Hato Moa’s oddball visual novel swoops seductively onto PlayStation next year
Hi, Stinky Beak, here introducing the amazing Hatoful Boyfriend – an amazing visual novel from Hato Moa, the creator of this gorgeous and ever so slightly nuts avian series.
Releasing on PS4 and PS Vita in the second quarter of 2015, Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel/avian dating sim.
As the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds, you will roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Finding happiness isn’t easy, but it’s not all academic – there’s always time for a little romance. Chat with birds of every feather from narcoleptic school instructors to pigeon biker gangs on your way to flirty encounters with potential suitors that set your heart aflutter. Spend time with the ones that strike your fancy and ditch the ones that prove to be a bore!
But not everything is what it seems at St. PigeoNation’s Institute. Uncover dark conspiracies, unexpected twists and hellish fiends bent on bringing on the apocalypse. Pick you dates wisely and you will flap off into the sky with your one true love. Take the wrong turn and you may well end up murdered in your bed.
So, your chance to romance with the birds, uncover dark avian conspiracies and find your one true love in one fowl swoop will soon be here.
As long as the price is fair, then its a day 1 purchase! :D
You can’t be serious.
We are looking for AAA on PSVita. xD
Hell yes. More VN’s for my Vita!
Haaaahahahahahaahahaha!!!!
I passed this on Steam, but I might check it out on the Vita if the port has correctly-sized text at least.
Wow! I’ll get this on Vita for sure! I love visual novels and I’ve heard really good things about this game.
(actually, I’ll get every visual novels you throws in Vita)
Sold
This is the second best news today.
Best news, I get my salary tomorrow :D
Guaranteed buy
Will this allow same-sex relationships?
If it’s hetero only, then it’s a no-buy. Not supporting something that doesn’t support equality.
>_>……
Yeah! Give us more option!
Now seriously, I am all for equality… but let’s not turn every game into political manifesto. If developer want to add same-sex relationships than it is 100% fine (even more than that! SUPERB), but if that’s not consistent with their artistic vision than nobody have any right to accuse anyone of not supporting equality.
What’s next? Legal obligation to include in game representation of every group in society? Maybe we should force developers to make characters for everyone:
-tall
-short
-thin
-fat
-blonde
-redhead
-black-haired
-white skinned
-black skinned
-Asians
-Inuits
-Educated
-Uneducated
-hetero~
-homosexual~
-bi~
-Christians
-Buddhists
-Muslims
That way game would be politically 100% correct… but instead of few characters we would have about 200 various characters.
I mean, equality and tolerance is very very very important! With that I agree with you with all my heart! But demanding someone to change his artistic vision just because he didn’t include some group… well… that’s going too far.
…..really….with this?
You’re just going off-piste now.
I just want the ability to engage in same-sex relationships. I don’t want to be shafted with hetero stuff all the time, plus they can appeal to a much wider range of people.
Well, it openly supports interspecies erotica. It’s catering to one minority at least.
Exaclty. But I don’t think that matters with this game…….. becasue it’s about… birds… you know..
People who keep pigeons in the UK are known as pigeon fanciers….phwoar PIGEONS!
On a different note it’s straight down birdie-ality
Seriously….
At least replace the birds with boys and girls… (._.’)
This game is stupid
As a man who is only into the loving of birds,your comment offends me.
Okay. Sorry
Didn’t know racist comments were allowed on this blog. Shame on you, bird-hater.
that’s the joke.
Wow so many Carly Simon’s posting on the blog. It seems people seem to believe every game made has to be especially for them as they are “special”
Hopefully their next title will be cat dating and that would be cool.
I hope Clannad will also come to Vita, right now SekaiProject is gathering funds for translation… but it seems that they are shifting to decision to ignore consoles :( At first they seemed kinda more likely to make Vita port :/ now… they changed their mind :(
Anyway 2015
-World End Economica
-VA-11 HALL-A
Both coming to Vita
Fate / Stay night [Realta Nua]
Fate / Hollow Ataraxia
Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate: Senkei Kousoku no Phenogram
Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling
And much more awesome VN’s…
But all we have is pigeon date-sim… Nice…
Time to start learning Japanese.
Absolutely brilliant was thinking of picking this up for the PC. If I recall he game was meant as an April Fools joke. Day 1 purchase for me though on PS4
IGN PC review. http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/05/hatoful-boyfriend-review
Is this real? This isn’t some kind of joke, right? Day 1, if the price is decent.
The game by itself is a joke
And a good one too.
xbox gets sunset overdrive and the next tomb raider….and we get this.
Exactly why I’m going to get PS4 over XB1! :P (j/k)
Okay, on a more serious note why not get an Xbox if you’re interested in its offerings? :)
Anyway, and you’re making a deliberately very selective comparison too. I can make one too:
“PS4 gets Bloodborne, Rime, Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, The Order 1886 next year… and Xbox One gets Threes next year….”
Holy damn, insta buy.
YES!
Btw, is this version gonna be voiced?
It would be hilarious if they “voiced” the cast with pigeon noises.
Wasn’t the voiced version the April Fools version? Pigeon noises would be a lot of coo coo type noises “hey baby coo coo want to share my bento with me coo coo”
@Izorpo: Could be…
But since Drama CD was fully voiced so the voice actors are known, I felt the question was in place. =D
@SatoshiOokami
I remember some video I was watching on youtube and it stating voices weren’t in the version the person was playing. I would have bought it on PC but my machine is ancient and not having another built until the new year. From the website of the creator it seemed they were trying to get the funds to make Hatoful Boyfriend 2. I’m guessing the PS4 version will be a lot more than just $5. It doesn’t matter as I think people should be paid for their creative endeavors especially when it comes to new interesting and unique games…you can’t be more original than a game that facilitates sharking on pigeons heh
I’m in!
This better be cheep or else they’ll be robin us.
Awesome. Was thinking of buying it for PC, but with it coming to PS4 and Vita, I’d rather buy it for my Vita. Hope we’ll get more visual novels in the future for the Vita.
I’m certainly hoping for DRAMAtical Murder re:connect
Cross-buy?
Chatting up the birds.. literally, LOL!
Why does this game even exist? If it’s a parody of something then I’m fine with that. But if not then why even make this game? Has it become a new trend to create stupid games or something?
I ask myself that everytime Compile Heart release a new game.
And stupid games have been around for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer%27s_Revenge
Odd one this dont really know what to think of this, i belive in the free market & diversity in games.
but i got a hunch the hands of SJWs all over this game & long last they hidden agenda has surface, this is what it likes when SJWs get their way.
i will call this get ready for more of this kind of game well im sure the SJWs are happy for this game.
there is a saying to each they own. sure people will take flight & buy it. but on the back of gamergate i have my suspicion.
Never expected to see a port of this, even less for Europe. I am certainly curious.
Day 1 buy! I bought this after the steam release after waiting on it for a while and whilst I thought the basic premise of the game was amusing, after spending some time playing it, I absolutely fell in love with the game.
It is hands down the best visual novel on steam and probably one of my favourite VNs now completely. I didn’t expect this game to have so many feels.
I remember saying that to a streamer I know recently and he said he was concerned that I said it has feels, then he finally played it and his reaction was golden. He now agrees though :P