This one’s for the younger’uns.
Hey Kitty and Pals: Freeze Tag Occasion is a baffling online game. I’ve spent a piece of time taking part in it with my youngsters and whereas they’re enchanted by it, I simply don’t perceive why this exists. It’s a cute little licensed recreation crammed with a ton of Sanrio characters. You may play asinine video games of tag with Hey Kitty, Keroppi, My Melody, Kuromi, Cinnamaroll, and lots of extra. At its core, I anticipated it will be a enjoyable little recreation I might sit down and play with the household.
This can be a recreation of tag that may solely be performed with as much as two gamers. Each spherical contains six “challengers” (the title for these not eager 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 may do multi-system native play, it’s a split-screen expertise that calls to thoughts the screen-watching days of previous 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 skill (although lots repeat). They’re all animated adorably no less than. Visually, the sport appears to be like nice.
Along with the common ol’ video games of tag, you possibly can romp via 70 completely different missions that job you with hiding or looking for completely different characters with tougher and barely tweaked parameters. That is your primary means of unlocking new characters, each via unlocking them by beating missions and likewise incomes in-game jewels that can be utilized to unlock equipment and characters.
As an grownup taking part in this recreation, I’m bewildered. It’s a recreation of tag for 2 individuals. I don’t assume 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 youngsters adore it. They’re each grade-schoolers and certainly one of them was Hey Kitty for Halloween this 12 months. Their style won’t be totally refined, however that is the kind of recreation 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 will’t be on the identical facet) they usually get pleasure from cheering one another on within the mission mode. Hey Kitty and Pals: Freeze Tag Occasion succeeds at what it’s attempting to do, in that it’s a car for younger followers to have interaction with Sanrio characters in a well-known recreation. It’s not an awesome adaptation of that recreation, however who doesn’t love operating round with Tuxedosam.
