![]() She somehow loses her phone and recovers it in an empty parking lot, but she sees a strange message on the screen when she picks it up: “BE REBORN”. ![]() Second Light opens with its protagonist Ao Hoshizaki, a high school student trudging off to summer school in the early morning. That warning/caveat/whatever aside, let’s get on to the game itself. At worst you can always just look up a plot synopsis. Not a perfect job - I had the benefit of knowing all about Hinako’s background and her own struggles from the first game with her friends Lime and Yuzu, but I still didn’t totally get the conflict surrounding the sisters Hiori and Mio from the anime Ray and their fight with Uta.īut it’s not realistic to expect a game to explain everything that came before it, and in any case it’s not necessary at all to play the first game or watch the anime to fully enjoy Second Light. Not a big deal, though, because while Second Light features both its own original characters and returning characters from the first game and the anime, it also does a pretty decent job of explaining these characters’ relationships to each other when they eventually show up. If I’d known at the time that it was leading up to this sequel, I probably would have made more of an effort to stick with it. Getting through a 24-episode series feels like actual work to me sometimes, even when I like it, and that one unfortunately slipped through the cracks for me. The other work that Second Light follows up on is the 2021 anime Blue Reflection Ray, which I started but never finished, again because of my shitty schedule. ![]() My feelings about the original Blue Reflection were somewhat mixed, but positive on the whole - I felt the game was lacking in a few important areas, but I generally enjoyed the story and characters and loved the music and art style (headed up by composer Hayato Asano and artist Mel Kishida, both of who returned to work on Second Light.) ![]() The difference here is that this one didn’t get the attention I think it deserved, at least here in the West, though maybe that was to be expected considering its genre and setting.īlue Reflection: Second Light (titled Blue Reflection: Tie in Japan) is the sequel to not just one but two works, only one of which I’ve taken on: the PS4 game Blue Reflection, the first in the series released in 2017. Today my focus is on another game with a distinct art style and an unusual approach to storytelling. It would be looking at me reproachfully now if it had eyes. “Arrive late and look back” has become my style anyway, so it’s all right - and there are quite a few games that have waited far longer for that treatment (as the NieR Replicant box sits on my shelf. But of course, my schedule being what it is, it took me three months to play through it once, so it wasn’t quite by choice. This review took long enough to come, months after talk about the game died down, or what talk there was at least.
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