Meg is tired of the big city and needs a break. She opens up a small flower shop on a beautiful island. Help grow her business and reach her goals in Flower Shop Big City Break.

The game starts off with a little story background to really help set the tone of the game. Each level consists of growing flowers, cutting flowers, and wrapping flowers that are to customers’ orders. If you grow extra flowers, there are plenty of vases to hold them until needed. The first rounds go by fast with the maximum number of customers set at two. Meg moves pretty fast, so it is easy to keep up with orders and keep customers happy.

Flower Shop Big City Break is overall a fun game. It’s similiar to Cake Mania in that it is task-driven. With 60 levels, game play should last a while. You can upgrade your flower shop once you’ve played long enough. After playing a few levels, another step in the process will be added for some flowers. You will have to water the flowers before you can pick them. Luckily Meg is very fast on her feet, so this new step in the game shouldn’t slow her down that much.

Each round goes by fairly fast. There is a meter to keep track of your daily goal. Be sure to clear the money from the counter so you can make room for more customers. Flower Shop has great game play and is addicting. I can play for a while before even realizing it. It’s enjoyable and entertaining. What more can you ask from a casual game.

I have been reorganizing the room that was our former bedroom into a game/play room. It’s coming together nicely as the TV, two game consoles, and the computer have been setup. Since the router is downstairs, I had to set up a wireles connection on the computer.

I did have a USB network adapter that -after trying for a few hours- could not get to work. So, I implemented Plan B and to use the game wireless router instead. I plugged it in and so far have had no real problems. Having this computing/game setup works really well for me since we spend the majority of our time upstairs. It also makes me have an appreciation for WiFi that much more.

I also use my laptop quite a bit during the day, so I use the WiFi connection a lot. The more I use WiFi, the more I wish the whole city had wifi instead of a few select businesses. It would be nice to leave the house some and be able to work online somewhere else. Maybe more businesses will realize the benefit of offering WiFi at their location. If I were to set up a WiFi hotspot, I would check into using Cisco products. When I was in college for computer networking, Cisco received high praise from our teachers. Hopefully as technology progresses, more business will come aboard the wifi train and offer it to patrons.

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