Summer Lesson: Hikari Miyamoto Review | Time To Be A Tutor?

Objective

A day in Summer Lesson consists of a tutoring, a conversational and an optional “lucky” phase. In each day, you will be given choices on how to spend the day with her. These choices include a variety of lessons and conversational topics, which will affect her differently. To quantify how well you have influenced Hikari, the game opted to use a simple stats system that consists of 5 different attributes. At the end of the second phase, the game provides several “lucky items” which can trigger an array of special interactive scenes between Hikari and you.

Interactive

Visuals

Immersive

With its well put together interactions accompanying its impressive character design, Summer Lesson provides one of the most immersive experience in the PSVR gaming landscape. The game does an amazing job at making the virtual environment and Hikari feel real. By being able to look around the environment and lean in any direction, the game makes it feel like you actually have a “presence” in its world. This becomes apparent when she sits next to you or leans in close to you, and you will find yourself wondering where you should be looking at.

Conclusion

This is not your typical game, it is something more than that. Being able to make the simple everyday activities rather enjoyable makes Summer Lesson a great starting point for a genre of interactive storytelling. It is also definitely a must-have for otakus with its “fan service-y” aspects.

TLDR
+ Easy to be fully immersed
+ Smart use of motion controls
+ Natural interactions
+ Cute Japanese school girl
– Short with some replay value