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There is a good cast of characters, all with their own personality, ranging from the loyal Ryouta, to the stuck up Sakuya, to the crazy San. The simplicity also shines through in its plot.

This may sound a little too simple, but Hatoful Boyfriend’s strengths lie in how simple everything is. The visual style is also reminiscent of other independent VNs, with little visual feedback on what is happening outside of having a static portrait of the character you’re talking to, amongst a static background illustrating where the scene takes place.

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The gameplay is similar to other visual novels where the only interaction the player has is to advance the text and choose how to branch the plot at set points. PigeoNations school, a high school for birds in a world where humans are scarce and birds have a human level of intelligence. It stars you as the main character, a girl who goes to St. Hatoful Boyfriend is the rerelease or “HD versio n” of a visual novel by Japanese Dōjin group Pigeonation Inc.

I had heard of this Japanese Pigeon Date-em-up before last year when the initial freeware version started to get some buzz in the west, but it wasn’t until the surprise rerelease from Devolver Digital and Mediatonic that I’d actually been interested in checking it out. Outside of the antics that happen in the Ace Attorney series, I’ve only experienced the psychological pseudoscience thrills that the Zero Escape series provides, which is why I was really surprised by Hatoful Boyfriend. Visual Novels are a thing that I’m relatively new to.

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