Hello Kitty Island Adventure: make the best first impression with your fellow islanders

Gift giving is your one way ticket to friendship in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, so if you want to make a stellar impression with your new islandmates, then a good gift goes a long way. If you're stressed about it, then rest assured there's no way to give islanders bad gifts. You'll only be able to give characters items they actually like instead of wasting items in your inventory by giving them to someone who doesn't enjoy them.

Each of the 13 characters around the island has a unique set of likes and preferences which are bound to make your gift giving experience slightly easier. But you won't know exactly what these preferences are straight away. You unlock knowledge about each character the more you cook and craft items. If you need some general guidance as to what to prepare for each character, we've pulled together everyone's preferences and their ideal gifts to save you having to hunt them down yourself.

How to give gifts in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

When you approach a character in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, you'll have two interaction options. Pressing E will initiate a conversation, whereas pressing R will open the gift menu. Any suitable gifts for that character will be highlighted in your inventory. You'll be able to give each islander 3 gifts a day, and each time you'll be rewarded with an item specific to that character, like Sugarkelp from Kerropi, Dough from Retsuko and Tofu from Hello Kitty.

Visiting the friendship tab in your phone will show you each character's likes. It won't give you a detailed breakdown of which gifts are worth giving, but it is a guide in the general directions. For example, if you don't have any gift ideas unlocked for Pekkle and you can tell his likes are anything Musical or Mountain-based then it's worth starting to look at any crafting recipes or foragables you might have to fit that description.

Every character's favourite gifts in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Gifts are separated by a heart level in Hello Kitty Island Adventure. A gift marked with 3-hearts will give you the biggest friendship boost, but are a lot harder to find. 2-heart gifts require a little more work to find and usually involve either cooking or crafting, whereas 1-heart gifts are usually items that can be found around the map. Here is every main character from Hello Kitty Island Adventure's likes and their ideal gifts:

Hello Kitty

Likes: Fruity, Baked, Fancy

My Melody

Likes: Sweet, Pink, Dreamy

Pochacco

Likes: Trophy, Healthy, Veggie

Tuxedo Sam

Likes: Fabric, Tropical, Fancy

Keroppi

Likes: Critter, Swamp, Wood

Kuromi

Likes: Soda, Fall, Spooky

Pompompurin

Likes: Dessert, Calm, Milk

Pekkle

Likes: Musical, Mountain, Calm

Hangyodon

Likes: Aquatic, Fish, Fabric

Retsuko

Likes: Fire, Musical, Ingot

Chococat

Likes: Mechanical, Book, Chocolate

Cinnamoroll

Likes: Coffee, Chocolate, Spicy

Bad Badtz-Maru

Likes: Joke, Tropical, Pizza