![]() ![]() ![]() I wish the game went crazier - ala Stanley Parable, perhaps - with the world acting strangely as you go through different paths, or anything to encourage me to go at it again. The official website is here, two download mirrors for the free version are here, and an English translation for the free version is available here. If they did, I wish the game would have told me. Most of the game is spent doing the same things over and over - as to get different endings - and the big payoff is supposedly story bits about why you're the only human in the world, or something like that. Hatoful Boyfriend (Japanese title ) is a game about a human hunter-gatherer girl (named by you, default Hiyoko Tousaka) who decides to go to a high school for birds, St. ![]() You have three stats (intelligence, vitality, charisma), but I never felt like they did anything. Some tropes here and there are recognizable as being parodied but I couldn't tell what was going on. The dialog is funny and the situations are completely silly, but the pigeon thing just feels like a stamp on the game saying "yes, this is a wacky game."Īnd the gameplay consists of mostly picking up about ten choices in text boxes as the game goes on. As it is right now, it feels like a parody of visual novels/dating sims and since I'm not very familiar with those the sense of parody flew right above my head. Sadly, just removing the whole pigeon theme and acting like you're the only girl in the whole world would still have the game make some sense. Sadly for me, I couldn't dig deep enough within the game to ever find out if there was more than that.įirst of all, the pigeon thing. Hatoful Boyfriend leans on the shorthand of its genre by quickly establishing its love interests through well-worn tropes in a fairly vanilla high-school setting: there’s childhood friend Ryouta, aristocratic Sakuya, bookish Nageki, flirtatious Yuuya, hyperactive Okosan, overimaginative Anghel, and narcoleptic teacher Kazuaki. There was something weird about this game - dating sim where your peers are all birds - and it lead me to think that there would be more than meets the eye. It must have been something about the pigeons, I thought. This game has multiple endings, extensive amounts of writing, and humor. I'm not too sure why I played Hatoful Boyfriend, I'm not a big fan of visual novels and dating-themed ones aren't my cup of tea either. Hatoful boyfriend has all the elements of a dating simulator, it has the character tropes, and the progressing plotline of high school drama, the stats system where doing activities raises your status which in turn helps you woo certain characters. ![]()
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