Review: Cake Shop

Cake Shop is a game where you can experience all the fun and excitement of being a cashier at a cake shop. It's fun and exciting.

Graphics:
Cute and cartoony. Everything's appropriately bright and happy for a sweet shop. The characters could use a few more frames for their animations, though.

Sound:
None.

That's a lot of sugar for one person. No wonder diabetes is so rampant these days.

Gameplay:
Ridiculously simple. A patron will walk in and request some items. Tap the items in the proper order and they'll leave happy. Take too long, or screw up too much and it's game over.

Unless the time limit shortens considerably later in the game, there's absolutely no challenge. You can't really see the buttons and the prompts at the same time, but it makes things more annoying than difficult.

What I liked:
-I'm a fan of the graphical style.
-You can upload your score to an online leaderboard if that's your thing.

What I hated:
-Only difficulty comes from the fact that my hands are large and opaque.
-There's no warning when you complete a level. The screen just goes black for a few seconds.
-No sound.

Final Verdict:
It looks good and it succeeds at what it's trying to do, but what Cake Shop's trying to do is barely a game, and isn't much fun at all.

Cake Shop is available for free from DS Effects on BlackBerry App World.
Reviewed version 5.0