It’s a bit dull, but sweet in the long run. In truth, besides being “flighty” (heh) the joke on Kazuaki is his want to keep everyone at arm’s length, and his scatter-brained sensibilities. Ace, and has a tendency to keep a professional distance from you – how tragically realistic. Kazuaki is kind, falls asleep in worse places that Portgas D. Once again, we have the option to flirt with our teacher. But Sakuya’s refusal to ‘unjerkify’ is pretty funny, and the big reveal is actually pretty charming. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stuck up unapologetically, even after you’ve won him over, Sakuya is the cold jerkwad who thinks he’s better than everyone else that somehow still earns himself fangirls. The Perfect Sakuya is an aristocrat with a lot of high expectations… and some mighty impressive plumage. Why not actually draw the birds with clothes, and allow for facial expressions? Either way, the game is still nice enough to look at. It’s part of the joke, really, to hammer in that you’re romancing birdies, but I feel like an opportunity was missed. But most of the time you’ll be seeing these lovely backgrounds with photoshopped birds on the screen, like real photos, that don’t change in the slightest. It’s a very simple, cartoon style with not a lot of shading and bright colors. The actual art, when it likes to draw, is decent stuff. Hoo boy we got ourselves a weird one today. If you want hints of how deep this rabbit hole goes, check the “archive” in game. I didn’t have the time to comb through all of it, but a reading on the site’s wiki will take you to weird places. When you do, things go from funny to dark real quick. Also, in order to see the real meat of this game, you have play almost all the routes. They range from ridiculous to insane and tend to poke fun at a variety of different VN tropes: the dangerous spy, the bad boy, the supernatural boy, etc. When you aren’t choosing electives you need to make specific choices that flag relationship moments with the birdie of your choice, which twists the story around and gives various different views of the main story going on. I recommend a walkthrough if you’re here to read and not play the guessing game because this gets very specific. Which elective you take dictates which flags will trigger and whose path you have a better chance of following. You have a Wisdom, Vitality, and Charisma stat that you increase through one of three electives. Once again, the VN operates like a mix between novel and sim game. One of these things is not like the others…. It only goes to show you that this game was meant for a console and not the PC. Thnakfully you can avoid the awful mouse controls with arrow keys and and spacebar. The hotkeys I know by instinct are gone now, left with a somewhat clunky screen where you can’t go back and you have to save before you make your choices that change the plot. We have a full-fledged game that doesn’t make use of the RenPy engine anymore, a fact which makes life easy on newbies, harder on experienced players like myself. There’s heavy science horror going on behind closed doors, and this rosy exterior is only a lie, a lie I tell you! The humor here, as glorious as it is, also hides a rather serious story with some very dark implications. That danger comes from Hiyoko, who’s a human liaison to see if birdies and humans can coexist in this post-apocalyptic world. Here your goal is to survive three terms in an all male bird school, where danger lurks around every corner. You are a human – a hunter-gather, hominid, living-in-a-cave human – who by some complicate happenstance gets to attend the prestigious St. The world has ended (surprise surprise) and birds have now reached the same level of intelligence as humans. Had to borrow from the wiki on this one, because I didn’t have the time to carve through the whole story of this game. Skip the final verdict if you’d rather play the game yourself. This parodic Visual Novel takes fans on a journey into a pigeon-based dating sim, where their favorite tropes are taken to the extreme and the story goes from kooky to dark in record time.Īlso, possible spoilers. The good news is that the best, and funniest, parodies come from a place of love, so best course of action is often to laugh alongside the rest of us.Įnter Hatoful Boyfriend, living proof that VN’s, and Otome in general, like to repeat themselves. If you gain enough publicity you will find a crowd ready to expose your flaws and make the whole world laugh at you. ![]() No creation, no medium with an ounce of popularity will escape the squeezing, wrenching, occasionally awful shadow that is parody.
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