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. 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.

and the first Cooking Mama game to release on a home console since Cooking Mama: World Kitchen (2008) or Babysitting Mama (2010). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookstar was initially revealed as Cooking Mama: Coming Home to Mama in August 2019, with an estimated release date for Q3 of that year.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 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. While we don't know how or why any of those individual instances happened, a rogue developer releasing something without permission and a license holder trying its best to walk it back might explain at least some of it — and that's certainly what Office Create has claimed. Despite this you can simply play the recipes in single player and pass the controller around to as many players as you like!

IP rights holder Office Create later stated that Planet Entertainment was not authorized to release Cooking Mama games on the platform. What we do know is this: Cooking Mama: Cookstar was a weird game with a lot of unanswered questions about its creation and ownership.

Cooking Mama: Cookstar was available to download for a short time today, but has since mysteriously vanished".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.