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Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel where you checks notes date pigeons.
Wait, don’t leave! This game is worth your time, and I’ll tell you why.
As mentioned, this game is a visual novel where you date pigeons as a human high school girl. It’s honestly one of the most unique setups for a game I’ve ever seen.
You’ll meet many pigeons, each with their own routes. Each route can be completed in about 2 hours, and even less once you’ve played the first two and can skip the initial setup. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of overlap in the routes, and the way the game is set up makes it difficult to revert to saves easily, as free period classes change things just enough to break that method. That said, the game is short enough, but I recommend using a guide to get all the routes.
You might be tempted, as I was, to just play one or two routes, but hear me out—play them all. When you do, you get access to a final route that makes it all worth it. The length of this final route, the payoff, and the knowledge of the previous routes all come together nicely to create what I honestly feel is a route that I never expected to be as good, considering the routes before it. Because of this, the game is one of those “play for X until it gets good” types. That isn’t to say it’s not good up until that point, but I wish the final route was how the rest of the game was.
Overall, I am very glad I played this. I was far more surprised than I expected, given the game’s setting and premise. Definitely a “don’t judge a book by its cover” type of game.