Cooking Mama Cookstar - What Happened?

[Applause] [Music] hello and welcome to another episode of what happened the show where I'm just gonna say it 2020 has been a trying year I'd say that's fair and well lots of things that happened that I think a vast majority of people weren't expecting there's certainly one thing that occurred or is still occurring that precisely zero people were expecting a new cooking mama game titled cook star came out but didn't come out that only some people have but they shouldn't play it because it mines Bitcoin stills your identity overheats your switch drains your battery and might even be possessing your soul except all these things are very untrue or they might be this is a once in a generation story of mysterious mysteries dummy companies cryptocurrency potential lawsuits and is still very much ongoing now if all this muck was attached to some weird obscure MMO that'd be one thing but the fact that so much confusion vitriol and misinformation is revolving around the wholesome Cooking Mama franchise well it makes it so very what happened and I realize while it's impossible to 100% future-proof this video I'm still gonna try it by the time you see this it might already be outdated the game might be back online or it might be revealed that I Randy Pitchford was behind it all so we'll just have to see anyway put on your aprons and get your spatulas it's time to start cooking The Cooking Mama series it's kind of in the background right it's just some weird B and D s mini game [ __ ] that's way beneath the likes of hardcore games huh well name almost any other video game franchise and it's most likely Cooking Mama has outsold it across ten games and various spin-offs the cute cook has moved over 20 billion units worldwide the last game of the series sweet shop came out in 2017 for the 3ds and was published by Japanese company office create who just so happened to be the series developer Majesco having lost the publishing rights back in oh I think 2014 or so now this company has a weird history of its own it started as office create when they made the first Cooking Mama for the desk but in the subsequent years changed their name to Cooking Mama limited but then changed back to office create for some reason adding to the flavor of this what happened soup anyway it was in the summer of 2019 when the first bubbles started to boil in said soup as the Usk ratings board leaked the game via an official listing with the switch been the only advertised version on us of all was that office creates logo or name was nowhere to be found in any of this so even the lead-up to the release of this thing was to put it lightly sketchy as [ __ ] whose name is associated with cook star like most of this story its kind of murky an Australian ratings website was said Planet Entertainment as the publisher while another company first playable was cited as the developer hours later that listing was suddenly delisted and when it appeared again first playable 's name had been removed [Music] adding to the confusion first play Bulls website doesn't even mention cooking mama in any capacity except weight net now they do when I first checked this site as I was researching like three days ago there was no cooking mama but now there is alright as for a planet entertainment but the real star of this show and they're not to be confused with the Illinois arcade of the same name well they seem to be s be the publisher of the game and their website reveals they make we asked minigame fodder for the switch and only [ __ ] they release the Cabella game I've been wondering what happened and good old Johnny Cabella oh and check out that good [Music] anyway anyway getting getting off track looking into Planet Entertainment it seems they are the publishing arm of one planet digital partners which after a Google search reveals its headquarters is in a house in rural Connecticut which isn't the weirdest thing in the world lots of businesses are sometimes just run out of the houses of said proprietors Bristol seems a bit off considering the franchise's these people have under their umbrella the really weird thing though is that planet entertainment social media has been dark since early 2019 and even to today they've made 0 tweets about Cooking Mama now you'd think a company that got there oven mitts on a 20 million copy selling franchise would actually I don't know mention it but what's weirder than all of that is that their official [ __ ] website does still have absolutely no mentions of Cooking Mama anywhere and in fact they had apparently made several statements about the game including the most famous one that have since been deleted the infamous post in question says that this new entry in a cute cooking franchise would and I quote be one of the first three games in planet digital's portfolio that is funded by digital preferred shares find a digital with democratized game funding for investors who for the first time ever could owed equity in a portfolio of console games we are using blockchain to add innovative gameplay that investors can now have equity in putting aspects of cooking mama on chain will take the user experience to a whole new level reinvigorate a popular game franchise that many grew up with and give investors an opportunity to make handsome returns through a digital preferred shared offering ok cookie mama will also feature private key enabled balance DRM traditional DRM limits the ability to copy games while private keys on blockchain protocols allows easy registration these combine items provide great improvements what the [ __ ] by the way in this press release it either intentionally or erroneously I don't know calls the game cookie mama cooking home to mama instead of [ __ ] stock I don't know I apologize I just keep reading it as [ __ ] star sometimes I don't know maybe it's just me moving on I may have an explanation for all that I mean I have an explanation maybe for some of this there's no way I can answer everything while this press release only started making the rounds in the summer of 2019 it seems like it was originally drafted much earlier perhaps all the way back in January because that's the cited date on the goddamn thing not sure if this was an oversight or this press release was never intended to see the light of day but there it is because plans changed from you know January to the summer maybe they took out all this stuff a lot of all these scary draconian features that are outlined here were never mentioned again and they don't seem to be in the final game in fact only the vegetarian mode seems to have survived which by the way was a move lauded by PETA and won an award for so they take that for what you will that about brings us up to February of this year where the Nintendo eShop then updated with a page for the game and stated the final release date was March 26 and there would be both a digital and physical version this was about the only real advertising that the cooking mama got people just finding out about it on the eShop and they actually started to get excited as the series head carved out a small but passionate fan base now there is seemingly an official Cooking Mama Twitter account which has like five tweets ever and has never responded to a single question and since the launch has ceased to tweet or has it mid editing update after those said few days of silence both Planet Entertainment and The Cooking Mama Twitter denied all of the things on the admitting that blocked chaining at once was considered but never implemented into the game code and while they still haven't explained why it was rude from the eShop they claim that they currently don't know when it will return due to the global pandemic which of course can cause delays to finish digital games as most people are aware so yeah they're kind of talking about stuff it's things are still a little shady anyway back to you Matt thanks Matt the game went live on the eShop but only for a few hours and was just as promptly taken down with zero explanation from just about everyone plan and entertainment office create and first playable all went silent or you know silent earth giving no reason for its removal physical copies were confirmed to head Target and other brick-and-mortar stores but stock was cited as extremely low coupled with that the prospect of attaining any of these out in the wild games is exceedingly difficult with many of these stores given the state of the world being deemed as non-essential then suddenly a random person online just started saying that the game is attempting to mine bitcoins still your credit card info and overheat your switch and people including me all started to believe it I mean if 2022 stack that on to the pile of insane [ __ ] we've got to deal with that is one big pile of [ __ ] however after a bit more research than zero it seems like most of these claims were either completely fabricated overblown or at the very least just speculative when these allegations started being thrown around people started ripping the games ROM apart and have since found no real evidence of block chaining or the game being able to mine for a cryptocurrency in fact the switches internal hardware is simply not powerful enough to even make this viable it just can't support the process what's more is that Nintendo's notoriously strict pre-certification testing would have caught any suspicious or predatory background processes when the game is being submitted now in terms of the switch overheating this seems to be an issue with unity the engine which the game runs on Cooke star just hasn't been optimised very well or even very terribly unity has a habit of displaying odd technical quirks and some but on all titles which use it it doesn't seem that the game getting your switch hot under the collar and draining its battery was an intended malicious effect although one other possible issue to the overheating is the fact that there was evidence that block chaining might have been in the game coat at a point but was then ripped out because of that some remaining technical issues might be contributing to the overheating in addition to the problems within unity so know if you are among the 32 people that uncock star the game is not mining bitcoins it's not stealing your identity it's not trying to launch nukes all over the world so then what exactly happened why was the game pulled from the eShop why was there no advertising how come none of the official companies are talking about this while a post from an anonymous developer who seemed to work with Planet Entertainment shed some possible light the statement about cryptocurrency was all buzzwords the head of Planet Entertainment knows very little about these things he just put in some fancy language to get potential investors who like that kind of stuff there's no way crypto mining could get through Nintendo or Sony's test side note there is apparently a ps4 version that no wonder surely exists I doubt anyone at first playable would even be able to make such a thing there is a legal battle between the publisher Planet Entertainment and the IP Holder office create Planet Entertainment released the game against office crates wishes who wanted them to keep polishing it or perhaps even cancel it at one point that Japanese office great staff came to oversee development an argument started and the clients were told to go home if they were going to be constructive once they found out that Planet Entertainment released the game anyway they use their Nintendo contacts to pull it from the eShop and stop production of cartridges overall everyone at first playable loves the cookie-mommy franchise and they did their best to make the best product considering the interference from the higher-ups and the game is far from perfect but would have done fine without the publishers constant stumbling advertising was blocked by office create - there were YouTube ads websites and even tik-tok ads that never came out as I understand it Planet Entertainment is suing office create for having it removed for money lost it's hard to say if it will ever be released properly now there has been no official statement regarding any of this from office create or Planet Entertainment which isn't surprising if there's a lawsuit in the mix so for now while a lot of it adds up let's just file this right here under very credible rumor that's probably true this is such a unique case where the original Japanese developers licensed an IP to another publisher who just so happened to be you know idiots contracted an outside studio to develop it who indeed tried to do their best but obviously rush during the development in terms of the actual game it seems like it's fine it's a basic version of The Cooking Mama formula or I should say recipe got to keep the cooking puns up the [ __ ] boxes and that's about all the story their office create felt like the game was not up to snuff an ordered Planet Entertainment to delay it further who weren't [ __ ] having that since they felt it was good enough Planet Entertainment yeah it's good enough this whole brouhaha about the latest cooking mama having some evil mining software included is probably someone catching wind of the original investor fishing press release and assume the game's shadiness and Hoover heating was due to that so all these things just happened to sync up to make the sweet wholesome cook seem far more exploitative than she actually is since there is clearly some bad blood between the two companies it's safe to say that the game's full release is going to be blocked for the foreseeable future at the least and forever had the most and I gotta say in 50 some episodes this might be the strangest story we've ever covered yeah the guy game was a gross case of a crusty old party animal wasting money and too human was a comedy of bad errors and worse decisions but in terms of pure business-related idiocy this might take the freshly baked cake you have a franchise that's sold 20 million copies it lands in your lap and you [ __ ] it up from pretty much every conceivable angle and the game's not even that bad is just 100% pure publisher buffoonery and it's a shame because it might seal the fate of mama ever getting back into the videogame kitchen ever again oh that's what that was a wild one and it's probably gonna change but if you know of any other sizzling slices of scummy scandals shut it out in the comments below or cook up a storm in the flophouse VIP patreon to nominate the subject of a future episode see you next time cooks and thanks for watching [Music] [Music]

Channel: Matt McMuscles

Views: 418,651

Rating: 4.9350615 out of 5

Keywords: Cooking Mama, Cookstar, Video Game Disasters, Video Game Documentaries, Matt McMuscles, What Happened?, Wha happun, Flophouse, Cooking Mama Cookstar

Id: daFilXCAsms

Length: 16min 17sec (977 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Mucmaster]

Literally the day this video goes up

http://www.ofcr.co.jp/ofcr/ImportantNotice_en.html

[u/Flare3500]

Cooking Mama : Crookstar , Cockstar , Cokestar

Jesus Christ there's a lot to unpack here ,also the last Cooking Mama mainline game was in 2014 ?!!! That's so weird

Man you'd think engines like Unity or Unreal would have a flip to just make it PS4/Xbox/Switch ready to avoid overheating and stuff

"Every time I play an Unreal engine game it feels like my PS4 is trying to launch into outerspace" - REDACTED

[u/Ergheis]

I think Matt needs to expand his "gaming news" strategy. With those mid-editing updates, this doesn't feel like a "what happened" so much as a "here's what's going on currently."

There's nothing wrong with the content itself, just feels odd.

[u/CreepingDeath0]

Considering this is still very much a developing news story, with just today seeing the Devs claim the game was released early without their approval, this kinda feels more like a "gotta get the clicks while it's hot" thing.

I remember feeling like this in another of Matt's Wha Happened? (maybe Fallout 76?) and I always think it's a shame because if he just waited a few more weeks/a month, you'd get a fuller story and a better video.

[u/Frankengeek]

To anyone who had the chance of catching one of those physical copies: HOLD IT THE FUCK UP. This may become "that one really rare game" for the Switch library:

[u/Dalek_Kolt]

PETA Award

Your approval fills me with shame.

[u/Realcoolblue]

I kind of appreciate Matt making a what happened this early on this cooking mama fiasco. While it is still changing, I think it works as a nice catch up to where the situation currently is. There's been a lot a of misinformation and confusion, so at least this'll help everybody be on the same page.

[u/The_Draigg]

I have no idea what Planet Entertainment thought was going to happen. Like, how did they not see this coming? What did they expect to happen when they decided to go rogue and publish the game against the wishes of their IP holder?