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Ana Diaz
(she/her) is a society author at Polygon, covering net society, fandom, as well as video clip games. Her job has actually formerly shown up at NPR, Wired, as well as The Verge.
When Oscar Wilde created “life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” I don’t assume he was considering South Park or Hello Kitty. But the quote reverberates today, since lately, an old meme from the computer animated program seems the basis of the name of the brand-new game Hello Kitty Island Adventure.
In a 2006 episode of South Park, Cartman, Kyle, Stan, as well as Kenny look for retribution on a World of Warcraft giant. In order to eliminate the giant, the 4 rally the assistance of children from their institution as well as Cartman hatches out a prepare for the team to collaborate, fulfill the harmful gamer in the timbers of Azeroth, as well as beat them.
The children are proclaiming their phone call to success together, when Butters naively inserts, “I don’t play World of Warcraft,” to which Cartman reacts, “Butters, you said you are on your computer all the time.” Butters after that states, “yeah, but I’m playing Hello Kitty Island Adventure.”
At the moment, this game didn’t exist. And according to the data source Moby Games, no game has actually been launched with the name. Instead it acted as a joke, presumably to make fun of Butters for playing a “girly” game rather than World of Warcraft.
The phony game took place to influence memes as well as also pranks from Sanrio. In 2008, a post from the official Sanrio blog shared an April Fools’ Day statement for a brand-new MMO Hello Kitty Online growth pack called “Hello Kitty Island Adventure.” In the statement, programmers claimed the growth pack would certainly be, “the first expansion pack in gaming history that will reduce rather than expand an existing game world,” as well as included a facility comparable to the tv program Lost.
An audio clip of the discussion in between Cartman as well as Butters has actually likewise acted as the basis for a TikTok sound meme. Users have actually utilized the meme in various methods, however a prominent pattern occurred where individuals would certainly make jokes concerning playing spruce up in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or playing the Sims.
Then, on June 27, the meme came to be an actual game. The video clip game workshop Sunblink, together with Sanrio, introduced a brand-new life sim as well as journey game called Hello Kitty Island Adventure for iphone tools using Apple Arcade. Based on the brief trailer, the game looks adorable as heck. It shows up to couple expedition with timeless life-sim aspects like making personalities as well as houses, together with discovering the island. The game exudes the lovable beauty of Sanrio animal personalities as well as positions them in happy island settings. It will certainly introduce on July 28.
It’s unclear why the programmers would certainly choose to recall the old joke currently, neither has the group validated the link in between the brand-new game as well as South Park. Polygon connected to Sunblink to inquire about the title of the game as well as verify if the name was influenced by South Park as well as we will certainly upgrade this write-up as we listen to back.
Source: Polygon
