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Is the story finished?
I never played Blue Reflection Sun and I don't want to try, but I hope that the people who have played the game enjoy it until the end. F.And to think that today is the 7th anniversary of Blue Reflection in Japan, it's been 7 years since the release of the first game in that country...*if* the end of Blue Reflection Sun really is the end of Blue Reflection in general, then we can say that the franchise ended not with a bang but with a whimper (or a disappointment)...we'll see.
>>1439081>I hope that the people who have played the game enjoy it until the endI hope not. I hope they feel miserable about it.
At least they will finish the story even if they have to rush it. I hope we get another game but this is just copium at this point.
>>1439103Hopefully another game with harem. These JKs are asking to be punished.
>>1438995Maybe the ending is or will be rushed, but the story is finished, at least, I want to think that it's finished.
I really hope some anon could archieve the game and all of its assets so we can mod it offline later
>>1439261Be the change you want to see
>>1439324I cant even log into the gameLot of anons here have been playing since months. They can share the game assets (APKs + obb files + something else I forgot)
>yuri-lite magical girl franchise>go full hetWhat was the point of fracturing an already niche franchise?
>>1440229Surely some fired executive thought it was the path to success
>>1440295Mel wanted a male mc since the first game but got shot down until now.
>>1440473Gust should stop working with him forever.
>>1440665He's so hilariously proud of creating a self insett.
On a serious note, are there any repositories of BRA cards? I am down bad for some of these girls.
>>1441109https://exhentai.org/g/2860619/a65f2d2225/
Mel just confirmed that he had to censor a lot of stuff because he tried to appeal to a global audiencehttps://twitter.com/mellco/status/1775015963785904451
>>1441427I feel like you should worry about this after your game is confirmed for a global release.
>>1441427What global audience lmao
>>1441427This says nothing about a global audience. He just said he wanted more people to understand it, most likely self-inserters.
>>1441427>make game that runs purely off A E S T H E T I C>gameplay is terrible>decide to expand games universe by appealing to more audiences>shoe string budget anime that didn't even have an official home release>greater scope sequel game is at best just okay>self-insert gacha game in a fucking magical girl franchiseI promise you anon, Blue Reflection's failure has nothing to do with the lack of feet shots and bath tub scenes.
>>1441679>Blue Reflection's failure has nothing to do with the lack of feet shots and bath tub scenesYes it does
>>1441427Global audience???
>>1441427>Said the Yuri was completely accidental>Didn't realize people enjoyed Yuri>Made the emperor self insert since he wanted romance>Expected it to be well received because he liked it>Didn't expect it to do so poorly >Angry fans didn't like his self insert >If given the chance would make br again>Would again add a male self insertIs this guy just a fucking dumbass? No sense of self reflection.
>>1441801I dont see how making the first game with a male self insert would have been that difficult in the first place, maybe hes a sore loser that his male protag wasnt as well received as he thought.
>>1441427This franchise is doomed
>>1441808I'm sure someone at Gust talked him down by blaming tech limitations. I personally don't think it's even worth talking about stuff like his "vision" for the franchise because at the end of the day, I don't think there really is a coherent one. >>1442000We've known this Ray.
>>1442061Who knows maybe if it started as a hetero harem franchise (if that was indeed the plan) and built a fanbase from there it could have saved itself, the only appeal from this genre shift was making the yuri part of the existing fanbase to leave, I guess that appeals to some people.
>>1441427>You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their PostsLmao is he afraid of getting backlash or something?
>>1442834It's still showing for me
>>1442836Are you following him?
>>1442839Nope but I'm logged in if that makes a difference
>>1442845Kek I know the reason now. I'm actually blocked by him.
>>1442849Heh good riddance
>>1442851I never actually interacted with any of his tweets. If I'm blocked that would mean he was seething at me talking about yuri under a few of BR Sun's tweets early last year. Looks like this guy really loves his self-insert. This is so fucking hilarious.
>>1442865What the hell, that's so bizarre
>>1442904This happens often when a male writer discovers his writing appeals to women,not other men.They somehow think they didn't write a straight enough story and overcompensate so hard they lose both audiences.
>>1442914He isn't a writer, but an artist. The gacha's writer did Ar Tonelico and co before. The normal games were written by other people as well.
>>1438930Is really no one going to rip the 3d models? How do you extract the assets?
>>1442914>writerRetard
Which reflectors where built for stacy FeMC Ao and which were built for self-insert kun?
>>1443522Yes you are.
>>1443690Keep doubling down sister
>>1441427>global audienceDid he mean the whole franchise was censored? Or just BRS?
>>1445437Whole franchise after 1
>>1445546And that's one reason Tie and Sun failed?
>>1446206Tie was just a normal game. The anime failed, and this obviously. No surprise with Sun though. The problem just exists when different people do different parts. People who liked BR 1, will likely enjoy 2 (Tie) as well, because it's the same team. But the anime was written by someone else and garbage. And then the gacha ended up doing things once again so differently, the fans of the game(s) largely don't give a shit. But a lot of fans of Ar Tonelico give no shit about BR, completely aside of potentially not even KNOWING that the BR gacha is more that than BR.This was a multi-media project done wrong.
BasedSelf insert fags take another L
>>1446216Am I reading this right? This gacha game was closer to Ar Tonelico than BR? I need some context. I loved the PS2 games.
CASE 10 part 2 it's out nowhttps://twitter.com/BRSUN_game/status/1777607383281447328
>>1446695>more JK slutsnice
>>1446695As long as Hinako gets a happy ending I'll be happy
>>1446695>>1446756Pantsu?
Mel posting some Yukiko designs that will never make it to the game now
>>1447411
Also this
>>1447413
Any updates ripping the 3d models and the other assets?
>>1448350No gachafag knows about game rpping or any kind of job. Go ask /wsr/ or /agdg/
>>1448658Playing gacha is a full time job
Is this the only banner we're getting? Should I start dumping everything I have in there?
>>1441427and here, i was waiting for a global release, TT, I'll stick to atelier
Happy birthday Hiori
Looks like they're still going to do the whole log in to get a 10pull ticket of the birthday character
>>1450018I want to blow a load inside her
>>1450018>>1450019Post Hiori pantsu
>>1450224There you go, her panties...in Blue Reflection: Second Light.
>>1442817It was magical girl/slice of life girl drama stuff with some extremely light yuri on the side. It wasn't just the yuri audience they drove away and I doubt they were the majority of the fanbase in the first place.I'd say it's a similar audience to Atelier. It has yuri elements but that's not necessarily why people are there.
The next part of Case 10 comes out tomorrow
>>1447411>>1447412butt spikes
>>1450624>extremely light yuri>like AtelierLiking Gust games in general isn't weird, but unlike Atelier, Blue Reflection 2 has a not deniable explicit lesbian pair. That's more than a ton of "yuri" games can offer, especially because this pair isn't just some minor side cast, but actually part of the main cast.In other words it's more explicit than Nights of Azure, another yuri-ish Gust game. (with god awful gameplay, because the only Gust thing was actually the name and music, but the actual dev was named differently before and the staff just transferred due to TK branding)It's just a weird project. If you wanna do Ar Tonelico, do that. If you wanna do Blue Reflection, do that. Why call it one thing and make the other? I said this before, but I like both but would never want one to be the other.
>>1450941My point wasn't about how explicit the yuri in either series is, it was that they both have a wider audience outside yuri and that most of that audience was also pushed away by BR turning into a self insert harem story. I don't know what Mel was smoking when he decided the same audience that enjoyed character driven magical girl slice of life high school drama would want to see those same characters in a harem. Maybe KT/Gust have been tard wrangling him this whole time and dealing with DMM finally let him loose.
>>1450498What about her pantsu in Sun?
>>1451098If yurifags were only a minority of BR fans, why were they the ones most upset about Sun being a harem game?
>>1451135>minoritychecks out
>>1451134Who knows. Maybe the design is the same, Lime wears the same underwear in Blue Reflection Sun, it just looks lower resolution compared to the PS4 games, so, perhaps Hiori wears the same panties in Blue Reflection Sun.
>>1451862Blue Archive games in general look very low budget. I've seen indies that mog the fuck out of these. Nip publishers always doing the bare fucking minimum.
>>1452820*Blue Reflection
>>1438930Good riddance. I hate it when games get gachafied. I hope the devs of Tie and Sun choke on cocks for making Ruka non-existent after Ray.
>>1453025You must be a Ruka fan then.
CASE [Last] on Friday https://twitter.com/BRSUN_game/status/1783405590771044784
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueReflection/comments/1cd4ibg/need_help_with_old_assets_for_sun/Wait someone's making an offline version of the game?
>>1458202which I could help the guy but only played the game on mobile
>>1458202What a based lad. Best of all is that if he succeeds it won't be tied to Kike Tecmo.
Well that it. The main story is over. What did you think about it?I'm so tired I'll do the story missions later during the day
Characters gacha for EoS6% change to get a 3* character
Frag Card gacha for EoS6% change to get a UR card
>>1458542Chance should be guaranteed
>>1458540I didn't understand anything and it sucked. Apparently it just continued into Second Light regardless? but it's a different loop. Also Shiho and Aleshia suddenly love each other for some reason. I wish I could just forget this story.
>>1458630>Shiho and AleshiaBased
>>1458202Did he rip the pantsu?
good, another "yuri" lbgt game bites the dust.
>>1459087You might be retarded. It was the exact opposite of that.
>>1459103good, another lbgt "yuri" game bites the dust.
>>1458630Did it at least tie all the loose ends? There were quite a few left, like Ao's backstory, what led to the World System's creation, the Shijou family, whatever happened to Uta between Ray and Tie. Also, the story was always hinting at Ayami playing a more significant role towards the end, but did that big reveal actually happen? She obviously knew way more than she let on, but I gave up on following the main story after Chapter 8 since it was going nowhere
>>1458202For fucks sake remove GameGuard and such anti tamper protections. The game ever run with those enabled. I want to play on desktop too
>>1459124nothing got solved.
The final battle with Uta doesn't even have original music...disappointing but not surprising.
>>1459790She's the Final Boss?
>>1459830Yes, she is, and the music for the final battle is Toshitake -Hien-...
Lmao the timing of this https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1784361131504468247
Can someone explain the ending to me?What the fuck happened?
>>1459830Yep
>>1458433The situation is quite crappy at this point, so I might as well give a try to check assets for mobile. I didn't investigate it yet but I might not be able to use them as is for PC version because of possible incompatibility, aside of being obviously lower resolution (which sucks but better than nothing). So I probably would have to manually "convert" ~50 files, not sure if I would still have enough motivation to go through that.>>1459084I don't know a thing about 3D models. Necessary assets are certainly there, and there is no protection to read files. Most likely you can easily get what you need.>>1459153As far I know, devs disabled GG at some point, I think it was about 2 months ago. Some files of it are still in game folder but I am quite positive they don't do a thing. The very least, it does not give me any errors which it would normally produce.
>>1460003No one understood what it mean so wait a few weeks we get a grasp or more events to explain it
>>1458202>>1460041How different is this game from Atelier Resleriana? Wasnt it meant to be the same game but different skinned?If one gets offline patched then other one will happen too. You may use Resleriana for PC version
>>1460179Not really sure why you would ask me that question. I didn't play and have no plans to try Atelier Resleriana so can't comment on how it was meant to be and if anyone would try making offline version of it.I played and likes first two BR games and played Sun, and despite not liking Sun I still wanted to try preserving it anyway because it's most likely the end of the series.
>>1460179This game wishes it was Atelier Resleriana.It was fucking garbage and I'm still mad I even bothered playing it.
About assets request, looks like I can use files from Android version, so I updated the post on Reddit. If you have suitable files, please let me know.
>>1460923I do have them all the way down to catalog 1.6I'm working right now and if my home internet isn't ass I'll try to upload the files you need
>>1460923Also since we're on the topic of assets. Is there any change that you can rip the 3D models and upload it somewhere else? It would be a shame to lost all those models specially now that we have an official 3D model of Reflector Uta
>>1461086Great, really hope that it works out!>>1461087Like I mentioned on Reddit, there are model files which are implied to be fbx but I don't know how to handle them for unity case, For example, UABEAvalonia seems to recognize the content but how to export them - I don't know. Almost all game assets will be supplied with offline server, including models and textures, so it won't be fully lost for time being,Just in case, here all files related to models, as far I can see - https://mega.nz/file/5c8RSTjD#7uRF2KMUkHK15NaX12gm4snIlBJWlfde5-mGybI67cQarp24d
>>1461157>Just in case, here all files related to models, as far I can seeHoly molly thats neat! I'll love to check them on my free time.For the Android files here's the stuff I have: https://gofile.io/d/K5whFmI triple checked my files and I couldn't find these folders:29975f733d718a7c03e3d00dd32142dc5191a17d71f872fec03f11d63900bc30563f48138224b950d1a68f1517703fd475b7fa82e697f079f0500fc3472072fb78959a85175dd24397bae1e42b9b6949a7c5792b6c2585807ea76adfbdac426ad71107b37bbe43027138052f526ea2add85e1dc3cb91b16610d47dca2ffc67c0db661c4f63d98b6d6831e478fc1ce835
>>1461166Thank you! But unfortunately, it did not have old assets as well. It happened a number of times already that I am not sure anymore, either you also had your cache reset when gameguard was added, or the game actually clears some older assets on its own.
>>1461196Well that fucking sucks
Atelier Resleriana player here. Can someone explain how these Unity files work? What should I look for?>>1461196>or the game actually clears some older assets on its own.Did list files since three last versions or Resleriana and can comfirm the game DO delete them and replace them with similar size filesFor example events screen get replaced every update so it always contains all the available events hence last update has a smaller final size
>>1461157>Encryption Key RequiredWell, that's great. Can you upload the sound-related files also?
>>1461273That's weird, somehow some extra text appended at the end of the link ("arp24d"), not sure why. Let's try again - https://mega.nz/file/5c8RSTjD#7uRF2KMUkHK15NaX12gm4snIlBJWlfde5-mGybI67cQ. Sound files - like music, or in a broader sense?>>1461267Damn if it's so. From what I could see, Sun generally keep older version of assets (it's like "some_file_abc/revision_2", "some_file_abc/revision_5" etc), but I didn't have an opportunity to see how many it can keep if it's limited. So far I have seen 5 revisions for a single asset file.
>>1461322A broader one. Character Voices from the Story, to the Events, to the Battle quotes.
>>1461327Alright. Unlike 3D model files, I have some idea about using sound files, I checked music files at some point. Those are FSB5 (after you extract data from asset files ofc), I personally used a script for QuickBMS (script https://pastebin.com/ERC6Du5S, was once on their forum but iirc it got lost or something) to convert them to something that I could play in foobar, most likely same approach works for other sound files.Btw, better to backup archives that I post if needed, I don't plan to keep them for long.https://mega.nz/file/5VdFXQKB#KeWMwSorVON-O1GSmvZUgX7FBnXP6lqplrP02IFi6-c
>>1461362Nice!Thanks for all the hard work
Whats the status on offline mode and local server?
>>1461609I have most of things done. Functionally it's finished, I am just trying to fix the issue of missing very old assets for events (need to find those who played it during Feb-June 2023 and not later, did not find anyone at all so far), and release right after eos happens (so in June).
>>1461362Just finished downloading the .zip file since MEGA decided to be a bit of a snail than I expected. I will try and see if that script of yours works like a charm. Thanks for the hard work, bud.
>>1461636Could you give me hand?Im trying to achieve the same but on Atelier Resleriana Steam version. So far I only got rid of Steam DRM (the game stucks after KT splash screen)What should I do next and how?
>>1462335Well, it's quite individual, case by case. Without checking the game myself, I can only give general suggestions which not necessary would work for Resleriana.The core thing would be figuring out game API, the way it communicates with official server. From what I have seen lately, majority of games use AES for network encryption, and a number of times I have seen them using Protobuf for network data. Personally, I find it easier to investigate Android versions of games (well, partially because I hardly had games with Windows client) because it's easier to setup a proxy to intercept game traffic. I personally use mitmproxy as a proxy, it supports SSL (if you install certificate, you need root on phone/emulator) and scripting (Python)As far I can see, the game uses Unity. So, I would personally suggest first to try Il2CppDumper on Android version to extract text data (stringliteral.json). There you might try to look for base64 strings and see if you get mentions of proto in decoded data. If yes then quite good, though it's going to be a pain to extract and compile the full list of those, not going to cover it here. Second thing would be trying to look for weird random strings of letters/digits/characters which are exactly 16 and 32 characters long - some of those most probably are keys and IVs for AES encryption which might be used for network encryption or/and game data. You would need to experiment with those and try to decrypt game traffic (some game were passing IV in request headers).That would be first thing I would be trying first.
>>1462379>custom proxy>rooted phone>emulatorHow did you not get banned?
>>1462485Generally if game developers don't like emulators or root, they would do their best to make the game not runnable.In my case, I don't really need root all the time. Enable root, add SSL certificate for proxy, and revert root back. For emulator you might not even need root if you have means to add certificate file by other means like editing data file/image. And proxy, I haven't seen games which would have issues about network proxy, and it's not that trackable if it's used.
>>1438930Rest in piss and good fuckin riddanceHope they force Mel to commit seppukuToo bad about the franchise tho i would have been better if it just quietly died after second game rather then last game being this abomination
I think Mel has lost ithis account has just been him posting pictures of himself crossdressing
>>1463858He's crossdressed many times before and he's currently doing it as a gimmick for the maid cafe he runs.Plus he's always been insane.
>>1463862I know he's done it before but the frequency in which he's now posting made me assume he went nuclear.
>>1463869EoS broke him...
