/u/ - Yuri★

>>27424

And a short synopsis.

Blue Reflection is set in the Hoshinomiya Girls High School in modern-day Japan, in the middle of summer. The player takes the role of Hinako Shirai, a ballet dancer who injured her foot one year prior to the beginning of the game, and has been unable to dance since then. After meeting with sisters Yuzuki and Raimu Shijou, she is given the power to fight as a magical girl referred to as a "Reflector", allowing her to move freely.

Now you might wonder if it'll be yuri but the focus of this game is to build relationships or social links from persona and help other girls with their problems. So who knows.

>>27425

It'll be interesting weither it goes towards Yuuna or Madoka with it's Mahou stuff. I just hope it's good, a full fledged mahou shoujo game getting an english release is unheard of.

These character designs remind me of butterflies.

>>27432

Maybe both. There are also girls who might play an important role in such things.

>>27434

Not long me guess.

>>27438

How is this art so good… His work on Totori must have sharpened Mel's skill.

>>27440

>Koei once again don't patch post release.

>Nervous.png

>>27668

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At least one magical girl game this year might be good, considering that NoA 2 is doing so poorly.

Bump. Two weeks.

>>28377

And here you go.

https://mega.nz/#!xThEgArY!QfEo2P4TYsu5BfRyarwvBwQplR13UPSAKaDXwZ_u-M4

36 hours. Argh, it's gonna kill me.

Okay, so played for abit. The battles are actually fairly stable, in terms of framerate. It's outside of that, I'm getting bad stuttering at the start of cutscenes and moving around some, not to mention with no ambient occlusion, everything looks grainy and out of focus, which sucks because it's still a very beautiful game.

This is a bad port. Nights of Azure was a little temperamental but was a pretty good port, so was Sophie. How could KT drop the ball so hard here?

>>28865

See Sanae over there? It's just grainy from this far out.

I'd still recommend giving it a try, it's a very comfy game just walking around the school.

Also this meter showed up. Hmmmmm…

>Face first major boss fight.

>Undead, burnt tree looking with too many hands like Vishnu but wood and drawn by Miura.

>Boost up Lime with an attack buff, get her to do her fire attack. 500+ damage on 3,000 hp boss.

>He screams, 3 heads pop out, music changes.

>MFW Stage 2 boss fight.

Honestly wasn't expecting that. And if you want the battles to be challenging, put it up on Hard, that's normal. Normal is Easy and Easy is VN only setting. But once you finish that battle, the world opens up.

>>28875

You also pick up a phone and while Hinako doesn't know how to use it yet, she can shitpost.

There's also Sanae. I wonder if her affection goes beyond that of a friend? Hmm.

>>28856

Finally got one like that. Mini-boss creature that was abit difficult.

Caught in the rain. Was just going home with a few friends and a rainy day came.

Hinako has the second biggest bust here. Sanae (I think) > Hinako > Kei > Yuzu > Lime.

Who does she admire? Hmmm, I wonder. Those last messages came pretty quickly.

>>28939

That's Sarasa, Hinako's appointed rival when she was doing ballet. There's Sanae above, someone Hinako went to middle school with and devoted fan who wanted to be friends and Rin the tennis captain, who wants to confess to her Male Senpai. Latest addition was Kei, person on the basketball team and Genki girl extraordinaire. Oh, also Mao was talking to Sarasa and I suspect Hinako will get to know her later.

>>28940

I know they're previews, but Mao's picture is over 12mb by itself. Mel loves those high details.

I dunno man, I've seen a few yuri stories start off the way Sanae's does.

Did a small test and that Mortal Blow one is translated wrong. When equipped it will extend wait time but also increase attack power.

Still have no idea about skill recovery though.

Latest character to join is Ako, member of the broadcasting club and budding photographer.

>>28978

Character shots for Hinako, Yuzu and Lime, just for compilation sake.

>>28979

Some more art stuff, because Mel's art is lovely.

>>28980

>>28981

>>28984

Is the pirateyay link cracked?

>>28986

I guess I'll find out

Next girl is Shihori. Somewhat of a fashionista, she just wants to make girls pretty. But then she gets accused of stealing some girl's boyfriends because she looks prettier. She's a kind girl though.

Also assorted gayness. Seems checking out Hinako's body is okay as long as it's a girl.

Best excuse or best excuse.

>>28998

>I'm just checking out your underwear

>we're both girls, it's normal

Perfect

I think Shihori has the habit of checking Hinako's underwear any chance she can just to see if it's what she likes.

>>29002

>I became interested in fashion after a former fashion model who was friends with my mum gave me a frilly white dress as a kid.

>>29004

>Sarasa sees her as a rival in Ballet, someone to compete against and aspire to obtain the title of Etoile.

>Kei sees her as a competitive person and someone who can push her limit when it comes to swimming.

>Sanae sees her as a friend she's wanted to make and enjoys the time she spends with her.

>Shihori sees her as a pet project, as something to make beautiful and enjoy. (Plus sneaking looks at her panties).

>Ako sees her as her biggest scoop, reporting on what the magical girl gets up to.

>Rin sees her as a much needed friend who can give her the confidence to confess to her senpai.

I'll admit it's not traditional yuri but it's gay at times.

Chihiro is the next girl introduced, soft spoken and shy, she gets blamed for stealing things but when it turns out it isn't her but she know it was going on, she falls into a despair. Next boss shows up and I'm like level 23 and probably 10 levels above maximum, so the only two problems I had was having enough MP and Ether. Anyway, Lime then reveals she's sorta keikaku'd that whole situation, meaning she just want girls to develop fragments to help Hinako fight. Best way of course is to let girls go rampant. She doesn't even stick around to see how poor Chihiro is feeling. Yuzu of course objects to all of this but Lime says "They're running out of time."

So yeah, Lime's taking the pragmatist route while Yuzu really does want the girls to develop naturally with the help of Hinako.

>>29004

Latest conversation.

>>29109

>>29110

Shihori claims it was all an act to get Hinako's attention but I dunno, what sort of girl looks at the panties and fake confesses to the girl she likes?

>>29122

No need for emoticons. And save often and on more than one save.

>Wants to trade bikini's while going swimming.

She's certainly an interesting girl.

Latest girl to get the spotlight is Fumi-chan~ Fumio I mean. She's the resident pianist who practices to perfection. So much so that the weight eventually crashes down upon her.

Her first fragment is ambigious. Not sure if it increases the skill or what. And the cover of Hinako's phone that Chihiro gave her. It's her sword.

>>29263

And I think I've hit the magma bug. The common grinding place that day was the anger zone and it crashed as soon as I moved. But like I said, there's a patch coming so hopefully that will fix it.

>>29410

Looking out for the patch in the usual places so I can post it. Hopefully soon.

Spoilers for the end of Shihori's bond events.

Looks like the game's gone from subtext to full on text, Shihori is out and out confirmed to be going for for Hinako

>>29642

>>29646

Shihori is one who acts outright gay, I wonder if any of the other girls are like that towards Hinako? But hey, at least it's got some yuri, even if it's unrequited.

>>29647

Yeah, wasn't expecting a Gust game to be so forward though and confirm it though, Night of Azure was pretty much their only out and out yuri game. Was expecting something more low key like their standard fare a la Atelier and the like.

>>29650

Low key such as keeping everything subtext like they usually do. Gust never really go out of it's way to do anything except a quick couple teases here and there.

Right! Now that I'm back going through the story, the two most recent girls introduced are Rika and Kaori. Rika is a soft-spoken and kind first year on the track team. She and Kaori were in the same middle-school together until highschool where Kaori got distracted by lootboxes and mainly plays mobile games on her phone. They both admired a Senpai in the 2nd year who was going to take over the track team but for some reason put a camera in the girls locker room. She was caught and both girls had the admiration of their senpai shattered.

This makes 10 girls total that Hinako's given rings to. Last two I suspect will be abit later. Haven't used these two, Fumio or Chihiro in battle yet.

Last girl to be encountered is Yuri. She's the sole member of the Science Club, or as she puts it, she has an IQ of 300 and submits research papers for fun so the school set her up a lab on the roof and gave her permission to use it whenever. After Hinako defeats the latest boss, she shows up too late looking for signs. Hinako goes to the lab and Yuri basically lays out what she thinks is going on, which is partially correct. They then swap contact details and Hinako leaves, with Yuri gazing at the phone and muttering the word "Friend."

On a more serious note, Hinako's always had the carrot and stick approach when being used as a Reflector. Stick was you're a magical girl now and if you don't take these fragments from other girls, they'll go crazy. Carrot being you get your wish of dancing again. With Hinako practising alone, Yuzu comes up to her after she falls down again. Hinako says she kinda hoped that her Reflector form had bled some power into her and maybe she could dance. Yuzu becomes quiet and asks "Isn't just dancing right now okay?" She also asks to not to think of Lime in a bad light, even though all she cares about are fragments.

Me thinks she and Lime are hiding something. Maybe sowing distress in-order to cause girls to go crazy. Who knows. But if they're lying to Hinako… Ohhh, that's the whole Madoka angle, she'll fall into despair if she can't dance again.

>>29690

Also shower time.

Getting back onto the story, Hinako receives a call from Yuri and they go out for a day. They return to the club room and Yuri departs, which triggers Hinako to go inside the common. They don't find a fragment and Hinako explains everything to Yuri, who accepts everything and when Hinako tells her that they didn't find a fragment, she becomes sad that she doesn't have emotions. Hinako points this out and Yuri is filled with joy, having discovered she does have emotions.

Still not any closer to getting Shihori's event but I have maxed out most of the relationships.

Holy shit that chapter 8 boss fight… So good.

To recap, Mao and Hinako are auditioning for the lead part in their play "The Little Mermaid." Hinako does a good job but Mao blows her out of the water, but her acting puts everyone in a daze. The girls enter the Common where Mao's fragment resides. and it threatens to eat them up but Hinako manages to overcome said despair and make it back. Mao actually finds out that they've seen her memories and she gets bitter. But then this big armored brother shows up again. They rush outside and get curb-stomped (You're supposed to lose this battle). But then Mao shows up and since her fragment is so strong, she supercharges the Reflector's powers and now you have a boss battle on.

>Hinako's sword now glows like Excalibur, Yuzu's rod is now proper magical girl and Lime's bear is full grizzly.

>First time you get to use all 12 friends.

>Yuri shoots a damn gun, Mao calls in an airstrike somehow.

>Get third level of overdrive and can do a LINK attack with the other girls.

Game really opens up at this point. Sorry if the images are grainy, the recording I made was of poor quality.

>>30118

>>30119

The girl's respective LINK attacks. Yuzu combines to fire a laser, Lime has her bear uppercut the target and Hinako uses a spirit bomb.

I also really like how the start screen fills with friends once you've gotten to know them.

>>30121

Infact makes a nice wallpaper. Managed to upsize it without much loss of quality.

>>29642

First free time after Chapter 8 boss battle is the time that you can do this. Did Rika's and she seems happy now that she can run. Still got Kaori, Yuri and now Mao to max out but that shouldn't be too hard.

>>29642

You forgot about the events that lead up to that.

I'll spoil so other can enjoy but it's pretty fracking gay.

>Shihori finally gets her wish of inviting Hinako to the pool.

>While getting changed, Shihori swaps into Hinako's underwear.

>Hinako then finds out and tracks her down, demands they swap back.

>Shihori does swap but watches Hinako change back, then attacks her.

>Shihori is groping Hinako and they fall to the floor panting. Shihori goes rampant, and Hinako finds out Shihori is serious.

>>30178

>Shihori says something came over her, maybe it was the smell of her underwear or the way she was unchanging.

>She says Hinako reminded her of the fashion designer that gave her the dress.

>Yuzu and Lime burst in and see Shihori and Hinako in their underwear, so of course they assume but Shihori fills them in.

>>30179

I know this looks like a CIA document but stick with me.

>Hinako drops the bomb, that designer that Shihori likes, the one who gave her that dress and got her into fashion, is Hinako's Aunt.

>She's over in Italy and is super famous over there.

>Shihori takes this as a sign that they're meant to be together and deturmines to make Hinako her own one day.

>Later, Hinako talks to Shihori and says that her Aunt is in town and invites her over for dinner.

>>30182

>Shihori of course accepts, because she gets to go to dinner with her beloved Hinako.

>But then Hinako pulls out her phone and shows her a dress in her closet.

>Hinako explains that Aunty only gave dresses to Shihori and Hinako, Shihori sees that they are the only two people in the world with this dress and takes it as another sign she's going to end up with Hinako.

>>30183

Phew, but yes, as you can see. Shihori is pretty gay. I wouldn't be surprised if sometime in the future she really does try a move on Hinako. But yes, Shihori is /ourgirl/ and you can probably say that Blue Reflection is yuri because of Shihori.

Also unrelated but Ako's underwear is red, like her hair, ALL her hair. Downstairs.

>>30183

This is all Aunty Yoshikos doing. She gave Hinako and Shihori matching dresses, hoping that they'd end up together. And then Hinako calls and says she wants to invite her to dinner.

All according to Keikaku

>>30185

Finished up Blue Reflection and that ending sure was something. Massive spoilers but,

it definitely wasn't your standard, golden, everything turns out perfectly ending. Sacrifices were made and compromises were had. Man, I really wanted to see Yuzu and Lime make it through. That day out as friends really hits you hard in the heart, and watching them fade away? That was tough. Spent the whole fight with Yesod and Daath, the physical embodiment of the Common, with a heavy heart, and I admit teary eyes at some points. But maybe, just maybe we'll see Hinako's story continue, Daath did say that it Hinako did pique its interest an that it'd keep its (many) eyes on her.

Honestly, it was a great game. Even if the yuri was only really centered around Shihori the game was good enough to stand on its own, The most unique and fun turn based system I've ever played, just a shame that the game's so easy you won't really be exploiting the system to its fullest. Wish there was more of a reason to use the active battle commands, even hard becomes a breeze eventually. The music and art though are damn fantastic, looking forward to more stuff by Kishida Mel and the composer (who's name escapes me at the moment) in the future.

>>30199

Pretty much what I think. Haven't reached the ending but if Mel can make a BR 2, there's alot to work with.

>>30206

He did do previous work on the Arland series of Atelier, so when he presented Gust with his magical girl game, they must have liked it enough to make it a full thing. I wonder what he's going to be doing next, he obviously has some pull in Gust to get a game made, so maybe he'll present a proposal for a sequel.

At any rate, he's probably someone Gust isn't going to let go of soon, so we'll see what happens.

Also underwear.

why does it has to be an invisible wall?

>>30296

Finally got all the friend stuff out of the way, max relations, visited all places, got all the fragments. Now on with the story.

Carrot turns out to be a lie thanks to Yuri but I kinda suspected that. Hinako having to come to terms that she won't be able to dance again, that's good stuff.

>Dat smile she gives with the sunset behind her after defeating the chapter 9 boss.

>Chapter 10 and Kaori goes rampant, and she realises the value of true friendship with Rika, the sisters see this but still arn't telling Hinako anything. Another boss fight here.

Also here that I caused the max damage in the game, two 9999 criticals and a regular attack when boosted up. Granted I was level 49.

>They're dead. What?

>The Progenitor shared secrets with it's off-spring but the Council cast it down. To take it's place, a tournament of blood-rites was held among it's progeny retaining sufficient divinity to determine who would become a GOD.

Suddenly reminded of the opening to Demigod, simply because that's how they explain it. Common creates humans, Sephi show up and try to change the world to their own means, humans learn of this and defend the Common.

>Girls died but their souls are basically trapped in the Common, they became reapers basically and chose Hina as a Reflector. A bit of Bleach now.

Hinako's caught between a rock that is never getting her dancing back and the hard place of losing her two closest friends and probably the friends she's made along the way. "I fought for the protection of mankind and all I got was this sparkly tutu" comes to mind.

Ahh, I'll finish it tomorrow.

Maximum point limit is 1500, spent the last few hours grinding up and making all fragments +3.

Hinako fails at killing the last Sephi, not wanting to lose the sisters from her life.

>Talking with all Hinako's new friends and they're just as upset that the sisters are going. And yes, all their memories here are going to disappear. Hinako loses her friends, her ability to dance and she gets nothing out of it. Quite sad to be honest.

I also figured out what the Rank Up skill does. It increases the rank of an attack, say you have an attack with a small knockback effect, putting that fragment on it changes to medium knockback. Same with paralysis and that.

That undead tree is really creepy.

>Everyone's attacks are stronger, glow more and generally have more sparkly effects.

Noticed that.

>Boss defeated, girls are still here though, so the final boss hasn't been killed. Daath shows up, the Sephi in charge of the common and explains a few things. Hinako rejects Daath's desire to combine humanity into a single consciousness and they fight it out. Defeat him, Hinako sees Yuzu and Lime disappears then wonders why she's in on the track.

Cut to the next day and Hinako still has her ring, she steps past the gate and remembers Yuzu and Lime and that was her wish, that she wouldn't forget them. Cue the credits and the festival being set up, Hinako performs the Little Mermaid along with all her friends I assume. Then the last few shots show her turning around with one last one being the girls sitting back to back.

So, few things about the ending. It's implied that she met up again with Lime and Yuzu? I dunno. But they said they died in an accident while watching Hinako perform the Little Mermaid. Was that this performance or one in the past? If it was the past, then nothing much changes but if little Yuzu and Lime saw this performance of the Little Mermaid, then they're from the future somehow and told Hinako that but she remembers somehow and patted their heads? I dunno. Ending probably left open to be vague.

Oh, and Hinako didn't get her wish of dancing again. But with all her friends giving her fragments and things, you think that Daath could use some ether or something to have her dance again. But then again, maybe she has gotten over it if her perforance of Little Mermaid was that good. Hmm.

Anyway, you unlock concept art and stuff when you finish. Got some good stuff of the Common here.

But yes, I'm done. Only 2 weeks until NoA 2 comes out, so yay, time to find some stuff to do. Total time: 46:34:07

>>30361

Yeah, true enough. The overarching story might be lacking abit, the daily interactions with all the girls certainly made it worth playing.

>>30362

Another thing. Sanae's final conversation mentions that she wishes to remain friends with Hinako and Sarasa says they'll become friends again even if they forget. So while Hinako remembers Yuzu and Lime, maybe they all remember the time they spent together?

>>32348

Yey. I hope he really does work on a sequel.