Well, this is interesting. Mediatronic and Devolver Digital are releasing Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star, a sequel to "the greatest avian romance simulator of all time", or so says the press release they sent us, laced with bird-related puns. I'll let you read it for yourself:
Ornithological gamers are all aflutter with the news that developer Mediatonic (Amateur Surgeon, Foul Play) and bird-brained publisher Devolver Digital will release Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star on PlayStation 4, PlayStation, Vita and PC this fall. The remastered sequel to everyone’s favorite bird dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend will come with spruced up visuals and all the bells and whistles (and chirps) a bird lover could ever want.
Hatoful Boyfriend fans will travel to fantastically styled worlds, meet interesting new chickadees, and find romance in elegantly designed winter wonderlands and a new mysterious watercolor world. Dust the snow off your wings and take flight with both familiar faces and new friends in extraordinary adventures hatched from the whimsical mind of the series creator Hato Moa and developer Mediatonic!
Hatoful Boyfriend fans will travel to fantastically styled worlds, meet interesting new chickadees, and find romance in elegantly designed winter wonderlands and a new mysterious watercolor world. Dust the snow off your wings and take flight with both familiar faces and new friends in extraordinary adventures hatched from the whimsical mind of the series creator Hato Moa and developer Mediatonic!
Devolver Digital CEO Fork Parker had this to add: “While we would have loved to create an all-new franchise with our friends at Mediatonic, investing $350,000 in bird motion capture gear limits our options." Haha.
The original Hatoful Boyfriend is available now on Steam for $9.99, with an expanded PlayStation 4 and Vita version set to arrive this summer. For more information check out www.devolverdigital.com or, as Devolver suggests, "start chatting up some local birds just to see what’s up".
Check out the screenshots below.
