This one’s for the younger’uns.
Hey Kitty and Associates: Freeze Tag Social gathering is a baffling online game. I’ve spent a bit of time taking part in it with my children and whereas they’re enchanted by it, I simply don’t perceive why this exists. It’s a cute little licensed sport full of a ton of Sanrio characters. You may play asinine video games of tag with Hey Kitty, Keroppi, My Melody, Kuromi, Cinnamaroll, and plenty of extra. At its core, I anticipated it will be a enjoyable little sport I may sit down and play with the household.
It is a sport of tag that may solely be performed with as much as two gamers. Each spherical consists of six “challengers” (the identify for these not desirous to be tagged) and two hunters. Gamers can’t be on the identical staff. It’s at all times a contest, and until you’re within the place the place you could have two copies of the sport and might do multi-system native play, it’s a split-screen expertise that calls to thoughts the screen-watching days of outdated multiplayer video games. The hunters have a restricted time to tag/seize the six challengers. Challengers can rescue one another in the event that they’ve been caught. Every one of many 35 completely different characters has a particular means (although rather a lot repeat). They’re all animated adorably at the least. Visually, the sport seems nice.
Along with the common ol’ video games of tag, you’ll be able to romp by 70 completely different missions that activity you with hiding or looking for completely different characters with tougher and barely tweaked parameters. That is your essential method of unlocking new characters, each by unlocking them by beating missions and in addition incomes in-game jewels that can be utilized to unlock equipment and characters.
As an grownup taking part in this sport, I’m bewildered. It’s a sport of tag for 2 folks. I don’t suppose it’s that nice, however it’s weirdly charming. And I can’t totally knock it an excessive amount of as a result of my children adore it. They’re each grade-schoolers and considered one of them was Hey Kitty for Halloween this 12 months. Their style may not be totally refined, however that is the kind of sport that’s made for them greater than it’s for me. They get pleasure from taking part in towards one another (although they don’t perceive why they’ll’t be on the identical facet) and so they get pleasure from cheering one another on within the mission mode. Hey Kitty and Associates: Freeze Tag Social gathering succeeds at what it’s attempting to do, in that it’s a car for younger followers to interact with Sanrio characters in a well-recognized sport. It’s not an awesome adaptation of that sport, however who doesn’t love operating round with Tuxedosam.
