- Hello Kitty Island Adventure is celebrating its first anniversary with the Friendship Festival
- Currently an Apple Arcade-exclusive, it’ll be coming to consoles soon
- But for now, the best and only way to experience it is on mobile!
Hello Kitty Island Adventure, the (currently) Apple Arcade-exclusive focused on Sanrio’s famous cast of cuddly characters, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. A new trailer has been debuted to show off the in-game Friendship Festival, landing to mark the International Day of Friendship on July 30th.
The titular Friendship Festival which runs from now to August 8th focused on just that topic. By taking photos with the various other characters like Cinnamoroll and Keroppi, you’ll earn friendship charms. Trade those in at the Friendship Photo Booth to unlock emotes and other themed clothing rewards.
The update also brings new looks for NPCs and players alike, while adding an additional companion slot so you can bring two of the famous Sanrio faces on your travels at once. And finally, award-winning composer Phil Boucher and pop artist MYLK have teamed up to create an original song for Hello Kitty Island Adventure, you can unlock it in-game to listen to this composition.
Happy, happy, joy, joy
While your liking of Sanrio and Hello Kitty will likely directly correlate to your tolerance of incredibly cutesy characters and their behaviour, we admit that this is a pretty decent update for a one-year anniversary. And with Hello Kitty Island Adventure set to make its way to consoles later this year, we think they owe mobile a little bit of a thank you for holding down the fort for so long.
Want to see what other great games are worth playing this year? Then why not check out our master list of the best mobile games of 2024 (so far) to see which ones we’ve picked out?
And if you want something a bit more current, there’s also our latest list of the top five new mobile games to try this week that we’ve just debuted!
