I'll start off with a tl;dr: Yes, I could not recommend this game enough.

I have played every Animal Crossing since Wild World and can wholeheartedly say that Hello Kitty Island Adventure is better than every single one except maybe New Leaf, which it is a close second to, and even then I may be speaking out of nostalgia. It is extremely cozy, cute and enjoyable. I was not a big Sanrio fan before this, but after almost 50 hours, I am actually buying Sanrioverse merch in real life. Each character is fun to interact with, gift and do personal quests for. I think the island mystery aspect is very well done too. I actually enjoy the day to day things, the time gated content, and returning to continue quests. There are a minute number of times you have to actually "try" and the puzzles are thought-provoking to a degree, but never have I had to actually look up a guide for one.

I have even less cons to talk about, but for the sake of fairness, I will. None of your dialogue choices mean anything, and I mean ANYTHING, which I understand that this is not an RPG, but still- giving 4 options to choose from and having whoever you're conversing with reply the exact same way to all of them kind of sucks. A lot of the fish and critters go through the floor, which make them hard or impossible to catch at times. However, my biggest complaint is after exiting the menu or finishing dialogue with a character, the game will hang for a few seconds sometimes. It is not a hardware issue, but most certainly a game one.

Those few complaints aside, this is one of the most relaxing experiences I have ever had in a game. It makes you sleepy, but not in a boring way, just a genuinely calming one. I haven't endorsed a game like this in a long time, and I only write reviews like this for games I deem to be absolutely outstanding.

World of Warcraft is nothing compared to this masterpiece. Not even 5 minutes into the game we jumped out of the plane like we were about to hit the second tower. Absolutely revolutionary story. As a wise man once said, "I dont play world of warcraft, I play hello kitty island adventure."

I bought this for me and a friend so that we could play together in multiplayer. But the multiplayer of this game really doesn't mean you can just do the game together. Joining your friend means nothing is shared (unless you play for hours to level up friendship according to wiki), you can't do quests (except special multiplayer ones) nor look at cutscenes with them. So you just stand there waiting for them to play the game while you're useless and unable to interact with anything since any resource you collect goes into your pocket and not theirs. The game seemed fun if you want to play alone, but I can't recommend this since the reason I bought it was to play with someone and that's not really possible