I was assigned to review 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cooking Mama: Cookstar (or is it Cooking Mama: Coming Home To Mama?) way back in February. But as the March release date dr𒆙ew closer, it became clear thaꦛt we weren't getting a code. Naturally, I resolved to put my money where my mouth was and pay for it out of pocket upon release.
But the promised release dates o𝓰f both March 13 and March 31 came and went, and no dice. No ﷺword from the publisher, no word from any PR firm - nothing. Now, the story has taken an even stranger twist. It turns out that , only to be unceremoniously yanked with no explanation.
It gets better. says that the game is "out now," despite literally nobody being able to buy it. Or can they? Copies of the game have allegedly surfaced at select Target stores around the country. I have yet to check my local stores, personally, but I'll be taking a trek out into the pandemic wasteland today to t🅰ake a look-see.
Meanwhile, the official Twitter account has literally no mention of the game at all. The URL hotlink for the eShop on leads . There's no reference of Cookstar on publisher Planet Entꦺertainment's , and their "news" section is blank. Curiously, is being promoted for the Switch with a picture that very distinctly is not the official Nintendo-sanctioned logo. So that's weird!
Speaking of weird, some people have gotten their hands on the game. 🅠There are a few bits of YouTube footage out in the wild, and some Redditors have been sharing their experiences with the game. The game is, apparently, real. That said, some threads have indicated that the game is misleading in its marketing, as some advertised features are allegedly not in the game. We, of course, can't verify that quite yet.
And on the topic of things that we can't verify, IGN seems to have run into a dead end when it comes to a very crucial aspect of Cookstar: who actually made the game. Planet Entertainment aren't actually developers themselves, and are apparently based out of a house in the middle-of-nowhere Connecticut. and their Twitter has bee🐟n quiet for over a year.
Meanwhile, Cooking Mama Ltd. has absolutely no mention on any of the game's marketing materials, which is strange conﷺsidering they're the literal rights holder (as far as we know.) Also of note is that as COKeM International Ltd., w🐲hich itself is a .
Another alleged developer, 1st Playable Productions, was listed at one point , but has since been removed. There's no mention of Cooking Mama on .
So, where are we left𓃲? With more questions than answers, unfortunately. Despite IGN's report and my ow🌄n independent digging, we're left with only a handful of facts.
- A new Cooking Mama was released, then pulled.
- It's hard to get your mitts on a physical copy.
- The pꦚublisher scrubbed all mentions ofꦦ the game from their site.
- Nobody knows who made it.
If you were a developer or distributor on Cooking Mama: Cookstar, please - contact us and let us know about your eꩵxperience. In the meantime, I'll be on the hunt for a copy and will report my findings.