![]() ![]() Kids will enjoy the simple action and cute characters. Too often Kitty games miss this nuance, but Happiness Parade gets it. ![]() Of course, Hello Kitty is an all-ages kind of mascot, and the Kitty games do tend to skew to the younger end of the demographics in terms of who they target, but the great secret about “entertainment for kids” is that it’s most successful when adults can also enjoy it. On the side of the “road”, crowds cheer the mascots on, and while the enemies and traps are very simple, they are also bright and happy, and add to the colour of the experience. The world pops with disco-style colour and energy as the characters parade their way down the roads. There are some odd choices, such as why the eternally-popular Cinnomoroll isn’t present, and, personally, I am deeply disappointed that Pekkle the duck isn’t a playable character, but across the cast that is there, there’s enough that one of your favourites probably shows up. Characters are chunky and simple, but capture the appeal that makes them all such a machine for merchandise sales. The great thing abou t Hello Kitty Happiness Parade is how charming it all is. ![]() These little sequences do behave like more classical rhythm games, and are very amusing as the character struts their stuff. The goal is to get to the final leg of the journey and complete it without losing all three characters, with damage and KOed characters carrying over from one level to the next.įinally, at certain points in each level, there are what can only be called disco dancing sequences, which involve one of your characters hitting cool dance poses for a couple of seconds. Pass it and you get taken to a world map where you can choose the next stage. You start with three characters on the first level, with each level being one piece of music. These range from the relatively mild fences (hit one and your character takes a bit of damage), to a swinging hammer (if it hits your character it’s an instant knockout). While you’re concentrating on keeping in perfect time with the beat, there’s also a series of obstacles that will be dropped in front of you. You can move from one lane to the next at the allocated beat, but you do need to maintain the beat in perfect sync. Your job is to time each “step” on that road that the character takes in time with the music’s beat. To break it down, in Hello Kitty Happiness Parade there are a number of “lanes” arranged like a road. ![]() Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade is less of a rhythm game, since it doesn’t emulate the experience of interacting with music, as it is a metronome game, featuring none of the performative qualities that rhythm games aspire to. With that as the foundation, you then put performative qualities – such as rhythm – over the top. When you use a metronome while playing music it helps to help you keep in time. If you have, you surely know what a metronome is – a useful tool that keeps a mechanical beat. Not if you’ve ever actually played a musical instrument seriously. It’s going to be written up as a “rhythm game,” but it’s not really. That’s a pity, because Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade is actually a pretty decent thing, worth spending some time with, for anyone that enjoys cute things and uncomplicated charm. Now it has been released at the worst possible time of the year, considering all the big releases coming out around it. Related reading: Rilakkuma – Our generation’s Hello Kitty. Something must have been wrong with it, however, as it was unceremoniously pulled and put back into development for some months. It had even briefly appeared on some eShop storefronts around the world. The Sonix collab also includes some phone cases and mobile accessories.Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade was meant to be out much, much earlier in the year. The cases go for $22.99 each and are available on the Sanrio website. They also have storage space for up to 20 game cards. The cases fit regular Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch OLED models. All of them are cute, and they cover a nice wide range of aesthetics (thank you for the cutesy goth representation, Sanrio). There’s a regular Hello Kitty one, with the iconic mascot’s name front and center one that’s more of a collage, featuring Kitty and other friends like Keroppi the frog and Tuxedosam the penguin one that features adorable floppy-eared puppy Cinnamoroll and one with My Melody and Kuromi wearing some very dapper-looking Gothic Lolita costumes. The Sanrio Switch cases come in four varieties. Cozy gaming has never been… well, cozier. Hello Kitty fans and cozy gamers rejoice! Sanrio has partnered with Sonix for some absolutely adorable Hello Kitty and other friends Switch cases. ![]()
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