Hello and welcome.

Myself and @no0b0rama (co-creator's of Giant Bomb's Guild Wars 2 Podcast - The Lincolncast) found ourselves having time to spare on a long weekend and decided to play an obscure Japanese video game. But, considering we live on opposite sides of the globe and neither of us have particularly good connections, options for that video game became limited to "err - a visual novel? Lag wouldn't matter so much then, right?"

And which visual novel did we pick? Why, this one. I cannot remotely voice our thought process on the matter, but there it is.

So - if you want to watch two people sit down and play Hatoful Boyfriend, a Pigeon dating simulator, now is your chance. We recorded it for our fellow GB members and our podcast listeners - do enjoy!

Episode 1:

And you can see the whole run thus far (ie, the first 8 episodes),

Here.

Oh my God this looks amazing.

I'm pretty sure this might count as YouTube spam, but thank you for showing me this game.

Yeah, I was worried about that - but I'll leave it to the mods to decide. I don't mind either way, but the game is definitely something to behold - so it was worth the effort of making a post at least.

Pigeon dating?

Anybirdie?

What?

From what I understand you are the only human girl in a school full of male birds? What is this?

Ohh, I still need to buy this. Increasing awareness of this game can only be a good thing, so good work!

Correct! And human-pigeon love ensues

I've seen stranger.

What the ... ahahaha. This can only bring about great things.

didn't Paca Plus get a sequel or am I thinking of something else?

I played this game not too long ago (wrote about it on my blog last week, actually). It's pretty weird and awesome.

Okosan is the best pigeon.

Hardly obscure. Pretty well known by VN standards.

@ravenlight: Pretty well known by VN standards is generally known as obscure. Which is too bad.

St. PigeoNation's Institute.

Goddammit, Japan. You win this round.