I interviewed the designer and programmer on Aleste 2, and he told me this story:
Just as a side note, a man named Takayuki Watanabe was the designer for Aleste 2. Most of the story was written by him. He writes a manga called Compile Club, an in-house comic series, and there's a story in that where Ray Waizen, the main character of Aleste, comes back. There's a scene where the daughter throws a bouquet of flowers and wails "Faaather!" and then Ray Waizen comes out, and she's like, "Oh, you're alive!" The story is described in this comic and the game follows that.
It's very difficult to find any info on the Compile Club magazine, or this specific comic.
Has anyone seen it?
If not, I'm going to illustrate the interview using comics from the Aleste 2 manual, and a photo of him throwing the invisible bouquet.
