Choices that can be made include which clubs to join, and which classes to take each day. The game includes a fast-forward button, which can be handy on repeat play-throughs, but be warned, fast-forward only stops when a choice screen is reached, so it’s easy to miss new scenes and dialogues if you use it too much. The act of clicking through the dialogue keeps readers actively engaged but there can be long passages – particularly in the first semester where all the characters are introduced – where there are no options or variations. The pleasure here is in discovery rather than influence.
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This is a branching novel rather than a full choose your own adventure experience like some of the Choice of Games I’ve reviewed here in the past. In terms of choice making, there often isn’t a vast amount of it. If I had to choose I’d say this guy is probably the cutest. These high school scenes of locker rooms, canteens and desks, feel utterly familiar and sterotypical but if this is a school for birds, why do the classrooms and chairs all look so human sized? It’s a kind of dual perception that becomes increasingly unnerving as the story progresses. This could be any blue haired dating-sim flirt guy except it isn’t because he’s a dove. Displaying both bird and human simultaneously, these introductory screens epitomise the kind of double response this game constantly demands from its players. With this enabled, the first time they appear, each dove, pigeon or partridge is additionally pictured as the kind of bishounen very typical of Japanese dating games. One of the first choices you’ll make is whether to engage the “powerful visualisation module” that provides human portraits to accompany each bird.
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Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel: as the story progresses characters appear as portraits, and locations are evoked via a changing series of static backgrounds. There’s much, much more to this game than meets the eye…
Because it turns out Hatoful Boyfriend is a much more intense, dark and engaging experience than I’d anticipated.
No, I haven’t suddenly become a pigeon pervert but I did get suckered in, hook line and sinker. I thought it might make me laugh for an hour or two. Could a game about romancing pigeons really be so engaging, or does the world just contain far more pigeon fanciers (and not in the racing sense) than I’d realised? The sale price of £1.74 seemed a reasonable sum to pay to find out more… I’d never dated a pigeon before, or indeed considered dating one but I was intrigued by two things: firstly just how off the wall the premise was, and secondly just how many extremely positive reviews this title seemed to have garnered. Ostensibly the goal is to progress through the typical milestones of the school calendar: classes, holidays, sports days and festivals, while getting to know “everybirdie” (the game uses this and similar terms throughout) and to find that special “somebirdie” to pursue more intimately. In it, you play as the only human attending St.Pigeonations, a prestigious Japanese high-school run and attended by sentient birds.
Yes, Hatoful Boyfriend is a pigeon-dating simulator.
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