![]() The story can get touching at times, and there’s surprisingly heavy subject material under the colorful surface. The childhood friend, the boy with a dark past, the contemplative but absent-minded professor… each hits their standard notes, but does so in a way that I didn’t exactly mind treading old ground. ![]() It’s safe to say that Hatoful Boyfriend covers the bases of every romantic route common to the genre, but it does so in a way that’s both reverent of the medium and happy to poke fun at itself. Will you spend time with the shy bookworm in the library, who seems to be all but invisible to the rest of the academy? Or are you more into pompous, boisterous pigeons, born into the life of a rich aristocrat, whose destiny is surely set and looming ever closer? Maybe you should just hang out with San, the only pigeon without a corresponding human portrait, whose obsession with pudding and athleticism makes for one of the wildest routes in the game. Who you spend time with will directly influence whose affection you gain, and each of the different birds has a very different story to tell. While already a strange premise to start, Hatoful Boyfriend amps up the crazy and touches on every genre trope imaginable over the course of its many, many routes. Each character gets a human portrait alongside their actual pigeon body.
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