This isn’t inherently a problem - several returning recipes were fun the first time around on the 3DS. If you’re familiar with Cooking Mama, you’ll quickly notice that a large percentage of recipes in Cookstar are lifted, step-for-step, from past games in the series. It’s a stilted, imprecise, and unpolished experience filled with repetition and recycled content. It contains all the elements I expect from a Cooking Mama game, but few of them feel up to the quality level of the previous DS, 3DS, and Wii titles. Or don’t! It doesn’t really matter! Image: 1st Playable Productions/Planet EntertainmentĪfter playing Cookstar for around 15 hours, however, I understand why the game’s release has been so legally contentious. ![]() If you follow the recipe and make the right motions, you’ll end up with a tasty dish, and Mama will be proud of you. There’s a strong sense of satisfaction to be found in following the on-screen instructions to slash at the touchscreen to chop vegetables, or in the act of gently stirring ingredients in virtual mixing bowls. ![]() Each Cooking Mama game basically revolves around players using a touchscreen, or motion controls, to cook meals following fairly “realistic” steps recreated via a variety of minigames.Ĭooking Mama games are usually a showcase of what makes a Nintendo console’s unique control scheme great, whether that means emphasizing the accuracy of the touchscreen of the Nintendo DS or the motion controls of the Wii. ![]() ![]() I’ve always had a soft spot for the series. One of those copies ended up in my possession. Cookstar has been pulled from the Nintendo Switch eShop, but a few rogue physical copies made it into the wild. Cooking Mama: Cookstar was never meant to have been released to the public, if you believe the company that owns the rights to the Cooking Mama franchise.
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