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I'm not entirely sure playing all those routes was worth the price of admission, but BBL once I got to it, was very good and very suspenseful. Nearly all the birds' backstories (except Azami's) come into play in BBL, which is why it's necessary to play most of their routes to unlock it, and this second half of the game would not work if the player wasn't aware of them. The BBL route (I've seen it called Bad Boys Love and Bad Boy's Love, neither of which are used by the game itself) was more interesting to me because it's a single storyline played over the course of a few hours that delves into the backstory of the humans vs birds conflict as well as mysteriously trapping most of our cast inside their school. It also helps that the translation is funny and doesn't take itself too seriously. The romance options might be birds, pigeons or otherwise, but they're all vastly different from each other. Individually you might find one of the eccentric ones in another game, but HatoFul Boyfriend has all of them.

Though the romances are short and fairly tropey, the game takes the everything including the kitchen sink approach, so even if we have the devoted childhood friend and the pompous rich guy, we also have a student who's a secret agent, a ghost, and a pigeon who lives in a delusion thinking he's the hero of an RPG. It's for those reasons I relied on a walkthrough, and thankfully the routes are short enough that I could do two or three in a sitting.

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Some characters require player stats to be at a certain level for their full endings, but it's not possible to know which is best until it's too late to make a difference. Oftentimes the player is confronted with a choice of where they'd like to spend their time, and there will be birds at those locations, but there's no way to know ahead of time that Ryouta will be in the cafe or Yuuya in the infirmary until the player actually goes there. With nine birds, that's a lot romancing if you want to see everything, and it's not all that straightforward. There's really a lot more to Hatoful Boyfriend than romancing birds!īut you have to go through most of the romances to unlock the BBL route, and you have to go through all of them (sometimes twice if they have multiple endings) if you want the epilogue to BBL. She's also an experiment set up to fail as the birds financially responsible for running the school actually want a war between birds and humans so they have cause to wipe out what's left of humanity. Hiyoko being allowed into the prestigious all-pigeon high school is supposed to be an experiment in whether humans and birds can truly get along (and if she doesn't find a love interest, then the bad ending plays, which results in the experiment being called a failure and Hiyoko is killed). (Oddly enough, and it's commented on, the sentient birds of the game have patterned a lot of their society off of humans, so they have things like high schools and school sporting events like the three-legged race that are so much worse for birds than humans.)Īs you go through some of the routes, we learn more about the history of humans and birds, and that some birds aren't comfortable with the remaining humans.

She also lives in a cave, making it clear that her life isn't close to the present day human lifestyle we enjoy, and the birds currently participate in. The teenage player character, default name Hiyoko, is a hunter gatherer and she even makes a reference to having hunted for her breakfast before the first day of class. There are clues throughout the game that the world is our own, but set in the future after most of humanity has been wiped out. This time, armed with a walkthrough, I went through all endings to unlock the Bad Boys Love route and see the craziest part of what most people call a 'pigeon dating simulator.'Īnd it's really not that you're falling in love with pigeons. Annoyed, I shelved it as done without bothering to play the rest of the game.īut, one of my friends is a big Hatoful Boyfriend fan and I knew that there was a lot of the game I was missing, so I decided to go back and give it another shot. I actually marked Hatoful Boyfriend off as completed back in 2015 because I tried it, got a ending that wasn't the bad one, and then due to the completely arbitrary nature of some of choices (including stat raising), I ended up getting the same ending for my second playthrough even though I was aiming for different birds.

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