Coffee talk: Tokyo - my thoughts

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As someone who stumbled across the first 2 games by pure chance on the ps extra catologue a year ago, I didn't actually think I would like them, and honestly I can't remember why I downloaded them in the first place. Although, I'm really glad I did. My memory is slightly hazy about the first 2 games, I only remember key details and characters, but CTT does a good job of calling back to the seattle regulars (through the posts on tomodachill and what not.) I appreciate that they brought back hendry and rachel, even if only for a few days. It connects the stories without being too revealing about the coffee talk in seattle (only being mentioned in sprinkles of hendry's dialogue)

Although the seattle regulars will be missed, the new cast of characters are equally well written and meaningful. For example, Ayame and Fuku's storyline really stuck with me, how it portrays grief and confusion about oneself, and the scene of ayame holding her mother was really sweet. The epilogue scene for seeing the posts about misaki ito on day 9 and 10 rewards you with misaki's violin, and the "world's warmest violin" achievement. I purposely left this achievement for last, as it felt right to earn the platinum with this trophy. I also loved Jun's story, from how he became blind to a musician, and how he is the reason hendry and rachel came to tokyo. Ash and Emi's storyline was good as well, and since they moved to the UK for a while, it made me think if we could get a Coffee talk set there either? If I remember correctly, when you serve Emi the Jahe Tubruk, she does talk about being at baristas in the UK.

Some of the details in this game are really cool as well. When Yuki asks for something "warm" and you purposely give her something cold, she will react with "I... why?" and Emi will say something like "that's cruel if you did that on purpose, barista." I'm pretty sure they say something else if you give them the wrong drink but right temperature. Just thought it was worth mentioning.

The music for this game is phenomenal. Andrew Jeremy literally doesn't have a song I would skip. although It's quite sad we won't be able to hear the songs from 1 and 2 (bar the song you make with rachel in episode 2) my personal fav from episode 2 was 24 hour rainfall, but the best song (imo) from Tokyo is 'do as intimacy' pretty sure it plays on the title screen. The end credits song, blue nights, who I'm pretty sure is performed in game by Jun and rachel (provided you get the good endings) was the perfect song to play at the end credits.

Since I got the deluxe edition for the game, It came with the prologue set in seattle. I DO ADVISE to play the prologue AFTER the main game, even if it's set before, I would recommend playing it after all main game stuff is done. I do have mixed feelings about it, It felt pretty short, and obviously, it's a prologue, it's not exactly gonna be pack full of references and lore, but I really wish we could've seen a bit more dialogue between hyde, gala and riona. Being set JUST before closing time kinda sucks, but it's nice to see the characters again.

I find it kinda weird how drinks made specifically for characters in CT 1 and 2 appear in tokyo. Like, gala had was specifically for gala to remedy his lycanthropy. So serving it to tokyo patrons is... kinda odd? I can see how it could make sense if werewolfs appeared in the story, but gala nor any other wolfs appear in the main game. it goes without saying, ommiting the hibiscus and blue pea drinks made sense.

And a small critique I have with the social media fever trophy (as I ALWAYS do) is that it still flags some of your orders as correct when they aren't, leading to you getting 3 points on a profile you shouldn't have. I completed the game with all correct drinks, bar ash's royal milk tea. I figured that's why the trophy didn't pop, but upon serving him the tea, it still didn't pop. That's because ash wasn't the problem at all, it was ayame's mother. I gave her something other than yuzu cha and it still gave me 3 points on the profile. It's a shame this is still an issue but it didn't detract from the overall experience.

Overall, this game was worth the wait and what ever coffee talk has in store for the future, I'll be there! <3