Blue Reflection Review - The Magical girl RPG 

For anyone interested in video games with a magical girl theme, I highly recommend Gravity Rush 1 and 2. The story and atmosphere is basically a mash-up of Sailor Moon and Kiki's Delivery Service but in a steampunk society with a darker, French-inspired aesthetic? The lead designer worked on the original Silent Hill and the Siren series :)

"I still enjoy Magical Girls even at 22" (cut to my 30yo gay ass living for this game) Mahou Shoujo is FOREVER girl, buckle up!

I'm a simple person. I see Sophie release a video, I click fast. Even if it's a game I know nothing about.

So it's similar to Persona except with magical girls. I've been skeptical about this game for a long time but I'll likely check it out thanks to your summary.

Thanks for unarchive your vids I miss them so much

"I even enjoy magical girl shows at.. 22" Wow. Do I ever feel old now.

Been playing this for months. The little character moments between the main character and Sarasa makes the game worth it alone. The way they both can relate about the passion for dancing while also struggling with both physical and mental struggles is amazing. Glad to hear your thoughts about the game as well!

I remember seeing this game and being interested in it's artstyle but couldn't decide if it was worth buying over that alone, so this review is quite fortuitous for me

I haven't played it, but I appreciate the delicateness of the reflectors' design. it's a breath of fresh air and it seems less out of place, like if they were still connected to their human self and that they are fighting for themselves as well as others.

I was browsing the psn store a few minutes ago and i randomly saw this game being in my (Just for you) tab. It catched my eye so i checked it out for a bit. I go to youtube and i see this video in my sub box... Lol

I'm so happy you brought up the UI design in this game 😊. It's one of the first things I noticed, I echo everything you said about it, it's a fantastic piece of design. I'm a sucker for a good UI 😅

This game's visuals and visual aesthetic look amazing. I love how it's almost photorealistic but with anime characters

This felt like a X-Play review with Morgan Webb. Its a compliment. Felt nostalgic.

Thank you so much for this review, it definitely helped me decide if this game is for me or not :)

This game is like a combination of Sailor Moon and Persona. Interesting. And great vid VA. I always enjoy your content.

Hinako is such a well written character, highly relatable and sweet. Most of all, the battle music of this game is pure fire

This game looks dank as hell, main character seems to be insanely relatable

This game low key creeps me the F out with the aesthetics alone.... It's too doll-like that even watching my roommate play it makes me feel uneasy. Then again, that's most Gust games in my eyes so can't fault the game for what it is. One thing I can't argue about though... the bloody soundtrack in this game just blew my expectation by miles. Like, sweet baby Buddha the soundtrack in this game is straight fire.

Been anticipating this game since its first gameplay trailer and it did not disappoint. Despite its shortcomings it was a joy to go through. The first boss and its new mechanics caught me off guard and got me real hype. A+ review.

I couldn't be more thankful for you bringing this game to my attention! I'm definitely going to save up money to buy it

So... this game is basically Lightning Returns meets Persona gameplay-wise. Story wise, it sounds interesting. I may not be into playing it, but I might look up a play through or cutscene movie to see the story and character interactions. Thanks for showing off games like this, niche or unpopular games, that really deserve a second chance or more spotlight. I enjoy your scripted videos, and your streams are always great for laughs. Thanks!

Man, I just love the Gust games. It's nice to find another person loving them and a growing youtuber at that. Have you tried Mana Khemia? It's their first game for me. Although my favorite would be Ar Tonelico and Surge Concerto games - those are great, especially Ar Tonelico 2 and Ar nosurge.

Always so surprising with the videos you make. It's always a breath of fresh air to see you post something.

Blue Reflection is a really good wholesome experience, i got it for cheap and i had a really fun time with it. Also the UI on this game is gotta be one of my favorites, its amazing in every way. I love your videos Sophie! keep it up!

Personally I love this game, but then again I'm super bias. I JUST WANNA BE A MAGICAL GIRL, DAMMIT!

After you praised the OST that much I had to listen to it and I have to say the OST "Overdose" is exactly my kind of music. I will probably get this game once it's on a big sale just due to the fact that I want to see how this music feels in the game. Thank you for bringing this game to my attention.

As someone who gawks over the menu/presentation designs, I can wholeheartedly agree that Blue Reflection's UI and Main Menu are one of the simplest yet effective ones I've seen in a game so far.

Getting BRS flashbacks

“with the power of the ring" am I the only one whose immediately reaction is hear Sauron's voice in my mind saying "THE ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL!!"

I've always wondered, is your intro song from Burial or someone along those lines? Also you're SUPER underrated.

I love your videos Sophie! You're such an amazing person and your voice is so cute. Thank you for the amazing content and I hope you the best in the future. You deserve more subscribers and you will get the fame you deserve ♥️

nice review, i dislike grinding as well,i'm not sure i'd like the story or characters but the art for the characters are incredible. if 3dcg looked like this in anime i wouldn't complain.

Just saw Blue Reflection on steam and remembered that i first saw about the game on this channel. RIP ValkyrieAurora ;-;

Tbh the UI alone kinda sold me on this game. I wish more games were as clean and user friendly as this. Thanks for the awesome review!

Not only did I finally beat this game but I managed to Platinum it on my first try. This game is definitely one of my favorite PS4 games! The story is well told though does have it's melodramatic moments. The characters are interesting each with their own backstories and complex emotions. The battle system was fun, though i wish the battle fields had more variety in the environment. The music was just AMAZING! And by far BEST GIRL is Lime! FIGHT ME! Lime had her faults but she did what she had to in order to save the world and help her friends. Not only that but she was a demon on the battlefield! I will never forget you Lime! You were an awesome Magical Girl!

I watched the first ten minutes and decided that I have to play this game. The art direction is so fucking pretty I don't want anything else spoiled for me. Thanks for the recommendation too because, even though I play a lot of JRPGs, I've actually never heard of this one. I've owned the atelier games on steam for a while also so I'll give them a shot as well. Love your content

Based off of what I’ve seen in this video, I feel like you may 🐝 able to appreciate Persona 5. Have you ever considered giving it a shot? It’s personally one of my favs and its similarity to this game has my curiosity piqued and I’ll definitely get around to giving Blue Reflection a shot

Much like a lot of my games, I bought this after seeing your review. I throughly enjoyed it. Thank you. Sidenote: I would die for Kaori! And I resonated deeply with Mao as a character. Don’t know if that’s a good thing or not?

Sooooooooooo, Blue Reflection is Persona 4, but with magical girls

Thank you for unprivating these awesome videos!

Thanks for introducing me to a new game! Never would have known about this (or Atelier for that matter) if it weren't for your work. Hope to see some Atelier videos from you too if the inspiration strikes!

I got this game when it came out, but stopped playing it due to rl issues. Thank you for motivating me to go back and become the Magical Girl I truly am inside~

I kept seeing gameplay of this on my recommended and couldnt judge if it's worth. Thanks for putting up a review.

can i just say that you have a relaxing voice? i feel like i'm taking a therapy as i'm watching it. XD thankyou for the review! definitely considering to buying this game

17:49 You - "thank you..." Me - "oh, you're w..." You - "..So much for watching." XD

Have you tried the Ar Tonelico series that was also made by Gust? It's easily my favorite series from them.

Loved this game. It's was so cute and full of good feelings. Characters were just too huggable. Spoiler.. Hinako is the only one alive which may explain her being the only oneceith eye/hair colour change.

I'll be honest, I had never even heard of this game before this video and I watched this video purely because I love your content. In my opinion, this is a pretty great review and goes pretty in-depth without being too rambly. I don't think I'd ever play this game because of the various issues presented in the review and also due to it not being to my personal taste but it definitely seems like the kind of game I'd watch someone stream (plus the UI is just amazing to look at, seriously give that person another game to make right now!). Also, always good to get random great soundtrack recommendations.

Really enjoyed this, thanks for posting. :) I also appreciate you including CC.

ive never heard of any of this but she has such a "Lore Friendly" and "Immersive" voice makes me want tp give it a try

I have this game on Steam, and honestly had no issues except the couple of launch issues where a Common map crashed the game, and a few random crashes. I had near zero FPS issues, though. (with an AMD setup) Glad to see another review of this game, though. The music in this game was absolutely AMAZING. OVERDOSE and TIGAR -Michael- are two of my favorite with the three binGe boss themes coming in as well.

Thank you so much for shining a spotlight on this game. It was beautiful and had an incredible soundtrack. I agree with you, I would just like to add one thing I appreciated: The normal battle theme. Just as you arrive at the point where "Overdose" gets repetitive, it gets replaced by the other standard battle theme, just to make sure you never get bored of the music.

I actually bought this game a while ago. It is really fun, and I greatly enjoyed it! The fact you you have played this is amazing to me, lol. I thought it was so obscure and niche, not many people played it.

I love your channel, I started to like Drakengard 3 because of you, do not stop making videos like this thanks ^^

Thank you for making this review because I've seen this game for like 30 bucks at my local game shop and been trying to figure out if I should get it

Thanks Sophie! I've been going back and forth on getting this game since it came out. It started as a joke with my friend but now I'm convinced I'm gonna really enjoy it!

Great review. As others mentioned, this game seems to share a lot of ideas present in the Persona games, and I'd really recommend playing those games you haven't already. I recently discovered your channel and I'm really liking your reviews, so I hope you get to review at least one of the Persona games :) from your videos, I think you might like those games a lot!

i actually bought this game last month and I'm doing a slow burn playthrough of it. I bought a physical copy and found out Physical copies in America are slightly hard to get. I found my copy in a Gamestop listed in Texas and I live in Ohio so i got screwed on the shipping. But overall my time with this game is satisfying so far, the characters have a simple but complex depth to them that makes me genuinely interested in learning about them. The battle system is a turn based system which is one of my favs in JRPGS and most of all it's PRETTY! The lighting in this game is amazing to me especially when you see it shine through a window or look at the sunset, i honestly hope someone got a raise for that. The soundtrack does a great job at giving the atmospheres of battle, everyday life and the common. I think my favorite parts in this game so far have to be the boss fights! All of the dungeon crawling and relationships you make with the other girls feel like their culminating to where you can kick some major butt in the boss fights. The fact that the NPCS participate in boss battles were a MAJOR plus for me personally showing even non magical girls can help! So far I am so glad I was finally able to get this game and I hope to finish it soon! And it's my hope Gust makes more MGJRPGs! And last thing for me Lime is my favorite and one of the best characters in the game for me so far.

What do you think about the sequel?

This came to me when you were talking about the magical girls changing hair color. If you like magical girls and you haven't seen it yet, you should give Flip Flappers a try. I think it has some of the best art in anime recently.

OMG THE GRAPHISMS ANS THE ART STYLE IM IN LOVE LOOK AT THOSE HAIR LOOK AT THIS LIGHT LOOK AT THESE FACES LOOK AT EVERYTHING I NEED THIS GAME

I got this game a couple of months ago for about 300kr/30£ and I really liked it. The framerate issues were a bit distracting and getting every friend to max friendship while also doing every sidequest definitely got a bit "grindy" but I liked all the girls and their stories and I loved the music, especially the battle theme and the music piece that plays before the final battle. That got me good. Now, if only any of the PS4 atelier games could go down in price a bit so I could buy them.

This is actually legit one of my favourite games ever, partly because of the two big twists (one of which is super obvious and the other of which is "yo wait what"). I just can't ever replay it again because it hurts

Thanks for making this. I remember seeing this on PSN awhile back and kinda flagged it as an out-there but overall mindless magical girl game that I might get on a whim sometime when I have time to kill and a bit of a funk or something I want to distract myself from. I'm actually somewhat intrigued by this now, and while I've never been super for the "other world of emotions and personal demons" thing that is present in things like this, Persona 5, and the Black Rock Shooter anime, it's not necessarily a negative either, and I actually did like BRS, although largely for the surreal style of the Other World and action sequences, the likable and interesting character arcs were also a major plus, something that this seems to have in common with the series. I still think I'm most likely to wind up playing this when I want something cute to take my mind off things, but the fact that it's a bit more than that is awesome. PS: I still wanna know your thoughts on Gravity Rush and the sequel. I personally really enjoyed them, and there is some degree of similarity between it and the Nier series. Plus, ya know, the free 2B outfit add on for the second game is just cool.

I did enjoy the video a lot, thanks, Sophie! I remember getting kinda interested in that game when I first saw the trailers, but I totally forgot since then. So thank you for reminding me of it, with a review no less. I will probably buy it, just waiting for the right sale.

I know nothing about you besides your content but I love you and I appreciate your existence

Hey, I loved this game! Thanks for making a review, wasn't expecting it since it's so little known ^^ . Loved your comment on the outfits: "they could have gone a bit more over the top" YOU MADWOMAN(?) loved the video~

I really like this art style. Framerate issues with Lime probably has to do with the hair which seems to be a lot of translucent layers, correspondingly requiring much more processing power, if unoptimized. The UI is modernism par excellence!

You are not easy to talk to people? You kidding me. I love to hear your game reviews. Keep it up, nice video :)

Thanks for reviewing this. I’ve been curious, but it’s been a hard sell, what with a lack of detailed videos on it and not having played any of the developers’ previous works. There’s no lack of RPGs on PS4, however it’s nice this one in particular seems it’s a bit toned down from some of the more out there stuff. Might be nice to pick up eventually.

I just finished this game a few months ago and I found it really charming and fun, I had some issues with the repetitiveness but the characters and story were really nice and I'd love to see a sequel to it that improves upon it. It's super cool to see a video on it and I can't wait for your next one :D

Finally I get to live out my fantasy of living in a yuri doujin

The real cure for the leg injury is the friends we made along the way I can't stop thinking about this after 4:51

Thanks for this review! I didn't bother to check out the game by myself, but now I'm definitely going to buy it, thanks.

I recommend playing one of Gust's older Atelier series game "Mana Khemia - The Alchemist of Al Revis" and "Mana Khemia 2 - The Fall of Alchemy " Even with different title, it's considered to be an Atelier game but with an alchemy school setting. They have the best story and setting in the franchise and the last main series Atelier game to have 2D sprites (The character animations are waaaay better than anything in the Mysterious Trilogy)

I‘m 22 as well and still enjoy magical girls! Would love to hear you talk some more about the genre, not only in regards with video games but maybe anime too?

You have sold me on this game I’ll definitely get it after i get yakuza 0

This looks like the type of JRPG I have been looking for! Thanks for the review!

Well I dunno, I'm an adult, so I don't think I'd- *Transformation sequence starts* "OH... MY GOD YES"

Really good video! As a fellow Gust fan I've had my eyes on the game for a while but decided to wait. I think I'll pick it up now that it's on sale.

you've really been showing your inner weeb lately... i love it.

I know this is awfully late, but I had to say I like to pick up Japanese games that they chose to release on PC in the hopes that they do more PC releases. So when this came out I picked it up. And I actually liked the game a lot... Right up until I got to one particular level which always crashed the game for me. I've never gone back to it, though I've been tempted and I probably should. Oh and I actually didn't feel it had frame rate issues or really any issues on my PC until the crash bug I ran into. I don't own a PS4 though, so PC was always going to be my choice and I have a good PC.

I’ve actually been looking at this game for a while, since I first saw it on sale during PlayStation’s golden week sale. I’m still a “maybe” on it, but you did touch on some of the points I was worried about and and well... the things I was worried about are tolerable. Good. I was actually surprised to see this in my subscriptions, so... thanks!

Thanks for making this video! Keep seeing this at my local gamestop for cheap and I'll probably pick it up now :)

Not interested in the game but damn you are right that is a clean UI. The shapes make it look futuristic without actually seeming complex to deal with and the color scheme only adds to it. Not sure why I watched the whole video honestly. "Too easy" is enough reason for me to pass on an a game. Guess I just like listening to you talk about stuff.

I still remember last year I nabbed the game during golden week sale on Ps Store, I played a little bit the game, and then suddenly I ended up uploading a playthrough in my channel as I played the game, I enjoyed it a lot (and at a very convenient time for me, as my personal situation was kinda similar to Hinako's), and also... my God... the OST is awesome.

This sounds like Persona with magical girls. I'm sold.

I really enjoyed your review, but when you were talking about the music I was hoping that you would provide some samples for us to draw some reference to what you are talking about. You provided a lot of great visual samples for the gameplay aspects, so it would be nice for future reviews if you took similar care when dedicating a significant amount of time to talking about the sound design or music.

Nice review. If you liked Atelier series, and Blue Reflection, I strongly recommend the Ar tonelico Series. The first and second games are for PS2, Ar tonelico III (QOGA) and Ar noSurge are for PS3. I love the Gust games too. I played all Ateliers released in english, but my favorite series still Ar tonelico (my first Gust game was Ar tonelico II).

Got the treasure box edition on Vita, then got it on PC. It's not the best but definitely one great addition to my gentleman collection.

Its my Birfday :3, also I only recently (today) found your channel through nier automata stuff and honestly, I really enjoy your videos (Also helped me understand and cope with those fucking endings). No second thoughts to a sub

Soooophieeee! ❤️ I‘m waiting since a lifetime till Blue Reflection Disc-version finally is at sale 😃

Thank god I'm an adult(with zero shame by the by) and have my own place because I have a feeling my mom would have walked in during one of the cringy bathing scenes.

"...even at 22"? The game looks very interesting and the art style is so beautiful. Thanks for letting us know about this game.

Blue Reflection: Best soundtrack of 2017. Fite me.

Thanks!! I saw that game way before....but i did forget that existence. Love your videos! ; ) Shine on!!

I hope you read this Sophie, even though I know this is an older video. But if you even get to watch an anime called Black Rock Shooter, it very much runs under the same premise as this story (even though its not a “magic girl” theme per-say) its got a strong theme that i think you’ll like!

I love the Blue Reflection Ray Anime and the Blue Reflection games. This series can use all the love and support it can get. It's a very beautiful. And really cute series that everyone needs to get into. It's basically Final Fantasy mixed with Persona and Sailor Moon. And it does very well for what it goes for. Blue Reflection has beautiful animation, cute characters, beautiful music, epic boss battles, great storyline. Overall it's a series that anyone and everyone who is an Anime fan or not needs to get into it. It's really good. It deserves all the love and support that it can get.

Alright every game you talk about is one I've extreamly loved. And this seems up my ally. I'll check it out.

That whole shared emotions world thing reminds me of Mementos in Persona 5.