Daycare Nightmare Review

Posted on July 31, 2007 - Filed Under Review, Simulation, Time Mangement |

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Have you ever wanted to take care of baby blobs, dragons and vampires? Well, now you have the chance to experience what it would be like to watch monsters in Daycare Nightmare. Daycare Nightmare is a time management game with a cute twist.

You found yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was a slow day in the bakery when a mom and her baby walked in. This was not a normal mom and baby, though, they were monsters. The mom gets a call from her work and is in a predicament: she has no one to watch her baby. In exchange for your life, you agree to watch her baby. Unfortunately that is not good enough, she calls her friends.

So you are now in the daycare business and you have to watch baby monsters. Each monster has a different temperament, like every time management game. The vampire babies have short tempers and if they get mad they bite you. Once bitten, you move slowly for a bit. There are also ghost babies that scare other children when they are upset and dragon babies that burn other kids and anything else near the fire when they are upset.

The tasks to perform in the game are your typical daycare tasks. You have to make sure each monster’s needs are met, such as feeding, changing their diaper, playing and sleeping. The sooner you meet their needs the happier they get. The happier they are when their parents come, the more money you make in tips.

As the levels progress, the monsters come to you less and less happy. There is only one happiness meter, which gages the overall happiness of the monsters. The happier everyone is the higher the meter. The meter goes down when the monsters are unhappy. It takes longer to get the happy meter up as you progress through levels. Unhappy monsters tend to fight more so you wan the happy meter to be high.

All of the money you get from tips can be spent on upgrades for your daycare. You can buy the normal items such as more high chairs and cribs, but there are also items that reduce fighting and allow babies to eat, sleep and play faster. Some of the upgrades are really expensive, for instance a second highchair cost $900. Not everything is that expensive.

The graphics in the game are good. There are multiple daycare places you end up watching the kids at because each old place ends up getting too small. Each of the daycare places are neat looking.

Over all I found Daycare Nightmare really fun to play. I liked the twist of little baby monsters and it made the game interesting. I liked the ramifications of each baby’s temperaments. I also enjoy saving money to upgrade items that give me bonuses. Upgrades give you items to strive for and allow you to make decisions on what to get first.