Sanrio Animal Crossing successor Hello Kitty: Island Adventure gets off to a strong start on Steam, and a lot of fans are making the same 19-year-old South Park reference

Hello Kitty Island Adventure screenshot showing Hello Kitty, a chibi-style cat character with white fur and a pink bow, smiling while waving
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Sanrio's frosting-sweet Animal Crossing descendant 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hello Kitty: Island Adventure has just landed on Ninte𓆉ndo Switch and Steam, where nearly all of the 2023 game's most popular reviews reference 🐽the same 19-year-old South Park episode.

"Butters personally re𝄹commended this game to me," says a review with over 300 "helpful" ratings. "He's a true gamer, and I got to say, his recommendation was spot on. 10/10, defini🐽tely pick this one up."

"Butters was right," agrees another review. "My friend Butters enjoyed this," ch🐽imes in another. "Butters my beloved," yet another review announces, "your prophecy has been fulfilled."

Butters – the most innocent child in South Park – uninte▨ntionally shares a crystalline vision of the future in a 2006 episode. While all the other boys in town are working on🦄 their World of Warcraft builds, Butters decides the MMORPG isn't for him.

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"You said you'r✱e on your computer all the time," Cartman scoffs in front of all their friends.

"Yeah," continues cutie Butters, "but I'm playing Hello Kitty: Island Adventure." Th🎐e room is silent.

It took nearly 20 years, but developer Sunblink eventually avenged Butters – though, Sanrio first teas🗹ed making an Island Adventure game . Either way, fans can now honor Butters on Apple Arcade, or Switch, or PC.

"I don't play World of Warcraft," one Steam review with nearly 150 "helpful" ratings says bravely, "but I'm playing Hello Kitty: Islan✱d Adventure."

Animal Crossing's "obscure references" were all "localized out completely" before its debut in the West, as Nintendo felt it needed to "change everything."

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