![]() As is standard with the genre, interesting, quirky characters are the lifeforce of the game, genuinely making you laugh and keeping you more invested in the narrative as a whole. He is seemingly a less intelligent bird that can run really fast, makes Pokémon references and is obsessed with pudding. These birds inject huge amounts of charm and personality. It’s the stupid and ridiculous characters that elevate the whole experience. While there’s technically no "bad" ones in Hatoful Boyfriend, there’s still some cookie cutter stereotypical high-school kids who happen to have plumage, and others that are a little dull beyond the novelty value of them being a bird. So sorry if you were here for sordid details of passionate beaky trysts with pigeons that’s on a whole other website.Īnyway, those characters are a mixed bag. You’re supposed to find a feathered suitor before a set point, and while the thought of bestiality as a game objective is hilarious/disturbing the game doesn’t go for crassness, rather it goes no further than getting to know the characters and some mild innuendo. It means the core story is rather short, but high on replay value as there are multiple outcomes to discover. The premise sounds utterly ridiculous, and it’s easy to poke fun at the idea of it for novelty value, but underneath the wonderfully absurd concept lies a humorous touching tale.Įach semester is broken down into a set of short conversations, with various birds about campus and beyond, that branch out different ways depending on who you talk to and how you answer them. Coupling that with the usual teenage social awkwardness means you have a surprising layer of depth to proceedings as the double dip of "nobody understands me!" angst gives a fresh satirical edge to the generally overused topic of kooky teen drama in this genre. Though you have spent time in education with these intelligent avian types already, your character still finds some of their habits confusing and awkward. Doves, pigeons, finches and a whole host of other birds that, despite coming across as human in basic conversation, maintain humorous little offbeat traits of birds in their personality. So full disclosure here, everybody (or everybirdie) as Hatoful gleefully uses puns at every possible opportunity. The game begins as our heroine starts her second year at the school for gifted birds. In the meantime, Hatoful Boyfriend remains a pretty decent, and often absurdly funny, interactive visual novel about a girl’s experience as the only human in a school for intelligent birds, as she haplessly juggles making the grade, getting a summer job and trying to woo the boys who coo. But hey, at least they gained some knowledge of romancing sparrows out of it. ![]() Christmas dinner conversation will be interesting I imagine. I probably shouldn’t have added that I asked to review it, and that I actually enjoy playing it too, because that seemed to cement it as an anecdote to try and embarrass me for years to come. I know this because I’ve explained Hatoful Boyfriend to my wife, family and friends.
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