Butterfly Soup 2

this game is amazing i sobbed plenty of times

I love, love, LOVE this game and it's prequel. I can't believe how often it's made me laugh out loud, and as an Indian myself it's all too easy to relate to the characters. Along with all of their stupid jokes and weird life lessons, these four girls are now permanently living in my head rent free. The character development you get to see through the games, their own unique speaking styles reflecting in even their internal monologues, Akarsha's delulu era, in all of this you can sense the love that was put behind these games, which have now evolved into my comfort games. In this essay, I will-

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i cried

I cried with the firts game at the beggining, a few months after realizing I was trans, and I just cried at the end of the second, after a month and a half in HRT. This games always touch the part of me that wants to be better and to be the version of me thats loves living.

I don't know what happened, but I feel 100% known by Brianna Lei. It's horrible! (I'm very happy about this)

As a Taiwanese, I was surprised how accurate each photo was. I even had the same language problem, even though I'm a native Taiwanese. I don't speak Taiwanese, which also makes me feel like an outsider when I can't understand my mom's and my grandma's conversations. I'm jealous of Noelle's relatives who live in Taipei but still know Taiwanese lol

Then I was really happy to see girls supporting each other. It made me cry for that.

It's just that I'm so hopeful that when they're adults they'll stop calling each other bro and calling words like son of a bitch... That would really be perfect!! :3

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
(I also love Noelle :D)

Is the bonus art included in buso2 the same as buso1?

edit: i bought both of them anyway lol

Will there be gamepad support? 

1st game was a masterpiece, as well as the 2nd. 

guess which characters got too relatable and realistic again? (everyone. especially akarsha. shes literally me irl) absoloutely loved this, i wish i could play both games for the first time again. 11/10 can't wait for the third game

Pretty much everything I could have asked for in a follow-up to the first. I love how it explores a lot of "missing pieces" from the first game and dove much more deeply into a lot of complex themes. Every character is treated with such a high degree of empathy and nuance. I also love how humanized the parents are and that whole aspect is such a brilliant portrayal of how complicated those relationships can be (Diya’s one with her mom hit close to home for me in several ways). Min’s character development is amazing and her positive relationship with Diya makes me melt into a puddle of happy tears (as did the ending, which felt like a beautiful culmination of everything both games stand for). It’s so incredibly difficult to balance being so real and so raucously hilarious but both games pull it off amazingly. Akarsha’s texts never failed to absolutely destroy me lmao Thank-you so much again for making both games! They're both all-timers and I’ll def. be recommending them as much as I can going forward!

I really enjoyed this game and it's predecessor. It's a really beautiful look at queer individuals and the complex ways we are forced to move through the world. These games made me laugh, smile and even cry at points. Some of the parental trauma was especially hard. But I found the characters to be very relatable. Especially Diya, she felt extremely relatable to me multiple times.

I would highly recommend these games!

I love it

WHEN I SAW THIS I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT THIS IS LIKE DESPACITO 2 BRO IM PLAUYING THIS A S A P OF MY GOD THIS IS A BLESSING

the windows system doesn't let me play it :(((

made me laugh so much, my friends n i loved going through it tgt!!!! 10/10 would recommend

Very excited to read! But one request [possibly for future games, I guess]: I have RSI, so auto-forward is critical for being able to enjoy visual novels! Can you expose the option for that? I know Ren'py has it.

insanely good game, sobbed

I loved it, mostly because of the gushy idiotic gay love, but still I loved it a lot. Thanks for making it :)                                        [This applies to 1 & 2] 

as a teenage questioning desi girl, this hit VERY close to home. I can relate a lot to Diya, Noelle, Akarsha, and Min. Seeing how their relationships with their parents, identity and culture mirrored my own experiences made me cry. 

10/10

OMG THE TWEWY REFERENCE AAAAAAAHHH THAT'S MY FAVORITE GAME

2009 good year

These games are so good, the writing is so funny and relatable. I try to understand how to write like this to improve my own writing.

Omg i just finished playing I love this game so muchhh please if you can butterfly soup 3?? but much love <3

So much goodness. I cried a lot, and utterly love this whole story. It was small, but the trans representation was very nice. Min has such a good arc. For real, all the arcs are amazing. Thanks for sharing this continuation!

I am on a journey to play at least 35 LGBTQ+ games, don't ask why.

Played the first game and it made me trans /j
NO in all seriousness this is so lovely <3 /g (I am trans though hiii)

I just finished both game. The story is awesome and I'm so happy everyone got a happy ending!!

i was already replaying the first game when this came out and honestly, it had undoubtably rewired such a massive percentage of 13 year old Me's brain. this game was one of my first experiences learning of LGBTQ+ matters and cultural backgrounds past my own and I'm so glad I had a piece of media like this in my life. At the time I was a heavily closeted teenage girl, and very sheltered on anything gay related, but now, I am an openly transgender man on the verge of starting testosterone with an amazing boyfriend, and I can't help but equate some of that to this game. So, thank you guys for creating something so life altering, I'm so lucky to have stumbled across such good representation in my early years thanks to this game. An absolute masterpiece, put it in the louvre asap. 

the first game was my childhood (i admit im litterally still a baby boy) and once i finished it i was so excited for the sequel. but eventually i forgot about it, and just now im returning to it. this game made me realize that theres more to just liking the opposite gender. that theres more to gender itself. i remember staying up late hiding under my blankets replaying this game all night, thinking if my parents saw it they wouldn't understand. the sequel was everything i needed and hoped for. because of this game i am now my true self, and after the second one, i feel like my path could be mine, instead of my fathers. thank you so much Brianna Lei and everyone that helped create this masterpiece of a game.

Fantastic game, I need more of the story between Noelle and Akarsha, they are adorable

I've fully played through both games, and they are just perfect, beautiful, funny and well done. I only wish there were more!

ayo i got a bug with my copy. chinese, korean, and the 3rd indian language characters dont show up. its just a bunch of hollow boxes. also the english font size is way too big. story is normal though. ive tried deleting and re-installing, but it hasnt worked. it even kept all my save files!

I need Akarsha and Noelle togueter!

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☐ You forget what reality is

☑ Beautiful

☐ Good

☐ Decent

☐ Bad

☐ Don‘t look too long at it

☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---

☐ Very good

☑ Good

☐ It's just gameplay

☐ Mehh

☐ Watch paint dry instead

☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---

☐ Eargasm

☐ Very good

☑ Good

☐ Not too bad

☐ Bad

☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---

☐ Kids

☑ Teens

☐ Adults

☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---

☐ Check if you can run paint

☑ Potato

☐ Decent

☐ Fast

☐ Rich boi

☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---

☐ Just press 'W'

☑ Easy

☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master

☐ Significant brain usage

☐ Difficult

☐ Dark Souls

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☑ Nothing to grind

☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks

☐ Isn't necessary to progress

☐ Average grind level

☐ Too much grind

☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---

☐ No Story

☐ Some lore

☐ Average

☐ Good

☐ Lovely

☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee

☐ Short

☑ Average

☐ Long

☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---

☑ It's free!

☐ Worth the price

☐ If it's on sale

☐ If u have some spare money left

☐ Not recommended

☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---

☑ Never heard of

☐ Minor bugs

☐ Can get annoying

☐ ARK: Survival Evolved

☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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