Hello Kitty Online... yes, it's real.
It’s really, really hard to write about Hello Kitty Online without irony. But I have to come clean. I was a huge Hello Kitty fan back about fifteen years ago. Well, DUH, in an ironic way. Because that’s the only way an adult can really enjoy Hello Kitty. Back this spring, Hello Kitty Online had a closed beta which I was fortunate enough to be part of. It wasn’t a great experience. I could hardly even play the game, because the patcher didn’t work for any of my computers. They began publishing their patches as separate downloads so it became possible to at least play. The game itself was an exceedingly grindy Asian import – you don’t just get quests to kill things, you have to kill FIFTY of them. That’s like one of the very first quests. ...