And this was a pigeon dating game.?Īnyone else that has played this game, did you know what you were getting into? Was your experience similar? Can anyone think of another game that buried the lead so deeply that the majority of players may not ever find out that it actually exists? all of us have been through some shit together. The last time that I felt more affection or familiarity with a cast of fictional characters was Mass Effect. Being ripped out of the comfort zone and dropped into something so alien and horrifying was one of the most satisfying and mystifying experiences that I have ever had in gaming. I have never, ever had an experience like this with any game before and I think it is saintly of the Hatoful Boyfriend community to keep this a secret from the gaming public at large. It went into incredible detail about the past wars between birds and humans and several conspiracies featuring biological warfare that would have put Resident Evil to shame. It felt like I was living one of those creepypastas where the game is haunted and shows you things that you are not supposed to see. Keep in mind, I had put about 6 or 7 hours into the game so far and had no idea what was going on. My neck still hurts from the whiplash of that sudden change. Mouth agape, I was on a multi-hour long murder mystery, now playing the role of Ryouta Kawara, a rock dove that was a childhood friend of the former protagonist, trying to get to the bottom of this grisly murder. It asked me if I wished to play a normal semester or if I wanted to 'Fulfill a promise from long ago?' Obviously I chose the latter and the game continued on more or less like it normally would.Īnd then at the start of the second semester my character was found dead and hacked to pieces and a gigantic dome descended upon the school, trapping all of the birds inside. Last night, having gotten 50% of the achievements, I fired up the game with the aim of quickly getting Sakuya's extended ending when the game did something that it had never done before.

I was making a point to go down the list of achievements and collect all of the different endings. It had a subtle way of dropping hints about a slightly darker story of a post-apocalyptic world behind the sweet, innocent main story, much in the way that a lot of Adventure Time fans praise that show. Honestly, I enjoyed how honest and sweet the entire thing was. I picked it up on launch day and have been playing it on and off over the last few weeks. It made the rounds of and YouTube for a little bit, as expected, with people having a laugh at the goofy and outlandish premise, but I have not heard any discussion of it at all in mainstream games media since then. The main draw, of course, was that the characters in the game were all birds except for the protagonist, who is a human girl and the only human student at this prestigious St.

This game came out with minimal fanfare last month, a remake of a Japanese dating sim from a few years ago. I spent several hours with Hatoful Boyfriend last night and I seriously need to get something off my chest.

Hatoful boyfriend shuu good ending