The player character-whose default name is Hiyoko Tousaka-is often asked questions by those she interacts with, but instead of letting the player reply, Hiyoko answers on our behalf. The significance of these occasional decisions is marred by the fact that there is rarely any indication of which option you should choose, and it’s easy to save immediately before guessing.īut the game’s lack of interactivity is not as frustrating as finding so many missed opportunities for choices to be added, even if they were of the ‘simple and don’t really affect the story’ variety. The choices that you do get to make throughout the stories are one of two things: completely arbitrary or so important that they can prematurely end the game. While this is fine for a visual novel, this becomes a little questionable from something that also calls itself a ‘dating sim’ or-even more brazenly-an ‘adventure’ game. Across each of these narratives, there are so few instances of player interaction (beyond clicking to continue the story and entering an optional name) that I could count them on one hand. There are also four short narratives, eight even shorter ‘dates’ (where you can see the birds in ‘human form’), and a collection of radio broadcasts. Holiday Star has four main narratives, which run for approximately half an hour each. If you enjoy clicking your mouse a lot while reading a collection of strange stories about pigeons, then Holiday Star is for you. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I am the first to agree that interactive narratives can be fantastic games, but at what point does an interactive narrative become simply a narrative? Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star definitely sits more closely to the ‘visual novel’ end of the spectrum, which is fine, but that makes it difficult to rate in terms of ‘gameplay’. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time. Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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