Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly

**Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly** is a sequel to relaxing pixel art visual novel developed by Toge Productions, a game studio from Indonesia. The game follows three years after Barista runs Coffee Talk in Seattle, Washington and hearing new thoughts from new and old customers.

## Story

Three years after the first Coffee Talk, Barista found a new customer struggling with her own. Not only that the government has been searching for anomalous entity that has been around in the Cafe. Along the way you speak up with customers and hear their thoughts and have new relationship between old customers.

## Gameplay

As a visual novel game, Coffee Talk primary goal is just hear the thoughts of customers. Aside from that, the barista serve and brew coffee based on what the customer desired.

## Characters

Same as previous installment, the game mainly follows The Barista interacting with customers in Coffee Talk 2. The customers consists of people ranging from human to extra-terrestrial race. In total there are 14 main casts of Coffee Talk.

* **Jorji**
* **Lucas**
* **Riona**
* **Myrtle**
* **Aqua**
* **Lua**
* **Amanda**
* **Silver**
* **Rachel**
* **Baileys**
* **Gala**
* **Hyde**
* **Hendry**
* **Freya**

## Development

With the success of first installment of Coffee Talk, Toge Productions starts developing on Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly in 2021 . The game follows years after the story of the first game. Prior to its announcement, the game was originally a DLC to Coffee Talk 1 however as the development and story went on, it's soon became stand-alone . On 2nd September 2021 a teaser was made on Coffee Talk official twitter under the title of Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly. The game was originally release in 2022 however Coffee Talk 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly delayed until spring 2023 .

According to Lead Writer of Coffee Talk Junkipatchi adding new characters are challenging to create and design a character that is balance with the stories of all the characters alongside with their own personalities. With the additional characters the team wanted to create new gameplay mechanic such as lost & found mechanic where players can retrieve back lost item from customer. According to Lead Artist of Coffee Talk Dio Mahesa the idea was based on varies visual novels that main character can store item and return it back to certain character .

## Trivia

* The game was originally created as a DLC for Coffee Talk however after the development and story more expanded into stand-alone.
* In Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly there are numerous endings that players can achieved through specific actions.
	+ A hidden ending can be found while completing all endings, the hidden ending is a tribute to Mohammad Fahmi Hasni.

## Official Links

* Coffee Talk 2 Hibiscus & Butterfly Steam Store Page
* Coffee Talk 2 Hibiscus & Butterfly Nintendo Store Page
* Coffee Talk 2 Hibiscus & Butterfly Playstation Store Page
* Coffee Talk 2 Hibiscus & Butterfly Xbox Store Page
* Coffee Talk Official Twitter Page
* Toge Productions Official Twitter Page
* Toge Productions Official YouTube Page
* Toge Productions Official Discord Server

## Gallery

Tomodachii, a social platform where you can show your activities.A couple talking about Freya is a writer for The Evening WhisperOld flint from Jorji.
## References

1. ↑ [1] Hittekno.com article "Trailer Coffee Talk Episode 2 Beredar, Ada Karakter Baru!" written by Rezza Dwi Rachmanta
2. ↑ [2] "At the start of the development, Coffee Talk Ep. 2 was planned to be a DLC..." via @coffeetalk\_game on Twitter.com
3. ↑ [3] Gaymingmag.com article "Coffee Talk Episode 2 delay announced during November Nintendo Indie World Showcase" written by Ty Galiz-Rowe
4. ↑ [4] ScreenRant.com article "Dio Mahesa & Junkipatchi Interview: Designing Coffee Talk Episode 2" written by Deven McClure