Butterfly Soup

Although our society has come a long way in the last few decades, it can still be difficult to come out as gay, especially if you are a teen and pretty insecure with yourself already. People may be more open minded in general, but that doesn’t mean everyone shares the same opinion. Thus, there are still young girls and boys out there that prefer to keep their sexual orientation a secret.

Butterfly Soup is an interactive visual novel in which you get to experience the tale of a group of girls as they strive to become good baseball players and come to terms with their sexuality. The game can appear to be quite shallow at first, given all the memes and jokes, but it actually features very interesting and fleshed out characters that are more than capable to inspire people.

As such, most of the game revolves around the interaction between these girls, but even more so on their lives and the problems they have to deal with. Naturally, they are still teens, so you should expect a fair amount of angst, but that only makes the story that much more relatable. One of the key issues throughout the story is the way they are treated by their parents.

Although you get to make dialog choices every now and again, the story is pretty much on rails most of the time, because you cannot alter too many things about it. This is more about sending a message, on the other hand, so it’s not such a big problem in the end. The cast of characters is pretty restrained, so there can’t be too many options to begin with.

As far as the artwork is concerned, the visual style is great, not to mention colorful. There are a couple of basic sketches in there as well, but the actual backgrounds are very detailed, and so are the characters themselves. Not much can be said about the music, however, but then again it’s not very annoying either, since it fits pretty nicely in the background most of the time.

In the end, Butterfly Soup is clearly aimed at girls and boys in the same situation as the main characters, but everyone can have a blast playing the game. You can tell that a lot of work went into the characters and their personalities, which is why they feel so real and relatable.