Cookie's Bustle?

Some brief facts

• This game was released in December 1999, only in Japan.
• It's a point-and-click adventure game, using pre-rendered graphics
  and containing a number of professional Japanese voice actors.
• While the voice acting is in Japanese, the UI, and several signs, are in English.
• This game was created using Macromedia Director 7.
  If you love Shockwave, you're in luck, the resources
  are super easy to extract because no encryption was used.
• The movies use QuickTime. The game comes with QuickTime 4.0.2,
  but I recommend using QuickTime 6.5.2.
• The game runs at 640x480 and thus doesn't play nice on modern Windows.
  Things like the backgrounds are also locked to 640x480.
  Unless one were to re-render everything, an HD remake would be unlikely.

Rodik - The developers

• Found 1994, they got their start making divination programs,
  including Tougen Kikou (桃源紀行), whose box is included in Cookie's Bustle
  as an easter egg. That program also sold for 12,800 yen (~94 USD).
• At some point, they started making Cookie's Bustle (likely in 1997)
  and delayed the game multiple times.
• Following the non-success of Cookie's Bustle (said to only sell
  10,000 copies in an uncovered document), Rodik moved to become an R & D company in 2001.
• They later went defunct by 2005, but their site does remain archived.

Graceware - The alleged owners

• Alleged to be located in Andorra, popular to due low tax rates in Europe.
  This information arose from trademark applications in the US.
• Starting in September 2022, reports came in of people having their videos taken down.
• Multiple documents were uploaded to Interoco, with a Gameplay concept document later being privated.
  Said document had listed a 2022 release date, but nothing has materialized.
• Four trademarks were also submitted, which are all currently 'Live/Pending'.
• Graceware has no social media or website to speak of.
  There's also no known contact to directly reach them.

Outside Reactions

• On 18 January, 2023, an article on Time Extension was written on the takedowns,
  followed by an article on Niche Gamer a month later. Then, a video by
  SomeOrdinaryGamers on 25 February.