{"id":7198,"date":"2022-09-21T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/the-best-visual-novel-of-2017-is-getting-a-sequel\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T05:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:30:06","slug":"the-best-visual-novel-of-2017-is-getting-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/the-best-visual-novel-of-2017-is-getting-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"The best visual novel of 2017 is getting a sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, solo developer Brianna Lei released Butterfly Soup, a visual novel about an all-girl high school baseball team. Hysterically funny and upsettingly accurate to the experience of being awkward and young, we praised its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/brianna-leis-butterfly-soup-is-a-triumph-for-queer-storytelling\/\">well-written LGBT characters<\/a> and dubbed it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-visual-novel-2017-butterfly-soup\/\">best visual novel of 2017<\/a>. Now, Lei has announced she&#8217;s working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/butterfly-soup\/devlog\/429963\/butterfly-soup-2-is-coming-out-on-oct-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sequel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Soup 2 will take place &#8220;a few months after the events of the original game&#8221; and will hop between the viewpoints of its returning main characters, Diya, Akarsha, Min-seo, and Noelle. According to the official <a href=\"https:\/\/fluorescent-jay-d9e.notion.site\/Butterfly-Soup-2-b09c63b06e1f46e1a04dd639fb1ecf31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet<\/a>, it should roughly take a tidy three hours to play and will be available on a pay-what-you-want model just like the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/butterfly-soup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original Butterfly Soup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Soup 2 should release on October 29, though Lei says, &#8220;It&#8217;s actually not finished yet, so once again it&#8217;ll probably come right down to the wire&#8221;. That will give you plenty of time to re-read the original, as well as Lei&#8217;s other visual novel <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/pom-gets-wi-fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pom Gets Wi-Fi<\/a>, which is about a pomeranian&#8217;s quest to get wi-fi, yes. You can also check out some of the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-visual-novels-on-pc\/\">best visual novels on PC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]The best visual novel of 2017 is getting a sequel<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, solo developer Brianna Lei released Butterfly Soup, a visual novel about an all-girl high school baseball team. Hysterically funny and upsettingly accurate to the experience of being awkward and young, we praised its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/brianna-leis-butterfly-soup-is-a-triumph-for-queer-storytelling\/\">well-written LGBT characters<\/a> and dubbed it the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-visual-novel-2017-butterfly-soup\/\">best visual novel of 2017<\/a>. Now, Lei has announced she&#8217;s working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/butterfly-soup\/devlog\/429963\/butterfly-soup-2-is-coming-out-on-oct-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sequel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Soup 2 will take place &#8220;a few months after the events of the original game&#8221; and will hop between the viewpoints of its returning main characters, Diya, Akarsha, Min-seo, and Noelle. According to the official <a href=\"https:\/\/fluorescent-jay-d9e.notion.site\/Butterfly-Soup-2-b09c63b06e1f46e1a04dd639fb1ecf31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fact sheet<\/a>, it should roughly take a tidy three hours to play and will be available on a pay-what-you-want model just like the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/butterfly-soup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original Butterfly Soup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Soup 2 should release on October 29, though Lei says, &#8220;It&#8217;s actually not finished yet, so once again it&#8217;ll probably come right down to the wire&#8221;. That will give you plenty of time to re-read the original, as well as Lei&#8217;s other visual novel <a href=\"https:\/\/brianna-lei.itch.io\/pom-gets-wi-fi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pom Gets Wi-Fi<\/a>, which is about a pomeranian&#8217;s quest to get wi-fi, yes. You can also check out some of the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-visual-novels-on-pc\/\">best visual novels on PC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}