The following is a guest blog post from Celso Riva, head developer of Tycoon Games, as well as Winterwolves. Their popular games include: Spirited Heart, Summer Session, Bionic Heart, Universal Boxing Manager among others.
Heileen 2 is the sequel to a popular visual novel game released last year. Like the first game, it features beautiful manga artwork, and is placed within a historical backdrop during the 17th century. Other than that, players will jump into the game and soon realize that this part 2 is entirely different from the prequel. In the story of Heileen 2, our heroine finds a deck of magic tarot cards related to the 7 Deadly Sins/7 Heavenly Virtues that have incredible powers. Using them she can go to sleep and have vivid dreams that will help her on her journey to leave the deserted (but is it really deserted?) tropical island where she was shipwrecked at the end of first episode.
She is there only with Ebele and Robert, two ex-slaves, but soon after she also finds Black the cat, who had a minor role in the first game, and now is a sort of spiritual guide for Heileen.
From the technical side, the game revamps the old quest system, which was present in the first episode, offering a full review of active, completed and failed quests. The quests now total 20, and the endings have increased in number as well; there are seven endings for both the seven Virtues and the seven Deadly Sins, plus an extra ending.
The game breaks away from the standard visual novel linear game play in that it allows the player to choose the order in which Heileen dreams. Picking different answers will lead to different situations every time. Just in the first part of the game there are over 80 different possible choices!
In sum, Heileen 2 is a game recommended to anyone who loves mystery, tropical islands, cute characters and… black cats!
