Here's to another era of saying goodbye to another online Sanrio game.
There are very few Sanrio games out there that has made a connection to fans abroad. Does anyone remember playing an older online Hello Kitty game called: Hello Kitty Online?
Hello Kitty Online was the only other popular Hello Kitty game that comes to mind in recent years. A lot of fans played it regularly, but I stopped playing after the first try. In simple terms, I didn't like it. I felt that the game didn't clearly explain enough to a newbie, like me, of what the objectives were for Hello Kitty to accomplish. Sure, it gave pointers, but I remembered that I was mostly confused as to where I should lead HK to the next point. At the end, I lost interest and gave up trying to understand the game.
Then came, Hello Kitty World...
Hello Kitty World is not the same like Hello Kitty Online, which was a far better online game because it had a more detailed aspect to the game like social networking, combat, resource collecting, etc. It was a "real" game compared to a superficial mobile app game.
Another reason as to why I will have more respect for games outside of mobile apps. You can't accomplish much on mobile games.
That being said, Hello Kitty World was superficial, but it was the best mobile game that provided an artistic blueprint feature. Foremost, I love to blueprint decorate.
What better way to spend my free time with my favorite characters and to blueprint at the same time?
Starlight In Hello Kitty World
Hello Kitty Kingdom
In my previous
posts about HKW, I had not completed my Hello Kitty Kingdom. It's completed with some minor changes. Instead of a church for future weddings, I decided to go a different route. I wanted to emphasize the apple theme by using an apple tree house with a Alice in Wonderland theme card maze. It worked out well, right?
Leaving off from
My Melody's Lair of Leafs
When I first started
Enchanted Forest, I wanted it be a bit more "crowded" - or realistically, from viewing at a far distance would look like in a somewhat alternative dimension. The swimmers would go to the left side of the map, where I deemed it as the sweet Merry Go Round area. It's a Downtown area, where you can fashionably shop and eat at a fancy restaurant.
The snow sliders would travel the right side of the map and be met with the beautiful sights of the Enchanted Forest. There are many garden type areas filled with edible candy flowers, big strawberry blooms, fantastical star shaped trees to purple crescent trees, and many more that invites you to hang out in the Forest's natural surroundings.
Within the Enchanted Forest, snow sliders can meet Chococat, sit with My Melody, have tea with Pompompurin, have a kawaii fantasy picnic under the Cherry Blossoms, visit the Sugarbunnies boutique, ride the hot air balloon with Mimmy, and lastly-- be entertained while dining with Hello Kitty or Cinnamoroll.
My Melody Kingdom
Before we hop to the next world of realms, I would like to show off My Melody's Kingdom. With this particular kingdom, you will find that I have placed strawberries as the main decorative theme. You can find all sorts of edible strawberry blooms to strawberry carriages that will take you all over My Melody Kingdom.
The visit starts off at the Pekkle cruise line ship letting their passengers off. You can get refreshed at the Pekkle stores and take a moment to enjoy the silver Hello Kitty tower, one of Starlight's famous landmarks. To the far left, the Pink Strawberry theme runs strong where it leads to the bridge of the Central Park. Central Park is where you enter Starlight through the main gate or through the Train Station or the small sized Airport.
As with Hello Kitty Kinddom, same rules apply to Central Park. All entrances into Starlight via the Airport, Train Station, and main gate are portals that you must carry magical tokens. Without these tokens, visitors would just exit to an ordinary park.
To the right of the My Melody Kingdom map, this will lead on a magical Strawberry Walkway, where your shoes will glow to keep you on the right path. The Strawberry Walkway is mapped out around the flowers that shape a giant My Melody head.
Along the way, you can stop by My Melody's mascot home to learn all the secrets about My Melody... for a price. Not real money, of course. The price is the depth of your love for My Melody. Only sole My Melody collectors are able to access the secrets within the mascot home. The price is that you can only love My Melody and no other. You would have to give up your love for other Sanrio characters. For My Melody and other Sanrio Characters, it's all or nothing if you want inside to their secrets.
If there are those who can only love Hello Kitty, then it would be the same for other characters to make the same request of devotion. Choose wisely as there are no take backs in Starlight. Nor regrets.
After making your decision, you have the option to cross the pink and white checkered bridge to Pochacco Kingdom or continue to My Melody's fancy restaurant that leads to the red Strawberry theme garden. From there, it leads to the Downtown area of MM Kingdom on the far left side.
To continue forward, you can choose to go to the next realm.
Taking the subway station takes you to Eternal Serenity Realm.
Eternal Serenity Realm of Starlight
In Eternal Serenity, it's about the beauty of peace. The beautiful nature of serenity is the main theme for this particular realm.
Temple of Eternal Serenity
Once the subway station leaves My Melody Kingdom, it speeds up in time and space. Along the journey, it transforms into a giant portal ship. Without your magical token, you cannot access this realm. Instead of exiting to an ordinary park. You will immediately disappear and transport back to Central Park.
Those who continue will gain access to the Temple. Stepping off the ship, you will note the weather. It's in the Fall season, where it starts to become cold. You can purchase warmer clothing along the way.
In the middle of the Temple, you can pay your respects to the mighty goddess shrine of Hello Kitty. The majestic beauty of Hello Kitty always captures one's attention for an unbelievable long time. This is one of Starlight's famous landmarks.
Isn't it breathtakingly beautiful?
Around the temple, you will find Hello Kitty in kimono robes. If you chat and show your love to Hello Kitty, then you will be shared a secret to the Temple.
Shh! The secret lies in the river tree Onsen. Bathe in it and you will age backwards. If you soak it in too long, there are consequences that you might not like. Soak under a minute is best recommended.
Taking the stone path on the far right continues your travel...
Shrine
You have entered the country side of the Shrine, which acts as a shield. The river banks acts as a protection from seekers wishing to do harm. Once entering the Shrine to the top right area, there is a festival happening. Children and adults can play with kites along with others who just want to enjoy the festival music under the Blossom Trees.
It has started to snow on and off, but the weather doesn't stop the festivities. There are many games and food to entertain the crowd. It's a time for a celebration.
Winter Wonderland of Starlight
It's like you have stepped into another whole new world. Blanketed in white, you are met with a wondrous sight. A beautiful white castle with a glass dome on top stands before you. It's like every magical fantasy come to life. Surrounding the castle lies pure magic. It almost appears like a dark river lake, but it's actually not a lake. It's magic that protects good from evil. Evil cannot enter here.
Beyond the castle, lives a breathtaking magical garden. The bride and groom come alive once every year on Christmas day. They dance. They love. They celebrate life.
From the white castle leads to a time travel futuristic portal. A long path that leads to a darker space in time. It's as if you were floating instead of walking on frozen ice. The mists surrounds you as it gets darker and darker. There are shimmering lights ahead that points to the way out.
The surrounding crystals are the source of energy that breathes life into the frozen beauty. Life that is suspended in time and age. The icy walls that surround the ice castles contain the purest white magic of space. Here lies another famous landmark. You can reach the stars from here. It may be beautiful, but it's magic can be deadly. It is said that you can be forever lost in time and never be able to come back.
If you are smart, you will have continued on to the Christmas Village. In the center of the Christmas festivities is a giant snow globe that generates the snow to be around everyday. Christmas is everywhere here. Christmas lights. Santa elves. Christmas trees. Christmas decorations. Christmas sleighs. Christmas reindeers. And within everything, a Chocolate cocoa river house. You can't have Christmas without some hot chocolate.
FaeLight
This area is where the fairies live. Kiki and Lala can be seen sprinkling pixie dust here and there. As fairies, they sure are super fast and intelligent. Nothing gets by them. Literally.
If they don't want you to continue forward your journey, they can forever keep you lost in the Hello Kitty maze. Make sure to greet them and stay on their good side.
Dolphin Cove
You have reached your final destination in your journey. Like most of Eternal Serenity, it is insanely beautiful here. The spirit animal here is a dolphin. Many gorgeous dolphins that habitat the surrounding area frolic about with utter joy. Keroppi is the Guardian healer. He maintains the beauty that we see at the Cove.
At the center of everything is an Ice Castle portal. Surrounded by water and tapped into a powerful source of energy, the Ice Castle can transport you to a secret dimension: the Underworld Sea.
Imagine an Underworld Sea where you can breathe naturally without dying. It is dark at the deepest corners, but magic fills the Sea. Magic glistens and shimmers on everything. It brings light to a very dark place. While floating in the Underworld, there are hidden cities. Among those cities, lies the heart of the Sea. An ice filled center brimming with a source of powerful glowing magic. This area is where the Guardians of the Underworld lives. They protect this magic and the beautiful life of the Sea.
Unfortunately, my story ends here as the mobile game app has reached it's expiration date. It was a good run while it lasted. I'm glad to be able to live my fantasies through blueprinting art. The power of imagination took me to places in my mind that I never knew existed. The mobile game will be missed, but never forgotten as I was able to share my Sanrio world with many others.
