When Eric Cartman requested Butters in South Park why he wasn’t enjoying World of Warcraft though he was at his PC on a regular basis and Butters replied, “I am enjoying Good day Kitty Island Journey,” I laughed. I sat there and laughed at him, as a result of how can a sport about Good day Kitty probably cease you from enjoying such an epic MMO with your mates? However now I fully get it. After spending an nearly unreasonable period of time dwelling my greatest island life alongside Good day Kitty and her greatest associates, I would not need to put any time into creating beer-basted boar ribs both.
I have been ready for Good day Kitty Island Journey to launch on PC after its debut on Apple Arcade in 2023. I attempted to keep away from individuals speaking about it as a lot as I might since I wished to enter it fully unassuming of the journey forward when the PC launch ultimately rolled round, and I can fortunately affirm it was nicely definitely worth the wait. So far as life simulators go, it is precisely what you’d anticipate. It is acquired a fairly sized map to wander round freely, loads of alternatives to gather gadgets and craft or cook dinner, and a really cute forged of characters to develop relationships with and full quests for every day. Plus, it is Good day Kitty and her associates so it’s extremely arduous to not instantly reward, as somebody who’s a fanatic for all issues cute.
Contemplating what number of life sims I’ve performed, I absolutely anticipated to be bored of the routine of fetch quests and quite simple crafting. However there’s one thing in regards to the island’s inhabitants that compelled me to maintain enjoying to see what ridiculous journey I might go on subsequent. From trudging by the labyrinth of Kuromi’s haunted mansion to going through the peril of a minecart by an energetic volcano with Retsuko, you actually by no means know the place you are going to find yourself subsequent, which is what I rapidly found to be one of many sport’s most important appeals.
However earlier than I might embark on these epic adventures, quite a lot of my early hours as an island resident have been spent working round attempting to collect my bearings on what’s frankly, a reasonably considerably sized map. One among your first duties is unlocking a gate which leads you to a swamp and spooky space the place you will discover Keroppi and Kuromi. After this, and as soon as I might acquired the flippers that allow you to swim round, I began to essentially recognize the world at my fingertips and was wanting to see what problem subsequent awaited me relying on who I spoke to.
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In every of the world’s eight areas, I stumbled throughout a wide range of Sanrio characters, every with a singular persona that shone by their dialogue. I used to be already fairly assured in my Sanrio data, however I nonetheless discovered a shocking quantity about every character from the best way they spoke to me, like PomPomPurin’s ardour for pudding or the critter-obsessed Keroppi, and even Pochacco’s love for a morning jog. This did not initially look like an necessary issue moreover being a approach to assist me bear in mind every character. However, these personalities have been the important thing to studying every character’s preferences for items, which I quickly realised have been the gateway to rapidly rising friendship stage with actually anybody.
Not like the overwhelming majority of different video games which supply the chance of doubtless gifting an merchandise that the receiver will not like, and the potential to wreck my relationship with them, Good day Kitty Island Journey solely has the possibility to provide every character one thing they like. It sounds simple sufficient, however so as to add some problem, the data of what every character likes is not dished out instantly. It is one thing I needed to acquire as I cooked and crafted totally different recipes and spent extra time with them.
This took the stress off since I am extremely forgetful on the subject of issues like this, and I wasn’t certain I used to be able to face a spreadsheet stage of dedication to my island. It additionally meant I might rapidly whip round the entire map every day and enhance my friendship ranges sufficient to hopefully unlock the subsequent most important quest. However as handy as this sounds, I rapidly discovered that the pacing of Good day Kitty Island Journey is the one draw back of island life.
Though I recognize what it is attempting to attain by supplying you with a motive to examine in each day, it does restrict your development a bit. You are restricted to giving every character three issues a day, and the overwhelming majority of most important story quests are locked behind friendship ranges. So, there are sure to be a couple of days the place you are a bit of bit restricted on what it’s important to do. There are a handful of how you possibly can fill this time, whether or not that is by taking images with hidden Gudetama across the complete map, collaborating in minigames, or finishing day by day and weekly quests. However I can think about these parts lose their allure should you’re already a couple of weeks in and have a good chunk of the story accomplished. I am but to get up to now, however I might be mendacity if I mentioned that I could not see it on the distant horizon.
So it might be a wasted alternative for Good day Kitty Island Journey to not add extra areas, extra everlasting characters, or extra minigames later down the road. Though it is solely simply launched I do know I will be ready on the entrance of the road (proper subsequent to Butters) when the primary DLC or important replace drops. As a lot as I wanted I might’ve performed Good day Kitty Island Journey when it initially launched on Apple Arcade, I am glad my first expertise was on PC the place a life sim like this actually suits in amidst a mass of equally cute cozy video games. It is mainly the closest we are going to get to ever having Animal Crossing on the platform, every villager has simply been substituted for an equally lovable Sanrio character who I’ll inevitably spend some huge cash discovering merch for.