Boost enough scores, and Hikari will do well in her exam.Īt the same time, you need to keep Hikari motivated and interested in study, and this means you need to build a relationship with her so she enjoys learning under your tutelage. So, over the course of the week you need to set the study program for Hikari, whether that be to take a day to exercise (fitness is good for the brain) study logic, read books, and so on, with each activity helping to boost her statistics in a range of different areas. This is a fantasy game and you really can take a failure of a student and make her an elite performer over the course of a week in this fantasy world. Now that is leaving the cramming a bit late there, but I digress. In Summer Lesson, you play as a tutor, whose job it is to take an under performing student (who just happens to be a girl), Hikari Miyamoto, through an intensive seven-day study program in the hope that she’ll actually get a good result in her upcoming exams. It won't be the first game that has been unreasonably judged based on concept, assumption, and out of context, but it's one that even I made assumptions about (because I thought it would be more fanservicey than it was) only to be surprised and delighted by the maturity and subtlety of what I ended up experiencing. But it’s neither of these things on any substantial level, and it was clearly never the intention of Bandai Namco to make it about these things.
Here’s the thing about Summer Lesson it’s a game that various (and many) outlets have written up as being both pervy and creepy since it was unveiled as one of the first PlayStation VR games in development.
SUMMER LESSON VR REVIEW FULL
After finishing the demo I know I needed to make the time to play the full game when I got back home. So I sat down and met Hikari Miyamoto for the first time. However, while in Japan this year I went to Namco Bandai’s VR arcade (yes, the one that has the VR Mario Kart) and they had demos set up to show off the first two (of three) Summer Lessons. I’ve been simply too busy to actually get around to making the import.
SUMMER LESSON VR REVIEW PS4
So if you can access the Hong Kong PlayStation Network (thank the mercies for region-free) you can play it on any PS4 in the world. I’ve finally got around to playing the first installment of Summer Lesson, which was given English subtitles for a release in the English-speaking Asian market.