Nintendo and the devs really dropped the ball with Cooking Mama Cookstar. 1st Playable itself makes no mention of the game on its website. But neither of those company names are on the packaging or merchandising for Cookstar.Īn early classification by the Australian ratings board listed its developer as 1st Playable Productions - an education game developer - but that classification has since been removed, and a new listing includes no mention of 1st Playable. Seemingly just to confuse me further, it seems that, at some point, it changed its name back to Office Create, the developer listed on the most recently released Cooking Mama games. Office Create eventually changed its name to Cooking Mama Ltd., making 10 mainline and spin-off games in the series.
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The Cooking Mama series was created by Japanese developer Office Create, which hit a goldmine when the games started to sell by the million on Nintendo DS. The first real mystery to contend with is who has actually made this game. Also called Cooking Mama: Coming Home to Mama (I can’t fully work out when or why it swapped to Cookstar), the game has been inadvertently revealed by ratings boards in 2019, and had an unlisted game trailer leak (including an incorrect release window and a non-existent website). As you’d expect, it looks like just another Cooking Mama game - nothing about what I’ve seen suggests that it’s broken, offensive, or any other quality that could cause this level of confusion, silence and general oddity.īut perhaps all this should have been expected, because almost everything about the run-up to Cookstar’s release has been decidedly odd. The few people that have been able secure a copy have been able to upload images and videos of the game. In short, this is all a bit of a mess, and a contingent of fans across social media are becoming vocal about how very unusual this situation has become. Can you tell I’ve been looking into this for too long?
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Don’t even get me started on the apparent PS4 version of the game, which is listed for sale across the internet, but hasn’t been outwardly mentioned by any official source around ‘launch’.Ĭooking Mama: Cookstar is, in essence, Schrödinger's Video Game, seemingly existing and non-existing simultaneously, with neither state particularly easy to prove. In Europe, the game is seemingly impossible to get a hold of right now, and is listed by several retailers for a release later this month - but none of them seem to agree about when. Amazon only lists third-party sellers (at least one of which seems to have been set up solely to sell this new Cooking Mama game, strangely), implying the retail giant has no copies at all. According to some very pleased/confused Redditors, copies have quietly appeared in select US outlets of Target. Physical copies of Cookstar are a different story. Even stranger, the game was released on the US eShop last week, but only for a few hours, before being unceremoniously pulled from sale and its listing scrubbed from Nintendo’s digital store entirely. Order here: /tHFa35WKZ2 - Cooking Mama: Cookstar MaThat trailer (and the game’s website) point to a Nintendo eShop version of the game, but if you search for that version at time of writing - in the US or Europe - the eShop returns no results, not even a ‘Coming Soon’ entry.
A brand-new Cooking Mama experience created for Nintendo Switch™. If you can’t stand the heat, get into Mama’s kitchen! #CookingMama is back with her most fantastic and fun video game adventure ever!Introducing Cooking Mama: Cookstar. That statement is, at best, partially true. A trailer on the game’s (extremel y quiet) Twitter feed definitively announces that it’s "available now" on Nintendo Switch. The core of this mystery lies in the fact that, depending on where you look, Cooking Mama: Cookstar is either out now, coming soon, or completely MIA. What in the freshly-baked hell is going on with Cooking Mama: Cookstar?
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