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Why Cooking Mama: Cookstar Went Wrong (Patreon)

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2020-04-15 23:42:09

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Hi all!

We just wanted to say a huge thank you for continuing to support us. Our family income is still dipping, as we imagine yours is too, so it means a lot to us to know that you're still helping us. As we said before, please don't hesitate to amend your pledge if and when you need to.

We've been really busy in April. Kotor writes and draws for Nintendo Force magazine, and just happened to have a lot to do in the upcoming issue, both reviewing games and writing previews, so getting everything ready for the deadline last week was rough. In addition, Four-Year-Old Gamer is home from school all the time now, so we're trying to home school her while also get videos done, and that means going a bit slower.

The very generous Suger Joe reached out to us last week, suggesting we talk about Cooking Mama: Cookstar. We'd actually been considering this as a topic for a while, but weren't quite sure if it was the right time, as there was still a lot of speculation going around about what happened with this game's development. After Joe's message, though, we knew we needed to explore it.

This video was amended and altered right up to the last second. Just when we thought we'd finished it, one of the parties involved would say something new. This happened repeatedly, until finally, we figured we just needed to put it out there. We can always do a follow-up if the story takes more turns later.

Anyway, hope you're all doing well, it's probably time for sleep for us now.

Lots of love,

BretonStripes, Kotor, and Four-Year-Old Gamer

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Why Cooking Mama: Cookstar Went Wrong

Cooking Mama: Cookstar is probably one of the biggest controversial game releases of the past decade. What a weird concept. The legal battle between rights holder Office Create (also known as Cooking Mama Ltd) and publisher Planet Entertainment promises to be lengthy and filled with twists and turns. When Cookstar very briefly went on sale at the end of March before disappearing from online stores entirely, gamers were understandably confused. Nasty rumours began to circulate that the game contained block chain technology designed to hijack Nintendo Switch consoles to force them to mine for bitcoin. These rumours are, according to everyone involved with the game, false. With a sensitive and ever-evolving topic like this, we can't comment or speculate too much. Instead, all we can do is quote people who claim to have inside information, and hope that they're telling the truth. To that end, this video takes a lot of information from an anonymous whistleblower who spoke to Screen Rant. As a rule, you shouldn't trust anything you read on Screen Rant - they'll let anyone write for them (Kotor, who wrote this script, used to write listicles for them)! While this video is only accurate to the best of our ability with the information available at the time of writing, we hope that it at least helps to explain a complicated issue that's filled with hearsay and scuttlebutt. Thanks for watching! BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics) Sources: http://www.ofcr.co.jp/ofcr/ImportantNotice_en.html https://screenrant.com/cooking-mama-cookstar-switch-eshop-controversy-crypto-mining/ https://twitter.com/CookstarMama/status/1250507324596211713