![]() Fan-artists also do a bit of this by portraying Hiyoko, whose name means "Chick" as in a baby bird, as having short hair and often as a blonde.The ordinary guy is a rock dove, fan-tails tend to be full of themselves, the mourning dove is introverted, etc.A Love to Dismember: Doctor Shuu does this to your head if you focus on him.All There in the Manual: The guidebook greatly expands on the characters' backstories, particularly Shuu's /Ichijou Utsuru's.After the End: It's heavily hinted at throughout the main game, but only confirmed in the Bad Boys Love route.The games contain a lot of loving pokes at adventure RPGs too, especially in Anghel's route. Affectionate Parody: Of the whole Dating Sim Visual Novel genre.6 Is 9: In the BBL route, Ryouta and Sakuya discover that volume 6 from a encyclopedia is found missing in the sealed-off wing of the school, a second volume 9 having taken its place.Tropes found throughout the Hatoful Boyfriend series include: Oh, if you're wondering, "hatoful" is the Japanese pronunciation of either the wasei eigo word "heartful" or "hurtful", chosen both for this double meaning and for the fact that it starts with hato (Japanese for pigeon). Some manga have also been released - Absolute Zero, high fantasy from Anghel's POV elaboration on some character background hinted at in Holiday Star and some monthly stuff. There is a partially translated guidebook which gives some other information. moa810 is also working on another sequel, which will have fan's pet photos as characters (sadly the contest is closed).įour drama CDs have been released in Japanese, with some English translations here. The second game, Holiday Star, has an English demo available here, and the full version can be purchased here. PS4 and Vita versions were released in July 2015. ![]() A remake of the original game is available to buy on Steam. The English version of the full game can be found here. 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. However, if I was looking for an otome game to play for this Weebsmas, I might pick up the Mystic Messenger Holiday special instead.Hatoful Boyfriend (Japanese title はーとふる彼氏) is a game about a human hunter-gatherer girl (named by you, default Hiyoko Tousaka) who goes to a high school for birds, St. But it’s still a really entertaining game–like, I played through the whole thing for sure. Like it’s labeled as such, but it’s pretty far from dating and also far from true holiday activity. Overall, Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star was not really a holiday otome. Kinda wished that there was more of that and less of…army tanks and strange fights…but then again what do I expect from Hatoful Boyfriend? And those were like less than five minutes each and kinda random. There were short New Years specials for each of the boys–err, I mean birds. It was a ride alright with a lot of strange reveals I would not expect–then again, I had thought that I would get a LOT more holiday content or dating content but this game is filled with a lot of…not that. They are on like a ‘holiday star’ but it has little to do with the holidays and actually becomes this really dark story about death and murder and at one point it does make me feel like I want to tear up over it. All the birds and the MC go to view the eclipse and end up in a dream they can’t wake up from. The last two episodes are about a dream sequence.
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