WTMG’s Oliver Shellding: “If you are all in on Bustafellows already, if you adored CollarXMalice or Code:Realize and can pick up the general information, then you’re in good company. Bustafellows: season2 has plenty of excellent voice acting, quirky romance beats and a couple of great developments that made me appreciate Shu so much more than the first title. But if you’re coming into otome games or visual novels in general, this is not a great place to start. It’s obfuscated in lore and inside stories, the pacing is wild and the implications about certain characters’ mental health is distressing, to say the least. While I adored many aspects of this game, the end result is a curtain crashing down on a play that’s gone two acts too long. The longtime theater kids will look past the flaws, but the average patron will be left bewildered why they aren’t just home, watching TV.”
