Just some Christmas gags and holiday cheer, with enough in-jokes and references to keep the Hatoful faithful satiated. It’s purely more pigeon stories set in the universe of Hatoful Boyfriend, but you never really get the same twists and turns that happen in some of the main routes of the original game. It’s enjoyable at times, and certainly gives you more of the same, but fails to do anything above or beyond that. The best parts of this title are when they’re humorous and filled with holiday cheer, but it’s when the genuine laughs fade there’s a few problems that become fairly transparent. There’s even a few Phoenix Wright references, which made me laugh a bit more than I thought they could have. The writing is goofy and reminiscent of Hatoful Boyfriend, but with a little more emphasis on the zany over the “this will mean something at some point.” There’s tanks, lab experiments, epic showdowns and the typical cross-dressing pigeon segment. In another, broody bad-pigeon Anghel returns for a darker Christmas story. In one, strange human-pigeon hybrids are ransacking the town for Christmas presents. They act more like vignettes, offering different perspectives and side-stories of potential Christmas tales. There are once again several routes through the game, though they’re not related to any specific bird-boyfriend and so far don’t seem to lead to an ultimate path. Holiday Star comes off as less of a sequel and more like fan service, with the commentary and parody ditched in exchange for more lighthearted “meme” humor. That ends up reflecting my feelings on Holiday Star, which through two routes in and more to go has failed to grab me in the same way the prior game did. It’s difficult to place exactly where, when or why most of this happens outside of it being the Christmas of Hiyoko’s second year at St. It doesn’t follow any set canonical path, and does away with most of the “true route” revelations that happened in the first title, though not completely. Holiday Star is the sequel to Hatoful Boyfriend, though that seems like a bit of a misnomer. It was one of the more outlandish but memorable experiences I’ve had with the genre. Both a silly tale of a human girl going to school with, and consequently falling in love with, pigeons, and a striking commentary on visual novels as a whole, it managed to parody many aspects of the genre while still creating a tale uniquely its own. In this mode, the protagonist receives dark visions, and deeper explores the conflicted relationship between birds and humans.Hatoful Boyfriend was one of the stranger games I played this year. This mode reinvents the plot with a horror twist. After the player discovers the certain four endings, the Bad Boys Love mode is unlocked. The game has thirteen endings that depend on the choices made by the protagonist. The game rewards multiple playthroughs by unlocking documents that reveal more of the game's world and plot. Some of the options require the main character to have certain stats. The player interacts with the characters mostly by clicking on dialogue options. Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel and therefore has minimal gameplay. She befriends several of her co-students and can become their romantic interest, despite being a member of another species. She is the only human student who was allowed to study at the institute run by the pigeons. The player assumes the role of a teenage human girl. The few remaining humans survive in the wilderness as hunters and gatherers. They established a new civilization on the ruins of their human predecessors. In a twist similar to Planet of the Apes film series, a pandemic killed most of the humans and transformed birds into sentient beings. The game is set in a weird post-apocalyptic future, where the human civilization was taken over by the birds. In Hatoful Boyfriend: A School of Hope and White Wings, the player enters the world of sentient birds to romance with them.
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