If you’re a big fan of the characters there’s also a short conversation with each individual character which you can choose to take in their bird form or as a human. Even shorter side stories also exist besides the four main ones, so you’re getting a decent amount of content, it just requires far less input from you this time around. To combat this rather than one big story there are multiple shorter stories which unlock as you complete the previous one. There are a few choices here and there but they basically equate to a fail state where you have to start over again, no real branches exist. You basically just keep pressing X until the story ends.
Rather than the interactive nature of the original where you’d get different stories based on what decisions you made, Holiday Star is barely interactive. Now semi-sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star has been released, a Christmas themed entry just at the right time of year.Īlthough it has all the same characters and is set in the same location the story of Holiday Star doesn’t really follow on from any of the original Hatoful Boyfriend threads, it reminded me of a Simpsons Halloween Special in that it’s all the characters you know but anything that happens is a side story and has little consequence, so things can get unusual (for a game about a human girl dating birds) and it doesn’t matter.
Nearly half a year ago I reviewed weird bird dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend when it was released on PS4 and PS Vita. Decemin PS4 tagged bill oddie / christmas / hatoful boyfriend / japanese / linear / weird by Gareth