Gust, has given the first glimpse at Blue Reflection: Sword of the Girl Who Dances in Illusions through new information and some absolutely gorgeous screens. The game is a “Heroic RPG” that was recently announced for PS4 and Vita.
Blue Reflection is set in a school in modern day Japan. The game will have some sort of focus on communication and interactions of people, even in the era of social networking and smartphones. The “Heroic RPG” will depict the life of female youths.
The focus on interactions will have the girls of the main cast forming friendships and other bonds, with the path scattered with the occasional sorrow and even broken friendships – as high school is full of all of these. Through these interactions, the characters will grow together.
Characters
Hinako Shirai [voiced by Yuki Takada]
Height: 158cm
Weight: 44kg
Likes: Classical music
The Protagonist. She once had a promising future in ballet, but injured her foot before a big competition, forcing her to withdraw. Afterward, she was left unable to dance and built walls around her heart. However, her old lessons and skills remain ingrained in her and she still believes her foot will heal one day.
Yuzuki Shijou [voiced by Marika Kouno]
Height: 158cm
Weight: 44kg
Likes: Classical music
One of the girls that offers Hinako her reflector power. After their initial meeting, she shows up one day at Hinako’s school as a transfer student. She’s incredibly cheerful with a great sense of humor. She’s well liked and is great at one shot gags. Even though they only just met recently, Hinako is her first concern.
Raimu Shijou [voiced by Sawako Hata]
Height: 146cm
Weight: 36kg
Likes: Marshmallows
One of the girls that offers Hinako her reflector power. She is Yuzuki’s sister, and in the same grade in school. Her way of thinking is more result-based, and she tends to put other people before herself. Like Yuzuki, she greatly treasures Hinako.
Throughout the game, Hinako will have the chance to interact with tons of other girls in Hoshinomiya Girls’ High School.
With girls interested in everything from clubs to studies, Hinako will have the opportunity to meet anyone and everyone. Though Hinako’s classmates tend to pass each day happy, the walls around her heart stop her from enjoying her school life.
With her injured foot, she’s still unable to dance, and it leaves her as a shell of her former self. Still, she believes against all odds that her foot will heal one day. It’s her only wish remaining.
However, with her school life suddenly changing around her, and through interacting with her classmates, Hinako will slowly begin to open up again.
Ako Ichinose [Likes: Money]
Chihiro Inoue [Likes: Flowers]
Yuri Saiki [Likes: Thinking]
Rin Sanada [Likes: Going Out]
Shihori Sugamoto [Likes: Accessories]
Fumio Taya [Likes: Music]
Kei Narimiya [Likes: Sports]
Sanae Nishida [Likes: Cooking]
Mao Ninagawa [Likes: Training]
Kaori Mitsui [Likes: Clothes]
Sarasa Morikawa [Likes: Dance]
Rika Yoshimura [Likes: Running]
Amidst Hinako’s boring everyday, Yuzuki and Raimu arrive and shake things up. When she meets these two girls, Hinako is granted a mysterious new power and she’ll begin to change.
Hinako’s new powers allow her to fight as a magical girl called a “Reflector”. She still isn’t sure what she is fighting or why, but Hinako resolves to fight for a single reason – her injured foot. While fighting as a Reflector, she is able to freely use her body. Under the tutelage of Yuzuki and Raimu, she continues to fight with the hope of healing her foot.
Still though, as she continues to fight, Hinako begins to notice things about the enemies she’s fighting. She questions the meaning behind the battles. Just what does her fighting as a Reflector do…?
Blue Reflection will be released on PS4 and PS Vita, but there is no release window in mind yet.
