By Craig Pearson on February 15th, 2012 at 1:58 pm.
This could only be better if it was a secret game from Valve and Bioware, but there’s very little proof that either of them have anything to do with Hatoful Boyfriend, a game about the complex relationships of pigeons in a boarding school. Haughty doves sneer at lowly sky-rats at St. Pigeonation Institute in this Japanese interactive novel. About pigeons. You might have tried the demo that Alec gesticulated towards a few months ago, but now the the full, official English translation is out, for $5.35.
Here’s rubbish English translation that we fell in dove with a few months ago. Doo you dare?
15/02/2012 at 14:02 Zepp says:
I prefer dating crippled girls. Too bad it makes me mentally crushed . :( Happy single day btw.
15/02/2012 at 20:18 pl4t0 says:
Right there with you. A shame this site had to push that one under the rug so quickly.
15/02/2012 at 23:59 MadTinkerer says:
Every time I realize once again that Hatoful Boyfriend is a thing that actually exists, I suspect that it was made just so that Kawata Shojo would look less strange by comparison.
16/02/2012 at 00:02 lurkalisk says:
Somehow, to me, it only makes KS look weirder.
I’m not sure what that says about either, or myself…
15/02/2012 at 14:02 Meat Circus says:
I don’t think I could coop with too many pigeon puns.
15/02/2012 at 14:06 wcq says:
What are you raven about?
15/02/2012 at 14:08 InternetBatman says:
I liked it. I dove right in.
15/02/2012 at 14:08 apocraphyn says:
You guys are clucking mad, I swear.
15/02/2012 at 14:14 Jams O'Donnell says:
I really wish Mrs Jams hadn’t spotted this game as I’m totally going to get collared into playing this. I’m going to be all red-eyed from staying up playing a silly dating game because she only wants to play peaceful games, which always leaves me mourning for some slaugher. Even when we’re playing Civ 4 if I pick Inca she’s still all pacific. It’s not a laughing matter — I want to rock the destruction.
15/02/2012 at 14:16 Sarlix says:
Alright, no need to flap about it.
15/02/2012 at 14:18 torchedEARTH says:
Duck everyone, before there is a Greater Flameback.
15/02/2012 at 14:25 iGark says:
I normally don’t like bird games, but I liked this swan.
15/02/2012 at 14:25 Grim_22 says:
Puns aside, this game does seem to be a hoot.
15/02/2012 at 14:32 Vjaas says:
What’s all the roockoos about bird puns? Peckin’ up on these is a sure way to get the (motorically challenged) chicks. Especially when they are grainy and fowl as the ones I see here on RPS.
15/02/2012 at 14:37 McDan says:
Imagine you could marry one in the game! What would the hen party be like eh?
Also obligatory fat bird: Ho Ho Ho.
15/02/2012 at 14:58 Man Raised by Puffins says:
@ Jams: Grow some bolles man. Just take stock, palm ‘er off with some rufous bouquet and namaqua wine, then indulge in your barbary pursuits.
15/02/2012 at 15:17 Hoaxfish says:
This game couldn’t bee any more about birds I tell you!
15/02/2012 at 15:28 Lambchops says:
In lieu of a pun have this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz6iENNnf08
15/02/2012 at 16:27 grundus says:
But do you get to see any tits? (Did that really take 15 comments, or was it just too easy?)
16/02/2012 at 01:33 corinoco says:
A game about pigeons trying to date a cockatoo? Owl be staying away from that one; you’d have to be a drongo to be interested in it!
Sounds eggsactly like the kind of weird game Japan hatches all the time – there seems to have been quite a crop of them lately.
15/02/2012 at 14:07 InternetBatman says:
I hope there’s a pigeon named noodle. It’s the perfect pigeon name. All pigeon names should have a oo in them so they can say their own name.
15/02/2012 at 15:56 Noodlemonk says:
I’d wish I was a pigeon :-(
15/02/2012 at 14:19 Sarlix says:
Anyone of similar age remember watching Pigeon Street?
15/02/2012 at 14:27 Elltot says:
Indeed, one of the classic 80′s pigeon based tv series.
I personally preferred Geordie Racer.
15/02/2012 at 14:31 Sarlix says:
Holy crap I had totally forgotten about Geordie Racer!
15/02/2012 at 15:36 Apples says:
Did anyone else read the LP that got posted in the last comments section about this game? It’s so much weirder than you would expect even given the premise. Kind of a shame that it didn’t get as much attention as Katawa Shoujo (although there is some weird fanart out there) but then, the subject matter isn’t as controversial.
15/02/2012 at 17:45 MondSemmel says:
I did. It was spectacular. I only read up to the doctor ending, but still. A masterpiece.
15/02/2012 at 18:46 PleasingFungus says:
I read that too. Fantastic. A masterpiece of bird-dating literature.
15/02/2012 at 15:49 Jupiah says:
I least it doesn’t have any creepy, awkward sex scenes…
… please tell me it doesn’t have any sex scenes.
15/02/2012 at 16:27 Apples says:
(SPOILERS)
I didn’t see any sex scenes but there are a lot of scenes where you get murdered. By birds. You decide if that’s better or worse!
15/02/2012 at 18:52 Synesthesia says:
*inevitable co-op pun here.*
15/02/2012 at 21:05 McCool says:
About bloody time this appeared on RPS. Unless its already been on. In which case, about bloody time this appeared on RPS again!
JOURNALISM
16/02/2012 at 01:18 mingmm says:
http://ppt。cc/7mA7
16/02/2012 at 02:09 dfhfdh says:
http://is。gd/ZblC2s
16/02/2012 at 04:25 Melf_Himself says:
I finished reading all my unread RPS posts yesterday. Today, around 15 hours later, I find 14 unread posts in my RPS feed.
Do we really need to hear about every single game that gets released? Pigeons for crying out loud. Stop filling up my inbox RPS, you’re not Kotaku, and that’s why I stay subscribed to you :(