The Noelle segment of Butterfly Soup 2 alone makes it one of its favourite games ever made. It is sweet, both beautifully and painfully honest, and girls play baseball in it. It makes it so happy, and few things can do that for it. Below is it commenting on the critiques the person below gave, which is fine - you don't have to like everything - but it has been dissuaded by critical comments before. Keep in mind there are spoilers.
[SPOILERS BELOW IF YOU WANNA PLAY COMPLETELY BLIND]The person below it is probably a lovely person, but they are also wrong.
Butterfly Soup 2 continues beautifully from the original, and it fleshes out the girls' central personalities. In the focus on Min and Diya in the first, Noelle and Akarsha's contrasting anxieties and personalities - Akarsha burying her despair behind a layer of humour and Noelle feeling lost in a world she has the awareness to understand but no ability to change.
The "inclusion crisis" being described as shoehorned feels ignorant of the nature of the plot. For one thing, it's a coming-of-age story. There needs to be coincidence and messiness following the path of life. Min's greatest strength and flaw is her confidence, so throwing a wrench into that is an important theme for her character. Secondly, Bigotry is a constant, and the way Min's biases were handled felt true to her character, as well as the burying of her guilt.
Describing the main pairing as forced is... odd. First of all, romance story, What did you expect? Noelle and Akarsha constantly lived rent free in eachother's minds throughout the first game, they wouldn't shut up about eachother, and also they are teenagers. The idea that there is some kind of inconsistency here feels at odds with the genre conventions. They don't have years of history together, but that's why their relationship is less solid than Min and Diya's in the first game. This is new to both of them, and is a story about their developing emotional honesty between eachother and with their own sexuality.
As for how the game handled sex, it thought it did it fine. The game handled sex with the strange twisted eye a certain kind of teenager does - this omnipresent idea that is attractive but intimidating. It thinks it reflects the characters - and specifically Noelle, excellently. This is why the epilogue scene is so important - they handled the situation with real frankness.
It writes all of this because it feels very close to this game and close to its earnestness and sincerity. No story about teenagers should be a tight series of Chekov's Guns going off - it should be messy! It should be chaotic and stupid and weird!