Cake Mania: Main Street is the most ambitious
Cake Mania DS title to date. A mega-mall has moved into Bakersfield, Jill's hometown, and they are taking over. Jill, with the help of Jack, Risha and Tiny, determine to take back the town and drive the mall out of business by opening a few well-managed Mom & Pop businesses. First, you'll work through Evans' Bakery doing standard
Cake Mania tasks. Your customers will come in, you'll prepare their cakes as ordered, serve them and collect their money. Once you have worked through a handful of levels, Jack's Burger Barn becomes available to you. You can continue working your way through Evans' Bakery or you can start on working through Burger Barn.
Here, things are a little bit different. You'll have 4 placemats in front of you. A customer will appear and you must click on them to give them a menu. They will then place their order. You have to cook and build their burger in the correct order, then collect their money. The catch here is that, at first, you'll only be able to make one type of sandwich. As you progress and make money, you'll be able to buy additional recipes which will, in turn, make more money. Once you have progressed a good bit through the Burger Barn, you'll open up Risha's Flower Shop.
Risha's Shop is similar to Evans' Bakery, at least in your tasks. Instead of baking cakes, you are building bouquets. It never gets more complicated that 2 flowers per arrangement, but when you add in the possibility of ribbons and decorative items, it can get hairy. My only complaint here is that there was never any instruction on how to combine flowers to make a bouquet. While it may seem simple, at first, I thought each one needed to be wrapped in paper and then combined and I wasted a lot of precious time before accidentally putting two together flowers before wrapping one in paper. After you have made some progress in Risha's Flower Shop, you'll open Sumo Sushi operated by Tiny. This works a lot like the Burger Barn in that you have 4 placemats and customers will order rice, noodles and eventually, elaborate sushi creations.
One of the things I really enjoyed was the storyline progressions in between levels, especially Tiny's story. There were also some humorous recipes like The Chuck, which you don't actually eat. It drop-kicks it's way down your throat and you hope it doesn't take your teeth with it. Funny stuff.
