Why Cooking Mama: Cookstar Went Wrong
Channel: Video Game Story Time
Date: 2020-04-15

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