Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Nintendo Switch)

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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. Cooking Mama: Cookstar is no longer available for purchase as of November 2022, when the International Court of Arbitration ruled that Office Create's IP rights had been infringed by the game and granted their request to have it removed from sale. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The game was eventually re-released by the publisher Ravenscourt in March 2021, who also published it in Europe and Australia in 2020.

Just follow Mama’s instructions and create delicious and decadent treats that you can share with your friends. 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. Meanwhile, a new Cooking Mama game wholly made by Office Create just dropped on apple Arcade in July, entitled Cooking Mama: Cuisine! International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.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. 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. The otherwise sweet and wholesome Cooking Mama has been in some hot water over the last year as a legal dispute threw 2020's Cooking Mama: Cookstar into contention. While we don't know how or why any of those individual instances happened, a rogue developer releasing something without permission and a license holder trying its best to walk it back might explain at least some of it — and that's certainly what Office Create has claimed. Its publisher claimed that it was the first implementation of blockchain technology on a major video game console, using the technology to implement a form of digital rights management; however, the details of this proposal were never expanded upon publicly, and blockchain support is not present in the final game in any form.

She praised the game's variety and amount of content, as well as the "nuance" to mastering the mechanics.Cooking Mama: Cookstar was available to download for a short time today, but has since mysteriously vanished". 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. The multiplayer is a poorly skinned clone of a couple Mario party mini games and a couple new mini games. It's fun unlocking more recipies and it feels like it has more things to do than other Cooking Mama games to me. 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.