With a premise as absurd as pigeon-dating, I expected to spend the game laughing.

Your bird classmates and teachers are all different flavors of magical anime boy archetypes.

But when was gender confusion ever an impediment to a good story in anime and manga?

One thing is certain: Haruhi’s presence will change the lives of the six privileged young men and maybe her own, too – and, in the process, afford viewers many hours of genuinely engaging and amusing entertainment.

You’re the first and only human attending the world’s most prestigious boarding school for gifted birds, St. At school you attend classes and clubs to flirt with your classmates, altering your interests and choices to please the birdie of your affections—all tame dating sim stuff with a heavy dose of bird puns.

While it’s all fun and birds to begin with, shit gets real fast, in the best way possible. It begins as the pigeon dating simulator of your dreams.

Instead, the Ouran High School Host Club, a club that is devoted to entertaining female students, is discovered.

Haruhi goes to the school’s library one day to study, and goes into the music room in search of a quiet area.Inadvertently breaking a horrendously valuable vase, Haruhi is told that the only way to pay the Host Club back is to become a host and entertain the young ladies of the Academy.There’s one slight flaw in the plan which Tamaki Suou, the ‘king’ of the Host Club, hasn’t quite realized: Haruhi is a girl.There’s the Nice Bird you’ve known since he was barely hatched, the Rich, arrogant French Bird, his Mysterious sexy half-brother, your Sensitive, narcoleptic home room teacher, the Track Star who only cares about pudding.There’s also a creepy doctor whose sinister chuckling foreshadows the evil shit you’re about to discover.These tropes are familiar to fans of male ensemble mangas targeted to women, kind of like an all pigeon Ouran High School Host Club with less fawning school girls. Pigeon Nations progress as you attend electives and unlock wacky school drama, like weird brotherly sexual tension and fights over the legitimacy of cafeteria pudding.If you’re like me, your first impulse was to try and date at least two birds at once.