i played the first game back in middle school and recently saw that the second game is out. i'm in my final year of high school right now and seeing that itch.io email made me remember how genuinely important this game was to me when i was younger. playing through this game now that i'm older, i can't help but think back to when i was 14 in the midst of sexuality, gender and cultural identity crisis. i have no idea if you'll even see this comment, but thank you so much for creating this game, it really made me feel validated at a time where it felt like everything was wrong, that my identitywas wrong.
overall 10/10 game, so genuinely relatable as a queer first gen asian immigrant lol (i vividly remember the exact argument that diya had with her mother about shaving and what happened afterwards happen to me with my mother aha)
Hi! I just wanted to let you know how much i truly love this game. i would literally kill to play butterfly soup for the first time again, thank you sm for making a sequel!
i just finished the first game on twitch and i have to say it is definitely one of my favorites. 😊. the chemistry between all the characters is amazing, and even the side characters add such a great dynamic. thank you for making this amazing piece of art.
im so happy that you created a second part to this game :-) i played your first game in sixth grade (so its been basically 3 years now) and it's what helped me find who I am today. i really appreciate these two games so much and i could definitely replay this again and still be amused; i bought your bonus art and i am glad i was able to support you, i will anticipate your upcoming game(s) and support them all!! thank you brianna lei for an amazing visual novel <333333
the choices in different color is not such a good idea, hard to read the words in the white textbox.
what's others,emm, characters are colourful and lovely, stories are real( at least real as what i faced), some emotions aren't deep enough through the game play, but it do touches me.
as a Chinese and German mixed blood, within a asia face and european skin, and a les now, seriously, it's such a surprise to found the game, really luv it, and can't wait to play the part3( livin in china makes me hardly browsing Twitter and made my shitty grammer, sorry of that)
ps:another lovely things is about the novel, before i fall, so glad of me when i see the poem and the rose in part2( also the rose trick were mentioned in part1, i luv that novel)
I just want to say this. This game is perfection in every way every character feels real, story is amazing, Ost is great, and was laughing out loud at multiple points. Also representation I hate in most forms of media it feel like the representation is a stat that you put points into but giving less points into the other aspects. I also have that people go "Its representation it doesn't matter if its good or bad" but it dose. That why I love this game, it doesn't treat representation as a stat it shows it as an ability. cant wait for what's next of Brianna Lei. 11/10 idfc that that's not how points work I will remember this masterpiece for the rest of my like I also just realized I didn't say the art is also extraordinary so yea support this guy he is amazing and when I play this again one day I will probably cringe at the sight of this review but this is just my brain on truth so yea.
AHHHHHHH!!!!!! This game was one of the first that I ever downloaded from itch.io! I remember I was scrolling through and clicked on the first game because of the interesting name. I found the concept interesting, but funnily enough, I probably wouldn't have downloaded it if Miles Edgeworth wasn't mentioned in one of the screencaps lol. Just seeing his name, I was sold. Clearly this game was made by someone with refinedtastes.
But no matter my stupid reasons for downloading, I fell in love with Butterfly Soup, so much so that I still use some of the art as my pfp on some sites. I love the art, the story, the characters. There's a lot I could go on about. It's safe to say that this game holds a very special place in my heart. I haven't played this one yet, it's still downloading, but I wanted to thank you, the creator, even if you may never see my dumb ramblings! I'm very excited to play this!!! :D <3
I agree the art is amazing. I just feel sad that as I am not probably the target audience (male and straight) that I will not enjoy it, but I am going to try it anyway.
Don't worry, I'm not either, haha. I thought I was when I played the first game, but I've since discovered that I am a trans man. So don't feel too sad about not being part of the target audience! I hope you like it! :)
Do you need to have played the first Butterfly Soup to understand this game or is this standalone? I played the first game when it came out but I've forgotten it all now
Thank you, Brianna Lei! When Noel went to Taiwan, it hit a bit too close to home. Although I am not Taiwanese I still get that cultural thing. I feel too American to be Filipino and too Filipino to be American. And my family really wants me to learn the language but it feels like they never even try to encourage me to.
I was at the grocery store and there were these little girls speaking a different language with their mom. I thought to myself "I'm supposed to be like that." I feel like a disappointment.
My family is planning to go to the Philippines. I'm so nervous because all I can think about is being an alien in a place that's supposed to be home.
And I didn't know all that much about Desi people and the differences and all (am I using the word correctly?). ^_^ very informational
I remember playing the first game a long long long time ago, and it helped me a lot to accept myself. Now, years later, I'm just genuinely happy after playing this sequel; It's beautiful.
I'm not the type of person to thank the developers for a game, but I think I need it in this case. Thank you so much, Brianna Lei (and everyone who helped the game in some way or another, of course)!
IM FUCKING HOOKED THIS IS THE BEST WTF also I don't support lgbt but that might've changed, I usually was just playing this cause I thought it was funny and Ill show it to my friends but HOLY SHIT PLS MORE MAKE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ive played the firt version of the game and im so happy about this second one im about to cry(my english is very bad, so im sorry if there is something wrong)
This game is now my religion. Thank you so much for these awesome gay people. Akarsha is so relatable. If there is a god they should give the creator of this game 2 billion dollars just because. Also, thank you for Liz, her and basically the entire rest of this game were like a serotonin arrow to the heart.
I will end all or 99% of lgbq in my country cuz its not too late for my contry to be saved by you lgbtq supporters. That I promise. lgbtq is against the law of the nature... so,
I played butterfly soup multiple times since it came out. I just found out there's a sequel. I played through the og game and for me it was way shorter then how i remembered it. thanks for making relatable characters and sort of helping me realize i may like women
It's been months since I saw this one coming out but playing it is a really slow and smooth procedure for me, because I love this game soooo much and don't want to let it go...... I've cried several times while playing. Your writing hitted the center of my heart......
I'm willing to help translate this game into simplified Chinese if needed.
I love your game as always. It was stunning, I adored the culture added to it, the little bits of pieces of information on each background character and the added dance towards the end. Thank you for another amazing game. I loved their story along with Min & Diya's.
*yo spoilers ahead for like the whole game but especially ch3*
Ok I need to elaborate on how mind-bending this is as someone whose family also hailed from an East Asian country (albeit still living in Asia). I've got it so much like what Noelle experienced that I had to stop at a few points because my head was absolutely reeling.
The housewife mom who has no friends to balance her resulting in a caustic personality? Having to be the language middleman for the parents? The struggle to speak the language when visiting? The grandparents/relatives I can barely communicate with and thus the dilemma of whether to start or upkeep the relationships at all? The visits to the columbarium as a kid with no idea what to say or do? The extreme kick to the ego when shopkeepers don't understand your mangled mother tongue? The surprise that the 7-11 is so much better over there? The ennui of wondering if we never left, would I be a happier and more well-adjusted person?? All of the above???
(It's also a freaking coinkydink that I also happened to have a cousin there exactly like Chun Hua with a less-than-common English name, is like me but much more outgoing, is much much closer to my extended family and wanted to study in America)
TL;DR chapter 3 went for my kneecaps. In fact all the chapters did. PPKM blasted a hole in my lungs all the way to the end, and Diya and Min were so cute I wanted to kick my wall down and scream. Shout-out to Akarsha's self deprecatory thoughts which are both 'lol i do that' and 'yikes' at the same time.
Standing ovation to you Brianna, this was clearly a game filled with passion and lived experiences, and an extremely satisfying amount of not-being-straight. I'm one of the ones who were quaking in my boots for years for the sequel and it is all I ever wanted and more (sans kneecaps). Whatever comes next for you, I'm sure you'll 110% blow it out of the water!
I've got no champagne so I raise as a toast, a slice of apple from the bowl of fruit my mother cut for me.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my goddddddddd.
I could write the length of 100 essays on how good this game is. And I'm not quite sure if that's an exaggeration.
the first game was life-altering to me. The game just stood out sooooo much. It was my favorite game of all time. It was soo gay. The characters are sooo good. The writing was soooooooooo good.
this. this improved upon perfection. The first game was magical to me because of the gay and nostalgic and funny and deeply relatable vibes. This game added onto that with much deeper and more nuanced looks at everybody's personalities. It really is a work of art.
and the ENDING OH MY GOD THE ENDING. OH GOD I PRACTICALLY CRIED.
Every theme in this hits so hard. Noelle straight up psychoanalyzed me in the first hour of the game, to an almost uncanny degree. All the themes about being your own person, embracing your quirks. The speech in the pre-credits ending. All of the themes around people affecting who you are. All the beautiful answers to questions we scream into the void.
It just all merged into one unbelievably powerful piece of work. It all just spoke to my soul. I'm not even Asian-American and yet this game spoke to me deeper than any other game I've ever played, by a long shot... absolutely well done. Thank you so much, Brianna. Standing ovation.
ahh this exactly sums up my feelings for this game. No game has ever spoken to me like this one has <333 im so excited to play the second one but im also nervous bc then it'll be over BUT i can just replay them again hahah
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Ok so Butterfly Soup 3 when?
i played the first game back in middle school and recently saw that the second game is out. i'm in my final year of high school right now and seeing that itch.io email made me remember how genuinely important this game was to me when i was younger. playing through this game now that i'm older, i can't help but think back to when i was 14 in the midst of sexuality, gender and cultural identity crisis. i have no idea if you'll even see this comment, but thank you so much for creating this game, it really made me feel validated at a time where it felt like everything was wrong, that my identity was wrong.
overall 10/10 game, so genuinely relatable as a queer first gen asian immigrant lol (i vividly remember the exact argument that diya had with her mother about shaving and what happened afterwards happen to me with my mother aha)
Hi! I just wanted to let you know how much i truly love this game. i would literally kill to play butterfly soup for the first time again, thank you sm for making a sequel!
Min reference???
i just finished the first game on twitch and i have to say it is definitely one of my favorites. 😊. the chemistry between all the characters is amazing, and even the side characters add such a great dynamic. thank you for making this amazing piece of art.
the way diya ruined the cake lit happened to me like last week 😭😭😭
im so happy that you created a second part to this game :-) i played your first game in sixth grade (so its been basically 3 years now) and it's what helped me find who I am today. i really appreciate these two games so much and i could definitely replay this again and still be amused; i bought your bonus art and i am glad i was able to support you, i will anticipate your upcoming game(s) and support them all!! thank you brianna lei for an amazing visual novel <333333
i will begin from the disadvantage,i guess
the choices in different color is not such a good idea, hard to read the words in the white textbox.
what's others,emm, characters are colourful and lovely, stories are real( at least real as what i faced), some emotions aren't deep enough through the game play, but it do touches me.
as a Chinese and German mixed blood, within a asia face and european skin, and a les now, seriously, it's such a surprise to found the game, really luv it, and can't wait to play the part3( livin in china makes me hardly browsing Twitter and made my shitty grammer, sorry of that)
ps:another lovely things is about the novel, before i fall, so glad of me when i see the poem and the rose in part2( also the rose trick were mentioned in part1, i luv that novel)
I just want to say this. This game is perfection in every way every character feels real, story is amazing, Ost is great, and was laughing out loud at multiple points. Also representation I hate in most forms of media it feel like the representation is a stat that you put points into but giving less points into the other aspects. I also have that people go "Its representation it doesn't matter if its good or bad" but it dose. That why I love this game, it doesn't treat representation as a stat it shows it as an ability. cant wait for what's next of Brianna Lei. 11/10 idfc that that's not how points work I will remember this masterpiece for the rest of my like I also just realized I didn't say the art is also extraordinary so yea support this guy he is amazing and when I play this again one day I will probably cringe at the sight of this review but this is just my brain on truth so yea.
AHHHHHHH!!!!!! This game was one of the first that I ever downloaded from itch.io! I remember I was scrolling through and clicked on the first game because of the interesting name. I found the concept interesting, but funnily enough, I probably wouldn't have downloaded it if Miles Edgeworth wasn't mentioned in one of the screencaps lol. Just seeing his name, I was sold. Clearly this game was made by someone with refined tastes.
But no matter my stupid reasons for downloading, I fell in love with Butterfly Soup, so much so that I still use some of the art as my pfp on some sites. I love the art, the story, the characters. There's a lot I could go on about. It's safe to say that this game holds a very special place in my heart. I haven't played this one yet, it's still downloading, but I wanted to thank you, the creator, even if you may never see my dumb ramblings! I'm very excited to play this!!! :D <3
I agree the art is amazing. I just feel sad that as I am not probably the target audience (male and straight) that I will not enjoy it, but I am going to try it anyway.
Don't worry, I'm not either, haha. I thought I was when I played the first game, but I've since discovered that I am a trans man. So don't feel too sad about not being part of the target audience! I hope you like it! :)
Do you need to have played the first Butterfly Soup to understand this game or is this standalone? I played the first game when it came out but I've forgotten it all now
You can play without problems, but imo the game gets even better when you remember the first one
Thank you, Brianna Lei! When Noel went to Taiwan, it hit a bit too close to home. Although I am not Taiwanese I still get that cultural thing. I feel too American to be Filipino and too Filipino to be American. And my family really wants me to learn the language but it feels like they never even try to encourage me to.
I was at the grocery store and there were these little girls speaking a different language with their mom. I thought to myself "I'm supposed to be like that." I feel like a disappointment.
My family is planning to go to the Philippines. I'm so nervous because all I can think about is being an alien in a place that's supposed to be home.
And I didn't know all that much about Desi people and the differences and all (am I using the word correctly?). ^_^ very informational
Also, the ending credits. hahaha the handcuffs
Thank you Brianna Lei!
IM SO SAD ITS OVER NOW... MORE PLEASE?
same!! I so wish there was more of these characters
I remember playing the first game a long long long time ago, and it helped me a lot to accept myself. Now, years later, I'm just genuinely happy after playing this sequel; It's beautiful.
I'm not the type of person to thank the developers for a game, but I think I need it in this case. Thank you so much, Brianna Lei (and everyone who helped the game in some way or another, of course)!
<3 Now all we need is a third game which tells us the story of Noelle and Akarsha actually getting together.
IM FUCKING HOOKED THIS IS THE BEST WTF also I don't support lgbt but that might've changed, I usually was just playing this cause I thought it was funny and Ill show it to my friends but HOLY SHIT PLS MORE MAKE MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do I like the game I wanna save it cherish it and wait for BS3
ive played the firt version of the game and im so happy about this second one im about to cry(my english is very bad, so im sorry if there is something wrong)
I LOVED THE FIRST ONE SM i cant believe there's a second im so happy ahhh will play this soon
same here! just found out about it now
Czy tylko ja mam taki problem, że nie mam do wyboru języka polskiego?
This game is now my religion. Thank you so much for these awesome gay people. Akarsha is so relatable. If there is a god they should give the creator of this game 2 billion dollars just because. Also, thank you for Liz, her and basically the entire rest of this game were like a serotonin arrow to the heart.
I will end all or 99% of lgbq in my country cuz its not too late for my contry to be saved by you lgbtq supporters. That I promise. lgbtq is against the law of the nature... so,
THE WORLD NEEDS CHANGING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER...
small enemy spider !!!! *beatboxes*
This comment is so terribly worded and hosted such appalling grammar that I can't tell whether it is homophobic or not.
IT IS LOOK AT THEIR USERNAME THEY CREATED THAT ACCOUNT FOR THIS HUHHH
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I played butterfly soup multiple times since it came out. I just found out there's a sequel. I played through the og game and for me it was way shorter then how i remembered it. thanks for making relatable characters and sort of helping me realize i may like women
(im actually really excited to play this)
Do you?
I don't know how I didn't find out about the sequel until today but I am literally shaking I'm so excited to play it
one of the best visual novels i've ever read TwT absolutely wonderful <33
the future noelle/akarsha scene made me CRY. thank you for this gem
It's been months since I saw this one coming out but playing it is a really slow and smooth procedure for me, because I love this game soooo much and don't want to let it go...... I've cried several times while playing. Your writing hitted the center of my heart......
I'm willing to help translate this game into simplified Chinese if needed.
谢谢你做出这个游戏，真的太棒了！！！
when does it come out in br portuguese?
Soon. Its already in the QA phase, which is essentially the last thing that needs to be done before its sent off to be added to the game
So cute!! I loved the peek into the future, so freaking adorable <3
OH MY GOD I DIDNT REALIZE ITS OUT OH MY GODDD!!!
HOLY SHIT ITS HERE
Please consider releasing the OST separately. I would buy it!
You can find the names of much of the music on the about/credits page.
Oh shoot, that's a good point.
Akarasha plays the cello = GOAT character
I love your game as always. It was stunning, I adored the culture added to it, the little bits of pieces of information on each background character and the added dance towards the end. Thank you for another amazing game. I loved their story along with Min & Diya's.
LOVED this sequel!! So glad we got to see Akarsha and Noelle continue their shenanigans. Thank you for this gift!
more sequels please
*yo spoilers ahead for like the whole game but especially ch3*
Ok I need to elaborate on how mind-bending this is as someone whose family also hailed from an East Asian country (albeit still living in Asia). I've got it so much like what Noelle experienced that I had to stop at a few points because my head was absolutely reeling.
The housewife mom who has no friends to balance her resulting in a caustic personality? Having to be the language middleman for the parents? The struggle to speak the language when visiting? The grandparents/relatives I can barely communicate with and thus the dilemma of whether to start or upkeep the relationships at all? The visits to the columbarium as a kid with no idea what to say or do? The extreme kick to the ego when shopkeepers don't understand your mangled mother tongue? The surprise that the 7-11 is so much better over there? The ennui of wondering if we never left, would I be a happier and more well-adjusted person?? All of the above???
(It's also a freaking coinkydink that I also happened to have a cousin there exactly like Chun Hua with a less-than-common English name, is like me but much more outgoing, is much much closer to my extended family and wanted to study in America)
TL;DR chapter 3 went for my kneecaps. In fact all the chapters did. PPKM blasted a hole in my lungs all the way to the end, and Diya and Min were so cute I wanted to kick my wall down and scream. Shout-out to Akarsha's self deprecatory thoughts which are both 'lol i do that' and 'yikes' at the same time.
Standing ovation to you Brianna, this was clearly a game filled with passion and lived experiences, and an extremely satisfying amount of not-being-straight. I'm one of the ones who were quaking in my boots for years for the sequel and it is all I ever wanted and more (sans kneecaps). Whatever comes next for you, I'm sure you'll 110% blow it out of the water!
I've got no champagne so I raise as a toast, a slice of apple from the bowl of fruit my mother cut for me.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my goddddddddd.
I could write the length of 100 essays on how good this game is. And I'm not quite sure if that's an exaggeration.
the first game was life-altering to me. The game just stood out sooooo much. It was my favorite game of all time. It was soo gay. The characters are sooo good. The writing was soooooooooo good.
this. this improved upon perfection. The first game was magical to me because of the gay and nostalgic and funny and deeply relatable vibes. This game added onto that with much deeper and more nuanced looks at everybody's personalities. It really is a work of art.
and the ENDING OH MY GOD THE ENDING. OH GOD I PRACTICALLY CRIED.
Every theme in this hits so hard. Noelle straight up psychoanalyzed me in the first hour of the game, to an almost uncanny degree. All the themes about being your own person, embracing your quirks. The speech in the pre-credits ending. All of the themes around people affecting who you are. All the beautiful answers to questions we scream into the void.
It just all merged into one unbelievably powerful piece of work. It all just spoke to my soul. I'm not even Asian-American and yet this game spoke to me deeper than any other game I've ever played, by a long shot... absolutely well done. Thank you so much, Brianna. Standing ovation.
also. liz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
Who's liz
Might wanna play the game to find out, buddy. 😀🔫
I am a human consciousness hooked up to a computer, I have no physical residence on this earth besides it.
ahh this exactly sums up my feelings for this game. No game has ever spoken to me like this one has <333 im so excited to play the second one but im also nervous bc then it'll be over BUT i can just replay them again hahah
im so sad i finished it
also it may or may not be about midnight lmao
honestly, same