Hatoful Boyfriend is a visual novel through and through and so it’s basically a lot of stills, text and making choices along the way, but unlike conventional visual dating simulators, this one shows off feathers instead of skin. I am certain all of those votes were made ironically. In many cases what happens in Japan should stay in Japan, and I believe that it was the collective effort of neck-beard hipsters that allowed Hatoful Boyfriend to not only get translated, but somehow get enough interest and votes to make it through the Steam Greenlight process. Even from a country that gave us Cho Aniki, Hatoful Boyfriend is perhaps the most absurd idea to have ever turned into a video game. That’s how I feel about Hatoful Boyfriend, it’s a game that probably started out as a joke among friends that somehow grew into a fully realized product. When you have a running joke among friends, there’s always a situation where the joke has long run its course but no one is willing to put a stop to it because it’ll just make things awkward. The dating simulator that they ended up construing may have been bad, but at least they didn’t think that adding romantic pigeons into the mix was a good idea. From the outset they decide that creating a visual dating simulator is the best way to go because that is apparently the easiest type of video game to make.
It tells the story of two socially inept young adults that have ill-thought dreams and ambitions to become video game developers, but without putting in the real effort or acquiring the necessary skills to do so.
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Let’s talk about an anime series called Welcome to the NHK.
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