Silver Blue is a boy-love visual novel about Cyan's journey to find his master Gui and discover his origins upon a mysterious mountain.

The Story
The story centers around an orphan named Cyan who has no memories of his time before he was taken in by his master Gui, only strange dreams that have haunted him for years. One day Master Gui goes missing and Cyan sets off to find him. Cyan is courteous, thoughtful and has a good judge of character, and he loves cooking and researching herbs.

The game offers three romance potentials. Sei, Ethan and Hagan. Sei is a good friend of Master Gui and often visits Gui and Cyan's home. He is kind yet enjoys teasing Cyan, he is well-traveled and rarely talks about himself. Ethan is a hunter who along with this sister resides in the woods. He is one of the people you come across in your travels following Cyan. Hagan, an old acquaintance of Sei, is impulsive, hot-tempered and flamboyant in his style.
This game is not lewd or graphic in any form. There are scenes of kissing in some key art pieces but nothing spicy. This novel falls into the romantic realm more than anything.

Gameplay & Features
The settings are your usual choices for a visual novel. Display settings, rollback settings, skip choices, audio controls and text speed. There is an Extra's menu with a gallery with artwork that unlocks as you play (a lot of gorgeous artwork)!, music scores, memories and credits. 

The Visuals & Audio
This visual novel is so full of gorgeous anime-style art. The style I love, with gorgeous long flowing locks, a magical vibe in the air, and well rendered backgrounds that mesh well with the character art. Also the key art or special moments as I like to coin them are gorgeous! (I am swooning). I posted below some of my favourites. It was hard to choose honestly as I ended up with about 50 screen captures!

The sprites do have some animations to them like facial expressions shifting but for the most part are static in terms of poses. 

There is no voice work but there are ambient sounds. Fire roaring, crowds, birds chirping and knocking doors. The sounds are well done and bring the static backgrounds to life. The soundtrack itself is instrumental and honestly reminds me of music found in old school rpgs. In some parts it is nice and relaxing and in others it is loud or bothersome. In general I was not a fan of the overall music and kept it low in the background. 

Overall Experience
The writing in this novel is so well done. The routes you go down all intertwine with each other but also branch off into their own unique story-lines. There is depth to the writing and I loved all the characters. The gallery in this game is full of all the key moments and really just gorgeous artwork.

I really enjoyed my time with this novel. The story was so interesting I found myself staying up late to keep playing it. I got the game on sale while browsing for visual novels and was happy to have come across this one & experienced it. I highly recommend both the visual novel and the art book. I hope to see more visual novels by Bunbosoup in the future! ✨

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