An Online Hello from Hello Kitty Online
Written by Kieron Gillen on September 4, 2008 at 11:42 am.

It is the end times.
What do you think? I think it looks almost identical to World of Warcraft.
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My thoughts:
Ha ha ha look at this gaudy piece of rubbish OH WOW FARMING.
I mean, who wouldn’t want a Harvest Moon MMO?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
See, you get into a game like that and wham! the first patch nerfs the sparkly stick and overpowers the smiley scarecrow.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I think it looks almost identical to World of Warcraft.
It’s more like EVE, without the ships.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
You know, I always thought Hello Kitty was a dude.
It’s that Mitchell and Webb sketch that does it.
“You’re… you’re Hello Kitty!”
“Yes, that’s right. Er… ‘hello’.”
September 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
SteveTheBlack says:
Doesn’t hold a candle to Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue. Now THAT was a game…
September 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
@ Del Boy: You’ve just been caught out by that colour scheme.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I think this game is cute and lovely and I want to hug it.
I do not want to play it, however.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
The voice over made me fell nauseous.
The cynic in me thinks that peadophiles are high-fiving each other all over the world.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Good god why do I actually have the whim to try this out?
September 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Schtee says:
Yeah, chilled to my bones by the Hello Kitty voice. Was that the Dome/the O2 I saw for London?
And yeah, nice to see the words “Massively Multiplayer” used by marketing. Not often you see that any more.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Ayup. That’s new territory for paedophiles, right there.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
They lure you in with the “Oh, they’re so cuddly!” atmosphere and then BAM! Eaten by a Hello Grue.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
They better have a ******* good chat filter on that ************.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
…and I here have an exclusive preview for DOW: Kutehammer:
http://www.savingadvice.com/images/blog/hello-kitty-amoured-personnel-carrier.jpg
In stores nanoseconds after Halo Kitty 5
September 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I think I saw a couple of tyranid hiding in the farm. Try training them as a pet! “What do you mean “Eat everyone” that’s not something I can do, do fancy a game or perhaps lets solve a new puzzle”
September 4th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
This could be it everyone. The WoW killer we are all waiting for. Seriously, I am going to buy this game at least 4 times. Probably gonna play an Ultra Cuddly Killer Bear, or a Supercute Vicious Velociraptor trainer.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
THIS GAME IS NOTHING COMPARED TO STARCRAFT 2! NOTHING!!
(Jochen, that must be coming out right after the Hello Kitty Patch for Soulstorm: http://www.exlibrismortis.org/ExLibrisnewSistersArmy.html)
September 4th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Oh god, yes! It will be 4chan territory. In the end, there will probably only sweaty pedos and the /b/ crowd exchanging lolicon pictures under girl aliases, while all the real little girls play Sims 3 or something.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
This needs more Cthulhu imo
http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30
September 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Mike says:
Anyone ever seen the cartoon version of Hello, Kitty? It was basically a thinly veiled lesson in how to be a Good Child, including “Listen To Your Parents Whilst On Public Transport” and “Rules Are There For A Reason, And That Includes The Park You Disobedient Feline, You”
I can only hope this lives up to the dream.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I for one intend to sell every other game I have so I can devote all my time to this.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Valentin Galea says:
I for one welcome our new Hello Kitty MMO overlords!
September 4th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Rudolf says:
1) i want the teletubbies to do the german synchro voiceovers
2) what better way to evade game critics than targeting babies? They just look at the “cute” colours, right….right?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Haha. I like the Hello Kitty Millenium Dome. Will there be a Hello Kitty Peter Mandleson inside?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
This will only be worth playing when it is driven by the awesome power of the cell processor.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I think I need to go stare at some week old roadkill just to get my cuteness threshold back down to normal levels again.
Oh, and isn’t this free?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Why were there no US cities listed in the sparkling tour of major cities that sparkle and are magically right next to each other? Des Moines is easily as sparkly as Paris.
Will HKMMO (which sounds more badass than the actual name) implement the trophy system too?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Ooh, a perfect excuse to deploy the following image:
http://onastick.net/sitz/images/
September 4th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Grill says:
Looks awfully similar to Disney’s surprisingly good and awfully-safe joke-’em’-up MMO Toontown, which I remember reviewing Back In The Day, but with many more minigames. Is Toontown even still going?
September 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Noc says:
Oh, man, this thing sucks. Samri Digital doesn’t care about the real Hello Kitty fans. They’ve completely dispensed with the spare, minimalistic style that made Hello Kitty so great to begin with, and replaced it with a stupid, mainstream clutter-fest designed to pander to the lowest common denominator.
Hello Kitty is about hugs. But you can’t hug anybody in this game! They’ve taken the Hello Kitty name and shat on it because they don’t care about the fans, and just want to use the name to sell a bunch of stupid minigames to consoletard kids who’ve just come from playing their Wii.
. . .
In all seriousness, though, I’d play totally a Harvest Moon MMO.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
“What do you think? I think it looks almost identical to World of Warcraft.”
Thankfully I don’t think there are any Angry Hello Kitty men.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
So. Much. Pink. I think my eyes have spontaneously shut down in protest.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
The Onion or some serious institution (it doesn’t really matter, it’d be hilarious anyway) need co create a correlation between the average intellect quotient of this game and World of Warcraft when it’s released. I could almost imagine what the end paper would read like…
Yes, after examining these statistics and immersing myself in both environments first-hand, I can confirm that the inhabitants of Hello Kitty are exponentially more intelligent than those of World of Warcraft, to the power of [insert imaginary number here, because real numbers don’t cut it.
This is conclusive evidence that the most intelligent internet-goers of our civilisation are those infected with the condition colloquially known as “The Ghey”. For the survival of our race, we only really have two options; we can either eradicate all the munchkins not yet infected, or we can initiate a program to ensure they become infected.
I would suggest we begin by changing World of Warcraft to World of Lovecraft Carecraft, in which happy “monsters” give confidence-boosting hugs to the inhabitants of this online environment. Experience would be gained by finding new lands, meeting new people and exclaiming “I wuv you!” at them. Swords and shields would–of course–have to be traded in for milk and cookies.
This would take effect within a few generations, and raise the average intelligence curve of our race as a whole. I realise that this will be a race of mixed hippie/commercialist lovebugs, but what’s worse… that or a race of Conroy Bumpus?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
There were monsters being thwacked with damage numbers floating up over their heads. IN HELLO KITTY ONLINE! WTF.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
“I preffered Hello Kitty Island adventure anways”
Butters. Cute cartoon character, or Prophet!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Konky Dong XV: The Lap Dance from Hell says:
I want to play this. I really, really want to play this. You all joke, but how can you not have a morbid curiosity about this game? I pray it’s not like Toontown and actually copies several of the hardcore MMO tropes. Can you imagine if there is raiding in this game? Or PvP of some sort? Yeah, think on that. It’ll make your brain shit exploding babies.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
CoS says:
That crap is gold, I bet this game will print money for Sanrio…period. I wouldn’t be surprised if rainbows and sparkles shoot out of the box when you open it.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:11 am
“I wouldn’t be surprised if rainbows and sparkles shoot out of the box when you open it.”
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
September 5th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Oh Gawd. I can see it now
“LFG: Playground of slight doom, need fluffy rabbit, DPS and Dungaree spec ‘d Crayon Master”
Run away!
September 5th, 2008 at 11:00 am
“GORGEOUS ENVIRONMENTS!”
How did that mischevious penguin ever stomach the muscle to say that? Hahaha.
Also, where the hell is Big Ben?!
September 5th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I was going to mention that Moscow looked like the Ice Queen’s Palace in fucking Narnia.
I want Stalin Versus Hello Kitty.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm






*delves into big bag of Gaming Complaints Du Jour*
FFS WTF DOES EVRY GAME HAV 2 BE BROWN?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:46 am