In November 2022, Office Create announced that they had won their legal battle against Planet, and that the game would be removed from sale. He also noted that the game does not offer anything new compared to past entries, which combined with the flaws, make Cookstar a "tedious game that does almost nothing well. It's a bit confusing how we got here in the first place, but here's the summary: Cooking Mama: Cookstar is licensed by Office Create, the company that owns the Cooking Mama franchise. Cooking Mama: Cookstar was available to download for a short time today, but has since mysteriously vanished". According to Office Create's account, Planet Entertainment released Cookstar back in 2020 for the Switch without Office Create's approval — a decision for which Office Create revoked its license to Cooking Mama.

After the lawsuit, 1st Playable Productions and Planet Entertainment would release a spinoff title Yum Yum Cookstar (stylized as yum yum cookstar) for the Xbox One and Xbox Series S and X consoles on September 21, 2022, the Switch on October 4, 2022, [17] Steam on November 11, 2022 [18] (with most of the development for the Xbox and Steam versions by Ravenscourt [19]), and the PS4 on November 26, 2022. Despite this you can simply play the recipes in single player and pass the controller around to as many players as you like!In a press release from license holder Office Create, the company says that its ongoing legal battle with Cookstar publisher Planet Entertainment has been resolved in its favor. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. She praised the game's variety and amount of content, as well as the "nuance" to mastering the mechanics.

It's fun unlocking more recipies and it feels like it has more things to do than other Cooking Mama games to me. The otherwise sweet and wholesome Cooking Mama has been in some hot water over the last year as a legal dispute threw 2020's Cooking Mama: Cookstar into contention. I really enjoy this game, the motion controls are a lot more streamlined and better than wakuwaku sweets (although I still enjoy that game). Cooking Mama: Cookstar is no longer available for purchase as of November 2022, when the International Court of Arbitration ruled that Office Create's IP rights had been infringed by the game and granted their request to have it removed from sale. The game was eventually re-released by the publisher Ravenscourt in March 2021, who also published it in Europe and Australia in 2020.

What we do know is this: Cooking Mama: Cookstar was a weird game with a lot of unanswered questions about its creation and ownership. The game plays very similarly to the original Cookstar with the main differences being a different cast of characters being the female lead along with a roster of judges, a change in overall art style, and voice acting and some of the dialog written by staff from National Lampoon with sound and music produced by Nile Rodgers. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Cooking Mama: cookstar features over 80 fun and fantastic new recipes for players to master including over 50 recipes new to the cooking Mama franchise. Office Create stated it has started taking legal action against Planet as Office Create had terminated their license to use Cooking Mama on March 30, 2020, after which Planet had started selling the game. Travis Northup of IGN gave the game 3 out of 10, praising the detailed recipes featured in the game, but criticizing the monotonous gameplay, poor motion controls, "nightmarish" voice acting, and lack of meaningful progression.The multiplayer is a poorly skinned clone of a couple Mario party mini games and a couple new mini games. In addition, she praised the game's photo mode and Yoko Nishino's "charming" performance as Mama, stating that the character felt "like a tangible, adorable dork of a mother. IP rights holder Office Create later stated that Planet Entertainment was not authorized to release Cooking Mama games on the platform. For the first time ever Cooking Mama will feature both a traditional cooking mode and a vegetarian cooking mode. Planet Entertainment signed on to develop Cookstar, but according to Office Create, the game wasn't up to standards.