Yes, Blue Reflection Sun had actual ''feet fanservice'', this is just an example. The character is Azumi Nanaka, not that her name matters, Blue Reflection Sun is dead.

And yes, I did this thread just to answer the question of 715596615 in that thread.

The post in question, he asked. >>715596615

>>715641226 (OP)
I like her feet

She looks cute

>>715642679
She has to look cute, Azumi wants to be an idol.

>>715641562
How's this?

>>715644453
Lime has nice feet. I’d like her and Yuzu to let me rub theirs at the same time.

>>715644895
We don't see much of Yuzu's feet but okay.

>Sun

The fuck? I loved 1 and 2 is this a mobile thing?

>>715646006
It was.

>>715644453
Pretty cute jpg art desu

>>715646006
Yes. It died killing the Blue Reflection franchise with it.

>>715646192
It's from a dead gacha game after all.

>>715641226 (OP)
>>715641464
interesting
thanks for answering
Was gust targeting the chinese market with the gacha?

>>715649313
I'm not sure if the game was officially released in China, but considering that it was a gacha game with more fanservice than Blue Reflection: Second Light, it's possible.

>>715646435
It had a banger boss theme tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ou6AMbB5Ig&ab_channel=deilost

>>715649313
Morisaki Alesia Yu, she only appeared in the gacha...oh well.

This girl was just discount Hiori.

Ikoma Ayami is pretty.

Is there any precedent for Gust reviving a series like this, or is it more sensible to hope for a completely new game that captures the same spirit as Blue Reflection?

>>715654331
Actually, no. Nights of Azure 2 was released in 2017 and since then, nothing, and a few years ago Koei Tecmo released DX versions of Ciel nosurge and Ar nosurge...in Japan. Supposedly it's not easy to make or publish a new EXA_PICO game or a new Ar Tonelico/Ar nosurge game because Bandai Namco (at least partially) owns the rights of that IP. The most you should expect is a DX version or new version of one of the games with the DLC included a new features/content, but after the failure (more or less) of Blue Reflection Sun, I don't expect much and I don't think we'll get a new game.

>>715651580
god she's so sexy

Xiao Meiqi, the oldest girl of the playable characters according to the wiki.

And that's it, those are all the girls that appeared only in Blue Reflection Sun if one doesn't count that woman which wasn't a playable character, so, the game basically had 4 exclusive (so to speak) girls, the other girls also appear in one of the other games (or both console games) and/or the anime.

If the only way you can advertise this game or series in general is by desperately spamming "OH LOOK AT HER FEET" or "OH LOOK AT HER PANTIES" threads using images of children then your game deserved to die

>>715656809
How daring of you to say that when there's only a few sexualized images in the thread and when Xiao Meiqi isn't even underage. Even if I agreed that these characters are underage (and they are, most of them), I still wouldn't use the word ''children'', if you know of anyone who is 12 years old or less who looks like Azumi or Hinako (in fiction or real life), tell me, because I've never seen someone around that age who looks like these characters.

>>715657281
Even Nier Automata, Stella Blade and Ryza understood your game at least needs to be enjoyable for the player outside of the sex but nope, not you guys, you just keep shilling this crap with pictures of kids in their underwear and showing their feet thinking that is going to somehow hide the pile of shit this is and make people fork out their hard earned cash on this

>>715656809
>>715657882
Sex Sells.
Also they are drawing
>DRAWING OF WHA-
A Drawing. The line ends there

>>715657882
Where are the images of ''kids'' in their underwear in this thread?
Also, Ryza isn't the best example because some people consider it inferior compared to other Atelier games especially the Arland games and the Dusk trilogy, in the case of Stellar Blade and especially NieR Automata, it's true that those are games most people like and they are considered good or even amazing games, but the Ryza games? Not really, some people don't like them, it depends on who you ask.

I should also mention the fact that Blue Reflection: Second Light is considered a good game especially compared to the first one, with a metascore of 77/78, a user score of 7.7 and a lot of positive review on YouTube, people consider it a good or even great game, the first game and dead gacha? Yeah, not everyone liked them but the second game is another story.

>>715658206
>A Drawing. The line ends there
This.

Lol, I just checked and the PS4 version of Atelier Ryza (the first one) has a lower metascore than Blue Reflection: Second Light. It's easy to say ''who cares about metascores'' but that is at least a point of reference.

>>715661504
Conveniently leaves out the part where Ryza's score is "lower" by a couple points only because more people bought it and reviewed it than they did Blue Reflection meaning Blue Reflections score looks higher because fewer people actually played it

>>715656139
>Xiao Meiqi
I have a feeling they were hoping to appeal to chinese audiences

I'm talking about Metascore and not user score (Atelier Ryza has a higher user score and more reviews) and in the case of the PS4 versions, Blue Reflection: Second Light has a slightly higher metascore with the same amount of reviews.

>>715662451
She's Chinese, yeah.

>>715662464
Lol who the cares about gaming media, if you pay them they tell you physical shit smells nice or get an AI to write their reviews for them. User scores say Ryza is better and Ryza shifted more copies saving Gust and prolonging Koei Tecmo's greedy bullshit

Blue Reflection has no reason to exist other than to appeal to a small minority of coomers who belong in a supermax but don't worry because Trump is in charge and he'll fix the industry soon enough and make gaming great again

>>715663018
I really don't know if that part about Trump is a joke or not...

>>715641226 (OP)
Unfortunately it also introduces a useless male protag. No wonder it flop

>>715646435
Yeah right, lmao

This fad will die but the game is likely going to get a sequel

These images were removed from the gacha because apple and google didn't like them.

What's with the activity in this thread all of a sudden?

>>715663751
Seems the usual KTshill.exe activated, theyll just start posting the same pictures they do in every thread trying to keep the thread going all day because they are so desperate

>>715663156
The poster you're responding to is someone that willingly castrated himself. It's safe to say he does not like Trump.

>>715663682
The post that says ''there's only a few sexualized imaes in the thread'' didn't age well after all, but at least it's art that isn't always posted in Blue Reflection (Sun) threads.

Yeah, Apple didn't like those CG images, I don't doubt the possibility that Blue Reflection Sun would have suffered even more censorship or changes if Koei Tecmo or some other company had tried to publish the game in the west like the first Atelier Resleriana (which was uncensored worldwide in the sense that the content was the same but some designs, like Plachta's design, were censored).

>>715641226 (OP)
>Keeps shilling this game by pushing its sex appeal
>Guy usually ends up crying about people not buying his masterpiece and posts more sex stuff to prove it's amazing
>Game is $59.99
>Even more with the DLC tip to get any lewd content
Actual porn is cheaper

>>715658427
>>715661504
>>715662102
>>715658206

Ryza had normie appeal because for once Gust chose to sexualize an adult woman (or at least what RESEMBLES an adult seeing as how well developed and thicc she is) instead of children.

Yumia followed suit with another adult looking protagonist and wouldn’t you know it, both it and the Ryza series turned out to be the best selling games in the entire Atelier franchise and even in Gust’s studio output compared to their usual pedo slop.

Turns out sex does indeed sell, but only if it’s adults.

>>715665275
Not even that because the game represented in the OP is dead.

Besides, there is fanservice in both Blue Reflection games but they aren't hentai games or even on par with something like Bullet Girls and Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni, that's not the idea behind Blue Reflection in general.

>>715665589
Can't argue with that, the Ryza games and Atelier Yumia had great sales.

This is an article published at the end of March, maybe the game has sold at least 350,000 or 400,000 units worldwide at this point.

>>715665589
Blue Reflection and those who push this game are an INSULT to Gust fans. This game had so much promise, a Gust + the Magical Girl genre should have been a match made in heaven and they fucked it up and every time one of these threads gets made I'm reminded about how badly Gust fucked this up and how Koei Tecmo was allowed to get away with its greed trying to milk Gust fans

>>715666296
Koei Tecmo is always trying to milk Gust fans, games developed by Gust nowadays always have a lot of DLC and they just announced DX versions of the Ryza games that, like the DX versions of Atelier Sophie, Firis and Lydie & Suelle, will be sold separately without the option of a free upgrade.

>>715666729
Any other company would be burned to the ground for behaving like Koei Tecmo does. I know Gust fans love Atelier and want to keep supporting Gust to ensure the next cute alchemist gets a release but come on, this isn't helping anyone. It's long overdue that Koei Tecmo is boycotted and forced to sell off Gust or close down then Gust/the former Gust developers can go and do their own thing making the massive Atelier game they want to and not the 1 year dev turnaround one Koei Tecmo requires them to make to stay afloat

>>715667006
I don't have enough experience with old Atelier games (the games that were released in 2011 and before that year) but I've wondered if Gust would be a better developer or in a better position if they were an independent developer, i've played some games developed by Gust but I've played mostly what they have developed after Koei Tecmo bought them. I can't help but wonder if their games would be better as an independent developer like when they made Atelier Totori and all the games that came before that one.

>>715667469
If everyone who worked for Gust left and founded a new studio where they got to make the games they wanted then in no time at all Koei Tecmo would be so financially broke they would be begging them to buy the Atelier franchise back off them

>>715667671
So, you think that Team Ninja, Omega Force and Kou Shibusawa aren't enough? If Gust somehow left, I think that Koei Tecmo would be just fine, at least for a while...but who knows.

>>715667671
They were bought out by Koei in the first place BECAUSE they went broke retard.

>>715663608
>the game is likely going to get a sequel
Nah.

>>715662868
>kills your franchise forever

I’ll always be mad about the Blue Reflection Sun gacha. It was like a dream to me. I was hoping it’d follow the formula of gacha like Bang Dream or Project Sekai where we get frequent events centered around a small cast of girls and one particular problem they face. But it was always just a dream. The gacha died before it even reached Global markets. It’s a miracle we even got BRTie and the anime. Blue Reflection unfortunately was never meant to have a gacha.

>>715665589
>>715666190
I thought Yumia flopped?

Good fucking lord Blue Reflection had incredible music https://youtu.be/1z_PJdjblZw?si=dApgrnT7Rz_ydTDk

>>715641226 (OP)
>Blue Reflection Sun is dead
GOOD

>>715670319
It's not a critically acclaimed game and some people don't like it or prefer other Atelier games (personally I haven't played it and I don't plan to play it), but financially it was a success, the fastest selling game in the franchise.

Not a critical success, but at least it was a commercial success.

>beautiful art
>pretty girls
>wonderful music
>gameplay is boring as sin

I tried playing Blue Reflection for a few hours last year and got bored and dropped it. This is the kind of thing that would probably be better off as an anime from the get go.

>>715672234
Blue Reflection Ray exists, it's something.

>>715670949
Cloud9 is a phenomenal theme but it's not something present in the game. It would be right at home but it's not really part of the Blue Reflection soundtrack as you probably know.

>>715670146
>Blue Reflection unfortunately was never meant to have a gacha
I agree with this. An IP that's never been very popular with a limited cast of characters compared to other franchises, it really feels like a gacha that should have never existed.

I wasn't originally going to do it, but I'll post more art of Morisaki Alesia Yu for the thread.

Okay, that's enough. I really like her design for some reason...maybe it's her face and blonde hair.

>>715654331
GUST and KT are turbocucked and Second Light was massively neutered compared to the first game. It's safe to say they are not capable of making uncompromised otaku games any more. They can't even do a bath scene right these days.

>>715665589
Ryza was a lightning in a bottle moment because the thighs went viral. Every subsequent game sold worse. They're still riding the wave nonetheless, but it will peter out eventually. Yumia's reception is already much more frosty than the Ryza games and more people are openly criticizing how sanitized and dumbed down the games have become.

>>715675485
>>715675407
She looks great.
Kishida hasn't done the artwork for any games since blue reflection, has he? Hope he has something in the works.

>>715641226 (OP)
Will the Br 4 solve the damn loop of creation and destruction of the world in BR 2?

>>715641226 (OP)
Too small for me

>>715676313
What is?

>>715676313
You like big feet?

>>715675989
Yes, after Blue Reflection Sun he hasn't done the artwork for games developed by Gust. In the last year and this year apparently he's been working in a maid cafe.

>>715677539
>apparently he's been working in a maid cafe.
lol
hopefully he isn't dressing up as a maid
although I wouldn't put it past him

>>715677660
Oh, he is, I've seen some photos. If not as part of the job, Mel Kishida *at least* cross-dresses as a hobby.

Hmm, this thread may be autosaging. If that's the case, that's a first...in the context of threads about Blue Reflection in general.

>>715676227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ebFsRCFTc

>>715675539
Before the thread is archived. Don't forget the content of the previous games.

Someone said something about ''pictures of 'kids' in their underwear'', well, this is most of those scenes in the first game I guess...before the thread dies.

Some panties of Blue Reflection.

>>715678350
>>715678579
>>715678719
Nice

>>715678350
Oh please, GUST went beyond even that back then. The worst part? This game is stuck on the PS3, and it doesn't even emulate properly. Ar Tonelico Qoga is in real danger of becoming lost media because nu-GUST and KT are too pussy to touch it for a rerelease.

The thread really is autosaging...A Blue Reflection thread, autosaging. There's a first time for everything.
>>715678814
You joke, but Blue Reflection is also rated R18+ like Atelier Rorona Plus and Atelier Rorona Plus, the difference is the game was rated R18+ because of ''nudity related to incentives and rewards'', not ''references to sexual violence''.

>>715678858
Ar Tonelico Qoga, a PS3 exclusive and to this day the only game developed by Gust rated M for Mature...even though it's only rated CERO C and 12+ in Europe.

That's all folks.

Too bad about the thread autosaging. For a moment there was good discussion about Atelier games, sales and what not.

...oh well. Remember this everyone, there isn't going to be a third Blue Reflection game for consoles, if they announce one, I'll swallow my words but I doubt it...don't hold your breat. Ciao.

it's probably too late for this thread but I'm curious about Nights of Azure 1&2, do you recommend them?

>>715679630
Yes, I do.

>>715679619
More likely than another Ar Tonelico game at least.