Hello everyone! This is my first attempt at a walkthrough, so please bear with me if there are any mistakes/issues! This walkthrough will be based on my playing of the Steam (PC) release of Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star- Dove, Actually Edition in English. Barring the issue I had with the music or lack thereof, hearing Christmassy tunes with everybirdie was great.WingedAsarath’s Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star Walkthrough Without spoiling the story locations, it really feels like the production values for the art have gone up here. The visuals are great across the board with beautiful hand painted visuals in some of the scenes. #Hatoful boyfriend holiday star steam seriesI hope MediaTonic patches out the music issues and the bugs because this series deserves better than to be criticised for something so fixable. This second bug was present in the original as well and it baffles me that it has made its way to the sequel. There’s also a bug I ran into where the screen goes blank whenever I got a Steam alert. I’m not sure if this is a bug or intentional but I do not like it at all. There are many sections in Holiday Star with absolutely no audio at all. Hatoful Boyfriend is not voiced and the character music or background music in scenes play an important job in developing the characters personalities as a result. One of my other big complaints with it is the lack of background music during many scenes. The short stories are fairly long as well and to go through, and it’s impressive that these “extras” come in to about half the total content offered in the main game.įor all its sense of fun, Holiday Star is also fairly linear for a visual novel and this is quite disappointing coming from the original. The radio episodes deal with questions and answers for characters giving you more back story and I’d recommend this after completing the main story. Beyond the game you’ll also unlock six short stories and have access to six radio episodes as well. But for the darker edge it sometimes takes, one of the things I enjoyed most about Hatoful Boyfriend Holiday Star is how little the game takes itself seriously even in those moments. There are also some nice references to other games and franchises (notably for me, Ace Attorney) thrown in as well. There is light hearted, comedic moments, but at the same time, there is also that dark edge that made the original game such a delightful surprise. While the story is not of the same quality as the true ending route of the original, I enjoyed it a lot as a fan of the original. Pigeonation’s Institute a school designed to bring people and birds together into a harmonious community. In the game, you’re still playing as a human, Hiyoko Tosaka, who is at St. Each of these chapters varies in length and I managed completing the main story in around eight hours going through every ending, which is not bad for a visual novel. As a visual novel, Holiday Star’s main story is split up into four chapters. Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star does a great job of reminding me why I enjoyed the original so much and introducing a few new characters and giving others more back story. Related reading: You can check out Matt’s review of the original game here. The sequel, Holiday Star, is a new game set in the same world in which the events of that true ending do not take place. Hatful Boyfriend dealt with dark themes and emotions once you got past the initial silliness and delved into the “true” narrative path and end. When I played Hatoful Boyfriend last year, I didn’t really expect to get attached to the characters because it was marketed as a light hearted visual novel.
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