| Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly | |
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| Developer(s) | Toge Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Toge Productions |
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| Genre(s) | Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly is a 2023 visual novel developed and published by Toge Productions. It is the sequel to the first episode of Coffee Talk.
As the continuation of the first episode of Coffee Talk, both pixel art games are a visual novel, which consists of reading dialogue. This is done alongside working as a barista at a café, to serve coffee and other hot drinks to customers. Both also feature relaxing, lo-fi music, set in a late night rainy atmosphere, located in Seattle where the barista will meet up with a variety of fantastical customers including but not limited to orcs, fairies, werewolves and vampires. It is also possible to create latte art for aesthetics.
The sequel of Coffee Talk was announced on 31 August 2021. [1] [2] It was released as a demo on 17 January 2022, [3] shortly before the death of Mohammad Fahmi, the main creator of the first episode of Coffee Talk, in March 2022. [4] The game was released on 20 April 2023 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. [5] [6]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | PC: 79/100 [7] NS: 82/100 [8] |
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly received mostly favourable reviews across various platforms on Metacritic. [9] Izzatul Razali for IGN Southeast Asia states that Episode 2 "provides a great visual representation of the concept of 'sonder' through encounters with strangers in a public setting" [6] while Digitally Downloaded states that the game is "grounded in realism despite its fantasy world". [10] Shaun Musgrave for TouchArcade opined that the game was "laser focused on my tastes" and gave it a 4.5 out of 5 on the Nintendo Switch. [11]
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