“The school is Japan’s–no, the world’s greatest gathering place for gifted birds.” In fact, her home is actually a cave far away from the school, where she runs for exercise and eats udon. She is frequently called primitive and being the only human is something that is brought up frequently by the other birds and by Hiyoko herself. You have the option to name her whatever you want, but her default name is Hiyoko Tosaka. Pigeonation, a prestigious school for birds. Our story begins with the only human student at St. Note: all images are screenshots from my game. It was the best decision I made on that day, September 18th, 2014. It was only natural that I bring it into my life as quickly as possible. I bought this game knowing I was in for something absurd: a dating sim with pigeons that had many, many hilarious Steam reviews. If you’re unfamiliar with Hatoful Boyfriend (website is mostly in Japanese), know that it is a dating sim visual novel that aims to be ridiculous and exists as an affectionate parody of the genre. Experience the birdie love for yourself before reading on. I have not shied away from spoilers since I wanted to talk about the game’s full impact on me. Important note: If you have not played Hatoful Boyfriend and are planning to, do not read this post. The story of the dating simulation portion of the game follows the protagonist, and the inter-species love and hijinks-of both the mundane high school and quasi-anthropomorphic bird-specific varieties-that ensue as she draws the attention of and attempts to romance one of a number of eligible birds she comes in contact with over the course of the year.Can anybirdie find me somebirdie to love? PigeoNation's, the protagonist has grown accustomed to the confusion of being the only human in a school full of birds, and is looking forward to her sophomore year. After a hectic and surreal freshman year of attendance at St. PigeoNation's Institute, starts her second year of high school. The events of Hatoful Boyfriend begin in the year 2188, when the protagonist, a teenage human girl invited to attend the prestigious bird-only St. By the time Hatoful Boyfriend 's narrative begins, the Dove Party, the Hawk Party, and their respective schools of thought dominate much of the world's politics. In a more grim case, the terms war dove and war hawk have been re-purposed as labels for two opposing political factions divided over the ongoing mutual hostility between birds and the human minority: the altruistic Dove Party, who advocate for cooperation and peace between the two groups, and the militant Hawk Party, whose goal is to exterminate humanity altogether. Society has adjusted to the avian conquest, though with minor bird-related cultural changes-for example, while some holidays such as Christmas and Tanabata are celebrated much as they are in the present day, a major event in the game is Legumentine's Day, an amalgamation of the traditions of Valentine's Day and Setsubun. PigeoNation's Institute (聖ピジョネイション学園 Sei Pijoneishon Gakuen?)-a bird-only high school located in the fictional Japanese town of Littledove Hachiman City (小鳩八幡市 Kobato Hachiman-shi?)-long after open warfare between humans and birds has ended. The game's story takes place primarily at St. Following several terrorist attacks by a human insurgency, all remaining humans have been forced to live in the wilderness away from civilization in a form of apartheid-like segregation. War soon breaks out between the newly uplifted birds and the remnants of humanity, resulting in birds emerging as the planet's new dominant lifeforms as humans continued to succumb to the disease. The release of a counter-virus, cultivated to destroy the virus' avian carriers in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of the disease, ends up backfiring as birds who resisted the counter-virus instead developed human-level intelligence. In Bad Boys Love, it is revealed that Hatoful is set in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian future-in which a pandemic of a deadly, mutated strain of the H5N1 virus, or bird flu, nearly wipes out mankind in the year 2068. Hatoful Boyfriend is set in an alternate version of Earth in which sapient birds have seemingly taken the place of humans in society for reasons that are hinted at, but not fully explained in the dating simulation portion of the game.
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