With nine birds, that's a lot romancing if you want to see everything, and it's not all that straightforward.
There's really a lot more to Hatoful Boyfriend than romancing birds!īut you have to go through most of the romances to unlock the BBL route, and you have to go through all of them (sometimes twice if they have multiple endings) if you want the epilogue to BBL. She's also an experiment set up to fail as the birds financially responsible for running the school actually want a war between birds and humans so they have cause to wipe out what's left of humanity. Hiyoko being allowed into the prestigious all-pigeon high school is supposed to be an experiment in whether humans and birds can truly get along (and if she doesn't find a love interest, then the bad ending plays, which results in the experiment being called a failure and Hiyoko is killed). (Oddly enough, and it's commented on, the sentient birds of the game have patterned a lot of their society off of humans, so they have things like high schools and school sporting events like the three-legged race that are so much worse for birds than humans.)Īs you go through some of the routes, we learn more about the history of humans and birds, and that some birds aren't comfortable with the remaining humans. She also lives in a cave, making it clear that her life isn't close to the present day human lifestyle we enjoy, and the birds currently participate in.
The teenage player character, default name Hiyoko, is a hunter gatherer and she even makes a reference to having hunted for her breakfast before the first day of class. There are clues throughout the game that the world is our own, but set in the future after most of humanity has been wiped out. This time, armed with a walkthrough, I went through all endings to unlock the Bad Boys Love route and see the craziest part of what most people call a "pigeon dating simulator."Īnd it's really not that you're falling in love with pigeons. Annoyed, I shelved it as done without bothering to play the rest of the game.īut, one of my friends is a big Hatoful Boyfriend fan and I knew that there was a lot of the game I was missing, so I decided to go back and give it another shot. I actually marked Hatoful Boyfriend off as completed back in 2015 because I tried it, got a ending that wasn't the bad one, and then due to the completely arbitrary nature of some of choices (including stat raising), I ended up getting the same ending for my second playthrough even though I was aiming for different birds.
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Platform: Windows (also on PS4/PS Vita/Android/iOS/Mac/Linux) In which I talk (write) about visual novels from a storytelling perspective.
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