And so, a mentally exhausting journey (for us as much as our characters) finally comes to a close - the spell is broken as a new day arises, the dream ends, and so does the game. But we're going to make you cry all over again just one last time!

Like the previous part, this is wondrous. After making a final rush for the finish line and producing nearly three hours of video that Saturday, we're all in a state of what might be described as exhausted relief here, and incredibly fragile in many ways. We joke our way through the bittersweet ending until it all gets too much, and my favourite moment is when everyone sets everyone else off and even the Bird Reaper can't get through it without breaking down, inducing a sort of hysterical laugh through my own tears. Then we get to say goodbye to all the characters one by one, and the game takes the opportunity to snare us just one last time.

This whole collection of stories was brilliant. If you've found these posts in the future, make sure to buy it yourself, and if DLSite doesn't work for you, pay Moa on her Fundrazr and then get it off a torrent. Thank you Moa, thank you Nazerine, thank you to everyone on the team for acting and cooing so magnificently, thank you to me for editing TEN AND A HALF HOURS of pigeons across twenty-eight videos... I've no idea what else to say.

Except I don't know why I'm acting like it's over, because we've still got five shrine scenes, three short stories and two radio sessions to do, and I'll be caught among pigeons for the rest of time. Once you have stared into the beaked face of Hatoful, peeled aside the layers of the onion of madness and seen its true form... there is no going back.




0:15 Field of silver grass
0:55 Fine
1:45 Thanks, Sakuya
3:20 Pushy peasants
4:40 Lost King
5:55 RETURN TO THE STARS
7:40 Galactic Railroad
9:00 The fossil
10:15 The amber
10:35 MOTHER
11:00 Crying Reaper
11:35 Nageki's decision
12:40 Black and bitter
13:50 Your adventure has continued here
14:40 Last call for the Southern Cross
15:30 Home
15:50 Kazuaki
16:15 Okosan
16:40 Sakuya
17:05 Ryouta
17:45 Miru, Kaku, Yuuya and Shuu
19:10 Tohri
19:50 Leone
20:30 Anghel and Teo
21:50 Nageki
22:00 THE END