Nothing says love like dismemberment, grotesque scarecrow-looking robots, and arson, right?įor a game that not only bathes in weirdness but swims happily in it, my major gripe about the Bad Boys Love track isn't that it turns the entire game on its head, going from happy-sappy to borderline-disturbing. This detailed backstory can all be found in the Bad Boys Love track of the game, turning the dating sim into a psychological thriller and murder mystery, because reasons. It's also an experimental facility for biological warfare against Humans by the war-mongering Hawk Party (what else?).
PigeoNation's is more than just a school for aviary geniuses. Players learn through incidental talk and documents, some of which can only be obtained after completing certain objectives or romance pathways, that St. Throughout the game, as relationships are formed with various characters, hints and details serve as foreshadowing to something more ominous inside the halls of St. Hatoful Boyfriend doesn't even need a mouse, as I played my first playthrough starting on my laptop's touchpad and finishing using the keyboard, simply using arrow keys to highlight a selection and enter to “click.” Gameplay registers as probably the only element about the game that could be seen as “simple.” Players click on their choice and the story continues. The gameplay is simple in the fact that there barely is any: like most visual novels for the PC, interaction is limited to choices that Hiyoko can make. But you also haven't begun to see the half of it. If it seems grisly for a dating sim, you're right. That includes one for each romantic possibility, three based on stats, one if the player follows the Torimi Cafe side-route, and one if the player fails to start a relationship with anyone, in which a Shadowgate reference is adorably made, so guess what that means for Hiyoko. With the three extended endings based on stats, it gives this latest 2014 release fourteen endings for the player to achieve. In a game that involves a human romancing birds, it's probably safe to say that common sense isn't exactly one of the foremost elements of the game. Each stat will come in handy in one romantic track, though players will largely have to figure this out themselves-there's really no indication beyond common sense.
I mean, the holiday has gone so commercial.)Įlective days throughout the term allow for Hiyoko to improve one of her stats in either Wisdom (by attending math class), Vitality (by attending gym), or Charisma (by attending Music Appreciation). (I personally avoid Legumentine's Day at all costs. The game roughly goes on about three semesters, or “terms,” in which the player will have opportunities to woo the romantic interest of their choice, while still navigating basic high-school issues, such as which club to join, scoring well on midterms and finals, and, of course, who to give those special beans to on Legumentine's Day. Got all that? No? Too bad! The game moves ahead. The game, originally designed as a April Fool's joke, sets up the love interests to spear high-school stereotypes in bird form: the loyal best friend, the rock dove Ryouta Kawara, the snobby French transfer student, the fantail pigeon Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane, and his half-brother, the ladies' man (as it were) Yuuya Sakazaki, also a fantail pigeon, the shy kid, the mourning dove Nageki Fujishiro, the jock and star of the track team, the aforementioned San Oko (so dreamy!), the narcoleptic math professor and button quail Kazuaki Nanaki, and the creepy staff doctor, the chukar partridge Shuu Iwamine. The first part of the game takes no mercy in throwing a ton of characters at you right away, many of which will serve as your romantic marks throughout the visual novel. This is just one of the many “What the hell is going on here?” moments players will experience in Hatoful Boyfriend. Why would a human choose a high school filled with sapient birds? Well… they are gifted birds, if that helps at all… okay, it doesn't really help at all. So it goes to figure that you, as the female player-character, are also a bird, right? Not so fast. Your player-character is, indeed, female, and yes, you need to romance one of several males in the game. It's at this juncture that I should point out that Hatoful Boyfriend is not your average otome game. Hatoful Boyfriend is a port of a 2011 PC/Mac game which the Japanese categorize as otome, which describes games primarily targeted toward a female audience, usually with one of the goals being to wind up in a romantic relationship with one of the male protagonists.
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