Wedding Dash (DS) Mini-Review
April 17, 2011 
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[By -B-]
Hi, it’s -B- again. I’d like to remind you that I’m just a casual girl gamer and the following is based on my experience.
Wedding Dash is a nice, fast, and simple game like the Diner Dash games and is also illustrated like a comic strip. It is technically categorized as strategy / time management game. From PlayFirst, the same company that brought us the Diner Dash game series, Wedding Dash is born. I came across Wedding Dash at MicroCenter while browsing through their sub-$10 PC games. I thought I’d look into it and then found that Wedding Dash was recently released on the Nintendo DS.
Storyline / Plot:
Wedding Dash opens with Quinn and Amy. It’s only two days before Amy’s wedding and this will be Quinn’s fifteenth bridesmaid gown. The phone rings and then Amy cries out to Quinn, “The florist quit, the caterer has food poisoning, and the reception hall is flooded! And I just fired my wedding planner!” And that’s how Quinn gets roped into being Amy’s new wedding planner.
Flo from Diner Dash makes several special appearances throughout the game to help her friend Quinn as a waitress. After the successful wedding, Quinn decides to stay in the wedding planner business. As more wedding couples are satisfied and Quinn gains more experience and popularity, the game becomes more complicated with larger guest lists along with other things like pacifying the guests waiting to be seated with wine and confetti for those already seated. Quinn is able to gradually change the venue of the weddings from the humble beginnings of people’s homes to her dream of a fairytale castle setting and everything in between.
Gameplay:
The goal of the game is to help Quinn keep the bride and groom happy on their wedding day by overseeing the wedding and attain a certain amount of money to pass the level. Each level starts with some information about the wedding couple that will help you plan the perfect wedding. The clues involve three of the following that you have to select the correct choices for: the type of flowers, appetizers, main entrées, or cake or the location of the honeymoon that the couple would like or not like. For example, he or she might not like spicy food, be allergic to something, request a classic cake, or want to go to the Rockies. I had some trouble with the honeymoon sometimes because I didn’t know about some locations. For the Rockies, I was able to deduce that the location would be Boulder instead of Tahoe or Switzerland. There were a few that I had no idea which was the right answer and ended up guessing, getting it wrong, and starting over. Each choice gives you $0 or $100 so you potentially earn $300 right off the bat!
After that, it’s similar to Diner Dash and the same or similar rules apply, which the game will walk you through. First, people won’t wait too long for anything and may or may not want to sit next to a specific guest or at a specific table. Use the stylus to drag and drop the guest into a seat. Next, pick up his or her wedding gift and give it to the bride and groom by tapping the gift and then the wedding couple. Then, serve the guest his or her appetizer followed by the main entrée and dessert. Excess food can be thrown away in the dish bin to free a hand or two. In Wedding Dash, you don’t have to clear the guests’ dishes and everyone automatically hits the dance floor after eating all of the courses! After all the guests finish eating, the wedding couple hit the dance floor too and the level ends.
Yay! Chain bonus!
If you can complete a request like a specific seating arrangement, it will earn you a bonus. Requests and how much longer they’re willing to wait without penalties and deductions from the amount of money earned is indicated by a thought bubble. Later on in the game, you will be able to begin serving wine or accept music requests. Just tap the table of wine and then the person to serve them wine or tap the guest and then the DJ in the bottom right corner to give the music request to the DJ.
The best way to gain more money is to chain actions by doing the same action successively. For instance, you can pick up two gifts one after another, give it to the bride and groom, and repeat the same action as many times as you can. Once you do a different action like serving a dish the chain is broken.
Then there are the wedding disasters, which do not interfere with a chain. Avoid a wedding disaster by tapping the alert bubble to have Quinn walk over and avert the crisis. The wedding disasters could be a dog, bridezilla, fighting bridesmaids, an unplugged speaker wire, a precariously balanced cake due to a wobbly table, a fire at the chef’s table, a crying aunt, bees, and a drunk uncle. The guest types are varied according to popularity, patience, and how fast they eat. Just keep everybody happy, or at least as many people as possible, and try to give the guests what they want to earn extra money.
[SPOILER ALERT] Finishing the last level, Quinn is approached by a man who thinks that it was an incredible wedding and says that he’s been to a lot of weddings himself. Quinn tells him that this is her 50th wedding and doesn’t believe he can match that. It turns out thought that he’s a wedding photographer named Joe Wright and suggests they team up together in the future. Quinn replies that she’ll think about it and the game ends. I wonder if Quinn will eventually have her own wedding… [SPOILER ALERT]
Conclusion:
If you liked games like Diner Dash, then you should check out Wedding Dash. Lately, I’ve been focusing on fast games such as Wedding Dash where I can stop whenever I want without worrying about forgetting something and just turn off the system right away. It was a great run, but I think I’m going to jump back into other types of games soon for a change, but I’ll miss games like Wedding Dash and Picross 3D.
Post-Review Questions/Gripes:
- Do you know any games that are similar that you would recommend?
- Why is PlayFirst not releasing the other Dash games that they have on the PC?
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