be made and the points will stack until 100 points.

Animals starting from lipstick going clockwise are Cat, Penguin, Rabbit, Squrriel, Bear and Dog. The center is the lottery which stays for 3 days or until the player wins the prize.

Oh no! Sometimes when a plant is ready to be harvested, it can wilt. There is a mini game to prevent it from wilting. Usually one of two types of mini games, swat the flies or spray the pests.

To get mushrooms, a mini game event happens randomly when it is a new day. To get wood, trees are chopped when it no longer bear any fruit.  

Looks like these flowers are ready to be picked.

Every day after going home, there is a result screen. In this screen, it shows how much gardening points earned for the day as well as the bar to the next level. By getting a level, the garden is expanded to become bigger. After gardening points, will show shop points of each establishment of the animals. When there is enough points to reach the next level, the shop will expand bigger. Also this is the point where the animal give shopping and/or lottery tickets if their request was filled for the day.

Thoughts

This game is really easy. Since only one request per day and one mail per day for help, there is not much to do other than go home early. I find myself wishing I could get more requests to help the animals. Of course this game is aimed at kids but even the mini games are simplified. There is only one thing to do per mini game unlike Cooking Mama which usually has multiple steps before the final product.

I almost brought all the items in the shop and almost maxed out the animal's shop levels. Also only have one more lottery to do before I finish the panel to see what I get. Other than that, I finished the game. Like every other game in the Mama series, it can end too quickly but it is addicting.

Recommended for super casual play (plus it would last longer that way).