Hello Kitty Cafe (for Android)

If a deep-seated part of you giggles when you see a Hello Kitty character, then you?ll be squealing loudly over Sanrio Digital?s simplistic, but adorably kitsch, arcade game on Android, Hello Kitty Caf? (free).

In Hello Kitty Caf?, you take on the role of a restaurant manager trying to grow your Sanrio-themed restaurant. Your employees are all Sanrio characters with varying strengths, and you need to juggle the needs of your staff with the demands of your growing clientele. Potential decisions: should you handle an impatient new customer first, or ring up someone who?s been waiting to leave? Replace ageing furniture, or add to the menu? Promote current employees, or hire new ones?

Okay, so Hello Kitty Caf? sounds like actual work, but coupled with Sanrio anime cuteness, slick graphics, and a high-quality soundtrack, Hello Kitty Caf? is actually a charming, if repetitive, way to pass time.

Gameplay
You start with a single employee?the yellow Sanrio dog, Purim?who you have to direct to fulfill various duties of a restaurant: bringing customers to tables, taking orders, fulfilling orders, settling bills, and clearing tables. If you leave any task unattended for too long, you lose customers, and potential money. Every day (which runs about five minutes) represents a new level, and every level brings more business. The first few levels are pretty slow and easy. I'm no multitasker, but I never lost a customer on my first stab.

As the levels get harder, you find yourself having to manage your supply chain to meet the higher customer turnover. It also becomes abundantly clear that the slow Purim can?t handle everything himself. Fortunately, at the end of every level, you have the option to enhance your restaurant with new employees (all Sanrio characters), promote existing ones, or, eventually, upgrade the restaurant with new menu items and furniture. Some of these level ups can be bought with coins you earn after passing a level, but most require points.

Earning Points
Annoyingly, there are only two ways to earn points. The fastest is with money. A hundred points will set you back $0.99, and hiring new employees ranges from Pochacco for 80 points to Pekkle, for 3,000 points. Alternatively you can earn ?free? points by installing affiliate apps (like the dubious-sounding Deity Wars, Blood Brothers, or VIZ Manga). No information is given about these apps either, so a user has absolutely no way of knowing what he?s about to put on his device. Doesn't sound safe to me.

Hello Kitty Caf? looks and sounds great, thanks to surprisingly high-quality design from Sanrio's digital arm. And although the game is pretty repetitive, it's oddly satisfying as well trying to figure out the most efficient way to manage all the demands of the caf?. Two things would raise the game's rating, however: an easier way to earn points, and a social element, like being able to go into other people's caf?s.

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