The game returns players to the rural Japanese village of Iriki, following the protagonist and his childhood friend Ryoka Enomoto , a star basketball player.

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Players can experience their "last normal summer" together—set one year before the events of the original game—as well as the aftermath of the summer that changed everything.

Most sequels in this genre function as standalone applications, meaning the original game does not need to be installed to run the new title.