Just with one glance at the title, I know what you’re probably thinking, “‘Cookie Run: Kingdom’? Wow, real mature. That sounds like a children’s game.” This game may harbor silly, cartoon-styled characters and appearance, but that does not mean it cannot be something more. With a game that has constant updates, one can only guess what is to come.
Cookie Run: Kingdom, also known as CRK, tells stories, holds suspense over the players, making them wonder “What comes next?” It captivates players into wanting to know just why the characters are the way they are.
CRK is a Role-Playing Game, more commonly known as an RPG, where players collect characters, battle enemies and other players in the kingdom arena and build a kingdom of their own. However, the biggest part of the game is the story mode.
Story mode follows the tale of our main characters, Gingerbrave, Strawberry Cookie and Wizard Cookie, and their adventures through Crispia and later on, Beast-Yeast. Throughout their travels, they face the Cookies of Darkness, the villains of the story and their leader Dark Enchantress Cookie.
Along with the sheer amount of things to do in the base game, it also receives a plentiful amount of updates, with one of the most recent being based around “Wicked.” However, not all of the updates are as goofy and silly as this one.
As of now, some of the most prominent characters in that game are referred to as “the Beasts,” the fallen Virtues, who were first introduced in January of 2024. They are former heroes that came years before the current heroes of the game, the Ancients.
If we take a look into their backstories, one in particular had a tendency to be misunderstood by some when it initially came out: Burning Spice Cookie. Before he had fallen, he was known as “the Herald of Change.” While some took his falling as him simply getting bored from the cycle of change, others took it as him being driven to insanity.
A well-known definition of insanity is “Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” Using this definition to look at the state Burning Spice was in, it’s not farfetched to believe that he was going insane. He asked himself before when he was thinking about the rise and fall with civilizations as they change “Am I destined to witness it eternally? Repeating time and time again?”
With backstories such as this, where one finds out and practically lives at least part of the pain these once heroes had faced that turned them into who they are today, it can’t help but be captivating.
Cookie Run: Kingdom may look like a stupid, cartoony game in which nearly every character is an edible dessert item, but that does not mean that the stories they tell are any less captivating and moving.