Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Nintendo Switch)

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What we do know is this: Cooking Mama: Cookstar was a weird game with a lot of unanswered questions about its creation and ownership. In November 2022, Office Create announced that they had won their legal battle against Planet, and that the game would be removed from sale. For the first time ever cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking mode. The multiplayer is a poorly skinned clone of a couple Mario party mini games and a couple new mini games. It's a bit confusing how we got here in the first place, but here's the summary: Cooking Mama: Cookstar is licensed by Office Create, the company that owns the Cooking Mama franchise.

I was so excited but my god it’s horrible, it looks like a wii game and it tries to play like one using the switch’s mediocre motion controls.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Cooking Mama: cookstar features over 80 fun and fantastic new recipes for players to master including over 50 recipes new to the cooking Mama franchise. Planet Entertainment signed on to develop Cookstar, but according to Office Create, the game wasn't up to standards.

Just follow Mama’s instructions and create delicious and decadent treats that you can share with your friends. According to Office Create's account, Planet Entertainment released Cookstar back in 2020 for the Switch without Office Create's approval — a decision for which Office Create revoked its license to Cooking Mama.

Meanwhile, a new Cooking Mama game wholly made by Office Create just dropped on apple Arcade in July, entitled Cooking Mama: Cuisine!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. After the lawsuit, 1st Playable Productions and Planet Entertainment would release a spinoff title Yum Yum Cookstar (stylized as yum yum cookstar) for the Xbox One and Xbox Series S and X consoles on September 21, 2022, the Switch on October 4, 2022, [17] Steam on November 11, 2022 [18] (with most of the development for the Xbox and Steam versions by Ravenscourt [19]), and the PS4 on November 26, 2022.

In it, Planet admitted there were "creative differences" involved in Cookstar's creation, but insisted that “Planet is fully within its rights to publish Cooking Mama Cookstar” and that “There is no active litigation or ruling that prevents Planet from publishing the game. The game plays very similarly to the original Cookstar with the main differences being a different cast of characters being the female lead along with a roster of judges, a change in overall art style, and voice acting and some of the dialog written by staff from National Lampoon with sound and music produced by Nile Rodgers. Travis Northup of IGN gave the game 3 out of 10, praising the detailed recipes featured in the game, but criticizing the monotonous gameplay, poor motion controls, "nightmarish" voice acting, and lack of meaningful progression.

Office Create stated it has started taking legal action against Planet as Office Create had terminated their license to use Cooking Mama on March 30, 2020, after which Planet had started selling the game.He also noted that the game does not offer anything new compared to past entries, which combined with the flaws, make Cookstar a "tedious game that does almost nothing well. In addition, she praised the game's photo mode and Yoko Nishino's "charming" performance as Mama, stating that the character felt "like a tangible, adorable dork of a mother. I really enjoy this game, the motion controls are a lot more streamlined and better than wakuwaku sweets (although I still enjoy that game). She praised the game's variety and amount of content, as well as the "nuance" to mastering the mechanics.