I forgot to mention I beat Gardening Mama 2. Most of the Mama games you're given a task — cook this dish for example — and each minigame is a step in the process — crack these eggs, flip this pancake. The original Gardening Mama was similar: dig up a hole, plant the seed, lay the fertilizer, water, remove the infesting insects, etc. This game is different. The minigames come from requests your friends and family make of you, and the actual gardening part is similar to Harvest Moon of all things. Also, your flowers/fruits/vegetables/whatever are then given to the locals in town who need them to maintain their shops. Grow oranges so the ice cream maker. Plant gladiolus for the florist. Produce roses for the parfumerie. It's a different approach and I actually like it. I only have two complaints: Nothing is as difficult as the original Cooking Mama and Cooking Mama 2. And each time you give goods to the shopkeepers, the amount of customers go up. However it's impossible to maintain these high numbers because you're only allowed to help one shopkeeper a day. But otherwise, not bad.