At the start of the game, Hat Kid will be unarmed, and hitting anything will cause her to hurt her hand and flinch in pain. Press the melee button to perform a melee attack. If Hat Kid does a double jump onto a wall, she will wall climb higher than if she does a single jump. However, if the player has the "No Bonk" badge equipped or cancels the dive before hitting the wall, she will start a wall run instead. If Hat Kid performs a dive and hits a wall, she will bonk her head and fall to the ground. She must jump off of another wall or touch the ground to jump off of that wall again. Hat Kid cannot run or jump off the same wall twice in a row. If the walls are parallel, this can be repeated to gain as much height as possible. She can then jump off of it onto a platform or another wall, where she can gain some more height and jump again. Doing this in rapid succession can outpace the Sprint Hat.Īrtwork of Hat Kid demonstrating the move.īy jumping towards a wall, Hat Kid will start to run up it, gaining some vertical distance. However, if the player presses jump just as Hat Kid hits the ground, she will immediately bounce back up and lunge forward into a front flip, increasing her speed further until she touches the ground. This allows the player to control Hat Kid in the air on a wider horizontal plane and allows her to land more precisely on targets.Īdditionally, if she dives on the ground, she will briefly slide forwards and remain on her belly until the player presses the jump button again. Jumping to cancel a midair dive also briefly slows her vertical speed. Dives can be canceled simply by jumping, which reverts her back to her walking speed.ĭiving in the air will briefly slow Hat Kid's vertical speed and lunge her in the direction she faces, giving her more movement horizontally.
While diving, Hat Kid can change her direction very slowly. This briefly increases her speed and can be performed both on the ground and in the air. While this is a basic ability in most platformers, jumping and double jumping is the foundation to Hat Kid's impressive platforming skills.īy pressing the dive button, Hat Kid will dive in the direction she's facing. Pressing it again while airborne will perform a second jump.
While Hat Kid's move pool is relatively small compared to other platforming games, it is a highly versatile one that allows her to chain together many moves and reach most areas with relative ease and style!īy pressing the jump button, Hat Kid will jump into the air. In contrast, she is very frank and emotive in her diary entries, calling out many people and situations on her adventure as weird or unpleasant.
She can be shy at times, such as when Mustache Girl asks for her name, or during her idle animation where she stops playing with dolls because she thinks someone might be watching. Despite this, she is also rather friendly, as shown during Your Contract has Expired in Subcon Forest, when Hat Kid attempts to befriend The Snatcher. She is also shown to be rather mischievous, especially with the Mafia, such as when she knocks Mafia Goons off of ledges in Mafia Town, or when she burned paintings containing the souls of trapped individuals in a fire in order to help a group of Fire Spirits commit suicide in Subcon Forest. This is mainly shown through the innocent nature of her voice lines and idle animations. Hat Kid is shown to have an energetic and childlike personality. She also wears a variety of hats, her favorite of which is a big, purple top hat with a yellow stripe, also known as the "Kid's Hat". She wears a big, purple shirt with a bright yellow cape sporting a large zipper, as well as white pants and brown boots. While not officially canon, speculation (using the meters shown in the food level from the “Seal the Deal” DLC) says her possible height could be 2’3.She has brown hair and blue eyes. The only possible difference between her alien species and normal humans is the presence of bones in her ponytail when the C.A.W Agents take an X-ray photograph of her.
In all respects, Hat Kid looks like a small human child.