Male protagonist?

[Arctic Wolf]

I remember some reviews saying there's a male protagonist. However, the trailers and official site seem to point towards Ao being the protagonist. Is this not the case? Did I miss something indicating the actual protagonist? Is Ao just trans or something?

[Kiru]

You are talking about a different game. Probably a gacha that's gonna die so fast there's little time to even play it.

[Arctic Wolf]

The reviews saying that are for this game.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1423600/reviews/?p=1&browsefilter=trendmonth

[nabeshin24]

Some people have decided to review bomb both this and the first game due to the spin-off mobile gacha game having a male protagonist. The fact they're all different games is irrelevant to them.

[abarax]

The vast majority of those reviews aren't actually about Second Light or the first game.

A lot of Chinese accounts with low playtime on the game have started review-bombing the Blue Reflection games because of the recent announcement (12th November I believe) that Blue Reflection Sun (upcoming mobile game with DMM) will feature a male protagonist - something that departs from the "yuri" and "girls-only" that the series has thus far been built upon and that fans of the genre expect.

You can see this for yourself if you filter the recent reviews to negative and exclude the "Your Languages Only" filter and take a look at the posts through translate or whatever.

[Arctic Wolf]

Thanks for explaining the situation. I can understand that some fans would feel betrayed about an upcoming game and want their voices heard. However, those reviews can also mislead those interested in Blue refection 1 or Second Light, but haven't played them yet.

[Kaezeribato]

I just got to read some more around the net, and the backlash is actualy totaly understandable.

When they anounced the Gacha game they decided to add a generic self insert protagonist (those are the word of the game's director) because they want more to make their place on the mobile gacha market than make a good Blue Reflection game.

After the anouncement the fanbase was pissed off, obviously as this fanchise is based on Yuri relationship (who is the idiot that throught it would please anyone to have a generic dude to fap on a harem?), the game's director anounced that they would'nt change it because having a male protagonist would make it possible for the player to self insert himself with the girl and have relationship with them.

Basicaly, they literaly told the fanbase, that made this mobile gacha even possible, that they didn't care about them and all they wanted was to cash grab with a generic harem mc in a mobile gacha game...

[Chariothe]

I don't agree with those review bombing, but it's understandable, I like characters in this game especially, Shiho and it's kind of heart breaking? to see her appears in that mobile game that has male protag. I just hope the game don't try to sell harem ♥♥♥♥ or has flirting dialogues and make mc be like a mob character.

[zorlag]

Gacha waifu games are super awful.

What's really sad is that some depressed people are skinned alive by this stuff. You combine worst of gambling or oppressively grinding and asking for "exto... subscription fee" to reduce the pain, and exploitation of someone's poor mental state in one package just to make some money.

That said, there's nothing wrong with the mainline games or even anime itself. Not really a reason to down-vote them.

[miru]

just got into the beta test and it's really rough.. whats even more saddening is that the game is a complete crashgrab trash gacha..

[jclosed]

Originally posted by ONE:

just got into the beta test and it's really rough.. whats even more saddening is that the game is a complete crashgrab trash gacha..

What a way to kill a franchise. It's really sad to see the Yuri aspect crash and burn to ash, all for the God Of Cash...

[Chariothe]

Watched the story, it can’t be avoided, when a male, a pest, a handsome and being reliable leader at that, entered the group and surrounded by beautiful flowers, sweet atmosphere between two sex is bound to happen. I felt the pain, like a heart broken.
A fan asked in Kishida mel twitter, “is this the direction bluereflection is heading to?”
And he says yes.
Idk bro can’t have sh1t in this era. I guess they all agreed in the meeting that they want to eliminate girly game image by making it straight instead of yuri and going this way, ip will sell to larger harem fanbase and survive.
I’ve been playing gacha games since kid and now is a working adult. Never once think gacha game is a mistake like this before.
I can’t look at this game and feel happy like before anymore damn.

[Mazhigigika Miludin do Din Nol..]

Originally posted by Kaezeribato:

I just got to read some more around the net, and the backlash is actualy totaly understandable.

When they anounced the Gacha game they decided to add a generic self insert protagonist (those are the word of the game's director) because they want more to make their place on the mobile gacha market than make a good Blue Reflection game.

After the anouncement the fanbase was pissed off, obviously as this fanchise is based on Yuri relationship (who is the idiot that throught it would please anyone to have a generic dude to fap on a harem?), the game's director anounced that they would'nt change it because having a male protagonist would make it possible for the player to self insert himself with the girl and have relationship with them.

Basicaly, they literaly told the fanbase, that made this mobile gacha even possible, that they didn't care about them and all they wanted was to cash grab with a generic harem mc in a mobile gacha game...

Thats so dumb they even had the easy way out of letting chose your gender like Atelier online, it really makes you question the direction of GUST, was considering getting second light on sale I'm not even sure now.

[Zeus]

This is all news to me. I was wondering why I saw "Mostly Negative" recent reviews and now I know why. Absolutely terrible decision to ruin what fans enjoy of the franchise for money.