Hello Kitty Island Adventure

All concessions aside, though, this game sold me on Hello Kitty — a franchise I’ve always found cute but never really connected with the way others seemed to — and I think parts of it, like the fishing mechanic and the minigames, would be an excellent entry to the genre of cozy games. In my first five hours or so of gameplay, I thought that’d be the angle of my review, that this game can train you up for the less forgiving titles in the genre. But as it is right now, it feels more like a really good Hello Kitty game than a really good life sim. I’m excited to see how the game changes as updates emerge, and whether its mobile version starts to differ from the console version more over time — and even though I’m done writing this review, I certainly am not done galavanting around the island, giving gifts to my favorite Sanrio characters.