Hello Kitty and Friends: Happiness Parade

WayTooManyGamesLeo Faria

8/10

There are lots of aspects of Japanese pop culture that I struggle to understand, but none of them puzzle me like the sheer popularity of the Hello Kitty brand. Sure, it’s cute, and anyone can doodle it, but for it to be worth eight billion dollars (2014 numbers), is just absolutely shocking. Befuddling, even. What’s even more confusing now, at least to me, is how this franchise, which in the past was known for just having bottom-of-the-barrel shovelware games associated to it, is now part...

Overall, Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade is bright, bubbly, and whimsical. It’s also reasonably challenging, since it’s actually not easy to be as mechanical as a metronome, especially when there are as many visual distractions as this game throws at you. Consequently, between this and that also good quality Animal Crossing clone on Apple Arcade, Hello Kitty is having quite a good year in video games.

Video ChumsA.J. Maciejewski

7/10

Wowee, chums; I have a very cute and fun game for you today because HELLO KITTY AND FRIENDS: FREEZE TAG PARTY is delightful stuff.

Pure NintendoKirk Hiner

6/10

Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade is an upbeat, breezy, and bouncy rhythm game that's enjoyable enough to spend some time with. Provided you have nothing against Hello Kitty. Or parades. Or happiness.Read More

Gamer EscapeJustin Mercer

5/10

If the game were to offer something more than exactly what justifies its existence, it could have been a great time, but instead, Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade provides an unexciting rhythm game with Sanrio characters and absolutely nothing more.