Hello Kitty Island Adventure offers a Sanrio-themed take on the cozy genre, transporting players to an island where they can live among their favorite characters. The Apple Arcade title comes from developer Sunblink, which previously released the card-battling MOBA HEROish, with Sanrio serving as publisher. Though the game has received praise from critics and players for a myriad of different qualities, one element that stands out the most is its diverse soundtrack.
When we're in sort of the real world, the normal world, things should feel very organic, and then when we go to these more ethereal places we can expand from there. In terms of what made each of the different regions specific, there was a fine line between giving people what they want and subverting expectations.
The really cool one was we got a choir in, and we did a group of five people that just all sang for Mount Hothead, and then they also sang the finale, when you're in the Icy Peak; a couple different areas to just bring more life than just hiring a soloist. You can't replicate getting a bunch of people in a room together. There's some footage floating around from them - they were called the DC6 - and they're just infectious.
Phil Boucher: Yeah, this is one of the few projects - it's rare that people get me a build when I'm working on a game. I always ask for it, but for security reasons there's all sorts of things that are in place that make it hard for me to get access to it.