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  1. Can a wholesome RPG satisfy your retro gaming cravings?
    ▶️ 🎮 youtu.be/IRa_lqsCC6E

    On this episode of Boss Rush Gamescast, Pat Klein, Stoy Jovic, Taylor, and Stephanie Klimov catch up on games like Coffee Talk Tokyo, Final Fantasy Tactics, Genshin Impact, and The Adventures of Elliot.

    They wrap up by preparing for the second half of their Fantasy Draft league.

    #BossRushGamescast #FantasyDraft #CoffeeTalkTokyo #FinalFantasyTactics #GenshinImpact #MetroidPrime4 #AdventuresOfElliot

  2. Can a wholesome RPG satisfy your retro gaming cravings?
    ▶️ 🎮 youtu.be/IRa_lqsCC6E

    On this episode of Boss Rush Gamescast, Pat Klein, Stoy Jovic, Taylor, and Stephanie Klimov catch up on games like Coffee Talk Tokyo, Final Fantasy Tactics, Genshin Impact, and The Adventures of Elliot.

    They wrap up by preparing for the second half of their Fantasy Draft league.

    #BossRushGamescast #FantasyDraft #CoffeeTalkTokyo #FinalFantasyTactics #GenshinImpact #MetroidPrime4 #AdventuresOfElliot

  3. Can a wholesome RPG satisfy your retro gaming cravings?
    ▶️ 🎮 youtu.be/IRa_lqsCC6E

    On this episode of Boss Rush Gamescast, Pat Klein, Stoy Jovic, Taylor, and Stephanie Klimov catch up on games like Coffee Talk Tokyo, Final Fantasy Tactics, Genshin Impact, and The Adventures of Elliot.

    They wrap up by preparing for the second half of their Fantasy Draft league.

    #BossRushGamescast #FantasyDraft #CoffeeTalkTokyo #FinalFantasyTactics #GenshinImpact #MetroidPrime4 #AdventuresOfElliot

  4. Coffee Talk Tokyo: Brews and Banter in Chilled Visual Novel ☕

    To our surprise, Toge Production’s excellent lo-fi Coffee Talk series of visual novels has really done it for us so far. The first one launched in 2020 and now, six years on, we have Coffee Talk Tokyo.

    It launched in May 2026 on all consoles and PC. Another visual novel with a linear narrative, it’s set in Tokyo (believe it or not) and offers some late-night café ownership fun and games.

    The Joys of Casual Chitchat in Coffee Talk Tokyo

    Yeah, so the first Coffee Talk was a surprise thing for us. We gave it a go in 2022 and fell head over heels for it, with its dialogue heavy focus on fantasy characters chatting in a café.

    The also great Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly and carried on the story and was even better.

    Now it’s the turn of Tokyo. The big change here is the game is set in a different city across July and August of 2026, but keeps its fantasy setting. You take control of a barista of the late night café, deal with customers, listen to their bitching and complaining, then make them the occasional drink.

    Oh, but the customers are the likes of ghosts, pixies, strange hamster-men hybrids, and cyborg type dudes. It does along like this.

    An incredibly slow paced game, then, one you’re supposed to savour. Your customers arrive in store, start to chat, offload some random problem on you, then you make them a drink.

    Where this becomes great is down to the strong writing. Anna Winterstein has handled the script for Coffee Talk Tokyo and there’s some genuinely fun, moving, and relatable things going on amongst the various characters.

    You can empathise with them, make them a drink, and it’s all rather chilled out. Especially with the low-fi soundtrack beats the game offers by composer Andrew Jeremy.

    It’s more great stuff and we really enjoyed it (again). You can help shape various endings by getting orders right, too, so there’s replayability here, but the main focus is just relaxing and seeing people/pixies/ghosts discuss their problems. All across around six to seven hours of gameplay/reading.

    Coffee Therapy would’ve been another suitable name for this series.

    But if there is a problem here, it’s how the game’s structure is exactly the same as the previous two entries. That’s grand if all you want is more Coffee Talk, but the trilogy doesn’t really offer anything different across three games.

    Plus, we don’t know what we’re doing wrong, but it seems impossible to get customer orders right. In the other games we’d been doing them deliberately wrong as we found that very amusing, but here we tried to do them right.

    Yet the ingredients never seem to be available… wtf, man!?!

    Whatever, Coffee Talk Tokyo may only deliver more of the same, except with a new story, but as the series is so lo-fi chilled out it’s not a big problem.

    #Coffee #CoffeeTalk #CoffeeTalkTokyo #Cute #Fantasy #Fun #gaming #IndieGames #Lifestyle #pixelArt #relaxing #TogeProductions #Tokyo #visualNovel
  5. コーヒートークTokyo、今作も今作でとてもよい。
    カフェで出会う人達が、ちょっとずつ頼り合って助け合って進む道を見つけていくあたたかさとか。
    あと、みんな基本誠実で素直。なんかまずいこと言ったかも?って思ったら、プライドとか優先せずに割とすぐに「あ……変なこと言ってごめん」みたいに謝るし。

    謝る・感謝する、をきちんと言葉にするのって大事だよな、とここ数ヶ月考えさせられたので(反面教師的な意味で)、意地やプライドなんて張らずに素直になるのが一番だよなぁ、と。
    #CoffeeTalkTokyo #gaming

  6. コーヒートークTokyo、慢性疼痛を抱える人の苦しみに光を当ててくれてありがとう…… :blobcatmeltcry:
    スプーン理論というのは初めて知ったけど、自分のバッテリーのゲージには常に注意してて、でも案外ちょっとしたことですぐ減っちゃうから困るんよな。
    #CoffeeTalkTokyo #gaming

  7. Esta tarde seguimos haciendo café en #CoffeeTalkTokyo y probamos jueguito nuevo recomendado por la comunidad: #Evoland2

    Nos vemos en directo a las 18:00
    twitch.tv/dunkena

  8. #NintendoSwitch Review Video: #CoffeeTalkTokyo - A new location, and many new people, but the same simple and satisfying mix of character stories that feel authentic and compelling, as well as some drink prep #IndieGames
    youtu.be/9srrK0UTPWI

  9. CW: re: demo spoilers, shintoism

    There is a lot of Shinto imagery in this game which for me is a big whatever, like yeah sure torii are iconic, why not use imagery of traditional shrines against the background of the Tokyo skyline, etc

    But man. Things get Hairy when you start getting into the religion part of that. Like. You are PLAYING with FIRE here. PLEASE look into the role state Shintoism played in Imperial Japan. Like. DUDE. YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL

    #RenkonPlays #CoffeeTalkTokyo

  10. CW: demo spoilers, shintoism

    Like I suspect Fuku's thing is going to explore Japanese religion from a faith-based "why don't people these days Believe?" which, 😬😬😬

    I would love to be wrong but even in the demo she drops something about how she was laid off her previous job of doing blessings (so like, a Shinto thing?) but since nobody believes in blessings/Shinto anymore, her job became redundant

    And like. woof. buddy. you are playing with fire here

    #RenkonPlays #CoffeeTalkTokyo

  11. Okay the way the demo just abruptly ends is kinda hilarious 😭 I thought it would end after the first day, not in the middle of a conversation on the second day

    idk. I suspect it is going to unravel into all the same problems I had with the first game, with just enough annoying new stuff like that headline. Which like. Games don't need to be perfect or have perfect characters or be perfectly moral or whatever, and fwiw I DID enjoy the first one

    But yeah... nah

    #RenkonPlays #CoffeeTalkTokyo

  12. CW: re: shintoism

    Like let's be real clear here, the kinda people who talk about Shintoism and lament about "fading traditions" are Not people you want to be around

    Which I know is also a thing for Christianity in the West too lmao but like. stop this. stop

    #RenkonPlays #CoffeeTalkTokyo

  13. CW: shintoism

    This isn't just this game but like in general... I hate when people talk about Japanese religions like it's a Christian thing. Like unless you're an ultranationalist who believes we should all go back to worshipping the emperor then you need to Calm Down with all the "omg nobody believes in Shintoism anymore, not like the old days"

    #RenkonPlays #CoffeeTalkTokyo