Bird 10/10

There's only one question you should ask yourself before buying this game: did you enjoy Hatoful Boyfriend? If so, buy it immediatly: it's way shorter and has no branching routes, but all the cast you grew attached to is back (with some nice new characters) and it's full of high quality fan-service (I know it sounds like an oxymoron...). The advantage of not having branching routes is that contrary to the first one, you're playing many short stories instead of playing the same story over and over again with every birds (apart from the BBL route, that is). Also, there is a lot of meta humor. Awesome.

If you didn't play the first one, then 1) what are you doing on this store page? This game will be of no interest to you and 2) GO PLAY THE FIRST ONE IT'S A MASTERPIECE, AND I DON'T SAY THAT LIGHTLY!!!!

Maybe you just didn't enjoy the first one. Then let me repeat myself: 1) What are you doing on this story page? and 2) GO PLAY THE FIRST ONE AGAIN UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND HOW OF A MASTERPIECE IT IS (and if you don't succeed, then I'm sorry to bring it up to you but you have bad taste and/or bad judgment).

do you like christmas and suffering? because if so, this is the game for you. i only cried like 15 times.

love these birds.

Wanted to spend holidays with bird boyfriends. Ended up with more feels and psychological scarring. 11/10

• Seeing more of your favorite bird husbandos
  
• More birds to meet
  
• Will still make you cry

• Less polished than the first game
  
• Choices are either a game over or progression and unless you saved recently, you have to fast-forward for a LONG time

I personally still really enjoyed it, even with some complaints. I definitely believe you should play the first game first.
I recommend it, but probably on a sale.

Finally a christmas game that recognizes the timeless christmas tradition of mowing down large buildings with a tank.

I loved this, but would not recommend unless you've played the first game, and know the material to some extent beforehand. Though you don't really need to have done the BBL route to play this.

This has a really interesting format, in that playing different sections unlocks more sections and sort of mini-bonus stories. But there's not as much choice as there was in the first game, and where you do have a choice... picking the wrong one usually just results in a game over, rather than something interesting. You'll usually get a bit of funny dialogue for your trouble though.

There can never be enough birds.
Shuu is best bird.

For the ones who already played Hatoful Boyfriend, enjoyed it through its genuine absurdity and mind-wrecking revelation that takes place during the BBL route, Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star is the collection of some side stories hailing from an alternative universe where BBL route never took place. The game serves to be both some ridiculous fan service and some fourth wall breaking story interaction. For the ones who are yet to play the original game: drop this supplement and play Hatoful Boyfriend immediately to avoid spoilers!

In the Holiday Star continuation, the shocking yet gruesome BBL route never occurred. All students of St. Pigeonations live happily and obliviously, approaching the end of yet another school year. Here around this time, we observe a series of short side stories from our usual heroes' daily encounters that will enrich both character backgrounds and answer some questions unanswered in the original game. Aside a handful of irrelevant comical situations Holiday Star also includes one genuine storyline which would foreshadow the events of BBL route and introduce unnerving new characters: The Day the Night Slept. Even for that story alone, you are in for a treat everybirdie!

Gameplay is not that different from the original. You are Hiyoko Tosaka, the young human girl who attends St. Pigeonations alongside her bird class mates and teachers who will witness casual - and not so casual - random ongoing in and about the school. This time, gameplay is fairly straight forward with little to no choice options at all. As I described before, Holiday Star is more of a supplement to the original rather than a stand-alone game. It consists of 4 storylines, 6 short chapters and a fairly interesting radio program section where Ryouta will answer fan mails.

It's cute and short - aside The Day the Night Sleeps storyline, which is heart and mind-wrecking as expected from any game coming from Hatoful universe. I sincerely recommend the experience to the fans of the series, and the ones who'd still have some questions within their minds after completing BBL route.

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There's Shuu.
10/10