Genshin Impact has been updated to version 4.0 and there’s a lot of new content along with the usual bunch of bug fixes. There’s a new area, Fontaine, a new story, new equipment, and new characters Freminet, Lyney, and Lynette.
Blue Protocol Might Be the Competition Genshin Impact Needs | Push Square
28.07.2023 - 09:37 / pushsquare.com
For as unfathomably popular Genshin Impact has been all these years, you could argue it's always had things a bit easy. There is nothing else quite like it on consoles, and consistent content updates along with new waifus to metaphorically marry every other month have turned a lot of fans' free time into a second job. With Blue Protocol, though, there's finally a compelling alternative on PS5. From Bandai Namco and Amazon Games, the 2024 title looks primed to steal at least some of that audience with a new, colourful world and many more anime fighters to level up. We played 45 minutes of the online RPG at a preview event to see what's what, and found an experience shaping up to be compelling competition for the HoYoverse mega-hit.
For starters, it has all the hallmarks of a game you could eventually consider your second life. Blue Protocol is a free-to-play undertaking that packs all the kind of buzzwords hardcore Push Square readers hate: Battle Passes, cosmetic items, character purchases, and microtransactions. Luckily for Bandai Namco, though, there's so much more to the enthusiast space than just devout single player buyers.
Given the size and scale of an online RPG such as this, less than an hour of play — on a mouse and keyboard, no less — was nowhere near enough time for us to properly wrap our head around everything Blue Protocol has to offer. After quickly working through the character creation system, watching the introductory cutscene, and completing the tutorial, we were given roughly 20 minutes to explore parts of the multiple open zones before heading into a far more structured dungeon with a full party of other journalists at the event.
Combat plays out in real-time, with loads of abilities to equip and utilise across a skill bar on the bottom of the screen. Your chosen class will dictate what those are, of which there are five. Opting for the traditional sword and shield fighter before switching to a female Twin Striker equipped with two battle axes, there's a different sort of feel for each class. With multiple character slots, you'll be able to cover all bases with your account and get to experience what they bring to the table.
Dropped in at a random point in the story with no real objective — there were main quests highlighted to the side, but we had no context for them — much of our demo was spent aimlessly wandering the two large zones on offer. It's clearly incredibly difficult to properly show off a game of this scale in such a short space of time, so props to Bandai Namco for doing its best, but all we could muster the enthusiasm for was beating down on some of the wildlife littering the world. There was a mount accessible at the touch of a button at least, which meant
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