It's been a while since the release of Blue Reflection Quartet and I really don't think that Gust is going to make another game, betweeen the censorship mostly of the first game (Second Light is slightly censored too), the fact that most of the DLC is missing, the bad adaptation of Blue Reflection Ray, the questionable male main character who doesn't even have a name, the possible lower sales compared to previous releases etc, I don't have hopes for another game but we'll see...IF a new game is released someday, it's not going to be next year at least and if a new game is released, it's not going to be for Nintendo Switch anymore...Blue Reflection Quartet wasn't released for PS4.The collection is fine, the new features for the first game and Second Light are nice but even so, they aren't exactly ''definitive editions'' of those games and are more like ''enhanced ports'' (without most of the DLC) at best, it's weird but even though I don't regret buying the collection and what not, Blue Reflection Quartet is difficult to recommend...to anyone.
I forgot to mention...the fact that Quartet finally allows you to put Hinako in a winter uniform (only in Second Light) is something I like, that's something that the collection has in its favor.
It's on sale right now which is rare for Blue Reflection games. Sounds like they're squeezing out as much money as they can until it's dead. Oh well, at least we still have Atelier...
>>751282614Wowzers, that looks cool.
Hinako...OATS
>>751281516>the questionable male main character who doesn't even have a nameThere's a BR game with a self-insert? Which one?
>>751284990Blue Reflection Sun, it was originally a gacha game for iOS, Android and PC, the original version died a long time ago and can't be played anymore officially, and now, Blue Reflection Quartet includes Blue Reflection Sun without gacha mechanics and a combat system based on the ATB combat of Blue Reflection: Second Light...it's mostly the same thing but without the one-on-one duels and even easier than Second Light, in fact, Blue Reflecton Sun is easier than the first game, which is saying something. It's one of the least enjoyable parts of the collection, both the first game and Second Light are better.
>>751285450Ah shucks, sounds like they butchered it.
Ao is the best
>>751286317She gives Hinako some good competition, that said, they are very different characters personality-wise.
The four girls that appear on the cover (and Meiqi).
>>751281516>Blue Reflection Quartet is difficult to recommend...to anyoneThat's fine, Blue Reflection never needed to become a series in my opinion, but I'm also biased as I only really liked the first one. Although it was blatantly unfinished and a really shitty friendship simulator, it felt like the only "true" mahou shoujo game of the series to me, and also the only consistent entry. Where the sequel scatters its focus across shifting tones and a sprawling cast, the first Blue Reflection holds firm to one long, melancholic note. It’s rough and clumsy in places, yet remarkably true to its own heart. Which is what the game was all about.
>>751288934I like Blue Reflection: Second Light but well said.
>>751281516I do wish Quartet had been handled better.>>751282614That would be more consolation if I still liked the series. I don't really care for the direction they've gone with it.>>751286317I like Ao, but not quite as much as Hinako, Yuki, or Uta.>>751288934I still really enjoyed Second Light, but I get where you're coming from. Second Light is more well-rounded and a generally better executed game, but it lost some of the things that make the first entry unique.
>>751290759Kei fan art, yay!
>>751292346It's a shame she isn't more popular.
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>>751292914I agree.>>751292978Aww. Such great art, every image of Kei's birthday.
a fat ugly bastard mc would've saved this series
>>751294419Of course not.
>>751290042I wonder if the fact that the video starts with a focus on her chest is just a coincidence?
>>751296148They must have thought it was important to show off the ribbon physics.
>>751296883Oh, maybe, I've seen the ribbon physics in action.
Mr. Leader.
Hinako's chest is going to burst.
>>751281516Does Karia has genderless shirt and shorts as swimsuits for females and topless for males? As Japanese console games cannot have bikinis while American console games can have nice bikinis in OW, Fortnite and GTA6. While Estelle got swimsuit censored from bikini in 1st to gender neutral shirt in 2nd(in 1 year)...
>>751299196Did she get infected by a Yuki parasite that's about to burst out of her?
>>751299851The throughline from Blue Reflection to Alien that these threads have lightly established is perhaps one of the silliest consequences of said threads.
>>751299196I hope she's okay, Hinako isn't the bustiest girl in the first game!
would be fun to draw something for the thread but I don't wanna be in lunaticsoda's radar
>>751300873gateKEEPIN'
>>751299851They're pretty closely related if you think about it. They both have a traumatized girl defending humanity from an alien threat, and Lime is practically a synth. They could practically be the same series!
>>751300873= )
>>751301390Mao and Lime in the same pose for some reason.
I've had my imported copy for the Nintendo Switch for some time now, and I've had plenty of time to think on it. Well, I've been playing it in a laid back "whenever I feel like it" kind of mood, so I'm still playing the first game in the collection. Lol. But I'm at the end. >>751282614I love Sophie 2 and Lulua so much. I haven't played Ryza 1 very much yet, but what little I did play seemed good. I have a copy of all 3 Ryza games for the Nintendo Switch, but I need to actually play them. Yumia, too.
>>751298532They put Kishida in the game?!
>>751302114He wishes he looked like that, "Leader" is more handsome.
Even so, I was thinking for a long time how strange it was to not have Blue Reflection 1 on the Nintendo Switch. It always seemed like a perfect fit for the system's form factor, so it's good to finally see it on that platform. But, well. I'm probably the only person who views the Nintendo Switch as a low-budget JRPG machine rather than a MarioZelda machine. Lol
>>751290042What do you dislike about the current direction of the Atelier series? Just the lack of a time limit, or something... else?
>>751302195It can be a GREAT system for JRPGs.
>>751301653Sephiroth/Sephira aren't aliens but anyway.
>>751302262Indeed. I have all of the available Atelier games for the Nintendo Switch, as well as Neptunia. And now Blue Reflection.
>>751301390Kind of subtle Hinako's cleavage.
>>751296883I like that filename.
>>751302231That's the biggest thing, as that has a lot of knock-on effects impacting how the games are designed and play, but it kind of feels like the series has been abandoning other aspects of its identity as well, and shifting towards being more traditional/generic JRPGs. As an example, a lot of the older games have a very loose, character-driven story in which the protagonist is trying to achieve a personal goal rather than reacting to some villain/threat, but it seems like they've been shifting towards more structured, higher-stakes narratives. I don't think that's inherently bad, but it is less unique, and it potentially influences how the game is structured. It's tricky to both have a strong focus on a linear story and to afford the player as much freedom regarding how to approach the game's objectives as in something like Atelier Totori.
>>751281516Yet I still have hope and ask when's a new gust IP
>>751302114He would probably be a more interesting protagonist.
