Just to make matters more complicated, all of the girls except Yuki discover that the strange ring on their respective fingers allows them to summon weapons and become Reflectors - magical girls who fight using the power of their emotions. Voices echo around the place, and Kokoro begins to feel the stirring of memories thought lost. Upon approaching this strange land - which they initially dub “The Faraway” - the girls discover that it is an odd, distorted world that appears to have peculiar relevance to Kokoro in particular. Prior to Ao’s arrival, Rena, Yuki and Kokoro had been keeping themselves making the school in which they are all trapped into something of a habitable location - but shortly after Ao arrives, a strange phenomenon occurs: another land suddenly appears across the water and down some train tracks that lead from the school entrance. Ao, conversely, arrives in the new world with her memories fully intact - and an internal sense of conflict between her desire to get back home and investigate these peculiar circumstances in which she has found herself. Rena, Yuki and Kokoro have all lost their memories and have no idea what they’re doing in this other world, and no-one seems to know anything about Yuko - not even her real name. Upon arriving in this peculiar other place, which takes the form of a school on a tiny island in the middle of an apparently endless ocean, Ao discovers that there are four other girls living there - there’s the stern Rena, the childish Yuki, the gentle Kokoro and the mysterious Yuko, the latter of whom doesn’t show her face all that much. Blue Reflection: Second Light casts you in the role of Ao Hoshizaki, a teenage girl who, while heading to summer classes, ended up transported to a mysterious other world.
Sound good? Good, ’cause that’s what’s happening.īlue Reflection: Second Light – what’s it all about?Īnyway. So what we’re going to do is provide some initial thoughts today, then follow that up with an additional retrospective look back on the whole thing after I’ve had the opportunity to play it through to completion. It’s a big game with lots to explore - but we also figured that you lovely readers would want to hear about it as soon as we were able to give you some thoughts on it. A truly beautiful game that tells a powerful, emotional story - and which does so with satisfying, engaging mechanics that will keep you invested in playing, not just watching cutscenes, for the entire duration.įull disclosure before we go any further: as I write this, I haven’t yet beaten Blue Reflection: Second Light. It builds on everything that made the first game great while simultaneously refining all the slightly weaker aspects of the original - and the result is one of Gust’s finest pieces of work to date. And yet somehow, this game has managed to exceed my expectations in almost every way.
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