Hatoful Boyfriend is a remake of the 2012 dating sim game of the same name. The gameplay and story remain identical to the original game, but with overhauled graphics and interface, and a few additional scenes. The player takes on the role of a human girl who attends a high school where all students and faculty are sapient birds. Hatoful Boyfriend is a purposely bad game, but coming up with an idea of pigeon dating simulator and seeing it through to the end is certainly no easy feat. The fact that a game like it even exists. Hatoful Boyfriend is an interactive text-based visual novel that follows a branching plot line, with the player's decisions determining which of the game's multiple endings they receive. Hatoful Boyfriend is a Japanese game in which you are a human called Hiyoko who goes to pigeon school. The goal is to seduce and date all the interesting pigeons at said school. Girls Plays basketball - Another WTF Japanese game show - Spread Your Legs. Kapuso mo jessica soho. Another WTF Japanese game show - Spread Your Legs.
North American video game publisher Devolver Digital announced on Friday that it is collaborating with British independent game developer Mediatonic to publish an English remake of Hato Moa's Hatoful Boyfriend (Hatoful Kareshi, literally 'Pigeon-ful Boyfriend') dating simulation game this summer. The game will be released digitally in English for Mac and Windows PC. A playable version will be available at next week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) convention by appointment.
The original otome game (romance games for female players) began as an April Fool's joke that inspired a free downloadable version in July 2011. A Hatoful Kareshi Plus updated release launched in August 2011, and a full version of the game was released in October 2011. Hato Moa released an official English patch for the game translated by Nazerine in 2012. The Hatoful Kareshi HolidayStarsequel debuted in December 2011.
In the game, the player is a human female who is seeking to fall in love with a pigeon at a school for gifted birds. The game features portraits of every bird that suggest what they would look like in human form.
The original game's cast includes:
Sakuya Le Bel Shirogane (Akira Ishida), a pompous and prideful bird of French nobility.
Kazuaki Nanaki (Hiroshi Kamiya), the protagonist's homeroom teacher who is more than just a little bit spacey.
Nageki Fuji (Mitsuki Saiga), a mourning dove whose first name literally means 'mourning.' A loner who spends most of his time reading books with one wing.
Yūya Sakazaki (Koji Yusa), a separated half-brother of Sakuya. The rumors say that he's quite the playboy (playbird).
Shuu Iwamine (Takehito Koyasu), the chukar partridge doctor at the infirmary. He's been seen asking his pupils to give him various body parts for his experiments.
Okosan (Norio Wakamoto), a strange pigeon that often speaks gibberish. He is apparently on a quest for pudding, but according to rumors, the pudding he seeks is not just any common dessert.
Hato Moa released three Hatoful Boyfriend drama CDs between 2011 and 2012. A manga adaptation launched as a webcomic in 2012, and publisher Takeshobo released a compiled book volume in 2013.
This year's E3 convention will be held in Los Angeles from June 10 to June 12.
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Ignore the tsunami of video game hype about to rush out of E3 -- no matter what Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo have to offer, nothing will compare to the flight of fancy that is Hatoful Boyfriend. After all, will Halo 5 let you pursue romance with pigeons?
Developer Mediatonic is releasing an upgraded version of the world's first, best, and only pigeon-centric dating sim for PC and Mac. Hatoful Boyfriend -- a pun on 'heartful' and Hato Moa, the developer -- is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a Japanese game.
It's a brilliantly absurd visual novel, where you play the only human student at St PigeoNation Academy, an elite school for birds.