Luscious Colors, Delicious Images, Stupid Routines and Busy Mouse Clicks - Cake Mania

I was bored. The advertising of Cake Mania was, and still is casting shadows everywhere on the web. I lost to the game of simple marketing. I downloaded Cake Mania.

I beat the game in 4 hours, and it was 3 am in the morning. Now you know how addictive this game can be. Yet it's not the type of addiction you usually experienced. It's not a particularly fun game, unlike the Sims 2 or Age of Empires III. It's just that you are eager to see the "end" of the game and you thought that can't be too hard to achieve, yet you keep failing the stage before the last one.

That's how it gets you.

I'm surprised and not surprised at the same time, to see that 1112 users left their comments of this game on Yahoo. This game does attract a certain crowd. So I googled the game and found that most reviews are a little superficial and contains no real content, i.e. tricks to get thru a certain level. It's actually a very easy game to manipulate. It's not about money management or customer management though.

GameGirl Tips

Here you go, some tricks to try before you give up on winning:

1. Don't save money. Try to purchase "toppings" early on and don't regret it when you already spent it on more expensive things like the "oven upgrade". Toppings make the cakes more expensive and you can achieve your cash goal earlier than store closes.

2. They are old for a reason. When old people come into the store, like "Mr. Santa", you can make their orders later than the younger ones. Younger people are less patient. This is helpful in later stages of the game, when you have higher cash goals and more customers to please.

3. Cup cakes are for well dressed ladies. Those well dressed ladies are "food critics". While the TV can extend the patience of kids, the cup cakes can do the same for those ladies. Make sure that you give them cup cakes early on when they come in, that way you have another round of cup cakes to serve them and bring their patience level up as much as the old people's.

As simple as it is, you can beat this game in 4 hours with these 3 tricks. Look at the screen shot of the last stage I played.



GameGirl Says...
Cake Mania
Type of game: Arcade Game
Time to complete: about 4 hours
Rating: Play it then dump it