5 teenagers carving a chicken :( I couldnt put the gloves on bc my nails are too long. anyways call that bird sakazaki yuuya the way it only lives twice
I did not receive any roses today </3 or beans but look!!!!!
Hi hello I see you hatoful boyfriend posting and would love to hear your favorite wild thing about that game (I have only ever seen people stream it and know very little and love hearing the wild bits)
oh jeez. ok. i hope you're ready for a wild ride. Hatoful Boyfriend spoilers under the cut, as well as some.... screenshots
im a depraved little freak so im a sucker for the True Ending. Prior to the True Ending, its a (fairly) normal dating sim But With Birds, including school festivals, class hikes, and Legumentine's Day (where you can buy seeds for the birdie of your affections). in the true ending, the player character is straight up killed halfway through the school year and the POV flips to the boyfriend birds trying to solve the murder in one of the wildest tonal shifts i have ever seen in video games.
while this is going on, the bird school goes into lockdown because the Player Character was the only human at bird school and the humans see her death as a threat (there's this whole thing about the bird/human war that only just ended) (the birds won). listen. listen. You, The Player Character, were Dismembered, and your body parts scattered through the school. In A Bird Dating Simulator. its such a wild left turn from the rest of the game which was fairly normal, as far as the game could be. the boyfriend birds are stalked through the locked down school by a bleeding scarecrow monster.
Apart from the True Ending, which takes about 4x as long to complete as any of the other routes, the other routes are... pretty wild in their own right. here's some screenshots from the normal routes.
and aside from THESE, just... the sheer amount of worldbuilding that went into Hatoful Boyfriend. On the surface it seems like a goofy dating sim (and to a degree, it is!! there are some genuinely cute moments!!) but just under the surface is a story about a bird flu vaccine gone wrong, birds gaining sapience, a war (that, again, the humans lost), tensions between the species, war crimes... its insane how much detail there is about a silly game about going to Bird School, Which Is For Birds.
there is also a lady birdie who rides a motorcycle. The motorcycle is not bird-sized. she also drives at 2 miles per hour because she takes road safety extremely seriously. im sorry if this is incoherent but thats just how this game is. it's 99 cents on Steam right now. im begging you all to purchase it and see what i mean
my one legumentines- i mean valentine’s request is for someone to edit a picture of a box of chocolates except all the chocolates are shuus please god it’s all i want
once you finish hurtful boyfriend you can't even replay the otome version normally because the school cafeteria contains the bodies of students murdered by the doctor, sakuya's casual racism and disdain for his "half-breed" brother takes a really ironic twist and the entire premise of the human girl going to bird school is part of a government scheme to start another avian/human war. but it's legumentine's today!
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for those who do not know, Hatoful Boyfriend is an avian pigeon dating simulator. for those who think it’s just a joke PLAY IT. you will not be disappointed. Unironically my favourite game i have played in the year 2022.