studio waspDec 9, 2016Free to playView on Steam ↗

Red Spider2: Exiled

"Red Spider2" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 200,000 words in total).

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875

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Red Spider 2: Exiled is a Hong Kong Noir style Visual Novel.
This is a prequel to Red Spider:Vengeance
There are 6 story routes with the different characters shown in the table below.
There are approximately 200,000 words shared between all the routes.

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Lycoris was allegedly a hostess that worked at the KTV bar, but in reality, she was a member of an assassin syndicate called "the Web".
She was working for Lau Kin Ming, a police inspector, to kill members of underworld mobs.
One day, Lau Kin Ming ordered her to kill his subordinate, Lai, because Lai discovered that he's using an assassin syndicate.
But she refused and killed Lau instead.
As a result, she is currently being pursued by the syndicate and Lai introduced her to Yeung Kwun, the leader of the Red Flower Society, an underworld mob that operated in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Yeung Kwun sent her to Bangkok to hide her from the Web.
In Bangkok, she happened to see Zhang Lei, her regular customer at KTV bar and also the leader of HH brothers, an underworld mob.
Wolf, Lycoris' childhood friend, accompanied Zhang Lei.
Meanwhile, a probationary inspector, Sam, and a senior constable, Chase, were investigateing the death of Lau Kin Ming.
Looking for evidence of who murdered Lau, Sam found his colleague, Lai, was with a woman from CCTV footage.
Sam suspected that Lai was involved in the murder.

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Recommended29h played6 found helpfulDec 2016

Red Spider 2: Exiled is a prequel to Red Spider: Vengeance (link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/537130), and the game would be much more enjoyable if you played that first since it builds on its predecessor. It's a visual novel, so the game lives and dies based on its story, so that’s what this review will focus on. Red Spider 2 opens up with the protagonist, Lily, killing a corrupt police officer in order to protect an innocent bystander (an event with consequences that served as the driving force for the first game's story) and the game deals with what Lily does as she tries to escape a death squad out to capture and possibly kill her - and while there are a few subplots (which mostly change depending on which of the six routes you choose) that help reinforce the themes of the main story, that’s what Red Spider 2’s plot revolves around. Instead of placing more importance on the plot and overall events, the game relies on its characters (who are impressively easy to get emotionally invested to, considering the short length of each route) to move the plot forward, which makes sense since this is Lily’s story and the player wouldn’t care about the story if they didn’t care about the characters first. Most of the cast consists of new characters not found in Red Spider, although there are a couple from the previous games that make appearances as well. The majority of the cast are based on existing archetypes, but are subverted in some way (such as how the strong sense of justice that Sam uses for his work contrasts with inadvertent injustice in his personal life). It’s worth noting that, as a prequel, Red Spider 2’s plot does a good job at lending additional nuance to its predecessor and connects with it very well. Often, prequels often don’t build on the story they’re preceding very well and there’s an odd disconnect, or they might even ruin the previous stories retroactively (for example, Valkyrie Profile 2 and arguably Star Ocean 3 both trivialise the events of the games that came before them), but Red Spider 2 thankfully avoids this by showing how characters from the original Red Spider got to where they are (although this is sometimes indirect, as with Shawn and Luk, who are not referenced by their original names). Red Spider 2 does have a “canon” route by virtue of being a prequel, but some of the ties to the original game are only found on those non-canon routes, so the game doesn’t invalidate or waste your time if you don’t make the canon choice. The game also has quite a few features that make it more convenient to replay once you’ve finished a route. On the load screen, there’s a route map that shows you which routes you’ve already completed and, if you click one of the branching points, you can load the game at that point and see the consequences of the choice you didn’t take before, which means you don’t have to replay the game from the beginning to view the consequences of the other choice (a feature that would be nice for WRPGs to take into account with the amount of decisions they have). There is also a trivia mode that explains the inspiration for certain aspects of the narrative and a sound test mode to listen to the music. Speaking of the game’s music, most of the soundtrack consists of public domain tracks (which are fine and fit the tone of the story well), but there’s also quite a bit of original music, composed by Yasunori Shiono (the main composer of the Lufia series, and also a former co-worker of Motoi Sakuraba) and Yukio Nakajima (the composer for Energy Breaker and Puzzles & Dragons). These tracks are very good and fit the story as well, but a drawback of them fitting the tone of the story is that they’re a bit difficult to distinguish from each other (the high usage of the piano might have been a contributing factor for this). As for complaints or things that the developer could have improved, the game has a significant amount of typos and grammatical errors, and these are all quite noticeable because of the large text size. The text always remains understandable despite these errors (you might expect a free game to have more errors because of the lack of budget, even), and the quality of the translation is good despite the game being free, so this doesn’t have a huge impact on the game. To some people, the “romance” aspect of the game might also be a bit off-putting since Steam has a lot of visual novels that focus on that and players (presumably) would have hoped for something different in the Red Spider series, but this aspect doesn’t harm the game (and it could be seen as a good point since it helps humanise members of the underworld and make them easier to relate to), so this isn’t something that the game should be avoided for. Red Spider 2: Exiled is free (as in, there’s no microtransactions) and it’s not a waste of your time (unless you dislike reading, but why would you still be reading my review, then?), so I'd recommend at least the first route if you've played the original Red Spider, and the other routes as well if you end up liking the first.

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