A Wholesome Trio of Ambitious And Adorable Games Await Us

Do you adore cuteness in video games? A prime example would be Pikachu and Eevee being the two most popular, as well as two of the most adorable Pokémon from the Pokémon franchise [6] [14]. No wonder there is a Pikachu-themed train in Japan and a forthcoming sequel to Detective Pikachu [4] [25]! Do you know who else is considered one of the cutest fictional characters of all time? Hello Kitty [5]! It will not be long until our fellow kitties join her on an adventurous interactive vacation [37] [39]. Some time afterwards, a chicken will be on a quest that will be nothing like Chicken Invaders [2] [13] [15] [38]. Later this year, some of our fellow casual gamers could have an appetite for a rhythm and decoration game co-starring adorably designed customers [31] [40]. These are the three imminent titles that reek of the sweet scent of cuteness and provide full potential in their own wholesome and fantastical ways [15] [31] [37] [38] [39] [40]. Furthermore, let us proceed to analyse the potentials of these three titles, just like how we had a jolly stroll through the creative and wholesome potentials of Sticky Business, Camper Van: Make it Home and Gourdlets back in April [32] [36] [42] [43]. Speaking of Sticky Business, that creative casual game will be released in just a few days [36].
 

What can be as cute as Fluttershy from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic playing any of the three original Nintendogs games [22] [27] [28]? Well, any of the three forthcoming titles that are about to be discussed. [38]

Fans of Hello Kitty, Kuromi, My Melody, Aggretsuko and all the other cute critters from Sanrio ought to pack their suitcases ready for a virtual vacation with them developed by Sunblink later this month [37] [39]. Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a vibrant life simulator that can be considered the next Animal Crossing: New Horizons as there appear to be a variety of activities you can do with any of the Sanrio characters [24], including:

•      Catching insects [39]
•      Fishing [39]
•      Watering flowers [39]
•      Rearranging furniture in a house [39]
•      Crafting tools on a crafting table [39]

As casual as this game seems with its similarities to Animal Crossing [20] [24], some other activities seem riskier and remind me of a few minigames in Wii Play [23], such as:

•      Swimming underwater to possibly find lost treasures [39]
•      Solving puzzles in a temple [39]
•      Riding mine carts [39]

The player can customise their own Sanrio-styled avatar, quite like how an animal crosser can customise their avatar in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp [21]. Hello Kitty Island Adventure is coming out exclusively for Apple Arcade in just over two weeks after plenty of alpha and beta testing [37] [39], making it another pricelessly adorable casual Apple Arcade game after the release of Cooking Mama: Cuisine! last year [7] [26]. 
 

Near the end of this July, Hello Kitty Island Adventure could be an outstanding alternative to Animal Crossing: New Horizons [24] [37] [39]. Perhaps in an update for the game, Mimmy, Kitty’s twin sister can join the vacation [5] [10]. [39]

Next, we shall discuss the potential of Chicken Journey from looneyware [15] [38] [41]. Chicken Journey is a puzzle platformer about…you guessed it! A chicken who goes on an adventure! The purpose of the adventure is to find out what came first: the egg or the chicken [15] [38]. Some of my fellow gamers may recall the first trailer that was released during the indie game showcase for last year’s Wholesome Direct [41]. As shown in the new release date trailer, there will be objectives that show up at the top right corner and some NPCs who are also chickens and can talk to you [15] [38]. There are a variety of gameplay gimmicks throughout the journey that seem to add to the adventurousness, such as mashing “X” to cut a rope by the power of the chicken’s beak, gliding in the air with a leaf after bouncing from a mushroom and using the left analog stick to pull a crate [15] [38] [41]. Hatching this August on Steam and the Nintendo Switch, Chicken Journey could be a huge step up from Super Chick Sisters and New Super Chick Sisters, the two fairly controversial and preachy platform games from PETA that parody the Super Mario series [29] [30]. 

 

Due to how friendly the NPCs seem, along with the soothing music and lack of fighting, Chicken Journey aims to be a chilled adventure aside from its puzzles being a form of challenge [15]. [38]

And last, but not least, you could be hired as a barista in Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café, an upcoming cafe simulation and rhythm game developed by Anaïs Salla and yet to be published by DevilishGames [31] [40]. Quite similar to creating a pro design at Able Sisters’ in Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City [20], you can freely draw the top of a customisable beverage for a customer [31] [40]. Another form of customisation shown in the trailer is how the player can change the interior design of the café. But of course, a café simulation game ought to be not without some form of challenge. How the way to grind coffee beans in a grinder is to press a button at the right timing, just like in several other rhythm games, including Hatsune Mike: Project Mirai DX is imaginatively impressive [33]. As for the customers in Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café , including a red panda (who is NOT Sanrio’s Retsuko [19]) and a duck named “Vori”, another challenge is befriending them to unlock new recipes and decorations [31] [40]. Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café may not become as iconic as the Cooking Mama series [1] [7] [26], but it certainly seems to have the charm needed to become a hybrid of a rhythm game and a cafe simulation [31] [40]. 
 

There is something quite tranquil about serving groovy beverages to adorable anthropomorphic animals [31] [40]. Did I mention that you can also take photos of loyal customers hanging out at the café and remarkable recipes and share them on the game’s official website [31]? That is a swell feature, isn’t it? [40]

Awww! How adorable are these forthcoming titles [15] [31] [37] [38] [39] [40]? I know I like my fair share of cuteness in games as the quirky art style in the weapon cutscenes in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time made Ratchet look so cute and I desperately wanted to rescue all of those adorable robots when I first played Robots Rescue, the minigame starring the lovable Astro Bot from The Playroom VR [34] [35]! The colourful and summery vibes of Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the pixelated pluckiness of Chicken Journey and the easy-going diligence in Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café await us in the second half of 2023 [15] [31] [37] [38] [39] [40]. And of course, there will be some more wholesome experiences, including Princess Peach’s second own game and hopefully Camper Van: Make it Home next year [32] [44] [45]. Aside from some hearty doses of adorableness, we can also crave something barbaric, such as Mortal Kombat 1 this Autumn after its beta testing and the rest of the second season of Helluva Boss [3] [9] [16] [18]. You can get the best of both. No Hannah Montana reference intended [8]. Until then, let us be kind and spread positivity to one another as we wait for or work on new establishments [15] [31] [37] [38] [39] [40].

I do not doubt that Nemesister from the first episode of the fourth season of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends would approve of Hello Kitty Island Adventure and Nom Nom: Cozy Forest Café for their adorableness [11] [12] [31] [37] [39] [40]. Which one of the three titles consisting of cuteness will you tune into? [39]

 
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