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IGN - Gaming’s greatest mystery right now is... Cooking Mama (UPDATE: follow-up article, cryptocurrency rumors debunked)
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Worth noting that Planet seems ot be more or less the successor to XS Games. You may remember XS from the Wii era who put out mostly shovelware but some okay stuff here and there. The founder of XS founded Planet IIRC, it even says so in their employee profiles on their main site, I'll recheck.
1st Playable is no inexperienced dev. They were apparently formed quite awhile ago by ex-Vicarious Visions folks who up until now only worked on Nintendo hardware in terms of traditional hardware, but after Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay in 2014, they went mobile and browser edutainment exclusive.
I never understood why now of all times they came back to make a Cooking Mama game when Office Create exclusively were the devs (they own it). Why all of the sudden move the IP to a western dev. Are they not making Cooking Mama 6 for Switch internally? Majesco also is still in the picture after being very briefly shutdown when they (for god knows what reason) merged with a medical company. They recently brought Shin'en's Iridion 3D and Iridion II to Steam (uhh.. why not Switch?). They have a multimedia project in the works called Coba (developed by Dinosaur Games) for Switch and Steam after they were bought by a company in Vancouver IIRC right after reviving themselves. But that game's been MIA for like the last year since the reveal.
505 Games funny enough inherited the Zumba IP from Majesco and put out Zumba: Burn it Up on Switch (by the original Zoe Mode team at Kuju). 505 Games were the EU publisher of Cooking Mama but called it quits right after Cooking Mama 4. Nintendo of all people took over for the EU releases of Cooking Mama 5 and Gardening Mama 2, but yet Rising Star Games then took over for Cooking Mama Sweet Shop for both NA and EU.
Now Planet enters the ring all of the sudden doing a western-specific entry. They've only published exclusively for Switch with ports of both Bass Pro Shop games from the Wii/PS360 era (with The Hunt now under Cabela as BPS bought them out), and believe it not published Switch ports of two DATA DESIGN Wii games. Yeah, they still live! O_o Oh and Party Arcade as the successor to the WB-owned Game Party IP by the original devs at Farsight.
I mean these were sound strategies if nothing remarkable. But I feel like jumping to Cooking Mama, and especially with this fucking crypto nonesense (whether it's in the final game or not, it was planned as discussed above). What is going on here?
Edit: I CAN'T ENTER PLANET'S MAIN SITE DUE TO A SECURITY WARNING FROM FIREFOX!!! LOL
1st Playable is no inexperienced dev. They were apparently formed quite awhile ago by ex-Vicarious Visions folks who up until now only worked on Nintendo hardware in terms of traditional hardware, but after Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay in 2014, they went mobile and browser edutainment exclusive.
I never understood why now of all times they came back to make a Cooking Mama game when Office Create exclusively were the devs (they own it). Why all of the sudden move the IP to a western dev. Are they not making Cooking Mama 6 for Switch internally? Majesco also is still in the picture after being very briefly shutdown when they (for god knows what reason) merged with a medical company. They recently brought Shin'en's Iridion 3D and Iridion II to Steam (uhh.. why not Switch?). They have a multimedia project in the works called Coba (developed by Dinosaur Games) for Switch and Steam after they were bought by a company in Vancouver IIRC right after reviving themselves. But that game's been MIA for like the last year since the reveal.
505 Games funny enough inherited the Zumba IP from Majesco and put out Zumba: Burn it Up on Switch (by the original Zoe Mode team at Kuju). 505 Games were the EU publisher of Cooking Mama but called it quits right after Cooking Mama 4. Nintendo of all people took over for the EU releases of Cooking Mama 5 and Gardening Mama 2, but yet Rising Star Games then took over for Cooking Mama Sweet Shop for both NA and EU.
Now Planet enters the ring all of the sudden doing a western-specific entry. They've only published exclusively for Switch with ports of both Bass Pro Shop games from the Wii/PS360 era (with The Hunt now under Cabela as BPS bought them out), and believe it not published Switch ports of two DATA DESIGN Wii games. Yeah, they still live! O_o Oh and Party Arcade as the successor to the WB-owned Game Party IP by the original devs at Farsight.
I mean these were sound strategies if nothing remarkable. But I feel like jumping to Cooking Mama, and especially with this fucking crypto nonesense (whether it's in the final game or not, it was planned as discussed above). What is going on here?
Edit: I CAN'T ENTER PLANET'S MAIN SITE DUE TO A SECURITY WARNING FROM FIREFOX!!! LOL
My theory is that Office Create caught wind of this at the eleventh hour, saw it was using their copyrights (while the "Cooking Mama" name might not be Office Create trademark, in a similar manner to how Marvelous never owned "Harvest Moon", the design of Mama herself is definitely Office Create's property) and sent in the lawyers. It does beg the question how the fuck anyone thought they could get away with not asking the original creators for permission to do this project (especially Deep Silver, who absolutely should know better).
You want to learn how to be better zen Mama? Wonderful! All Mama needs before you start is your credit card number, expiration date, and 3 or 4 digits on ze back!
Yeah, this seems to be the case, Office Create's page http://www.ofcr.co.jp/, not even the official Cooking Mama twitter channels seem to mention anything related to this game lol, and you would at least expect something if they got permission from them
Picked up a copy at Target for $29.. found the only store in the area that didn't get ONE copy, but rather TWO that they hadn't stocked yet.
Confusing as hell release.
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It didn't sound all that different, but it was really weird to hear CM say stuff that sounded like she's trying to fit in..
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"Yo, that was lit, let's get krunk!" (well maybe not that bad..)
Confusing as hell release.
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It didn't sound all that different, but it was really weird to hear CM say stuff that sounded like she's trying to fit in..
IE:
"Yo, that was lit, let's get krunk!" (well maybe not that bad..)
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Scanning the copyright info for the Cooking Mama games, Office Create/Cooking Mama Ltd. is shown to own the trademark for most of the releases, but the later ones make no mention of it. Did they let it expire despite having "Cooking Mama" in their company name? If that's the case, then yeah this new company's use of the Mama character probably caused issues.
I haven't seen any gameplay for this new game other than what's on this page, so I don't know if it makes any mention of the trademark.
I haven't seen any gameplay for this new game other than what's on this page, so I don't know if it makes any mention of the trademark.
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As the news was going on earlier today, some copies sold on amazon for around 45 or 50 bucks. Theyre gone now. I doubt I missed out on much, I almost did the same just to say I did.
Yeah what probably happened is someone stupidly decided it was a good idea to make their own Cooking Mama game without approaching the owners of the IP first
Yo Edge isn't letting me in either lmao
Office Create is still on the back cover and I guess they're copyrighted under "Cooking Mama World" as they're called on their website. But yeah, who knows what they're actual involvement was, if they were even aware at all (which would be very illegal if they were never even approached, like yikes).
the simple answer would be they licensed out the game, but after the news of the blockchain thing, they got into a kerfuffle and that aspect was never pushed onto the developers. but some other issue cropped up, whatever it is
Looks like there's some stock around in Australia. I'm tempted to buy because this definitely seems like it's going to be quite rare indeed.
Vivaldi also saying that I'll catch eCorona on that site.
Nice. Seems Platekompaniet has listed it with a release date of the 28th this month for PS4 and Switch 🤔
Platekompaniet is always slower than coolshop in my experience
You think? This is all hilarious and fascinating at the same time, sure...but I'm expecting normal stock to get to all US and EU retailers in late April or whenever it's now supposed to. Am I too optimistic here?
Also, wouldn't the publisher maybe say something on Twitter if physical copies were about to get pulled?
IGN's follow-up article
IGN ran a follow-up article today, mostly a summary of the info in this thread and on Twitter. They looked at using blockchain technology but apparently it never made it into the final game. There's still some confusion why the the game was pulled from the eshop though.
Cooking Mama: Cookstar Creators Move to Quash Cryptocurrency Mining Speculation - IGN
Cooking Mama: Cookstar'sstory keeps getting stranger, as theories about background cryptomining are shut down.
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Can you add that article to the OP mazi ?
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what an effin mess
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EXCLUSIVE: Developer Speaks Out About Cooking Mama Cookstar Switch eShop Controversy
Reasons why Cooking Mama: Cookstar was pulled.
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what an effin mess
EXCLUSIVE: Developer Speaks Out About Cooking Mama Cookstar Switch eShop Controversy
Reasons why Cooking Mama: Cookstar was pulled.
How the hell is there such a goddamn mess over goddamn Cooking Mama of all things. Holy hell.
This is such a wild story, sounds like there might never be another release if the publisher can't come to an agreement with Office Create. Anyone who was lucky enough to get an early copy should keep their game sealed for now, this could really go up in value depending on how many copies made it onto store shelves.
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Man, I was hoping the cryptomining thing would be true simply because that would be hilarious af.
That being said, this situation is already pretty funny
That being said, this situation is already pretty funny
what an effin mess
EXCLUSIVE: Developer Speaks Out About Cooking Mama Cookstar Switch eShop Controversy
Reasons why Cooking Mama: Cookstar was pulled.
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Oh wow I'm glad I picked this up the moment I heard about this going down, this is such a crazy mess for such an unlikely game.crazy
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oh jeez, switch is no gamecube or wii u. i don't think getting a fullset is very realistic.
if people somehow tried to do it for wii you can be absolutely sure they're also trying for switch
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Hmmm, maybe I should buy both the Switch and PS4 versions and keep them unopened and pristine? 🤔
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