Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 is a video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It is part of the popular Boku no Natsuyasumi series and was released in Japan on July 11, 2002. It is an alternate universe sequel in which the main character spends his summer in a different part of Japan from the first game. It takes place during the same summer with many of the same characters, but in a different location, a town on Japan's southern coast. A PlayStation Portable version was released on June 24, 2010.
The main character spends his summer vacation at his aunt and uncle's bed and breakfast in a southern Japanese coastal town. Features from the first game, like collecting and bug battles, return, along with new facets, like swimming. The player controls the main character for the thirty-one days of August 1975.
Boku also finds he isn’t the only one away from school this summer, as he meets high schooler Yasuko on the ferry to the island. And instead of hanging with female cousins, Boku spends time with the brothers Takeshi and Shigeru (though the sisters return in the non-blood-related forms of Yasuko and her sister Hikari). In the sequel Boku rubs elbows with 18 different characters. This is made managable by putting Boku in the Akane House inn a seaside bed and breakfast of sorts, run by the aunt and uncle with seperate living quarters for the family. A handful of guests find their way into the inn and Boku’s life during August: Yoshika, the guitar-strumming college girl; cheerful nurse Nagisa; Australian photojournalist Simon; brooding old man Taniguchi and others who contribute a bit of their lives to the game.
The seaside setting also allows Boku to go swimming in any nearby body of water. When this happens, the game shifts from its prerendered world to full 3D, presenting a simplified but still appealing undersea environment. Boku isn’t like other video game characters, however, as players must be watchful of an oxygen meter. He doesn’t drown, he’s just weathered; he wakes up back in the inn right after, surrounded by scared relatives.
With the addition of more characters also comes more locations. No longer is Boku limited to one simple house: he can also tour Yasuko’s house, her grandpa’s clinic and Yoh’s model rocket workshop.
Once again the "real" mission behind the game is for Boku to catch and experience as many daily events he can throughout the 31 days and log it in his picture diary. Whereas previously a high number of events netted you one of five endings.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
2nd of "spend freewheelingly one month during the summer holidays", popular adventure game call back the memories of childhood that was forgotten e. Fuhai town of seaside on the stage, plus insect collecting was popular in previous work, the sumo and insects, as well as possible to sea fishing and swimming. Happy story landscape lovable weave. Will you make the memories ... what?
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Nature, Summer vacation & Anime themes.
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