For the first time ever cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking mode. She praised the game's variety and amount of content, as well as the "nuance" to mastering the mechanics. The multiplayer is a poorly skinned clone of a couple Mario party mini games and a couple new mini games. 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.

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. What we do know is this: Cooking Mama: Cookstar was a weird game with a lot of unanswered questions about its creation and ownership. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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. Meanwhile, a new Cooking Mama game wholly made by Office Create just dropped on apple Arcade in July, entitled Cooking Mama: Cuisine! 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. For the first time ever Cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking mode. 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. Cooking Mama: Cookstar (stylized as cookıng mama cookstar) was a cookery simulation-styled minigame compilation video game, and the sixth installment in the Cooking Mama series of video 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.