Design trends

Current event in Cookie Run has all participating runners capped to Level 5 (brilliant!! I'm very tired of running with the same five cookies b/c they're near level cap and I can't score well with my lower-level cookies) so I've had a chance to switch around different gimmicks a lot, and I think a big reason why I like the newer cookies like Mocha Ray and Captain Ice Cookie so much is that their gimmicks are super short and don't take away from the platforming experience so much.

My biggest problem with cookies like Raspberry, Roquefort and Walnut is that their gimmics are less fun to do than the regular platforming (Cookie Run has pretty good level design, so a lot of stages are legit challenging to learn, and they change them around enough that you rarely have a chance to get bored with a level you've already learned) and they also go on for far too long. I also don't mind cookies like Rose and Chesnut having very long gimmicks b/c the minigame you have to do during them is sufficiently challenging that it doesn't get mindless. You don't have to do anything during Mocha Ray's gimmick, p much, but it's over in about four seconds so it's more of a good breather instead of a boring slog.

The newest cookie, Croissant, has a gimmick that's kinda take-it-or-leave-it where you don't really have to do anything, except for the fact that you can deliberately collide with obstacles in the background while the gimmick is active for extra points.

Still wishing for those reworks on Pistachio and Tiger Lily, tho. They've added a lot of treasures that make long-distance runners more viable but still not enough compared to cookies that have gimmicks that just generate points on during buttonmashing :/ They should just give all distance-runner combi pets an ability where they make points based on distance, especially Tiger Lily has a pet that is just absolutely useless on her.

(I was also made an officer in my guild 🎉)