Disclosure- We received a copy of Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends to facilitate our review. We received no other compensation and all opinions are 100% our own.
It’s finally here! The sequel to the best-selling Gardening Mama DS game that’s sold more than 13 million copies, Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends is now available now for Nintendo 3DS. If your children like the original Gardening Mama, they’ll love this new game. In the game, players can plant and tend to their gardens with the help of furry critters while learning the importance of food. Mama and her woodland friends need your help growing flowers, fruits and veggies for Bear’s Restaurant, Cat’s Beauty Shop, Rabbit’s Flower Shop, Squirrel’s Cake Shop and several other fun stores.
Your stylus is used as your gardening tool as you plant, grow, and harvest your crops. You can decorate your garden with over 100 items that you earn while playing. What will you grow in your gardens? Juicy watermelons? Plump eggplant? Spicy hot peppers? Your animal friends will mail you asking for help and you’ll need to plant, nurture, harvest, and deliver the garden items to their various stores. If you do a good job you’ll be rewarded with items such as seeds, flower bulbs, trees, and more so your garden critters can expand your garden, make their shops bigger, and attract even more customers. There are also fun mini games as well like ironing and mowing the lawn.
Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends is a great game for children to learn all that goes into growing a garden. My girls really enjoy playing it. The animals are adorable and the game is lots of fun. Fruits, veggies, flowers, and woodland animals…..what’s not to love!
Check out the Gardening Mama 2: Forest Friends Gameplay Trailer:
Game Overview:
Mama is back in her gardening gloves planting the seeds of friendship! Make your animal friends happy by growing flowers, fruits and vegetables they can sell in their forest shops. With intuitive, stylus based-activities, customization and tons of fun rewards, Garden Mama 2: Forest Friends will get you growing in no time!
Key Features:
- The latest addition to the successful Mama franchise: 13 million+ games sold worldwide!
- Sequel to the best-selling Gardening Mama DS game that defined the gardening genre.
- Use your stylus as your master gardening tool to plant seeds, bulbs and saplings, then care for them with water and fertilizer. Grow 50+ different plants, from gorgeous hydrangeas to delicious watermelons to sizzling hot peppers!
- New play mechanic! Your animal friends send you mail asking for help. Nurture, harvest and deliver garden items to 6 different animal stores including: Bear’s Restaurant, Rabbit’s Flower Shop, Cat’s Beauty Shop and Squirrel’s Cake Shop.
- Earn rewards like new varieties of seeds, flower bulbs and trees from your critter friends so you can expand your garden and they can grow their shops into bigger, more extravagant businesses that attract additional customers.
- New activities with multiple variations star Mama’s friends and family featured throughout franchise games. Sort, pick, clean, organize, mow, arrange, water, harvest and much more!
- Protect your plants from lack of nutrients, viruses and bugs to maintain a healthy garden.
- Customize and decorate your garden with 100+ items: fences, fountains, playground equipment, topiary, pergolas, sculptures, benches, pets and more. You can even dress up Mama in fun new outfits!
- Interact with your animal pals and earn garden points by fulfilling their requests. Trade points for items and decorations that let you create a one-of-a-kind garden. Use shop tickets to purchase more flowers, fruits and vegetables to enlarge your garden and make it more productive.
- Use Spot Pass to receive new backgrounds for your garden.
