Cooking Mama is the number 1 video game chef of all time! The culinary Queen of cartridge, Mama loves to share her joy of cooking with her friends and family. Thanks to Mama’s guidance and expertise, players have followed Mama directions and prepared hundreds of delicious meals over the years. Mama instructs and cheers players on as they prepare wonderful treats from around the world. Everything from Apple Pie to Zuccotto.
Don’t worry if you make mistakes. Mama will cheer you on with encouragement and help you sharpen your cooking skills.
A brand-new Cooking Mama experience created specifically for Nintendo Switch™. Cooking Mama: Cookstar features over 90 incredible new recipes for players to master. Cook everything from classic Japanese recipes to today’s most tasty comfort foods. Cooking Mama Switch truly has a taste of everything. Thanks for every Like and Favorite! They really help! This is Part 3 of Cooking Mama: Cookstar Gameplay Walkthrough for the Nintendo switch! In case anyone wonders about the dangers of cooking mama. Rumors, and topics relating to the Nintendo Switch. We are a fan-run community, not an official Nintendo. The situation began when Cooking Mama: Cookstar, which was released in late March for Nintendo Switch, was unexpectedly pulled from Nintendo’s eShop and physical copies disappeared from store.
Cooking Mama was originally created for the Nintendo DS in 2006 by Japanese developer Office Create. Taking advantage of the new touch screen technology on the Nintendo DS; Cooking Mama introduced the joy of cooking to a new generation of gamers. Simple tasks and chores became fun games with delicious results. Exotic recipes shocked and delighted players as they took food preparation into their own hands. Chopping, slicing, and dicing had never been so much fun!
Transforming simple tasks into fun games; Cooking Mama for DS became a huge success with fans and went on to sell over 5.6 million units worldwide.
Cooking Mama: Cookoff released in 2007 on the Nintendo Wii and players were fully immersed in the gameplay thanks to the Nintendo Wiimote and motion controls.
Over the years Mama’s adventures continued in Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends & Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop for DS. Cooking Mama: World Kitchen on Wii, Cooking Mama 4 & 5 on Nintendo 3DS. Mama also branched out into other adventures outside of the kitchen in Crafting Mama, Gardening Mama 1 & 2, Babysitting Mama and Camping Mama.
Now, Cooking Mama is back in a brand-new game developed for Nintendo Switch™. A brand new Cooking Mama game created for next gen consoles.
Cooking Mama:Cookstar features over 80 incredible recipes for players to master. Cook everything from classic Japanese recipes to today’s most tasty comfort foods. Cooking Mama Switch truly has a taste of everything. Not a carnivore? Not a problem! For the first time ever Cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking mode. Burritos, Bibimbap, Bubble Tea, Baked Alaska, Pokebowls and so much more. Explore the diverse menu to find what suits your taste.
Don’t think you have the skills to become a master chef? Don’t worry, Mama will fix that! Just follow Mama’s instructions and create delicious and decadent treats that you can share with your friends. Chop, mince, slice, dice and roll! Precision motion controls immerse players right into the action. With Mama’s help you will become the world’s greatest culinary artist.
Classic recipes and fun new recipes like Unicorn Food
Multiplayer and co-op Party Games
Challenge mode for expert chefs
Share your amazing creations with friends on social media
For the first time ever, Cooking Mama includes a Vegetarian Mode. A completely separate mode for players who prefer not to include meat in their recipes. Plenty of creative protein substitutions for vegetarian or curious carnivores to explore.
A collection of competitive and co-operative cooking games to play with friends.
The most challenging cooking mode. There is no room for mistakes in this kitchen.
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Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Switch) Review
by Steven Green - April 13, 2020, 7:41 am EDT
Total comments: 1
Coming home to Mama feels just like I remember, but worse.
Cooking sims are a rare experience to find at this point in gaming’s lifespan, and it’s an even rarer chance to find one that brings a proper farm-to-table experience. Cooking Mama: Cookstar—amidst quite the tumultuous launch—takes a beloved franchise and presents us with a Wii-era title that looks and feels like the Cooking Mama we want but doesn’t bring anything new or interesting to the Nintendo Switch.
I do want to note that my personal experience showed that the rumor mill may have gotten out of hand with this one. Although I can’t comment on if the game does anything on your Switch in the background; in terms of overheating, I had very few issues. Even with the system getting warm here and there, it was nothing that had me worried for the lifespan of my system, and in fact, seemed to be running cooler and quieter than when I am playing Animal Crossing. Please keep in mind the potential risks with the game when considering buying and playing this one, but I didn’t notice anything that would give me cause to tell you not to purchase it outright.
Now that that’s over with, back to the review:
Cooking Mama: Cookstar offers nothing in terms of storytelling, simply jumping right into the cooking action from the off. You start with a series of recipes available, where after their completion you are given additional dishes to try out. Top to bottom, this is a pure simulation title, where going through the motions of cutting, stirring, and spreading are waiting for you. Beyond the lack of something to keep things more interesting in terms of why you’re helping Mama out, you also have graphics that, though sharper than the Wii or DS era, feel right at home with previous entries in the series. Music is samey and a bit too upbeat and happy at all times, which pairs creepily with the odd voice acting and cheers of encouragement from your cooking guide. All of this creates just enough of an off-kilter experience that you feel displaced right away, rather than feeling welcome back home.
Once you get into the nitty-gritty and start up a dish, things begin to settle back into place, but the lack of depth in terms of your actions makes for some chill, relaxed gameplay that doesn’t challenge or excite. Cutting up vegetables and adding ingredients into a stand mixer is all good and fine, but there is no real pizzazz outside of a camera mode at the end of each recipe that allows you to plate your creation however you please, with the addition of filters and the like to really wow your social media following.
Maxing out the ratings for each dish isn’t something you’re going to find any sort of issue breezing through, but my one gripe with it is that making one, small mistake leads to a two-star rating, rather than a three. Because of this, taking the time to enter the practice mode for each recipe may be necessary just to get acquainted with the steps coming up so you don’t get caught off guard, but otherwise, taking your chances end just fine most of the time. An additional mode in which the Cooking Mama lets you try out recipes with no help boosts the difficulty, but comes down more to memorization, rather than truly teaching you anything.
What makes this a bigger issue is that the motion controls are spotty and inaccurate. Regularly you will find yourself flailing about trying to get the proper input, which made me feel like I was using a Wiimote, rather than the higher-tech Joy-Con. Interestingly, every other title ever that I have played has been crisp in terms of accuracy and input with these high-end devices, but for some reason, Cooking Mama: Cookstar didn’t get the memo.
The only real saving grace to the experience is that it can be enjoyable when playing with others, especially children. I had my kid cracking up messing with the game, and we had a genuinely good time playing this title with him.
In terms of what is on offer for a veteran gamer or someone who is familiar with the franchise, you will find this is a lacking option with not a lot of change, variation, or improvements. Motion control issues hamper the experience for anyone going for full completion, and the rest of what you see will remind you of one of the Wii-era titles in the series straight from 2007. As a family game, Cooking Mama: Cookstar offers a serviceable experience for your children for an evening.
Summary
Pros
- Cooking Mama is back!
- Great for kids to mess with for awhile
- Photo mode is kind of cool
Cons
- Motion control inaccuracy is frustrating
- Only slight improvements over previous-generation releases
- Serious lack of depth and variation
- Small mistakes can force you into retrying lengthy recipes
Talkback
A good video on the current situation with this game. Short version: there's plenty of legal fuckery with this game but the speculation regarding bitcoin mining is wrong.
http://youtu.be/daFilXCAsms
BMM: https://youtu.be/daFilXCAsms
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Genre | Simulation |
Developer | 1st Playable Productions |
Players | 1 |
Worldwide Releases
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Cooking Mama: Cookstar | |
Release | Mar 26, 2020 |
Rating | Everyone |