Oh god, I just played Hatoful Boyfriend, and now I have to talk about it. Just a summary: It's a parody of Japanese dating sims in which all the bachelors are pigeons, but it's so well written that eventually you forget that they're pigeons and pretty soon I was bawling like a baby. It is the best dating sim that I have ever played, if not one of the best game stories I've seen.
Don't read it if you plan on getting the game, and I highly suggest you do. It's one of the best $5 I've ever spent. Here's a hilarious let's play of the demo. [http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=67529]
Don't read it if you plan on getting the game, and I highly suggest you do. It's one of the best $5 I've ever spent. Here's a hilarious let's play of the demo. [http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=67529]
The ending is bittersweet if anything, but basically to summarize: the player character dies very early on in the "real" storyline, and the rest unfolds as a murder mystery. So there is this orphan kid, Nageki, who was a carrier for a virus that killed all humans in contact with him, so the school doctor Shuu (who is evil) recruited him to do research. He got tired of being used to kill humans and he committed suicide.
Nageki's older brother Nanaki bleached his feathers out of grief and became a teacher at the school so he could wait until the perfect time to get revenge, but he's constantly haunted forever by a shadow of Nageki. Shuu wanted to preserve the virus so he injected it into the player character's childhood friend, Ryouta, who is the son of Shuu's old lover who died a long time ago.
When Ryouta was a kid, he witnessed the player character's parents get murdered in a big raid on Nageki's orphanage, and he wished to a stranger (Shuu) that humans and birds could coexist peacefully. Shuu, being some fucked up genie, became determined to fulfill that wish by completely eradicating the human race, so he plans to weaponize Ryouta. To start, he engineered it so that Ryouta killed the player character. And the player character was a government guinea pig to test if humans could peacefully coexist with birds in a high school setting, so after she died, the experiment failed and they put the entire school on lockdown. After the lockdown is over, Shuu is going to release Ryouta to infect the (apparently) forming raging mob of humans outside.
And then Nanaki finds out that Nageki is currently Ryouta's liver, and has a breakdown and almost murders Ryouta to get to it and has to be talked down by the joke character.
Meanwhile there's a bird that's a racist dickbag, Sakuya, who was indoctrinated by his father when he was young that he is a noble bird and everyone else is inferior, including his half-brother Yuuya, but he really wants to be a musician but can't because only commoners play music.
But then you find out that Sakuya's father took over Yuuya's mother's nest and ordered all her eggs from Yuuya's father to be kicked out and crushed. But Yuuya didn't want this so he saved of his brothers (Sakuya) and planted him in the nest so he could grow up to be wealthy and happy, and he destroyed the other egg. So Sakuya has a BSOD because as he just finds this out, Yuuya sacrifices himself for Sakuya from Shuu who was going to kill Sakuya because he outlived his usefulness. So the brother he's hated his entire life just saved his life for the second time and he's not really nobility.
So Nanaki shoots Shuu to death and they all escape except for Ryouta, who they leave frozen in the lab because he's a danger to society, and he'll sleep with the ghost of the player character until technology evolves enough to cure the virus from him.
Also they're pigeons.
Nageki's older brother Nanaki bleached his feathers out of grief and became a teacher at the school so he could wait until the perfect time to get revenge, but he's constantly haunted forever by a shadow of Nageki. Shuu wanted to preserve the virus so he injected it into the player character's childhood friend, Ryouta, who is the son of Shuu's old lover who died a long time ago.
When Ryouta was a kid, he witnessed the player character's parents get murdered in a big raid on Nageki's orphanage, and he wished to a stranger (Shuu) that humans and birds could coexist peacefully. Shuu, being some fucked up genie, became determined to fulfill that wish by completely eradicating the human race, so he plans to weaponize Ryouta. To start, he engineered it so that Ryouta killed the player character. And the player character was a government guinea pig to test if humans could peacefully coexist with birds in a high school setting, so after she died, the experiment failed and they put the entire school on lockdown. After the lockdown is over, Shuu is going to release Ryouta to infect the (apparently) forming raging mob of humans outside.
And then Nanaki finds out that Nageki is currently Ryouta's liver, and has a breakdown and almost murders Ryouta to get to it and has to be talked down by the joke character.
Meanwhile there's a bird that's a racist dickbag, Sakuya, who was indoctrinated by his father when he was young that he is a noble bird and everyone else is inferior, including his half-brother Yuuya, but he really wants to be a musician but can't because only commoners play music.
But then you find out that Sakuya's father took over Yuuya's mother's nest and ordered all her eggs from Yuuya's father to be kicked out and crushed. But Yuuya didn't want this so he saved of his brothers (Sakuya) and planted him in the nest so he could grow up to be wealthy and happy, and he destroyed the other egg. So Sakuya has a BSOD because as he just finds this out, Yuuya sacrifices himself for Sakuya from Shuu who was going to kill Sakuya because he outlived his usefulness. So the brother he's hated his entire life just saved his life for the second time and he's not really nobility.
So Nanaki shoots Shuu to death and they all escape except for Ryouta, who they leave frozen in the lab because he's a danger to society, and he'll sleep with the ghost of the player character until technology evolves enough to cure the virus from him.
Also they're pigeons.
