New (Other) Nintendo Switch Cooking Mama. 5.0 out of 5 stars. 49 product ratings. Cooking Mama: Cookstar / Nintendo Switch (2020) US English. Sellers with highest buyer ratings. Returns, money back. Ships in a business day with tracking. 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. Not a carnivore? For the first time ever Cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking. A brand-new Cooking Mama experience created specifically for Nintendo Switch. Cooking Mama: Cookstar features over 80 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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Marking the debut of the franchise on the Nintendo Switch, Cooking Mama: Cookstar arrives with a lot of chatter. Disappearing from the eShop amidst overheating rumors, re-emerging overpriced direct from the publisher only, and now legal disputes with the IP owner, it’s been an interesting road. But that’s all I say about it, as this review will focus on the game alone.
It’s important to note that I have almost no firsthand experience with the Mama games. I am, of course, aware of them, with over a dozen releases in the past 15 years, including sequels and spinoffs. But if you’re looking for direct comparisons to past entries, I’m not the reviewer to help you.
Cookstar has 80-plus recipes to keep you busy, which is more than some past entries. I like learning them (as someone who doesn’t cook much in real life) and feeling the rumble as I chop and interact with the various ingredients. You can take a picture of each final dish and share them on social media, with different filters and angles. It’s kind of cool, making me regret that I haven’t played this game on my Twitter-linked profile. Maybe I’ll restart it.
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A vegetarian mode is a thoughtful inclusion, though it seems like it could’ve gone further. For instance, a plate of Hamburger and Fries looks almost identical to Black Bean Burger and Fries, except for the patty being slightly darker. Maybe having wholly original plates, rather than minor variants or substitutions, would’ve made this mode have even more of an impact.
Potluck Party is fun, with a variety of multiplayer games to take part in. Some are only good for a couple of plays, but a few had my wife and I laughing, like Let-go My Waffle, My biggest disappointment with this mode is that there are only two minigames (Pound the Mochi and Fast Food Hustle) that can be played cooperatively, with the rest being versus. I would’ve liked to have seen a better balance.
Unfortunately, there is no touch screen support for any mode during handheld play save a few menu options. That’s not a good decision! However, I’m a bit of a fan of motion controls when playing on the TV. Having said this, I’m glad that they’re optional here. They aren’t the best, and some will be turned off by the thought of practicing with them. Still, they bring immersion and challenge. The latter is in short supply, as this is an easy game. Kids will appreciate that (and likely the motion controls), but older players will want to aim for three stars on every recipe. I think a five-star setup might’ve served better for challenge purposes.
Now, a big question … does this game cause overheating? Not in the half-hour spurts that I’ve been playing it, which also helps to limit repetition – if you want to talk about hot, I can tell you about the time when I played New Horizons until my battery reached one percent. Much like a real-life buffet, I start Cookstar thinking I’ll splurge, but end up stopping after a couple of plates. And that’s okay.
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I want to briefly mention the voice acting for Mama. I can’t quite place her accent, but I think it’s fine. I’ve caught wind of some hyperbolic claims, but to any who genuinely think this is the “worst”… well, I guess I played more early to mid 90s CD-ROM games than a lot of other critics. Should the voice performance bug you that much, you can mute it via the in-game settings. Mama’s continued encouragement is a welcome touch as far as I’m concerned. Unless you mess up bad; it’s tough to take her “Don’t worry” seriously when she has flames in her eyes!
While there’s definitely room for improvement and expansion, I can see kids liking this game quite a bit. There’s plenty to unlock, and hearing that you did something better than Mama brings a smile. As someone new to the series, Cooking Mama: Cookstar felt reasonably fresh to me. But vets may find it more so resembles leftovers. Hopefully, the rights holder and publisher can work things out. I wouldn’t mind trying a Gardening or Camping Mama on Switch.