The best Mahou Shoujo game up to date

[Pan Paka Pan]

I'm a big fan of Mahou Shoujo, which doesn't mean only your famous Madoka or Sailor Moon. I played some Mahou Shoujo in psp, but games with this genre is very rare, and with this quality i can only thank Gust to make this.
I wish this series continue like Nights or Atelier, since no one bothers about making good mahou shoujo games nowadays. Some things could be better in the game, sure, but if you compare others Mahou, this game is as top as it gets.

This game is best compared with the anime: Yuuki Yuuna Yuusha de Aru => yes this is a name. You should watch this anime when you have the time it's great.
Another honorable mention if you like Mahou Shoujo is Nanoha (there are many seasons, just look for animes with with Nanoha in the name) it continues with Vivio in Vivid Strike and they are making new movies and seasons up to this date. Unfortunately the best Mahous are not known in the west aside from the classic ones Sailor Moon, Sakura card captor, Madoka etc.

Gust has a thing worth mentioning in their games, the characters are full of emotions. I never found any game where the characters show so much emotion like in Gust games (atelier/blue reflection/etc). If you enjoy cute characters and deep emotional development, i recommend this game for you.

[Pan Paka Pan]

Originally posted by rincewind:

Originally posted by papika:

To be honest, i feel like this one is more yuri than Nights of Azure, because the emotions are deeper. You can feel more care and affection.
Nights is yuri, yes, but i don't feel the same depth, it's more superficial and direct.
I prefer yuri with depth like this one, but i don't dislike Nights, I'll get NoA2.

I don't know. I haven't played this one.
But you can't say that the yuri in NoA isn't depth. Don't you saw how much they care for each other? Their interactions? How devoted are they for each other? They're adorable!
And there's nothing wrong with being direct!

And there's a difference between colorful friendship and lovers-in-all-but-name.

See Symphogear Miku and Hibiki. They're deeply care about each other. They support each other and share deeply emotional moments together. They also live and sleep together, even if they have two beds. Heck, even how they call each other, Miku is Hibiki's sunshine, and the warmest place on all the Earth. Hibiki is Miku's blinding sun.
Change the gender of one of them and nobody would have the sightless doubt that they're a couple.

Blue Reflection have friendships like that? Because that would be nice!

Originally posted by papika:

Haha. Even Sakura Card Captor is classified as yuri. Yuri is not hardcore lesbianism only. Colorful friendship is also yuri like Kiniro Mosaic.

Card Captor Sakura is sad, sad, depressing one-sided yuri. (Curse you, CLAMP)

And we could debate until the end of the world if Kiniro Mosaic counts as friendship. They're a bit little close to be considered just friends. "A japanese Christmas is a Christmas with Shiho!"

I mean, look at another example, Saki, can you tell me with straight face than Nodoka or Momo are straight?

As I sad above, there's friendship and 'friendship'.

In the end there is no real line between yuri and not yuri. Many people including many blogs, forums and stuff consider a lot of slice of life as being yuri. For some people, yuri is the direct, romantic stuff which you can see without a doubt, for others yuri starts at friendship level.
There is no right or wrong, we can't judge that. For me, it starts at friendship.
I never said NoA doesn't have depth. It has, but comparing with this one, this one is more deep, just that.
You can take as you wish, this stuff is as subjective as it takes. I learned the true yuri meaning from Sasameki Koto, that is for me the true yuri meaning, which one of the students teach what it is at a deep level. Others won't see yuri unless it's straight up sex.

You used Saki as example, which is for coincidence my favorite anime. As i said before, some people will see as yuri, other as good friends. The line of "yes/no" depends on each person.

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Honestly I barely got any mahou shoujo vibes from this game. The story is so bad and the pacing is terrible, a lot of tropes are just not there or lost on the way.

[Hellstorm901]

It's sad Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable never got a West release.

[rincewind]

Originally posted by papika:

Originally posted by rincewind:

I don't know. I haven't played this one.
But you can't say that the yuri in NoA isn't depth. Don't you saw how much they care for each other? Their interactions? How devoted are they for each other? They're adorable!
And there's nothing wrong with being direct!

And there's a difference between colorful friendship and lovers-in-all-but-name.

See Symphogear Miku and Hibiki. They're deeply care about each other. They support each other and share deeply emotional moments together. They also live and sleep together, even if they have two beds. Heck, even how they call each other, Miku is Hibiki's sunshine, and the warmest place on all the Earth. Hibiki is Miku's blinding sun.
Change the gender of one of them and nobody would have the sightless doubt that they're a couple.

Blue Reflection have friendships like that? Because that would be nice!



Card Captor Sakura is sad, sad, depressing one-sided yuri. (Curse you, CLAMP)

And we could debate until the end of the world if Kiniro Mosaic counts as friendship. They're a bit little close to be considered just friends. "A japanese Christmas is a Christmas with Shiho!"

I mean, look at another example, Saki, can you tell me with straight face than Nodoka or Momo are straight?

As I sad above, there's friendship and 'friendship'.

In the end there is no real line between yuri and not yuri. Many people including many blogs, forums and stuff consider a lot of slice of life as being yuri. For some people, yuri is the direct, romantic stuff which you can see without a doubt, for others yuri starts at friendship level.
There is no right or wrong, we can't judge that. For me, it starts at friendship.
I never said NoA doesn't have depth. It has, but comparing with this one, this one is more deep, just that.
You can take as you wish, this stuff is as subjective as it takes. I learned the true yuri meaning from Sasameki Koto, that is for me the true yuri meaning, which one of the students teach what it is at a deep level. Others won't see yuri unless it's straight up sex.

You used Saki as example, which is for coincidence my favorite anime. As i said before, some people will see as yuri, other as good friends. The line of "yes/no" depends on each person.

But canon yuri > subtextual yuri > yuribait.
It's like the circle of life. But with lesbians instead of baby lions, hyenas and shakespeare!

And I can't imagine how someone can see the relationships in Saki as mere frienships.
I mean, one couple has the superpower based in they deep relationship, bondage and giving orgasms to the other!
What they need to do? Show they having sex in the Mahjong table?
Seriously, I wish for the day that Ritz just drop the subtext and give us some irrefutable and innegable canon. But she's too busy wooing her harem and drawing even bigger boobs than the last chapter.

And about Blue Reflection, sometime I will play it and then I will see it for myself.

Originally posted by Hellstorm901:

It's sad Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable never got a West release.

Yeah... why we can't have nice things?

[Sashimi Kimochi]

i can't find any yuri in blue reflection at all, there's a little subtext but in the end the world got reset so Hinako lose all the friends/affections she made with other girls, Rin still lust for her Tennis senpai d!ck, Kaori won't even care a damn about Rika and start dating her online game boyfriend both of them don't care a sh!t about Hinako cuz their memory got wiped. Sanae,Sarasa could be normal friend to Hinako since they knew her before but that's all, Hinako no longer has the reflector power i doubt she can get far with them. Shihori bond events was g@y, she lusts for Hinako but then again her memory also wiped, with that she wouldn't even know who Hinako is let alone go full g@y mode on her and in the end she will end up with one of the 6 boys she was dating.

conclusion : no Yuri in this game

[Pan Paka Pan]

Not reading the spoiler above but just that conclusion at the end proves my point that each person has a different meaning of yuri. I already saw plenty of yuri in BR but i can understand if most people don't see any yuri at all. It's the same as Kiniro Mosaic.

[Sashimi Kimochi]

you need to check MAL for what yuri stands,and no, subtext doesn't mean yuri, subtext is just subtext

[Pan Paka Pan]

Originally posted by Sh!t Just Got Real:

you need to check MAL for what yuri stands,and no, subtext doesn't mean yuri, subtext is just subtext

Tons of blogs and forums disagree with you

Edit: also anime, anilist etc

[Sashimi Kimochi]

lol blogs and forums
just go to MAL

[rincewind]

Originally posted by papika:

Not reading the spoiler above but just that conclusion at the end proves my point that each person has a different meaning of yuri. I already saw plenty of yuri in BR but i can understand if most people don't see any yuri at all. It's the same as Kiniro Mosaic.

If they're end with a guy, is not yuri for general rule. Or at least is not worthwhile yuri.

[Pan Paka Pan]

Originally posted by Sh!t Just Got Real:

lol blogs and forums
just go to MAL

MAL?
Saki: Genres: Game, School, Slice of Life

See my point?

Each anime list site, blog or forum will tell you something different.