The first part of the game takes no mercy in throwing a ton of characters at you right away, many of which will serve as your romantic marks throughout the visual novel. This is just one of the many “What the hell is going on here?” moments players will experience in Hatoful Boyfriend. Why would a human choose a high school filled with sapient birds? Well… they are gifted birds, if that helps at all… okay, it doesn't really help at all. So it goes to figure that you, as the female player-character, are also a bird, right? Not so fast. Your player-character is, indeed, female, and yes, you need to romance one of several males in the game. It's at this juncture that I should point out that Hatoful Boyfriend is not your average otome game. Hatoful Boyfriend is a port of a 2011 PC/Mac game which the Japanese categorize as otome, which describes games primarily targeted toward a female audience, usually with one of the goals being to wind up in a romantic relationship with one of the male protagonists. Such is the way of true love in the game/visual novel Hatoful Boyfriend, and like this visual novel, the way of true love is just plain weird.