Cinnamon: Yume no Daibouken is a simple platformer where the objective is to fly around a small stage while controlling the titular Sanrio character Cinnamonroll, as we try to collect as many pastries in the shortest amount of time possible while eventually avoiding enemies and hazards.

You have a life meter and infinite lives, that and the somewhat lukewarm pace of the action makes this an ideal platformer for kids.

In Sanrio fashion, the game worlds are bathed in these pastel colors and soft edges to the round designs of their characters, everyhting is cute and cudly and dreamlike, the safe and adorable nature of the art design might even accentuate how this game eventually opens up to show you it's actually very good movement and controls.

Cinnamonroll is slow in land, but is no problem since most of the time you are in the air, where you-re a bit floaty but have really good control over you movements, and eventually you unlock some dash attacks and a ground pound that can be used more like and enhancement to your movements rather than proper attacks, the "combos" this allows you to make to keep momentum are really fun, feel super responsive and make dashing through the levels as fast as possible exciting.

It's a short game aimed at kids, you can finish it with high scores in a single sitting but for what little it offers is very polished for a mascot game.

First log of the year, yay!

I can't belive nobody told me how cute and full of charisma this game is, I was only promised good platforming, it's a time capsule to the 2000's visually in the best way. Jill is adorable, in her interactions, animations and small vocalizations (the progressive excited tone of the "HIYA" as your drill gears up is so cute and hypes you up a little), how she both contrasts and complements the Drill Dozer is incredible, bot are small and kinda cute, but have an undeniable edge to them, a spark of playfulness that tells you that they should not be taken lightly.

This extends to every character honestly, even that weird little critter that appears in some of the menus. This is from a time Gamefreak figured it out when it came to character design, everybody has it's quirks that make them very nice designs to look at, with details that tell you about their personalities but aren't THAT out there, something that for me has become more difficult for the human characters they've been making in recent years.

I was very surprised by the gameplay, which is what I think deserves more praise and it's the reason for this five stars, because even if the levels aren't that long, when I was in a "good" section I could only think that this game was five stars, the way the drill gives tou movement is amazing, wether it is advancing nonstop with a fully powered drill through walls and enemies, or carefully yet quickly making jumps guided by the way you control the direction of your drill to traverse very creative and dynamic platforming sections.

It's honestly a shame how short this game is, the story and characters stay enough to feel short and sweet, but I wanted to explore them more, I wanted more funny interactions and mayhem with this child boss of a crime organization and her family, I wanted more platforming, I wanted more bosses and enemies, I wanted more of the main villain and the connection Jill's mom has with the diamonds...

Apparenlty Gamefreak has been trying to go for more IP's so as to not only be the Pokemon guys, and with the right team of talents the answer is right here.

I want more Drill Dozer man, I'm gonna 100% it sometime soon...