"The world's leading romantic bird simulator series" is back this holiday season with Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star. If it seems like you've already heard this announcement years ago, it's hard to blame you. Hatoful Boyfriend has had half a dozen launches/re-launches/remakes since 2011.
Holiday Star, however, is the Holiday-themed remake (natch) of Hatoful Boyfriend, with more birdies to love in more places to love those birdies. Holiday Star has been on PC, internationally, since 2012. But the PC/OS X/Linux remake shows up on December 15, and the PS4/PS Vita remake on December 22.
Whew. Look. You already know if you're the type of person that needs to play this game. I gave it a 7.4 in my review, but, admittedly, that's from a person that knew nothing about the conventions of a typical Japanese visual novel. Even I had to admit that there was something very interesting—and altogether unexpected—threading through Hatoful Boyfriend's storyline.
Once more for clarity: The Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star remake comes out for PC on December 15, and for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on December 22. Coooo!
HATOFUL BOYFRIEND: HOLIDAY STAR ARRIVES IN THE
DARKEST TIME OF YEAR TO BRIGHTEN YOUR LIFE
- The birds are back in town December 15 on Steam, December 22 on PlayStation 4 and Vita -
The Nest – Birders at developer Mediatonic (Amateur Surgeon, Foul Play) and Audubon Society members at label Devolver Digital announced today that the next installment in the critically acclaimed Hatoful Boyfriend series, Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star, hits Steam on December 15 (http://store.steampowered.com/app/377080/) with PlayStation 4 and Vita versions launching on December 22 for $9.99.
The loveable birds of Hatoful Boyfriend are back in the remastered holiday-themed sequel Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star! Travel to fantastically styled worlds, meet interesting new chickadees, and find romance in the elegantly designed winter wonderlands. Dust the snow off your wings and take flight with familiar faces and new friends alike in extraordinary adventures hatched from the whimsical mind of the series creator Hato Moa and developer Mediatonic!
“There was this one Christmas Eve I got really drunk at the Cheesecake Factory down at the mall and made love to a waitress in Santa’s Workshop that’s across from Banana Republic,” noted Devolver Digital CFO Fork Parker. “Anyway, buy Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star.”
The original Hatoful Boyfriend is available now on Steam and PlayStation 4. For more information about the world's leading romantic bird simulator series, please visit www.devolverdigital.com or start chatting up some local birds just to see what’s up.
