Ao is grabbing Hinako's breasts because there isn't going to be a new Blue Reflection game for consoles.
kusoge
That's okay, Hinako will just hallucinate Ao as a monster and kill her, just like she did all her other friends. This is why you don't take red capsules.
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>>733608264Booba
>>733608264did these games sell?
>>733608605Obviously.>>733608632I don't have access to the document anymore but there was something published by Koei Tecmo themselves that revealed the fact that toal Blue Reflection sales were at least 200,000 or 250,000 copies worldwide, so, kind of. For a series of only two games not counting the dead gacha game, it's something.
>>733608264Threesome with these two
>>733608632they arent real games. no one has ever bought a blue reflection game let alone played one. bizarrely, its all made up for seemingly no reason except for op to make off topic threads about a game that only exists in the collective minds of a handful of terminally online retards.
>>733609476I've heard good things about the game, but I haven't played it myself. I assume most people haven't played it
>>733609601I recommend them especially the second game but they aren't for everyone.
>>733608264Yeaaah... I was going to buy it for my little sister because she's into magical girls, but that shit is literally creepy yuribait. Hard pass
>>733610827Regarding the first game, yeah, it has yuri undertones or teasing at most, specifically because of this character. It's a game rated T for Teen but it's true that it's at the limit of what can be in a game with that age rating, Europe and Australia prove me right, Blue Reflection is almost a game rated M.
I just think Hinako's game would be better if she were a giantess and stuffed me in her bra. This would enhance the gameplay experience.
>>733612362What a crazy idea and something Gust would never do, very few Japanese developers would do something like that especially nowadays. I'll assume that you like the bra with floral hints.
>>733612949I do like that bra. And Compile Heart would maybe do that kind of thing. They made this after all.
>>733608264that isn't going to solve anything.
>>733613478...Right, Compile Heart published Gun Gun Pixies and it was even released in the west.>>733613549We know. Perhaps Atelier is the only Gust series with a future.
There may not be a third game for consoles but that doesn't mean that these two girls aren't great characters.
Ao looks cool.
Boy I hope no one starts posting Blue Reflection characters in their underwear haha, that would suck.
>>733616289The OP already has a bit of that, so, it's not ''very necessary'' compared to other threads...that said, I plan to post something specific soon and then the thread can die I would say.
>>733613478>I do like that braLook at it!Besides the fan art of the OP and this official art (>>733612949) where one can see a little bit of her bra of course.
if i want to play a magical girl game should i play this or magical girl witch trialsor something else?
>dude what if we just censor the sequel and then everybody will love our game and we will now sell bazillions :)
Huh, at least one person refused to let the thread die for now.>>733618791I haven't played Magical Girl Witch Trials but the Blue Reflection games are enjoyable especially the sequel, so, if you don't mind not having some context at first and a lack of attachment to the characters that also appear in the sequel, I say play the second game Blue Reflection: Second Light.>>733618964The first game has more fan service than the sequel but the sequel is better, it's almost like a case of ''pick your poison''.
>>733613837>No more Nights of Azure>No more Blue Reflection>No more Ceil/Ar no Surge>Perhaps Atelier is the only Gust series with a futureGrim
>>733620606It is what it is.
>>733620606wait why? why isn't Gust making games stilldid they get the disease all the other devs got where they can't make games in under a decade anymore
>>733621943Gust are still developing a lot of games, last year there were two new Atelier games not counting re-releases or DX editions of games that already exist, it's just that nowadays Gust mostly develops Atelier games, the last time Gust made something that wasn't an Ateleir game was Fairy Tail 2...which was released in December 2024, every Gust game after than one has been an Atelier game.
>>733608264Fresh out of fucks to give, I see.
>>733622246I get it, I think.
>>733610827You are massive faggot and your sister deserves better.
>>733622129did the new ateliers make too much money for anything else to be worth it or something?
>>733623468Atelier Yumia was the fastest selling entry in the series (300,000 copies worldwide according to a Gematsu article of March 28 2025, nowadays maybe 340,000 *at least*), Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian got positive reviews and it's considered a good game, and the gacha game is still alive in Japan for now, that's what I can say.Atelier games make money obviously, but ''too much money''? Who knows.
Ryza 3 and Yumia proved open world sells, Blue Reflection could become an open world RPG. But only with a male protagonist. The people that like female protagonist yuribait/CGDCT games don't buy games they play gacha
>>733625732...Blue Reflection also has female protagonists like Ryza 3 and Yumia (most Atelier games really), why specifically Blue Reflection could become an RPG but only with a male protagonist? Let's not forget that Blue Reflection Sun more or less failed for several reasons including the fact that it was the only thing in the franchise with a male protagonist (that doesn't even have an official name, so, he's not like Logy in that sense, at least Logy has canon name you can't change).There are a lot of games with canon yuri and undertones (including some Atelier games), more of those games are often being released, so the part of ''people who like explicit yuri and yuri subtext don't buy games they play gacha'' isn't very correct.Huh, I though that the thread was going to die...
oh this is the hanasaku iroha guy
>>733627294I don't get it.
Well, good night.
>>733618964Feminists deserve rape gulags. Not for reproduction but for torture.
>>733627442same artist
>>733627794Same artist as the fan art of the OP, huh? Interesting.
>>733620606I don't really care for the direction they've taken the Atelier series either, sadly.>>733627794I'm not familiar with Hanasaku Iroha, but it does look like Mel Kishida was involved with it.
It’s nice to see Blue Reflection threads propping up more and more often. Hopefully Gust will take note and make a proper sequel to Blue Reflection. With BRTie’s gameplay and BR1’s tone and setting. Also I wish the gacha would’ve survived. Would’ve probably been my favorite gacha ever had it made it across the ocean and stayed alive. But, alack, some things aren’t meant to be
>>733608794Of course the sales #s are shit. It's a $30 game they're trying to sell for $140. The math is not mathing
>>733628453I wish death upon all gacha without exception, but it would be nice to see Blue Reflection continue. It's a shame Asano left Gust, though. They have other skilled composers, but Asano's work with Blue Reflection was exceptional, and I'm not sure anyone else could achieve the same atmosphere in a theoretical sequel.>>733628467I don't know why you would inflate the price with all the DLC when none of the DLC is even particularly interesting, but it is kind of silly that a lot of games are never marked down in price these days. They maybe get larger discounts during sales over time, but the base price remains where it is forever. Blue Reflection also very rarely goes on sale for some reason.
>>733613478Pre-2020 Compile Heart and post-2020 Compile Heart may as well be two different developers, and the latter would never even think of doing that kind of thing, they don't have the balls any more since Snoy sawed them off.
>>733621943No, Koei Tecmo just relegated them to the Atelier mines after Ryza went viral and suddenly hit big bux, so now they're trying to pass Atelier off as a respectable AAA JRPG complete with all that entails.
>>733628467Too many A/AA Japanese JRPG devs nowadays are trying to get AAA prices for their games when they should realistically be 30-40$ at most. Compile Heart is a big example. A lot of the reason for the initial Neptunia Re;Births' momentum on Steam was the low prices, but now Compile Heart is seriously asking 50-60$ (higher if you want the digital deluxe for actual content-complete) for mobile-tier shovelware. That's not going to fly when you have games like TurretGirls made by actual passionate devs taking feedback and interacting with their fans making games on par with or better than modern Compile Heart games and only asking for 10$.
>>733629439More bras.
>>733629439including longer development times? or are we still getting 3 atelier games a year
>>733630050This guy is the king of drawing Totori in underwear. Look at this perfect petite frame and tell me you don't feel the urge to impregnate.>>733630341We've been getting them at a rate of about one a year since Ryza. That may be slowing down still since Yumia is clearly aspiring to AAA status.
is blue reflection just a regular-ass gust game or is it qualitatively better than their other stuff?
>>733630520She looks great swearing that! It really looks like something Inimagine Totori wearing for the most part.
>>733630678like if you made a gust ranking, is it the best gust game? or are there better gust games
>>733630678Gust is a pretty inconsistent developer, so I'm not really sure what would qualify something as a regular-ass Gust game. I'd say Blue Reflection has better characters/character development and aesthetics than their other games, but the mechanics aren't too impressive. The better Atelier entries are a lot better balanced, and generally just more interesting in that regard. BR1 has some pretty unique character customization, and BR2 has one of the best implementations of ATB I've seen, but both games are let down by really low difficulty (barring the unlockable difficulty modes in BR2, anyway.)
>>733630520That is pretty good. I hadn't come across their work before.
>>733628302he was the character designer yeah. I can really see it now. I think I'll be able to pick out his designs every time now
huh a physical copy of Blue Reflection costs $400game collecting is weird
>>733634429You obviously dont know what your doing. Where the hell you pulling that price from. Even Amazon, the begginers trap of used games has a reasonable price.
>>733634429I was surprised when I looked into what some of my games supposedly sell for a while back. A lot of semi-obscure old horror games and JRPGs have really shot up in value. Blue Reflection wasn't nearly that expensive last time I checked, though.>>733634383He does have a distinctive style.
>>733608358I have a hard time thinking of another instance of creators misunderstanding their own work so badly.
>>733635558He isn't voiced, he doesn't have a canon name and he isn't Ao's brother.
>>733608358i thought this game didn't have boys
>>733608358>Kill the series>Doesn't say anything>Leaves
>>733608264She like girls
Let's reflect on how well this thread went.
>>733640503what do you mean? have you tried to make threads before
>>733638134Only Blue Reflection Sun.>>733638581Not really but...almost.
>>733640503Yeah. Good one.
>grooping
Huh, in the end the thread survived the night, after posting that collage with Hinako's bra I was convinced that the thread was going to die at some point during the night but that didn't happen. Well, the thread almost dies in multiple points, so, I guess I'll post something 2 or 3 more images and then the thread can die.
>>733608264>because there isn't going to be a new Blue Reflection game for consoles.why not?
>>733646840The last console game was released in 2021, after that there was a gacha game only released in Japan, only available for iOS, Androird and PC, with a male protagonist, that's why.
Okay, here it is. Some people know that the fan art of the OP is a reference/parody to an event in the first game, event that involves Shihori and Hinako, Shihori tries to grab Hinako's breasts.
>>733646385you could talk about the game if you're concerned about the thread dying
The same thing posted above but in Japanese. In English she just says ''Hinako!'', so...it's not a bad translation.Anyway, this thread had more interesting and productive discussion than other Blue Reflection threads and it almost died multiple times, if the thread dies less than 2 hours after this post, it's fine.
>>733647631There has been discussion of the games and even Atelier, potential sales etc. The truth is, I really doubt that there is going to be a third Blue Reflection game for consoles, even Hayato Asano himself has said ''I doubt I'll work with Gust or my colleagues at Gust again'' but who knows, in any case, a new game is not likely.
>>733647864why do you specify 'for consoles'? will there be a PC only sequel?
>>733647947Because the last game (in general) was a gacha game that wasn't released for consoles, if Blue Reflection gets a new game, people want a new game that costs money for consoles and PC, not a free-to-play gacha game that isn't released for consoles unlike Genshin Impact for example.
Someone should make a wikipedia page for Takahashi AzusaSurely making Blue Reflection would make you notable enough
i like boobs and boob grabbing and boob clothbump
>>733613478>>733617496Let's not forget the back with the hook and/or eye clearly visible.>>733649335Okay...but boob cloth? You mean bras, I guess.
>>733649813Oh my...It was basically posted above already but that's the dialogue before Shihori just says ''Hinako!''
>>733649794yes, and bikinis and swimsuits and (some) tops
>>733649941I see. Different clothes with different appeal, it's what many people would say even in real life.
playing through the second game now.is healing going to be an issue in battles? i normally spend a few turns extra topping off during battles but i feel like it's going to be an issue down the road
>>733650030yeah, corsets too, maybe other things i forget now. some dresses also.
>>733650153Rena and especially Shiho got you covered. Unless you are playing on Hard or the highest difficulty Deathwish which are only available after you beat the game once, it shouldn't be an issue.
>>733652684Kokoro's huge chest is right there.Eh, here's Yuzu and Lime wearing swimsuits.
she's right behind me isn't she?
>>733654425She is.
underwear looks weird in the second game
I am sorry, but artstyle failed this vidya series. It looks like Made for women, like infinite nikky, and meanwhile it's coomer game.I really don't understand what were they thinking.
Hinako always looks serious or like she’s spacing out but, man, she can pull off a cute expression
>>733608264A Pragmata thread died for this LOL
>>733655315As already mentioned the Blue Reflection games for consoles and PC kind of have an identity crisis, especially the first one. On one hand, the emotional story, low difficulty, beatiful soundtrack with a lot of piano music and the fact that it's a simpliefied RPG where you don't gain experience with battles (only items) in the case of the first game are things that could be appealing for a female audience, not to mention the characters and their designs to a lesser extent perhaps...but on the other hand, the fan service, not to mention Shihori's personality and scenes are things that could be appealing for a male audience...the second game is more like a traditional RPG and, among other things, you do level up by getting experience through battles and it has less fan service than the first one, that said, looking at YouTube it seems that Blue Reflection has more female fans or women who like it compared to other series such as Mary Skelter, so, maybe Blue Reflection, like Atelier, was made for both men and women more or less? Like I said, identity crisis especially in for the first game.>>733655554That thread was made after this one, so, not really, but that doesn't matter.
>>733655576she's talking from experience, huh
Still can't get why they decided to make a male MC on the mobage about fucking lesbians magical girls. And even more, why a mobage when the first and second game didn't have sale records or something like that. I want a third (or fifth if we take the mobage and anime) entry now with the active turn base game from the newest Gust games.
>>733655404Yeah, it is rare for her to be quite that lighthearted.I like the silly expressions the characters make after crafting something.
>>733655084Some characters wear the same underwear as in the first game but Blue Reflection: Second Light looks a little better than the first one, at least on PS4 and PC. The game has better graphics and it also uses another engine, that said, there aren't scenes of characters in their undies unlike the first one, some people have played the second game using mods to put the characters only in underwear or swimsuits but yeah, Gust probably didn't update the models or textures, so, underwear can look weird in the sequel, at least two bras don't have full straps...
Speaking of underwear I noticed that Chihiro's panties don't have a bow/ribbon in the PS Vita version of the game, unlike the PS4 version where her panties have a ribbon. Her bra looks the same lower quality assets aside but her panties are slightly different between the PS Vita and PS4 versions. There are small graphical differences between versiosn, again, difference in quality of assets aside, I guess that small detail is one of them.In this case, PS4 wins...if you want bow panties.
>>733659178>In this case, PS4 wins...if you want bow panties.definitivelythe bra cup pattern much better and detailed, while on vita its just a line
There won't be any new BRs, will the mod creators be able to do anything more for the two games?
>>733659518Like I said, the PS vita version obviously has lower quality assets, her bra may be mostly the same but it's more detailed on PS4.>>733659654With the different mods from what I can see on YouTube and Loverslab, I don't think there's much more that can be done. There's a fangame being made with a version of RPG Maker but that's all and who knows if that fangame will be finished.
>>733656936Maybe Ao knows that her butt isn't bad.
>>733659654They're probably fairly difficult to mod, at least for anything more ambitious than simple model/texture replacements. No one is going to try seriously expanding the scope of the games if they have to hex edit the whole thing. It'd be more likely to see a fangame like Beyond the Oasis get somewhere.
>>733658532They thought that most people who buy RPGs for consoles and PC would play a free-to-play game with gacha mechanics I guess...Blue Reflection is another franchise that's been accused of mismanagement...it's kind of true...
>>733652684good stuff
>>733663554Aww.>>733665195Of course, it should be a pleasant bath.
>>733652684Right here is where the boner is created.
>>733665504Oh...Maybe Kokoro's breasts are so big that the swimsuit straps are in the air so to speak.
Oh hey another BR threadI beat the og game and overall I liked itI was the anon saying he wanted to sniff Hinako's panties, today I'll jerk off to Hinako in honor of this thread.Will start BR2 before the end of July
>>733666798You're honest, I like that. As already discussed, both games can be enjoyable to play and have their merits but the sequel is even better, maybe less ambitious and unique than the first game but it's a better game.
>>733659654Next blue reflection game will be a hentai yuri game
>>733665504i like this tooand a nice detail that they not simply made the swimsuit a lame texture only, but modeled it to behave that way.
>>733667047yeah second game seems more solid but like it has less sovlI heard is it censored but is it still a stinky otaku game at heart? The swimsuit screencap above seems to imply so
>>733669101Less fanservice than the first game but it's still a game with fanservice and what not, yeah. Small spoiler: Most of the suggestive/dirty dialogue in the game is related to Kirara or events where she appears.
>>733608358>Niche and yuri-friendly """"""""""""""""franchise"""""""""""""""""""""">Collabed with a shitty site that mandates all of its games to have a shitty male MC>Revisioned that this franchise was going to have a shitty male MC from the beginning>Completely destroyed the goodwill of the (yuri) fans that supported this deadass piece of shit franchise>Gachashit barely lasted 14 months
>>733669543Are there scenes with the girls in their undies like 1?
>>733670497No, like this post says (>>733658924) there aren't scenes of characters in their undies even though it would make sense in this scene, it wouldn't look out of place if at least one character was in her underwear during that short moment but no, all of them are clothed, Blue Reflection: Second Light just had mods that let you play the game with the characters in their undies but it doesn't have (mostly optional) scenes of the characters wearing only underwear, besides hair accessories maybe.
Why is Ao nowhere near as popular as Hinako?
>>733671339Very different characters but Hinako is better in the sense that she has more character development and grows more as a character than Hinako. I'm not saying that Ao is a bad character or anything, in fact I really like Ao and the fact that she wants to be something more than just normal but probably doesn't consider herself special may be very relatable to a lot of people, it's just that Hinako going from an introvert to someone with friends especially Yuzu and Lime, learning that there is more to life than ballet is...wow, something great to see, I consider Hinako one of the best female protagonist in video games, a human, flawed protagonist that develops throghout the game and is very likeable in the end.Ao is memorable and great but for different reasons, being the leader of a group and someone who has to make difficult decisions and feels pressure because she's in a position of leadership, she can also be likeable, funny and a character who cares about her friends and others...I can't deny that the fact that Hinako doesn't have to be a leader of anything unlike Ao is another thing that makes her more relatable than Ao in a way, she's a reflector but is not ''Yuzu, Lime, you two have to obey me'', they just fight together but are seen as equals and considered as such.There's also the fact that the first Blue Reflection was released in 2017, it's an older and Hinako may have more fan art because of that...Ao is a more recent character.Supposedly Ao ''has bigger tits than Hinako'' but I don't know if that's true, if it's true, that's...another aspect to keep in mind...
>>733672069*gros more as a character than Ao.
>>733671339Personally, I don't think Ao is as interesting or well-developed as Hinako. Ao is a fun and entertaining character, and I do like her as a protagonist, but ultimately BR2's story isn't as personal as BR1's, and it doesn't handle character development quite as well. Hinako is fleshed out better because BR1 is focused so intensely on her journey and growth.Aesthetically, I also prefer the look of Hinako's reflector form, and I like her design a bit more in general. She has a sort of gravitas to her that Ao lacks.
>>733672069cute twins
>>733670391''Piece of shit franchise'' is debatable but pretty much everything else is true.>>733675108Ao and Hinako aren't twins, they just might look like twins, especially in that fan art lol.
>>733675315Ao and Hinako do have a fairly similar appearance. Their height and builds are almost identical, and they have pretty similar hairstyles.
>>733677357Yeah, they obviously look kind of similar but aren't twins. Huh, maybe the artist likes busty girls with short hair, it's something common in games where the characters were designed by Mel Kishida.
>>733678874hmm
More Ao lying, but on a couch instead of the floor.
>>733678874uta is the canon love interest if you played both games and watched the anime you know this to be true
>>733658924Where's the Kokoro
>>733658710>they cheering>except the one on the left bottom, she looks like she's sinking in quicksand or water or somethingheh
>>733682558shes short
This thread is making me consider replaying the first game sometime. It was a one of a kind experience to relax to
>>733681974She's not in that image found on Loverslab.
>>733608264Why don't these games ever go on sale? I swear Atelier goes on sale like, every 2 months but Blue Reflection never does...
>>733654882why does she look like this
>>733682724looks funnyis she angry or jealous because she's small
>>733608358wtf? I thought this series was supposed to be yuri? what happened ;-;
>>733682558
>>733683797It's been several months since the last time the games were on sale, at least 6 months.>>733684102It's her transformation.>>733684313Kirara canonically has insecurity or a complex because of her height, she wants to be taller.
>>733684730KT is the only company I've seen that seems to regularly simply forget it has games that it could put on sale, I don't think its intentional even a lot of times, the first Toukiden game is the same way, they put 2 on sale and then just ignore 1
>>733684646hahaty
>>733670391>this deadass piece of shit franchiseit's the only company that doesn't make yuri that's another fucking Visual Novel so I can't hate them, I loved Night of Azure :D
>>733684102
>>733631852>but the mechanics aren't too impressiveThe first game's mechanics are actually really interesting and unique, it's just that you'll never notice unless you do a self imposed challenge run because the game by default is way too easy (and enemy variety is not great, even on a challenge run).The Ether gauge and Overdrive mechanic makes combat a lot different than in most turn based RPGs. It becomes a game of 'build Ether and buff up so you can do a 3x Overdrive chain to burst the enemies down', except you also have to spend Ether on other things like mitigating enemy attacks, speeding up your turns and sometimes on recovering HP/MP. So you're balancing between ether charging and defense (healing, buffs, knockback attacks) and MP consumption while you put yourself in a position to nuke your enemies down. I did a minimum level run with no equipped fragments and the later boss battles got super intense.
>>733682831Yeah, it's flawed in a lot of ways, but there's also nothing else quite like it.>>733685090I should probably get around to trying one of the Nights of Azure games at some point.
The thread got active all of a sudden...cool, this may get 200 posts soon.
>>733672069>>733672864I think they made a good decision with Ao -- if they'd tried to do a protagonist like Hinako again, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting as the first time around. Going in a completely different direction with a 'perfectly normal girl who is a chuuni that wants to be special' was an excellent decision, and it went well with the story, setting and other characters in Tie. The whole thing with the dates and all the dialog options wouldn't have worked anywhere near as well if Ao had been more like Hinako or Hiori and Mio.
>>733685437I agree with you, but as you say, there's not normally any need to engage with those mechanics. I can't really consider it a selling point of the game when the nuances of the system may as well not exist so far as the average player is concerned.I actually really like the fragment mechanic in particular; the way it lets you customize every ability is a fun and fairly unique means of powering up characters.I might try a challenge run of some sort if I get around to replaying it again. I would consider modding the game to rebalance some things myself if that was less of a pain in the ass to do. I've done some modding before, but only for games that actually have decent mod support.
>>733686538Yeah, when I say I like Hinako better than Ao and that Hinako is better developed, I don't really mean that as criticism of Ao. BR2 isn't quite the same sort of game as BR1, and Ao works well for the sort of plot and structure they went for in BR2.
>>733658924>>733659178why are all the girls in their underwear in this game?
>>733687282it would be weird and lewd if they would not wear any
>>733686780The only thing I wish had gone a little different is like... if one of the girls called Ao out on the fact that she is already special. Reflectors are pretty special by default, Ao is the leader of a group of reflectors, and then there's the reveal near the end of the game... It would have been interesting to see how Ao reacted to the fact that 'she already has what she wants'.
>>733687362yeah but it's not normal for people to only be wearing their underwear at school etc
>>733687282They made the mistake of electing Ao as their leader, and her first act was to force everyone to strip.
>>733686604I've made difficulty mods for games with nothing other than a file extractor, hex editor and debugger, I'm sure I could do the same here, but... I've had my fun with Blue Reflection and don't really feel like replaying it any time soon, even if I did really enjoy it. If anything I'm somewhat more inclined to replay Tie and see if the second playthrough difficulty modes make things more interesting... I did a similar self imposed challenge there but by the mid-late game I was just stomping everything anyway.
>>733687282One is the result of a mod and the other image is of a specific optional scene.>>733687362There are scenes where the characters aren't wearing any clothes, a character or multiple characters (mostly Hinako) taking a bath or shower, in the first game at least.>>733687656Hoshinomiya Girls' High School is exactly that, a high school only for girls, those mostly optional scenes are, in one way or another, justified by context, fanservice or not. Even considering optional scenes or interactions, most scenes in the game show the characters wearing school uniforms, assuming that one isn't using DLC.This is a screenshot someone posted recently...when it comes to games that can be played offline or don't require internet, there's always at least one person, somewhere, playing any game for the first time.
I still think that she's the character with the most suitable underwear, it's something I'll always think, it may not be the best design depending on who you ask but that cream-colored underwear is *perfect* for Shihori, the ''Alluring Admirer of All Things Beautiful''. I included the moment where her breasts are going through the floor...clipping issues are very common...Yes, it's not an exhaustive collage.
>>733687536I can't remember right now whether or not Ao ever actually confides in anyone about her desire to be special. I think she does come to undetstand that she's not exactly ordinary during the circumstances of the game, but she also recognizes that the circumstances of the game are potentially ephemeral and fleeting.>>733687949The highest difficulty mode in Tie does change things up a bit. On normal, I felt like I could barely distinguish between different characters and enemies, because any approach worked effortlessly, but on Ao Must Die I could actually get a feel for their strengths and weaknesses. It's still not a massive challenge, and you can still potentially become game-breakingly powerful later on, but it at least made me feel like I was actually engaging with the mechanics.If you do try it, though, I would consider not switching to that difficulty until after the first area, at least if you aren't carrying over any bonuses. I got through it, but you have so few options at that point that the first boss in particular is arguably more tedious than a fun challenge. Using 75% of your actions eating sandwiches gets old.
>>733652926LIME!
>>733608264A good a reason as any
>>733688827>I can't remember right now whether or not Ao ever actually confides in anyone about her desire to be special. I think she does come to undetstand that she's not exactly ordinary during the circumstances of the game, but she also recognizes that the circumstances of the game are potentially ephemeral and fleeting.I think by the end of the game that Ao really just wants to be with her friends more than anything else... which is equally ephemeral and fleeting. At least, until she repeats the events of the game so many times that the World System just gives up and lets her be reborn into the same time as everyone else. >The highest difficulty mode in Tie does change things up a bit. On normal, I felt like I could barely distinguish between different characters and enemies, because any approach worked effortlessly, but on Ao Must Die I could actually get a feel for their strengths and weaknesses. It's still not a massive challenge, and you can still potentially become game-breakingly powerful later on, but it at least made me feel like I was actually engaging with the mechanics.Hmm, maybe if I do a challenge run on this mode it could get pretty interesting... I'll see whenever I get the urge to replay it, might not be that soon given how many unplayed games my library contains.And yeah I remember the first area being actually quite hard, since I was avoiding most enemy encounters + not using fragments or stat boosting talents (only talents that unlocked new skills). It's mostly later on that it became too easy.
>>733690286Wearing a school swimsuit/one piece swimsuit.>>733690810Well, it's Hinako. Her breasts are above average.
>>733689471She's angry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FeE4EsBVU
>>733608358nice nigger shoes faggot thanks for killing my franchise
>>733650153Crafting food with good effets is where it's at.
>>733693162Such animosity...
>>733693351Food is really powerful, though I didn't really bother experimenting with consumables on normal difficulty because it felt pretty much impossible for enemies to overwhelm Shiho's healing.
>>733694573Beautiful art. And Yuri is a character that stands out. A canon neurodivergent character, very interesting! Neurodivergent or not, she's a great character.
>>733695002Yuri is one of my favorite characters in the first game. I also liked how her character events are structured a bit differently, and she ends up interacting with Hinako's other friends/supporters.
>>733692843What is that even supposed to be, anyway? Some sort of tofu stew? I'm not familiar with many food items that involve dark-colored cubes.
>>733697561Visually, it may be what you said, it really looks like tofu, there's not much else that it could be.
>>733695738me on the left
>>733701313What are you listening to?
why don't schoolgirl games sell better?
>>733608358BASED YURISHIT KILLER CHAD I KNEEL
haha it'd be really cool if these games were ever on sale
>>733702698it was on sale last juneI dunno why it's been excluded from sales since then
>>733702842As part of Gust's shift to developing only Atelier games, only the Atelier series gets to be discounted.
>>733608358Yuri slayer
>>733704067The name sounds cool.
>>733608264Lesbians are truly the best.
>>733685090Playing this now. Didnt know she had some subtle nipple bumps.Based
