As a lot as I really like throwing myself into the depths of ravines on a determined hunt for diamonds, or trekking to the Nether and instantly plunging into lava, generally I feel Minecraft wants to relax out a bit. There are solely so many occasions a creeper can blow up your own home earlier than you go into your settings, swap from exhausting to peaceable, and begin a brand new life as a surface-level farmer. Yes, I is perhaps projecting, however there is a restrict to how typically I can lose my stock earlier than I lose my thoughts.Â
Fortunately, Minecraft has launched a model new enlargement that focuses on the sport’s extra laid-back aspect. The Hello Kitty and Friends DLC adjustments Minecraft’s commonplace survival crafting gameplay right into a farming simulator whereas bundling in some lovable characters to accompany you. Rather than being thrust into a big world as you’ll with a normal Minecraft sport, you are restricted to a city by which it’s worthwhile to construct and handle a farm as an alternative.Â
There are new crops to develop, alongside new animals to are likely to which is fairly refreshing given Minecraft’s passive mobs have modified little or no over time. You’ll additionally get to brighten the complete factor with brand-new Hello Kitty and Sanrio-inspired decor. Gone are the times of sticking a strain plate on prime of a fence publish to make a desk, we lastly have precise furnishings to brighten with.
On prime of that, the DLC comes with 4 seasons that rotate whilst you play which impacts your farm in numerous methods. This is sure to maintain you in your toes and cease the day by day to-do listing of water crops and take care of animals from changing into boring, and as somebody who’s poured an ungodly period of time into farming simulators, that is one thing I recognize rather a lot. When summer time rolls across the threat of a heatwave rolling in and wilting your crops is extra seemingly. Or within the later seasons, you might need to organize for a hurricane to hit. There’s nothing fairly like a wet day in a farming sim to remove the strain of remembering to water your crops, however it’s good to have an additional layer of problem to think about as properly.
Though for any Sanrio lover, the principle enchantment of this DLC is the charming, blocky characters you will get to finish quests for whilst you go about your farm life. Rather than the DLC solely that includes Hello Kitty, lesser-known characters like Tuxedo Sam, PomPomPurin, and Bad Badtz Maru are additionally prepared to hang around. Even Hangyodon has a spot within the DLC, and I frankly by no means thought I’d see the day he begins getting the eye he deserves. These characters act rather a lot like Animal Crossing villagers within the sense that they wander round and sometimes provide you with duties to finish in return for rewards like furnishings. You’ll additionally unlock them as you go, so when you do not instantly discover your favorite character they’re more likely to be a part of later down the road.
Even although all the pieces nonetheless has the standard blocky Minecraft look, it is simple to overlook that you simply’re enjoying the identical sport. As an enormous farming sim fanatic and a lover of all issues cute, I am unable to even try to disguise my pleasure for this DLC. With that stated I assure there’s nonetheless one thing that can inevitably frustrate me to the purpose the place I’ve to take a breather and ponder how I can nonetheless do one thing improper in arguably one of many best genres, however at the very least I’ll have an array of cute characters to supply a shoulder to cry on when that day comes.
