Hello Kitty Island Adventure Review (Switch Eshop)

The adventure of Hello Kitty Island Published on Apple Arcade in July 2023 for positive review. A year and a half later, the Switch release brings a charming Sanrio character and the resort on their island to the audience wider, one last audience for a good time.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure opens on a plane on the way to a mysterious resort with many familiar faces from Sanrio franchise on board. After creating our own animal representative (a moody purple rabbit), we soon found ourselves jumping out of the plane and gliding to the ground with some balloons. We get our first big mission right after touching: Find all those who are scattered on the island during the down time.

Although there is a big task to start us, the game has given us a new number of free values ​​to start exploring and building immediately relationships. In the first hour of the game, we only watched a few lost characters but also chose a few other tasks and adventure into areas where we may not have access. Although we like to be released chains, we also managed to get lost in the first game from the impossible to focus on any task.

The adventure of Hello Kitty Island has been recorded as sharing similarity with Transing animal: New horizonand there To be A clear source of mechanical collection, home decoration, and even effervescent art style. However, it may be even more noticeable than a clear source of inspiration in the exploration mechanics Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Our abilities to expand cliffs and underwater swimming are determined by a wheel -bearing wheel can be upgraded, and a few of our balloons act as a roller coaster will. There are even dungeons with their own challenging puzzles to find and plunder.

The map has a surprising depth, with different terrains such as swamps, deserts and volcanoes. Every time we think we have discovered every corner, we will find a new prison to go deep, Circuit Race to Beat or Gudetama to take photos. The quest lines are unlocked at a higher friendship level with different characters that have opened up more hidden areas and the ability to hide, making the game feel much richer when we develop through the plot. .

Exploration is the center of the adventure on Hello Kitty Island, but the game does not lack other activities. We went fishing, catching creatures, cooked meals, craft items, minigames and riding a horse -drawn carriage. Instead of currency, furniture and clothing items purchased with specific combinations of items that can be searched from around the map. These items are also used for manufacturing, cooking and giving. The collection of resources may feel a little difficult, but everything is regenerated every day in real time, and there is often a lot to go around for those who are willing to put in time.

Making friends with the diversity of cute creatures in the adventure of Hello Kitty Island is the most important because the main storyline is locked after specific friendship levels. It is easy enough to make it well at previous friendship levels, especially while being able to provide each character for a maximum of three items a day. However, the higher we went, the more difficult it was to move the heart clock, making another area of ​​the game feel like a crushing.

Fortunately, make friends with more motivation to upgrade the character ability when they are asked to participate in adventures. We may have Hello Kitty on our own to increase the opportunity to produce more food products at cooking stations or have Keroppi cards to make it easier to catch errors.

We had a good time to decorate our home and even gathered the tourists to attract new characters of Sanrio to visit the resort, but in the end did not feel binding. Must spend a lot of time at home when there are too many other things to complete.

Creator, can be accessed at any time in the game, very interesting when playing with us finds ourselves completely changing their appearance many times. The custom option for costumes is also expanded, with dyeing clothes become a later option in the game.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure runs well on the overall Switch, but there are a few moments of frame speed latency when we run around the expanded map, especially when there are many other moving objects on the screen. The camera angle also ends in fun, cutting our vision about what is happening behind another tree or other visual obstacle. Overall, these are small appearances that do not strongly affect our play experience.

Conclusion

Hello Kitty Island Adventure proves a creative item in the social sim genre. Despite borrowing from many PowerHouse games, it offers a new experience capable of overthrowing the expectations of any foreigner of Animal Crossing are looking for their next cozy correction.