The agency will give you goals of what she is to achieve and it is up to you to plan your lesson accordingly. You nod and look at different aspects that you want her to learn about. The first one is set in a coffee shop and it is here you must plan your lesson for the day.
Summer Lesson has two different main phases of gameplay. There’s no word on its English localization as of yet.This is a VR game where you only use your head movements to make actions on the screen. Summer Lesson will launch in Japan on October 13, alongside PlayStation VR. If only they could use this tech to make the same kind of game, but within a different, more innocent scenario. But the subject matter is just so unnerving, and from Bandai’s promised future content, it really makes it seem like the object of the game will be forming a romantic relationship with your student. It was an amazing demonstration of the technology, it didn’t make me nauseous like most of the other PlayStation VR demos, and got me excited about VR. It really made me feel uncomfortable having her so close to me, especially when you consider the assumption that this is a high-school aged girl and an adult tutor. At one point she bends over right next to you to pick up a pencil, giving you clear view of her panties. When Hikari talks to you, her breasts are exactly at eye-level, and she puffs her chest out quite a bit. I imagine for people who don’t live in Japan that it would be a really cool “slice of life” type thing where you could take a first-person glimpse into another culture.īut then the creepiness creeps back in. I could look around Hikari’s room, and as she walked around me I could actually feel her presence. If you have ever played a Japanese romance simulator, or a visual novel adventure game, Summer Lesson is kind of the VR version of that.Īgain, I was really impressed with how real the simulation felt. The game uses no controller at this point, instead, you simply look at dialogue options to choose what to say, and nod or shake your head to agree or disagree with anything. In the next scene, you’ll converse with Hikari about your plans for her lessons. I understand that a silent protagonist is used so players can inject their own personalities into the game, but it’s really just made me feel like some kind of stalker. What’s most unsettling about this whole exchange is that you are completely still, and completely silent. She opens the door and is at first in such shock that she actually does a double-take, closing the door, opening it again, and cautiously approaching you and asking who you are. In the next scene I was simply sitting in Hikari’s room. I can proudly say that this was one of the few VR experiences that didn’t make me feel motion sick, and is an outstanding showcase of the PlayStation VR’s capabilities.īut then it got real creepy real fast. Looking around the coffee shop in VR is completely seamless, and the Unreal Engine 4 does its best to bring it to life. This part of the game is fairly innocent, and actually quite cool. My cellphone rings, and a Japanese lady hires me to tutor her daughter, Hikari, over summer vacation. I started the demo off sitting in a coffee shop in a small coastal Japanese town. When we wrote about it in the past, the word “creepy” was used, and now that I’ve actually had a chance to play it, I think that’s a fair assessment. The premise is fairly simple: you play the role of a private tutor who is hired to assist a high-school aged girl with her studies over summer. Bandai Namco’s Summer Lesson, from the folks behind the Tekken franchise, is one of the PlayStation VR’s launch titles (at least in Japan).
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