Finished both the first game and Tie just now and wanted to discuss it. Despite the first game being pretty bare bones gameplay wise and the second one being way too easy with how many ways to get overpowered, I genuinely loved these two games in a way I hadn't felt before in a long time. Great OST, girls are cute, themes of friendship done in a way that doesn't just feel like stale tropes, Tie in particular really was able to capture that feel of summer vacation coming to a close especially I got closer to the end of the game. Wish there was a future for this series but it seems like the mobile game was a gigaflop and Mel Kishida seems like he's moved on. Anyone else have thoughts?
Killed by gacha, couldn't have happened to a nicer series. Tie was the best one for sure.
Hinako canonically has stinky feet!
There's also an anime. But yeah the series is dead, RIP
>>3828436The gacha should have just been another normal game entry. Especially since Tie has characters from it and directly references events in it as well and now it's EoS'd and there's no way to play it (though I heard the gameplay was even more simplified than even the first Blue Reflection and the story was half assed because they had to rush it to completion.) Shame because Shiho ended up being my favorite character in TIE but all her development is in the gacha.
>>3828691This series suffered from trying to be a multimedia project when it really should have just been a series of games. The anime wasn't bad, but it didn't need to be 24 episodes with some of the cheapest looking animation that nowhere near captures Mel Kishida's style. Also no reason why Sun should have been a gacha with a male self insert protag when the appeal of the series is about the friendship between girls, turning it into some military style harem try and ape the style of Azur Lane/GFL just doesn't work for this series.
>>3828388I would love to play another game like Tie, even just a vn, its atmosphere and feeling are really good. Also great osthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCbWX_jnmQ&list=PLEKvUmoaoj_a_aA3Iy4LUSnLTpx6OmceB&index=11&ab_channel=complex7727
>>3829053what a way to ruin this series, by turning it into haremshit
I just play it for the legs
I probably haven't gone two days without thinking about this game since 2017. Never got into the sequel though.
>>3829647Based girl fetishist. The second game is definitely an improvement on the gameplay aspect but it does lose a little bit of mundane slice of life charm from it not taking place in the real world
>>3828388>a nipple poking outpls make a 3D eroge , nippons!>>3829647i need to cum too.
>>3828548And that's a good thing!
>>3829452For me, it's the first game's battle themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5QeYzIf1k>mfw Hinako joins the party in Tie>mfw Overdose actually starts playing before her first fight>tfw it doesn't actually become a regular battle theme
>>3829846The lore seems like it got bloated too. The battle system unfortunately never grabbed me either.
>>3830578The lore isn't that difficult to follow, the timeline is pretty straightforward but yeah going into Tie not realizing that it references the manga and gacha can be annoying, even though you don't really need to experience either to enjoy it. The battle system is pretty much Atelier lite which is fine for what it is. I do actually like the 1v1 system with counters and dodges and really wish it was implemented into the base system better.
>tfw Japan got this as a preorder bonusRena's dyke feet and bubble butt...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGxT5_wZwoThis guy is slowly translating every cutscene from the dead gacha, including all events and main story. Not sure how he's getting all the scenes but it's neat that it's happening since I doubt there's any chance of it coming back. Ideally I'd like for them to release an offline version as a standalone game with real gameplay but that's just a dream at this point. Plus I'd rather they change up the story entirely and remove the random male self insert character who isn't even voiced yet for whatever reason is far more integral to the story that he should be.
A Blue Reflection thread on vrpg? Cool. I like the Blue Reflection games especially Blue Reflection: Second Light, they aren't games for everyone and the fact that they only have Japanese voices is in itself something that will keep some people away, but if one doesn't have a problem with the lack of English voices unlike other games published by the same company, they can be games worth playing.On another note, I'm kind of surprised by the fact that there's little fan art of Hinako's underwear, we see her lingerie at least once in the game and if one considers the optional scenes, we see her underwear several times throughout the game but even though Blue Reflection offers variety in underwear and what the girls wear looks detailed (it looks better than the underwear in other games such as Omega Quintet), the fan art doesn't involve the undies of the girls.Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian will be released next month and after that there will be DX versions of the Ryza games...a third Blue Reflection game for consoles and PC...maybe sometime next year but that's only if they are making something behind the scenes, which I really doubt.
>>3832813>I'm kind of surprised by the fact that there's little fan art of Hinako's underwearUnfortunate nature of BR being a relatively niche series which means little fanart. Luckily we have official art for that.>a third Blue Reflection gameIIRC I remember reading a while ago that Kishida Mel is satisfied with how Tie ended which sounds like he's moving on from the series. It'd be up to Gust themselves whether or not they'd wanna do something else with the series but since both the anime and gacha flopped and Tie only sold... ok, I don't think that's going to happen.
>>3833068Actually, I would say that there is some Blue Reflection fanart, I don't really think that there's litle fanart, it has more fanart that Nights of Azure and Death end re;Quest, which is saying something, these are some random examples of fanart that are safe for work.That part of Mel saying that he's satisfied with how Blue Reflection: Second Light ended is interesting, but yeah, I don't think that we'll get a third game specifically for consoles and PC.
>>3833068It's true that there is official art where we see the underwear of one of the girls, but fan art that shows Hinako's underwear and especially what the other characters wear, is very rare. As far as I know, these are the only instances of Hinako's trademark panties, other images show plain white panties. As you probably know, or at least as you can imagine, the full images are not safe for work.
Hinako sexo
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I always had a passing interest in the series, and I did want to get into it for a time, but then the gacha with the male protag happened and basically nuked any interest I had. Is it still worth it at all? Can I basically pretend that that gacha never happened and just consume the rest of the material without feeling like I'm missing anything?I hate haremfags stepping in and ruining yuri vibes so fucking much it's unreal.
>>3828388I've been interested in this due to the weird battle system and battle music being very niche and resembling C*ligula, (besides being from the same period, about seven years ago) but the yuri fanbase (the game probably doesn't even cater to them) stopped me from giving it my time. Did it heal with the blond self-insert harem protagonist? Was there anything to fix in the first place?
>>3834575The gacha game is dead and doesn't matter anymore, because of that people in the west will miss bits of story or lore but I think that it's still worth it, at least the console games and especially the sequel are worth playing.>>3834594Well, the first game has Shihori Sugamoto and then the sequel and anime go beyond just teasing, it wouldn't be correct to say that the franchise doesn't even cater to people who like yuri. Blue Reflection: Second Light, Blue Reflection Ray and Blue Reflection Sun were all originally announced/revealed at the same time, so, I don't think that, regardless of the reception of Blue Reflection: Second Light and its characters (it was well received), the game ''fixed'' anything. It was only the first game and then everything was announced at the same time.
>>3834594>the game probably doesn't even cater to them>he doesn't knowOHNONONONONONONONONO
If Shiho has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Shiho has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Shiho has only one fan then that is me. If Shiho has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Shiho, then I am against the world.Seriously though I played this game recently too and I absolutely loved it. Not perfect by any means but the themes, music, designs, and battle system were all great. idk what possessed them to do a gacha when this game has such a niche audience, I just hope it didn't kill the chance of a sequel
>>3834594>yuri fanbase (the game probably doesn't even cater to themThere's explicit romance between two characters and multiple girls are in love with Ao.
Dumping my favorite screenshots from when I played the game
Also I couldn't find a high quality version of this image so I made an upscaled one
