If you ever wanted to experience the thrills of working in a Japanese convenience store but never had the chance, well fret no more as in 2010 Taito allowed you to live out your minimum wage dreams with, Minna no conveni.
It feels very much like cooking mama, in fact it feels so much like it that i class this as an unofficial spinoff. Even the characters have that mama game feel to them, so your grandfather has been rather slack in the conveni running department and his store is run down and hardly has any customers. It's your job as free family labour to turn things around, when you first start out most of the shelves are empty, as you play and win the minigames it will attract customers and with more customers you will start getting new display cabinets and products. All the display cabinets and fixtures in the conveni are minigames, all of them pretty simple but rather fun.
Filling, serving, cleaning, more filling, serving again, maybe shuffle the magazines. You can basically play any minigames you want but when you start seeing a shelf looking empty it's best to play that game to stock it back up as the more people that come in the more you will eventually be able to upgrade also some have a multiplier bonus if you play that minigame while it's still active you'll get that many more customers added when you win the minigame. As the game goes along you can upgrade the size of your conveni and also arrange all the layout how you like as well. The game has a nice design feature for customisation. You can change the look of quite a bit from the colours of all the walls inside and the sign out front.
This was the boring pink default conveni design you start with.
Decided mine was going to be a seven eleven conveni so i redesigned the sign and shop colours, ahh much better.
As you get further into the game customers will come in asking for certain items, if you can select the right shelf and win the minigame they will get added to the list. This is probably the only tricky part as they give you clues about what they are after, obviously in Japanese it's a bit tricky but you can totally beat the game without this bit.
Easily playable in Japanese, all of the minigames are easy to work out.
It feels very much like cooking mama, in fact it feels so much like it that i class this as an unofficial spinoff. Even the characters have that mama game feel to them, so your grandfather has been rather slack in the conveni running department and his store is run down and hardly has any customers. It's your job as free family labour to turn things around, when you first start out most of the shelves are empty, as you play and win the minigames it will attract customers and with more customers you will start getting new display cabinets and products. All the display cabinets and fixtures in the conveni are minigames, all of them pretty simple but rather fun.
Filling, serving, cleaning, more filling, serving again, maybe shuffle the magazines. You can basically play any minigames you want but when you start seeing a shelf looking empty it's best to play that game to stock it back up as the more people that come in the more you will eventually be able to upgrade also some have a multiplier bonus if you play that minigame while it's still active you'll get that many more customers added when you win the minigame. As the game goes along you can upgrade the size of your conveni and also arrange all the layout how you like as well. The game has a nice design feature for customisation. You can change the look of quite a bit from the colours of all the walls inside and the sign out front.
This was the boring pink default conveni design you start with.
Decided mine was going to be a seven eleven conveni so i redesigned the sign and shop colours, ahh much better.
As you get further into the game customers will come in asking for certain items, if you can select the right shelf and win the minigame they will get added to the list. This is probably the only tricky part as they give you clues about what they are after, obviously in Japanese it's a bit tricky but you can totally beat the game without this bit.
Easily playable in Japanese, all of the minigames are easy to work out.
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