give me your love, you fat doctor bird
Oh hey so I haven't updated this since December.
There is a reason for this, and that it's that I have migrated to Dreamwidth. LiveJournal's commenting system is borked beyond all relief, so I packed up and left with the rest of the RP scene. I'm really surprised everyone transferred over as quickly as they did; I was expecting a lot of inertia and for the roleplaying community to get splintered between the two sites, but for the most part everyone's made the move and is happier for it. DW actually lets people know when they're doing code pushes and they tell people their plans. It's so cool.
But it's not like I actually ever post on DW. I seem to have wholeheartedly embraced Plurk as my social media drug of choice for better or worse, mostly because I feel that the kinds of things I have to say aren't really appropriate for journal format. I like to post little mini-updates , and Livejournal/Dreamwidth are much more suited for longer, less spontaneous posts and okay this tangent has gone on long enough. Anyhow, I guess I should drop everyone a line to show that I'm not dead instead of disappearing from the face of the earth in a flurry of depression and self-hatred.
So what have I been doing all this time?
Birds.
I've been doing birds.
Hatoful Boyfriend is a bird dating sim. As in, actual birds. Not people. They do have human forms that you see once and only when they're introduced, but that's more for helping the fanart along than anything else. The entire plot hinges on the fact they are birds. The year is 2188, and apparently due to virus machinations along the lines of what Umbrella Corporation would come up with, birds' capacity for learning and apparently sentience has developed at an incredible pace, to the point where the mayor of the city is a fucking puffin or something. I don't know. It really goes without saying that this is a Japanese game. I have no idea what drugs were consumed in the process of creating this game, but I'm sure it's the same as what the Katamari Damacy team was doing.
You are [INSERT NAME HERE], default name Tosaka Hiyoko, a hunter-gatherer girl at PigeoNation, a school for birds. She is, quite possibly, one of the most delightful protagonists in any game I've ever played. (Alan Wake comes close, and that's mostly because I found myself empathizing with what he was going through with regards to his writer's block and general dislike of other people. He was such an asshole in that game, it's hilarious.) Hiyoko is a hot-blooded barbarian who lives in a cave; wants to take over the world, whether it be by force or ruling from the shadows; and eats half-dead fried rice. Half dead fried rice.
The thing about Hatoful Boyfriend is that it's at once a parody and a celebration of dating sim games. It takes itself entirely too seriously and not seriously at all. The doctor character's theme is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The womanizer is actually a secret government agent trying to keep the Hawk political party from wiping out the humans. In one path, your romantic interest initially doesn't want to get involved with you since the difference in lifespan between you two means he'll just die in a few years. In another, you fight a JRPG final boss.
Despite all this, it's really sad how the only character I actually do want to date is one of the few that you can't.
LOOK AT HER. SHE IS PERFECTION.
EVEN THE PROTAGONIST THINKS SO.
Azami is this badass biker chick who follows traffic laws and sells takoyaki and is in love with a different bird. She swept into my life one beautiful summer and left as quickly as she came. Oh, how my heart pines for her, even as I try to repair her broken relationship with her one true love.
my god I'm swooning over a bird someone help
There's a great Let's Play thread for the demo, as well as a follow up for the full version. If you have no intention of sinking time/money/time and money into this insanity like I did, these threads are definite must-reads.
There is a reason for this, and that it's that I have migrated to Dreamwidth. LiveJournal's commenting system is borked beyond all relief, so I packed up and left with the rest of the RP scene. I'm really surprised everyone transferred over as quickly as they did; I was expecting a lot of inertia and for the roleplaying community to get splintered between the two sites, but for the most part everyone's made the move and is happier for it. DW actually lets people know when they're doing code pushes and they tell people their plans. It's so cool.
But it's not like I actually ever post on DW. I seem to have wholeheartedly embraced Plurk as my social media drug of choice for better or worse, mostly because I feel that the kinds of things I have to say aren't really appropriate for journal format. I like to post little mini-updates , and Livejournal/Dreamwidth are much more suited for longer, less spontaneous posts and okay this tangent has gone on long enough. Anyhow, I guess I should drop everyone a line to show that I'm not dead instead of disappearing from the face of the earth in a flurry of depression and self-hatred.
So what have I been doing all this time?
Birds.
I've been doing birds.
Hatoful Boyfriend is a bird dating sim. As in, actual birds. Not people. They do have human forms that you see once and only when they're introduced, but that's more for helping the fanart along than anything else. The entire plot hinges on the fact they are birds. The year is 2188, and apparently due to virus machinations along the lines of what Umbrella Corporation would come up with, birds' capacity for learning and apparently sentience has developed at an incredible pace, to the point where the mayor of the city is a fucking puffin or something. I don't know. It really goes without saying that this is a Japanese game. I have no idea what drugs were consumed in the process of creating this game, but I'm sure it's the same as what the Katamari Damacy team was doing.
You are [INSERT NAME HERE], default name Tosaka Hiyoko, a hunter-gatherer girl at PigeoNation, a school for birds. She is, quite possibly, one of the most delightful protagonists in any game I've ever played. (Alan Wake comes close, and that's mostly because I found myself empathizing with what he was going through with regards to his writer's block and general dislike of other people. He was such an asshole in that game, it's hilarious.) Hiyoko is a hot-blooded barbarian who lives in a cave; wants to take over the world, whether it be by force or ruling from the shadows; and eats half-dead fried rice. Half dead fried rice.
The thing about Hatoful Boyfriend is that it's at once a parody and a celebration of dating sim games. It takes itself entirely too seriously and not seriously at all. The doctor character's theme is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The womanizer is actually a secret government agent trying to keep the Hawk political party from wiping out the humans. In one path, your romantic interest initially doesn't want to get involved with you since the difference in lifespan between you two means he'll just die in a few years. In another, you fight a JRPG final boss.
Despite all this, it's really sad how the only character I actually do want to date is one of the few that you can't.
LOOK AT HER. SHE IS PERFECTION.
EVEN THE PROTAGONIST THINKS SO.
Azami is this badass biker chick who follows traffic laws and sells takoyaki and is in love with a different bird. She swept into my life one beautiful summer and left as quickly as she came. Oh, how my heart pines for her, even as I try to repair her broken relationship with her one true love.
my god I'm swooning over a bird someone help
There's a great Let's Play thread for the demo, as well as a follow up for the full version. If you have no intention of sinking time/money/time and money into this insanity like I did, these threads are definite must-reads.