2010 · Cooking Mama Limited · Simulation

Crafting Mama

Nintendo exclusive

In Crafting Mama, players will create 40 different projects across a wide range of different crafts: make patchwork quilts, earrings, candles, xylophones, kaleidoscopes, birdhouses, flower decorations and even mini-Mama dolls! Using the stylus as a universal crafting tool, crafters will sew, mold, glue, cut and paint under Mama's masterful direction. Best of all, players can use each of their creations within the game itself: dress Mama up in a new apron you've sewn or even fly a freshly folded paper airplane. In addition, new materials, colors and patterns are available to customize each project, and multiplayer support lets players create with a friend. Crafting Mama is guaranteed to turn Mama fans into crafty creators in no time!

Released: 2010
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Simulation
Developers: Cooking Mama Limited
Publishers: Square Enix 505 Games
Series: Mama
Modes: Single-player
Country: Japan
Age ratings: ESRB E PEGI 3 CERO A USK 0

About

Crafting Mama, known in Japan as Craft Mama (クラフトママ Kurafuto Mama) and in the PAL region as Cooking Mama World: Hobbies and Fun, is a crafting simulation-styled minigame compilation video game developed by Cooking Mama Limited that was released on Nintendo DS during October 2010. It is a spin-off from the Cooking Mama series.

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Gameplay

Crafting Mama is a mini-game collection themed around handicrafts. The player selects an object to craft, such as earrings or paper planes, and plays various mini-games representing the process of creating it. The objects crafted by the player can then be further customized or used for additional mini-games.

Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one six, and one seven, for a total of 29 out of 40. One of its editors wrote, It's a simple game with no story aspect to it, but this no-frills approach makes it easy to lose yourself in the gameplay. You do have arrows pointing out what to do, but otherwise there isn't a ton of guidance, which really makes it feel like you're crafting something original.

Others, however, disagreed, saying, It's a little weird to get penalized for failing to do things that have nothing to do with actual craftwork, like tapping the screen at the right moment. Some of the minigames are too hard to follow, and it seems like you're judged too harshly on them as well.