Posted by sedativestorm on 05/16/2008 6:08pm

Tags: hello kitty, mmorpg,

Whaaah? Is what I thought when I found about a new MMORPG that is based on Hello Kitty and her friends. I am a huge Hello Kitty fan, but the idea of it being an actual MMORPG sounds overwhelming. MMORPG=Killing enemies…Hello Kitty+ MMORPG= dying from cuteness?!

The places the players will be able to explore are the Flower Kingdom, Tokyo, Paris, Moscow, and other places populated by non-player Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru, My Melody, Kerropi, Pochacco, Purin, Muffin, and Scone. Hello Kitty MMORPG includes customizable avatars, guilds, skill systems, and player economy. You can also build your own home, cultivate your own farm, craft objects, earn and spend hello kitty dollars, and of course quest. Allthough there will be a unique combat system there is no talk about pvp. The public see's that it might become yet another addiction like the World of Warcraft to the younger consumers, "get them while they're still young." I assume it will also attract many female audiences who are Hello Kitty fans.

Currently there are already over 30,000 beta testers signed up for the closed beta. This MMORPG will have the traditional MMORPG aspects but wil also be a virtual community. I believe the social network community will be somewhat like secondlife with the ability to quest. So lets see...WoW+Secondlife X Hello Kitty characters= Hello Kitty MMORPG. I’m sensing that it will be Animal Crossing-esq because of the cutesy characters walking in the village. I might be totally wrong but I guess we won't know until it goes out of beta and is available to the public in the second half of 2008.

For more information and screenshots go here