ORIGINAL STORY 2pm: Cooking Mama: Cookstar has been embroiled in problems ever since its messy release on Switch, and now there's a new chapter in the saga, as the IP owner of Cooking Mama is considering legal action against publisher Planet Entertainment for breaching the licensing contract. We thank them for their wisdom and wish them well'.

'We appreciate the overwhelming positive response and support from Cooking Mama Cookstar fans,' Planet Entertainment wrote, 'Office Create has our total respect. These exciting additions have so far helped the game achieve a Metacritic score of 45 out of 100, in case you were wondering. The publisher concluded by noting that 'Cooking Mama fans have been very enthusiastic about Cooking Mama Cookstar, including the many new features including Vegetarian and, Unicorn food, Potluck Party plus more'. Planet say that 'by contract' it's fully within its rights to publish the game and 'there is no active litigation or ruling that prevents from' doing so.

'Unfortunately,' continued the publisher, 'creative differences arose as Cooking Mama Cookstar was near completion that were outside the scope of our agreement and the game design approved by Office Create'. Planet says it, along with Cookstar's developer 1st Playable, 'followed the exact approved design', which resulted in the 'exact' game ultimately released on Switch. 'Planet Entertainment wants to explain the mystery surrounding the Nintendo Switch game to all Cooking Mama Cookstar fans,' the publisher wrote in a statement posted to Twitter.Īccording to Planet, Cooking Mama rights holder Office Create - which has accused the publisher of breaching its licensing agreement - approved a 'detailed game design' in 2019. UPDATE 10pm: Planet Entertainment has responded to accusations that it breached its contract by publishing Cooking Mama: Cookstar, in a lengthy statement which, if nothing else, is worth relaying for its surprise use of the words 'unicorn food'.

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