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Whats the cookie without the cream?
In relationships, join forces for common good
By Sean Quast
I understood that the characters need to help each other along. What I didnt understand was that one character just couldnt stand by and wait for the other to do everything for them.
Not many of you have heard of Cookie and Cream, Im guessing.
No, not cookies and cream, the boring ice cream flavor. (Viva Blue Moon!) Im taking about the cute banjo-and-maraca-playing rabbits who took gamers through a wonderful adventure of teamwork and cooperation.
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream is one of PlayStation 2s hidden gems. It is one of the craziest games that has ever been launched. The truly unique aspect of the game is that a player controlled each member of the pair at all times in the game.
The games screen was split down the middle vertically and players would move each character through the game and use Cookie or Cream to open doors, lift gates and do other tasks that required the assistance from other side of the screen.
This game was all about helping out your partner, using your combined skills to help each other get through the day and continue on with your merry lives.
The Adventures of C&C was an impossible game to master with only one person playing it. It stretched the skill of ones brain to capacity. Having to constantly move around and do two things at once often resulted in a splitting headache.
So many times I threw the controller down in anger, because the crows came and attacked the character I left standing idle while waiting for a door to be opened.
I understood that the characters need to help each other along. What I didnt understand was that one character just couldnt stand by and wait for the other to do everything for them. They need to move around and figure out their next part.
I learned this when I began playing the game with other people. This allowed me to figure out each character and what they needed to do. While Cookie was opening a door, Cream would need to be getting some object or preparing to reciprocate the favor. I just couldnt stand there and wait for everything to be done for me.
Helping each other out is something that needs to be done in all relationships, but that means helping, not doing. This is the difference when you start letting your partner do everything for you, or doing everything for someone else “ you end up letting your partner down. Youre setting them up to be unsuccessful in their efforts.
Its important to remember that a relationship is a join effort. Helping out is just that, assisting in a common or shared goal. People often get too concerned with taking care of everything and not just providing assistance when its needed.
Just remember that Cookie needed his narcissism, just as much as she needed his silly flower-pot-hat-wearing self.
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