The Adventures of Cookie and Cream is a Coop Multiplayer Video Game for the Playstation 2 made by FromSoftware in 2000 (and later got an Nintendo DS version in 2007). It stars the two titular young rabbits Cookie and Cream.
Cookie is a tan-colored rabbit that plays the ukulele, and Cream is a pink-colored bunny with a blue dress that plays the maracas. While going home to see the Moon Festival, they learned that the Moon never appeared. A White Rooster appeared and christened the rabbits with special crowns (Cookie's flower pot and Cream's umbrella), and whisked them away to a faraway land to start their adventure to find the Moon and save the Moon Festival.
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream provides the following examples of:
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Cookie has only a ukulele on his back and a flower pot on his head.
- Badass Adorable: Among the bosses of this game include a Golem, a giant polar bear, and even the Moon. You get to beat all of them up with two cute bunnies with silly flower pots and umbrellas for crowns.
- Bittersweet Ending: After they complete their journey, Cookie and Cream capture the Moon and save the Moon Festival. However, in order to make sure it never runs off again, they decide to stay on it and make Mochi on it for the rest of eternity. None of their friends and family will ever be able to see them again.
- Circling Birdies: If Cookie or Cream get hurt, stars will circle around their head before going to the clock and deducting precious seconds from it.
- Continue Your Mission, Dammit!: If you let a rabbit stand around for too long, a flying enemy native to the world you're currently in will swoop down and latch onto the rabbit's head, slowly draining all of your time away until you shake it off. This stops occurring once you reach Tumble World.
- Coop Multiplayer: Cookie and Cream have to work together to get through the obstacles and all of the courses, they can’t do either alone. While it could be done with only one person and one controller, it is much easier when you have another person playing with you.
- Double Jump: Cookie can do this by spinning with his ears outstretched. Cream does this by curling her body into a ball and flipping.
- Double Play: What the game turns into if you play it solo. Each side of the controller analog and shoulder buttons (or each screen in the Nintendo DS version) controls both rabbits separately, and you will need good hand-eye coordination to guide both rabbits to their goals while having them help each other solve puzzles along the way.
- Dub Name Change: Cookie was originally named "Chestnut" in the Japanese and European versions of the game.
- Eyes Always Closed: Cookie never has his eyes open ever in the game.
- Goomba Stomp: Most enemies can be beaten by just jumping on them.
- Market-Based Title: The game was originally named Kuri Kuri Mix in the Japanese and European versions. the Kuri Kuri in the title was likely referring to the rabbits' big round heads.
- Moon Rabbit: The story is driven by two rabbits searching for the Moon to save their festival that is meant to honor it. In the end, they not only defeat and capture the Moon, but go on to become the very myth that this trope is based on.
- Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits: Falling into bottomless pits won’t kill Cookie and Cream, they will respawn safely from just before the pit, but it will cut precious seconds from you time.
- Non-Standard Game Over: In Tumble World Stage 4, if either Cookie or Cream falls off the stage, it results in an instant Game Over instead of a respawn and time deduction. You will then have to retry the stage from the very beginning again.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Subverted. Cream is definitely the pink girl of the duo, but she also wears blue, which the boy Cookie completely lacks on himself.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni:
- Cream is the Red Oni, as she's much more hotheaded and loves to play her maracas wildly. Cookie is the Blue Oni, being more calm and laidback and prefers to strum his ukulele.
- The White Rooster is the Older and Wiser of the two chickens that help the rabbits (specifically Cookie). Meanwhile, the Black Rooster (who specifically helps Cream) is younger and often has snappier advice.
- Speaking Simlish: Both rabbits can speak cute squeaky gibberish. This is especially the case if you have them walk up to one of the roosters.
- Super Drowning Skills: Neither Cookie nor Cream can swim. If they fall into water, they just sink. They will respawn just outside of it but this will dock precious seconds from your time.
- Timed Mission: Cookie and Cream have to get through all of the stages within a certain amount of time. Getting hit by enemies or falling off the course reduces the time, but they can increase it by collecting watches.
- We Cannot Go On Without You: The game puts the rabbits on opposing sides, but you must use the rabbits to help each other in order to progress through each stage. A regular stage can't be beaten until both rabbits have passed their respective goals.
- Weird Moon: The Moon has a whole face on it. It has different forms where it can turn blue to shoot lasers, or turn black with a creepier face to home in on a rabbit. Its basic attacks are to just fall right on a rabbit or roll over them at high speed.
- You Can't Go Home Again: After getting the Moon and saving the Moon Festival, Cookie and Cream are informed by the Rooster that in order to make sure the Moon never tries to run off again, they have to stay on it and make Mochi. This is the only way they can keep the Moon from trying to spoil the festival again. They stay on it for all of eternity and their family and friends never see them again.
