The Adventures of Cookie & Cream: Part 1: Jungle World 1 (Puzzle Piece)
16Does anyone know of the developer From Software?
Maybe you do? Maybe you don't?
Okay... Do you know of any badass series like Armored Core? Demon Souls? Dark Souls? Bloodborne? Seriko? The (as of this post) upcoming Elden Ring???
All from the same developer as this goofy and colorful 2000 PS2 game about cute bunnies.
Meet Cookie and Cream. In Japan and Europe, this game is instead called Kuri Kuri Mix.
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Cookie is a yellow laidback rabbit that nonetheless loves the thrill of adventure. He plays the banjo.
Cream is a pink hotheaded bunny. She's way more spry and hates waiting around on things. She wears a blue dress and plays the maracas (and yes, she precedes Sonic the Hedgehog's own Cream the Rabbit).
These two rabbits were anticipating the start of their Moon Festival, but the moon itself never appeared, but what did appear was a white rooster.
This chicken messaged to the rabbits that the moon has ran away, and if it doesn't come back, then the Moon Festival itself can never happen again.
Cookie & Cream decided they should go on an adventure to find the moon, themselves, so the white chicken gave them weird crowns to bless them on their courageous journey. Cookie got a flower pot, while Cream got a mini-umbrella.
From there, the two bunnies were warped to an mysterious island, specifically a jungle, where their adventures begin...
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This game emphasizes hand-eye coordination. Each side of your controller will control each rabbit on that side of the screen, especially if you're doing a 1-Player run.
The left screen will show Cookie, so you will use the left stick and left shoulder buttons to use him.
The right screen will show Cream, so you will use the right stick and right shoulder buttons to use her.
If you played this game with 2 players, then you and your friend could have to wedge pretty close together to handle each side of the same single controller!
You'll have to control both bunnies at the same time in order to get through every level in your game. Keep your eyes peeled, and use a lot of teamwork to make these two help each other out and get to the end of each stage before time runs out, forcing you to restart the level.
If the rabbits get hurt in any way, they'll lose seconds, though you can get more time from silver and gold clocks along the way.
All worlds have 5 levels, with the first 4 being regular and the 5th one being a boss battle. The first four levels will have puzzle piece in each of them. Get them all for a world, and you'll unlock a new character native to that world for the 2-Player Vs Mode.
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The first world is the Jungle World, where the rabbits first get warped to. The first stage of this is mainly a tutorial level where you get to learn the basic controls of this game.
The white rooster will also help Cookie, and is older and wiser. Meanwhile, the black rooster will always help Cream, though he's also younger. And a bit of a smack talker.
I'm not gonna care much about getting a good rank in this playthrough. I will focus on making sure I get every Puzzle Piece in this game, as well as special gifts that will be in 2 out of the first 4 stages of a world.
The screen can and will split depending on how far each bunny is from each other, though it's optimal to keep it merged by keeping them as close as possible if you can, because these rabbits can't finish a stage until they both go through their own goal.