Comments on: Japanese Game Lets You Date an Alpaca

By: Bifurious

Bifurious — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:09:00 +0000

I work around alpacas a lot as my father is an alpaca/sheep shearer. Not only would I NOT date one I hardly want to go near them, they’re horrible, they spit your stomach contents at them as a defence mechanism and their wool/hair is worth nothing in my country.

By: foozlesprite

foozlesprite — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:11:00 +0000

I actually played Hatoful boyfriend since there’s an English version and I love bizarre things. It was a bit repetitive to play through and get all the endings, but the story gets ridiculously in-depth in the final few playthroughs and you find out that there’s some dark stuff going on behind the scenes. It’s not all cute pigeon boyfriends like first advertised =P Still, it was decent for the price, and I laughed my butt off.

By: Gerran Coppin

Gerran Coppin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:01:00 +0000

Thanks to Tumblr, and now Tofugu) I can now decently one-up my friends on obscure dating sims! <3

By: Shollum

Shollum — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:02:00 +0000

I’ve never seen it put that way before, I guess they were just being different… Don’t ask why I’m so confident about my sample size…

By: Eth McCoy

Eth McCoy — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:53:00 +0000

Took me a while to realise the use of katakana in the words in the pigeon game paragraph.
I got confused when you said ハート was japanese for ‘heart’, I was thinking, “isn’t it 心?”.
It seems to me they might be poking some light hearted fun at english words.

By: Phil McCauley

Phil McCauley — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

It is indeed this, she gets very flustered after having to talk in front of a large crowd. Erm, don’t ask me how I know this.

As for why Hiragana instead of Katakana, it’s probably just that the game is pretending she’s Obama. So as she’d be the one who made up the phrase, it’d be Japanese in origin, therefore Hiragana. :P