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To save her aunt’s dying bakery business, Jessica must put on the old apron and start baking again. Due to her youth and energy, Jessica knows that the cupcake business is booming now and wants to jump on the bandwagon to get her aunt more customers. Jessica’s Cupcake Café is born and with it a bundle of cupcake recipes and revitalized shops around town. Working up to each new shop around the city, Jessica learns new cupcake recipes and upgrades hardware to make more cupcakes and keep the customers satisfied.
As a specialty food service game, Jessica’s Cupcake café is already limited. Jessica can’t go off making burgers or milkshakes to meet a varied customer taste, she has to stick to purely cupcakes and that’s kind of boring for a bakery. She does get other products such as milk and lollipops, but none of the preparation part of the game goes into them. Aside from being sick of cupcakes, the rest of the game is pointing and clicking actions that I swear I’ve seen before in a dozen other games. Don’t get me wrong these types of food service games are not that bad, it’s just the fact that so many are out there with the same formula for game play that it can be tough to distinguish which is better.
Jessica’s Cupcake Café replicates the life of a baker: standing in front of ovens all day, decorating pastries, and taking orders from a lot of old or heavy people. The business of cupcake specialty may be a risky one for Jessica though. I like a cupcake or two from time to time, but she should consider changing up her menu to meet a broader target market. I give Jessica’s Cupcake Café a 2.5 out of 5 stars. Baking is a little too dull for me.
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