Bandai Namco's absolutely terrible mistake is that they didn't launch the game all over the world at once and on their own. Amazon could just kill the game and make the release very bad, since they don't seem interested in the success of the project. Also, I would really like to see the game in Eastern Europe as well, not just Western Europe.
agreed 100%, not launching the game worldwide at once creates a group of people that will play the game before others an then when its released again in English come in and dominate things. It would have been a better experience overall if everyone got the game at the same time. staggering half the worlds release by a whole year is wild
Bandai Namco decided to partner with Amazon to publish Blue Protocol outside of Japan for the following reasons: Cost: Publishing and operating a live service game can be very expensive. By partnering with Amazon, Bandai Namco can share these costs and reduce their financial risk. Risk: There is always a risk that a new game will not be successful. By partnering with Amazon, Bandai Namco can reduce their risk. If Blue Protocol is not successful, Amazon will bear the brunt of the financial losses. Expertise: Amazon has a lot of experience in publishing and operating live service games. Bandai Namco can benefit from Amazon's expertise in this area. Reach: Amazon has a large user base in North America, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. This means that Amazon has a ready-made audience for Blue Protocol in these regions. Bandai Namco would likely have had to spend a significant amount of money and time to build up a similar audience on their own. Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world's leading cloud computing platforms. AWS provides a reliable and scalable infrastructure for hosting and distributing games. This means that Amazon can ensure that Blue Protocol is available to players around the world with minimal downtime.
@@orb963 More than half a year of downtime doesn't look like "minimal downtime". Many other games will be released during this period and then the risk will become even higher, as many will leave for competitors and stay there.
@@lougy_ushastikimagine crying about them trying to make the game right. Go watch preaches review he actully talks to the dudes porting it over and why
Game looks pretty good to me so far, only thing I see as a big issue for western release is locking all cosmetics behind gacha ( if I understood correctly.) Locking some cosmetics behind gacha is fine but when it comes to MMO's I think its better to let people just buy cosmetics directly if they want.
Thanks for giving us a detailed take at the game ahead of global launch. I like others probably less interested now and looking forward to see what other MMOs may drop later on. Bummer but oh well.
Hey Kanon, great review and great video! You make a lot of great points and I totally agree with the main sentiment - somehow it's a lot of fun to just play, and it's super chill and doesn't feel like you're forced to login. The base combat system is also really well put-together so I hope there is more content that lets you take advantage of it in the future - again, agreed there isn't too much to do right now. Couple of points I wanted to touch on - it might get a bit long so I hope you have time to have a look 😛 1. I'm surprised you didn't expand on the EX Rush Battle. It's probably the most fun "end game content" in the game at the moment. Unlike other rush battles there are no deaths allowed, and there are divergence mechanics that make different enemies spawn depending on which get killed previously, so it can be a different experience every run. It's not super hard and it's mostly "solved", but I think it's a better example of more engaging end-game (it's the plugin farming mission) as opposed to running the level 50 missions for weapon materials. 2. B-Orochi is a level 45 farmable B-Imajinn and can roll Seimei no Honryuu G3, which is the same +700 HP ability that B-Feste β (from the BPP store) comes with. It's not unique to her and it's completely free-to-play obtainable, so it's only very minorly pay-to-win if you wanted to run both for +1400 HP for some reason. However E-Ichiza no Kizuna (level 35) is also free-to-play and can roll Seimei no Honryuu G2 (+400 HP) so B-Feste β is pretty extra. The movement speed buff on B-Feste β is also on B-Spooky Goat, which is also free-to-play. 3. I agree that the mob density feels pretty awful in certain areas getting to 50, but I wonder if this might just be a side effect of other changes. In the betas and NT, all the jobs were significantly weaker (as you know) and most classes had to 1v1 everything because they couldn't effectively 1-v-many. Do you think the mob density might've been designed around that, and they simply didn't have the time to plan & implement changes as they rushed to buff the classes prior to release? 4. One very important point you neglected to mention is how buggy and unstable the game is at the moment. I've seen you experience this all the time, but the game frequently crashes and things like the party finder and mission matchmaking queue are always borked. It's also really poorly optimized and doesn't run well even on high-spec machines. Hopefully it doesn't stay this way but this is probably an important callout for people who are considering the game. 5. Minor correction, but weapon plugs have no RNG rolls beyond the star rating. Rolling a 1-5 star is random, but every 5-star is the same as every other 5-star for the same plug; there is no variance. Seimei no Honryuu G1 says +50~150 HP, but that means you can roll 50, 75, 100, 125 or 150; nothing in between. The only stat roll you can get is the damage bonus on the ability (the 11~13%/9~11% etc). Keen to hear back from you, and keep up the great BP content!
the dangerous statement about the monetization is, if the player are OK with the monetization now (the battle imagine and enchant ticket), there are chance in the future they will make the battle imagine more OP than the free farmable imagine. at that point a lot of player will keep playing because of sunk cost fallacy, and they will say "its just another 5-10$ month".
I mean, if you play and complete 1 BP, you can get the next one for free, so is not "another 5-10 month", is more like "I compromise myself to play this game for another 60 hours this month" xD
"Only level 50" The importance of the actual number which correspond to top level is arbitrary. What difference would it make if it were 100 if the power level/gameplay would be the same anyway.
He's saying that's a huge issue if there were hundreds of players playing in the same area. There would be 0 monsters alive and people would be stuck there waiting for spawns for a long time since they wouldn't get a chance to get credit on enough kills. Its a major issue when you consider that if the game released then tens of thousands of players would be playing and it may take weeks to alleviate the bottleneck.
This game isn't going to make it in the US with these gatcha mechanics and no real end game. Its weird to see such little development in the right direction after the betas from SO LONG ago. Still, this was a good video and you did a great job talking about most aspects of the game. I remember when I was hyped for this in 2019 but I really don't have any desire to play the game anymore after seeing the direction they are going.
Came from your post on reddit. Since I'm eagerly waiting for the western release, I don't consume much content regarding BP atm. However, this video was a nice overview of the whole game as of now; really good video. Take my sub, and I'm looking forward to some more BP content from your channel when western release drops.
If 20 of the same exact enemies with no variation just spawned in every area people would cry that its copy and paste and feels mundane. Then people get the exact opposite of that and cry about how they have to grind. Grind isnt bad as long as its not the same exact thing constantly.
I was wondering about the monetization. Could you clarify what you meant when you said each 10 pull is 50 dollars Japanese. Is that 50 yen? Or was that 50 US dollars, but the game converts to yen?
5000 yen, or what is usually $50 US equivalent when localized (though a little less when buying bigger bundles of orbs, or if you factor in the extremely low value of the yen ATM)
I'll be honest... I'm slightly overwhelmed by the depth of this review... I'm actually NEW to MMOs, since I normally play RPGs solo offline... You did a phenomenal job on this.
Thx for review. Its nice to know, game is bad and not for me. Classes are boring without flavour, feels like they borrowed few spells from other games, mixed them up together at random, then marked the mix as a new "class". ... Any kind of "% chance to upgrade" _(for example like sockets in Diablo 3)_ is big red flag, especially if is there another way to speed up whole process for real money - that is sign of two things. The game did it for purpose to slow you, because there is no another meaningful content or as "hidden mechanics" to force you, to spend real money and save your time _(in the worst case for both reasons in the same time)_ . My prediction is, game will be have same downfall as _Tower of Fantasy_ released last year for global - first month overpopulated servers, many content from content creators, after honeymoon period next two months would be drama around flaws and declining population and after 6 months there will be few veteran players, merging servers and no flow of new players because of another title on horizon and because you dont want to invest your time into dead MMO.
The classes are definitely not boring and without flavor, go doompost elsewhere if you're gonna make far fetched predictions before global release without even playing the game
@@anthony26812 Its not doompost but the reality. Why is druid in WoW cool? Because he can turn itself into animals, why is ranger cool in GW2? Because he have pet and he is bonded with spirits to heal/buff teammates, why are characters in OW/Paladins fun? Because are unique. You can continue with another games and classes from another mmos or multiplayer games with class-based system. I did not played the game but I saw showcase of all classes, their gameplay and all their spells from the game - and its not unique, its not interesting, it not give you any reason to play the game in longterm, beside to play the story once. You no need to taste a shit to know, its shit.
@@_Libosido The only thing I'd say is the developers of this game are quite different from those of Tower of Fantasy. That game was riddled with bugs, hacking, and cheating at launch alongside extreme monetization and incredibly grindy systems. Also the devs were slow to respond to everything. The devs in this game aren't as slow.
I really loved this video breakdown! ALSO really love BP. The world, the anime aesthetic, the story are all amazing! The combat has been really fun but can feel a bit spammy at times(similar to all aRPG 😂). But overall cant wait for global as i was banned before i could enjoy it fully! Hell ya. Great vid again!
Great and complete video, I'm still very hyped for the game and don't mind if I have to wait for update when I reach endgame. The time where I could afford to play MMO everyday is long gone anyway A shame so many idiots who clearly didn't watch the video shit on the game tho I think while it might not sell to wow or FFXIV level it will be a pretty decent success
My expectations are set pretty low. The better the experience if i am wrong. But the game somehow tells me it will only last like 2 years, when you said the 2 Endgame Dungeons are just an upscale of the first 2 Dungeons.
That's cool and all but i wonder if the enemies are always the same aesthetically, also i've seen only 1 dragon till now, are there more or is the raid boss dragon the only one?
Blue Protocol was one of my most anticipated games, but the fact that it didn't launch globally at the same time, it really killed the hype for me, as well as Amazon seeming adamant on changing the game to appeal to what they think people want, bro just release the game as it is and let the devs do their thing. I will try it because it's free, but I don't have much hope left
I have been following BP for a couple of years now. Every trailer, I've been so hyped and excited for the release date, but it almost seems like for every new trailer, the release date gets pushed back for even longer. As much as I want to see the game succeed and I'm happy with waiting for a good product, I can't help but feel more and more withdrawn from the game with every announcement. I hope this game turns out well.
Amazon/Bandai knows how bad is BP doing in JP if they drop it right now it will be a huge flop so they are waiting for JP to have a huge update to bring players back and to put it on global the moment it goes live
I have a few questions. Does it have clan/guilds? Can you trade with other players or is it like pso2 that trade is mostly none existant? Can you open up shops like other mmos?
@@celphalonred1999 Good for you, if you like ''realistic'' style armor then all the power to you, personally i prefer anime games with sleek and attention grabbing designs to the armor, examples would be Fairy Tail, Fate series, Reincarnated as a Slime, Overlord, etc. This doesn't mean i don't like some more simple designs, but selling such simple designs at such a high price is a big no, it doesn't even take half the time to make the models compared to more complex designs, i have seen streamers using Blender and i can tell you the more ''anime'' the design the more time and effort it takes to make.
Is this game going to die before it even releases in the west? Edit: ok, the monetization isn't anywhere near as bad as I expected, it looks like it's almost entirely cosmetics aside from a couple extremely negligible power boosts. I'm ok with that as long as it doesn't go any further.
I don't think it's the right move to review this like a Korean Grinder. The game isn't designed to rush players to endgame and then drain their souls with daily, nigh-Sisyphean tasks. Rushing to max level is almost entirely pointless (and, thus, grinding for EXP alone is pointless). Getting a max roll weapon is nice, but only really useful for time attacks. It's not that what you're saying isn't true, it just isn't what the game focused on. Since it's presented as a full review it gives the impression that this is the best the game has to offer. It seems like these are the parts that most interest you, which is fine, but maybe specify the slice of the game that you're reviewing. That said, would love to see more on the directional input attack combos.
I play Blue Protocol myself even I tho agree with most of the video I would disagree with build variety. I use my own for Heavy Smasher (Foe Breaker) I checked the build which is recommended on JP we site like strogenst but imo it is bad and mine is better, you should pick skill which are fun for you. Combat is kind of anime version of Elden ring. You attack and dodge (rolling around the most or jump over some mechs). It is easy and straight forward fight but people still dying and in last 2 dungeons just let your teamate die and dont pick him up cuz you are most likely die by picking him since mobs cancel your "picking up" animation. Myself I dont wanna play 6 hours a day a do daily stuff just to keep on path and do next dongeon (raid) when it comes up. Had enough of it in Lost Ark when I had to do 18 raids per week. This MMO is great for casual, you reach max lvl and gearscore and u can wait for next without any daily grind (part time job like in LA). I believe that future bosses will be more complicated and harder to do.
Damn the game just released. I miss oldschool dificulty on mmos... Some fill just too easy and them they have the hole endgame based on some lucky based lvl system.
AGS has a golden opportunity in their hands. If they fix the monetization of the game (remove Gacha altogether and/or make Gacha cheaper and/or add more free Gacha rolls and/or improve the rates and/or make it more F2P friendly), that would already put the game in the top 5 MMORPGs available today. In a perfect world they would remove everything but skins from the Cash Shop, but unfortunately that would be too good to be true. Sadly, given the leaked information from the Closed Technical Test in November, the game is 100% the exact same thing as the Japanese version but in English.
I was so excited for this game but could care less anymore. By the time this comes out after waiting that entire time already I'll have other stuff to play by then I'm more excited for! They lost out on a major opportunity imo! There's so many insane games coming out next year that this game is gonna be drowned out! Mind blowing decision!
If the monetization is that bad already, amazon will just create another lost ark where endgame is just about how much money you have. Shame, I was looking forward to this one.
I was so excited about this game over the years but the more i hear about it the more waning my will to play it when it comes out it gets...basically a agressive gacha mmo... reminds me FGO.
Good video Kanon, keep up the great work. I really appreciate all the things you said and agree with about 90% if not more of it LOL. I did think there was extra stuff such as (beta skills drop from lvl 40/50 dungeons) or (there's an exclusive weapon drop from the lvl 50 dungeon that only has that effect and cannot be crafted) but very accurate overall.
My question is about the benefits of having multiple characters. I'm big into RPing so i like fashion and creating characters. Do multiple characters share inventory, rewards and quests? Also are cosmetics shared between characters like in PSO2? If the inventory is like Monster Hunter, then I'm out.
I'm starting to understand Amazon's decision to delay the western launch. Considering the lack of content and good cosmetics, adding to that the need to totally remake the monetization, it is very reasonable to delay the launch until the game is made a bit more appealing at the core instead of just being a pretty cover.
@@acrimony0 They are going to release their new game Thrones and Liberty this year (which gets alot of hate lmao) and they would have to release BP in the same time frame which would probably kill their game cuz more people are interested in BP, thats why they decided to publish BP globally next year
anyone complaining that cosmetics cost too much better realize that their only alternative is having a cash shop that sells other things to make up the difference in sales, other things being non-cosmetics... so you really don't want that there's no option for "please game, lower prices and make less money!" it's only lower prices and then make up for it somewhere else
Damn, it feels like the universe is telling me something: the game has LITERALLY P2W skill buffs, terrible gatcha, overpriced outfits, battlepass and on top of that, its grindy and has the terrble genshin's random gear stats system and most of that is not changing with the global release, in fact is it getting censored for the age rating, even if people who just wont play, wont play anyway and anyone who wants to play on JP servers get banned... I'll try...But I was hoping to replace PSO2NGS with this game, which BTW, that game sucks too, due to GLOBAL MANAGEMENT and devs trying to copy genshin.
You didn't mention how Feste B gives a speed buff which is a clear advantage in the Time Attack (ranked with ranking rewards). And the leads said they wouldn't make this game P2W.
Looks like a semi better polished version of PSO. same type of end game systems, so grinds, same classes. I feel grinding only 2 dungeons and a few mobs for end game is going to be a no go for most players.... Game seems its currently about the journey rather then the finish line... which is great.... but the end game is what lets us playing for hundreds of hours rather then 30 on a single play thru
Honestly, i really don't understand how they failed so hard on this game. Even if we ignore the gameplay flaws, the selling point of the game was that it will be an old school type anime mmorpg with heavy emphasis on cosmetics like the Fiesta online, Eden Eternal or Grand Fantasia, stuff like that from the old days, where people would run around in the most random, colorful outfits, and everyone had a different one. And guess what, they could not even provide that, the cosmetics are incredibly shitty, few and overpriced. they are basically just re-skins of the basic armor sets.
Thanks for this. It seems this game is not what I was hoping for. I was looking for a ff14 replacement with a deep immersive anime story experience that will make me laugh and cry journeying along with the msq. I am not all that into the whole levelling and maxing stuff out for the sake of it gameplay. This looks a bit grindey and hollow in terms of the story. Thanks Kanon for putting all the work into this. These reviews are really useful.
The story is pretty good and the required dungeons are generally easier than their normal counterparts. You don't need to worry about gear or grinding--you can just do story content and extra story content via quests. There's no real point to rushing max level if you're mainly playing for story/immersion.
Sounds like an MMORPG for people that don't like MMORPGs but want to play MMORPGs. No complicated mechanic, no complicated leveling or skills or...... anything really. Seems too simple to keep people engaged. It's the Heroes of the Storm of MMORPGs.
Thanks I played on JP for 3 days before the ban hammer but I did not notice the 10 pull thing, that at least takes some of the edge off the expensive system they have at the moment. I'm still kind of disgusted at the cost off BPP though. I'll wait and see how Global goes and keep playing Pso2 NGS JP until then.
Thanks for the review. After watching, I think the game is definitely not for me personally. Not a fan at all of gacha systems and it seems like the endgame is pretty lackluster and uninspired. Might just be one of those games to play for a week and enjoy the grind to 50, then be done with it
The RNG component is clearly hyper-whale centric and any future price reduction won't convince me; if upon western release it financially succeeds for them then the paywall will creep into performance items further along the line which is a point of concern b/c the game ostensibly looks nice with a consistent and kinetic art style (omitting the UI) and seems approachable in the sense that it could be recommended to a layman
Can't say I'm surprise of the downfall. MMORPG genre is just lacking. There will always be something that will make it not age well. It just a general thing at this point for decades. And yet I'm still waiting for an perfect mmorpg to happen.
As much as I'd love to blame Amazon for the future failure of this game, I can honestly say the game itself will be the reason of that. It's pretty damn basic, for lack of a better word. It's like playing a mobile game, with basic combat, but with pretty graphics. The dungeons feel like I'm playing lame games such as "Tower of fantasy", that kind of stuff. I mean they made so much noise about the game, but it brings absolutely nothing new to the MMO world, quite the opposite, it's using cheap and similar features from games that died out in the past and that nobody cares about, feels like a Gacha game, minus the Gacha (not yet at least). Also, a lot of the game is instanced, a fake feeling of open world outside cities, but everywhere you go, there's a loading screen waiting to take you to an instance. TL;DR : It has very old and basic core features, but with cool anime graphics. This game just isn't it. It's like a mobile game on PC. We'll probably see hundreds of thousands checking it out for a few days then forget it ever existed soon after that.
in short this game is somewhat better than many mmorpg games, since you don't really need to pay money in game for anything outside of cosmetics and the success rate thing and that is if you are interested in it, there is as well the fact that unlike other gacha games this one doesn't have multiple characters to play with and have to pay money to inc chances to acquire them unlike other gacha game + there is too the fact that this mmorpg doesn't have high grind for anything like items or lvling up unlike every other mmorpg game? I would say damn this game is worthy playing.
I love how he's praising the dev team because in the recent livestream the top high ranking developers and game director when asked in QA about the new class they clearly didn't know how the game works. This pissed of a lot of Japanese players enough for them to quit the game.
Honestly don’t understand the choice to open only the Asian servers. Seems the game is really good, also the combat seems to be really cool. I will be really happy when it comes in EU. Hyped
Wdym? There's no asian server at all. Currently the only server is Jap, no other asian is allow to play in it. Amazon server is not gonna be launching for asia
I have to ask, are weapon skins, like the sword and sheilds, are always a pair, and are clothes always a set(shirt, pants, headgear) or separate items?
weapon skin only counts by class, which mean yes, if you have a weapon skin for Blade Warden, then it will be applied to both sword and shield costumes in gacha always come as a full box (which contains all 5 pieces head, shirt, pants, shoes and gloves) so you don't have to worry about getting separate pieces
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Streaming this game a LOT until western launch, come hang out w/ me @ twitch.tv/kanonxo
Bandai Namco's absolutely terrible mistake is that they didn't launch the game all over the world at once and on their own. Amazon could just kill the game and make the release very bad, since they don't seem interested in the success of the project. Also, I would really like to see the game in Eastern Europe as well, not just Western Europe.
agreed 100%, not launching the game worldwide at once creates a group of people that will play the game before others an then when its released again in English come in and dominate things. It would have been a better experience overall if everyone got the game at the same time. staggering half the worlds release by a whole year is wild
Bandai Namco decided to partner with Amazon to publish Blue Protocol outside of Japan for the following reasons:
Cost: Publishing and operating a live service game can be very expensive. By partnering with Amazon, Bandai Namco can share these costs and reduce their financial risk.
Risk: There is always a risk that a new game will not be successful. By partnering with Amazon, Bandai Namco can reduce their risk. If Blue Protocol is not successful, Amazon will bear the brunt of the financial losses.
Expertise: Amazon has a lot of experience in publishing and operating live service games. Bandai Namco can benefit from Amazon's expertise in this area.
Reach: Amazon has a large user base in North America, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand. This means that Amazon has a ready-made audience for Blue Protocol in these regions. Bandai Namco would likely have had to spend a significant amount of money and time to build up a similar audience on their own.
Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the world's leading cloud computing platforms. AWS provides a reliable and scalable infrastructure for hosting and distributing games. This means that Amazon can ensure that Blue Protocol is available to players around the world with minimal downtime.
@@orb963 More than half a year of downtime doesn't look like "minimal downtime". Many other games will be released during this period and then the risk will become even higher, as many will leave for competitors and stay there.
I mean the guy running is the dude who helped create gw2 sooo i think they do care
@@lougy_ushastikimagine crying about them trying to make the game right. Go watch preaches review he actully talks to the dudes porting it over and why
Game looks pretty good to me so far, only thing I see as a big issue for western release is locking all cosmetics behind gacha ( if I understood correctly.) Locking some cosmetics behind gacha is fine but when it comes to MMO's I think its better to let people just buy cosmetics directly if they want.
money
better for you but not better for the company's wallets
@@momowner114 Thats true but if the gacha puts players off then it defeats the purpose.
Is it not like PSO2 where you can just get what you want from the playershop
@darthbarasthewide2754 but you can but the payed gacha stuff from other players for the ingame currency
Thanks for giving us a detailed take at the game ahead of global launch. I like others probably less interested now and looking forward to see what other MMOs may drop later on. Bummer but oh well.
Hey Kanon, great review and great video! You make a lot of great points and I totally agree with the main sentiment - somehow it's a lot of fun to just play, and it's super chill and doesn't feel like you're forced to login. The base combat system is also really well put-together so I hope there is more content that lets you take advantage of it in the future - again, agreed there isn't too much to do right now. Couple of points I wanted to touch on - it might get a bit long so I hope you have time to have a look 😛
1. I'm surprised you didn't expand on the EX Rush Battle. It's probably the most fun "end game content" in the game at the moment. Unlike other rush battles there are no deaths allowed, and there are divergence mechanics that make different enemies spawn depending on which get killed previously, so it can be a different experience every run. It's not super hard and it's mostly "solved", but I think it's a better example of more engaging end-game (it's the plugin farming mission) as opposed to running the level 50 missions for weapon materials.
2. B-Orochi is a level 45 farmable B-Imajinn and can roll Seimei no Honryuu G3, which is the same +700 HP ability that B-Feste β (from the BPP store) comes with. It's not unique to her and it's completely free-to-play obtainable, so it's only very minorly pay-to-win if you wanted to run both for +1400 HP for some reason. However E-Ichiza no Kizuna (level 35) is also free-to-play and can roll Seimei no Honryuu G2 (+400 HP) so B-Feste β is pretty extra. The movement speed buff on B-Feste β is also on B-Spooky Goat, which is also free-to-play.
3. I agree that the mob density feels pretty awful in certain areas getting to 50, but I wonder if this might just be a side effect of other changes. In the betas and NT, all the jobs were significantly weaker (as you know) and most classes had to 1v1 everything because they couldn't effectively 1-v-many. Do you think the mob density might've been designed around that, and they simply didn't have the time to plan & implement changes as they rushed to buff the classes prior to release?
4. One very important point you neglected to mention is how buggy and unstable the game is at the moment. I've seen you experience this all the time, but the game frequently crashes and things like the party finder and mission matchmaking queue are always borked. It's also really poorly optimized and doesn't run well even on high-spec machines. Hopefully it doesn't stay this way but this is probably an important callout for people who are considering the game.
5. Minor correction, but weapon plugs have no RNG rolls beyond the star rating. Rolling a 1-5 star is random, but every 5-star is the same as every other 5-star for the same plug; there is no variance. Seimei no Honryuu G1 says +50~150 HP, but that means you can roll 50, 75, 100, 125 or 150; nothing in between. The only stat roll you can get is the damage bonus on the ability (the 11~13%/9~11% etc).
Keen to hear back from you, and keep up the great BP content!
The review we've been waiting for. Great one Kanon!
the dangerous statement about the monetization is,
if the player are OK with the monetization now (the battle imagine and enchant ticket),
there are chance in the future they will make the battle imagine more OP than the free farmable imagine.
at that point a lot of player will keep playing because of sunk cost fallacy,
and they will say "its just another 5-10$ month".
I mean that’s what age is directly targeting the so called reasoning for the delays so we will see what happens
I mean, if you play and complete 1 BP, you can get the next one for free, so is not "another 5-10 month", is more like "I compromise myself to play this game for another 60 hours this month" xD
50 bucks for a 10 pull is ridiculous!!!
In game music is too underrated, they're such bangers both in and off fights
50 bad news in a row. Only level 50 and 50$ for a rng 10 pull is absolutely insane.
"Only level 50" The importance of the actual number which correspond to top level is arbitrary. What difference would it make if it were 100 if the power level/gameplay would be the same anyway.
Thanks for your honest review ! This confirms it's a huge nop for me
personally I prefer the low density spawns to ones where everything aggros and two-shots you, but maybe it's easier if your class is tanky
He's saying that's a huge issue if there were hundreds of players playing in the same area. There would be 0 monsters alive and people would be stuck there waiting for spawns for a long time since they wouldn't get a chance to get credit on enough kills. Its a major issue when you consider that if the game released then tens of thousands of players would be playing and it may take weeks to alleviate the bottleneck.
@@cynthiastarcrossed ch1 , ch2, ch3 , ch4 etc...
nothing in this game kills you unless ur afk
GREAT video. Lots of info and an objective view of all the interaction within the game 👌
When's the dishonest full review coming out though? 🤔
Dragon king floating above with that huge fireball looks so based.
Watching this video made me feel like I've already beaten Blue Protocol tbh
Same, i probably wont play it anymore ... was waiting for the release so long
@@SolaireOfToast Their loss. Maybe next time they'll learn to release across regions simultaneously
This game isn't going to make it in the US with these gatcha mechanics and no real end game. Its weird to see such little development in the right direction after the betas from SO LONG ago.
Still, this was a good video and you did a great job talking about most aspects of the game. I remember when I was hyped for this in 2019 but I really don't have any desire to play the game anymore after seeing the direction they are going.
Came from your post on reddit. Since I'm eagerly waiting for the western release, I don't consume much content regarding BP atm. However, this video was a nice overview of the whole game as of now; really good video. Take my sub, and I'm looking forward to some more BP content from your channel when western release drops.
If 20 of the same exact enemies with no variation just spawned in every area people would cry that its copy and paste and feels mundane. Then people get the exact opposite of that and cry about how they have to grind. Grind isnt bad as long as its not the same exact thing constantly.
I was wondering about the monetization. Could you clarify what you meant when you said each 10 pull is 50 dollars Japanese. Is that 50 yen? Or was that 50 US dollars, but the game converts to yen?
5000 yen, or what is usually $50 US equivalent when localized (though a little less when buying bigger bundles of orbs, or if you factor in the extremely low value of the yen ATM)
@@GuardianKaiser this.
5,000 Yen for 10 pulls? WTF? That's about 35 USD at the current exchange rate. If they have this rate in the western release, this game will be DOA.
I felt like you explained PSO2 New Genesis as well. It is surprisingly similar.
I played till level 40 and honestly I got really bored, I feel like the gameplay loop is extremly boring.
I'll be honest... I'm slightly overwhelmed by the depth of this review... I'm actually NEW to MMOs, since I normally play RPGs solo offline... You did a phenomenal job on this.
Thx for review. Its nice to know, game is bad and not for me.
Classes are boring without flavour, feels like they borrowed few spells from other games, mixed them up together at random, then marked the mix as a new "class".
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Any kind of "% chance to upgrade" _(for example like sockets in Diablo 3)_ is big red flag, especially if is there another way to speed up whole process for real money - that is sign of two things.
The game did it for purpose to slow you, because there is no another meaningful content or as "hidden mechanics" to force you, to spend real money and save your time _(in the worst case for both reasons in the same time)_ .
My prediction is, game will be have same downfall as _Tower of Fantasy_ released last year for global - first month overpopulated servers, many content from content creators, after honeymoon period next two months would be drama around flaws and declining population and after 6 months there will be few veteran players, merging servers and no flow of new players because of another title on horizon and because you dont want to invest your time into dead MMO.
The classes are definitely not boring and without flavor, go doompost elsewhere if you're gonna make far fetched predictions before global release without even playing the game
@@anthony26812 Its not doompost but the reality.
Why is druid in WoW cool? Because he can turn itself into animals, why is ranger cool in GW2? Because he have pet and he is bonded with spirits to heal/buff teammates, why are characters in OW/Paladins fun? Because are unique.
You can continue with another games and classes from another mmos or multiplayer games with class-based system.
I did not played the game but I saw showcase of all classes, their gameplay and all their spells from the game - and its not unique, its not interesting, it not give you any reason to play the game in longterm, beside to play the story once.
You no need to taste a shit to know, its shit.
@@_Libosido The only thing I'd say is the developers of this game are quite different from those of Tower of Fantasy. That game was riddled with bugs, hacking, and cheating at launch alongside extreme monetization and incredibly grindy systems. Also the devs were slow to respond to everything. The devs in this game aren't as slow.
I really loved this video breakdown! ALSO really love BP. The world, the anime aesthetic, the story are all amazing! The combat has been really fun but can feel a bit spammy at times(similar to all aRPG 😂). But overall cant wait for global as i was banned before i could enjoy it fully! Hell ya. Great vid again!
Great and complete video, I'm still very hyped for the game and don't mind if I have to wait for update when I reach endgame.
The time where I could afford to play MMO everyday is long gone anyway
A shame so many idiots who clearly didn't watch the video shit on the game tho
I think while it might not sell to wow or FFXIV level it will be a pretty decent success
My expectations are set pretty low.
The better the experience if i am wrong. But the game somehow tells me it will only last like 2 years, when you said the 2 Endgame Dungeons are just an upscale of the first 2 Dungeons.
doing 200 quests that basically ask the same thing isn't grinding i guess
That's cool and all but i wonder if the enemies are always the same aesthetically, also i've seen only 1 dragon till now, are there more or is the raid boss dragon the only one?
Blue Protocol was one of my most anticipated games, but the fact that it didn't launch globally at the same time, it really killed the hype for me, as well as Amazon seeming adamant on changing the game to appeal to what they think people want, bro just release the game as it is and let the devs do their thing. I will try it because it's free, but I don't have much hope left
I have been following BP for a couple of years now. Every trailer, I've been so hyped and excited for the release date, but it almost seems like for every new trailer, the release date gets pushed back for even longer. As much as I want to see the game succeed and I'm happy with waiting for a good product, I can't help but feel more and more withdrawn from the game with every announcement. I hope this game turns out well.
Amazon/Bandai knows how bad is BP doing in JP if they drop it right now it will be a huge flop so they are waiting for JP to have a huge update to bring players back and to put it on global the moment it goes live
15-20 min per level "grind". LOL. There's absolutely nothing to complain about there. I've leveled every job in ff14 to 90 and that takes way longer
I just wish that when this releases in global we get the same content in JP
No way,u know what Amazon will do😅
@@range7036 bandai* not amazon... whatever patch bandai sends to amazon we will get... amazon have nothing with are we gonna be same as Japan
@@range7036guess were getting left out again in South East Asia😢
This cant be! We are big on mmos
amazon like to censore and cut things so I dont belive in same content in JP and Global my friend. My gaming hope is lost already.@@maminjooo
its giving mad PSO2 vibes with a classic JRPG aesthetic mixed with launch BDO Pearl Shop trauma. This could be great
Which VPN are you using? I have a paid one from work and I'm still dcing a lot
I have a few questions. Does it have clan/guilds? Can you trade with other players or is it like pso2 that trade is mostly none existant? Can you open up shops like other mmos?
This is like "Sword Art Online" x "Zelda".
Being honest, blue protocol never had much of my attention, but now it has even less... Kanon is amazing tho!
The gacha looks horrible, the outfits don't even look that good for the eye gouging price, the weapons even worse.
I disagree actually.
@@celphalonred1999 Good for you, if you like ''realistic'' style armor then all the power to you, personally i prefer anime games with sleek and attention grabbing designs to the armor, examples would be Fairy Tail, Fate series, Reincarnated as a Slime, Overlord, etc. This doesn't mean i don't like some more simple designs, but selling such simple designs at such a high price is a big no, it doesn't even take half the time to make the models compared to more complex designs, i have seen streamers using Blender and i can tell you the more ''anime'' the design the more time and effort it takes to make.
There it is, chinese copytrash sucker like genshit
@@regulus8560Well different people different taste, I don't find them spectacular but would not mind buying them.
@@regulus8560🤓
Is this game going to die before it even releases in the west?
Edit: ok, the monetization isn't anywhere near as bad as I expected, it looks like it's almost entirely cosmetics aside from a couple extremely negligible power boosts. I'm ok with that as long as it doesn't go any further.
I don't think it's the right move to review this like a Korean Grinder. The game isn't designed to rush players to endgame and then drain their souls with daily, nigh-Sisyphean tasks. Rushing to max level is almost entirely pointless (and, thus, grinding for EXP alone is pointless). Getting a max roll weapon is nice, but only really useful for time attacks.
It's not that what you're saying isn't true, it just isn't what the game focused on. Since it's presented as a full review it gives the impression that this is the best the game has to offer. It seems like these are the parts that most interest you, which is fine, but maybe specify the slice of the game that you're reviewing.
That said, would love to see more on the directional input attack combos.
I play Blue Protocol myself even I tho agree with most of the video I would disagree with build variety. I use my own for Heavy Smasher (Foe Breaker) I checked the build which is recommended on JP we site like strogenst but imo it is bad and mine is better, you should pick skill which are fun for you.
Combat is kind of anime version of Elden ring. You attack and dodge (rolling around the most or jump over some mechs). It is easy and straight forward fight but people still dying and in last 2 dungeons just let your teamate die and dont pick him up cuz you are most likely die by picking him since mobs cancel your "picking up" animation.
Myself I dont wanna play 6 hours a day a do daily stuff just to keep on path and do next dongeon (raid) when it comes up. Had enough of it in Lost Ark when I had to do 18 raids per week.
This MMO is great for casual, you reach max lvl and gearscore and u can wait for next without any daily grind (part time job like in LA).
I believe that future bosses will be more complicated and harder to do.
Sounds like "bandit beaters" are slowly getting into big mmo's
Damn the game just released. I miss oldschool dificulty on mmos... Some fill just too easy and them they have the hole endgame based on some lucky based lvl system.
Coming from a casual game like Genshin this sounds like a straight up nightmare.
There are way worse games like bdo and lost ark
@@anthony26812lmaoo bdo light years better than this
@@shelovesedated I am talking about the grinding aspect since the op mentioned casual game, bdo and lost ark have way worse grind than this
how is doing nothing better than anything@@shelovesedated
Monetization and Battle Pass scarily reminds me of PSO2 NGS, I hope the game doesn't turn out the same.
AGS has a golden opportunity in their hands. If they fix the monetization of the game (remove Gacha altogether and/or make Gacha cheaper and/or add more free Gacha rolls and/or improve the rates and/or make it more F2P friendly), that would already put the game in the top 5 MMORPGs available today. In a perfect world they would remove everything but skins from the Cash Shop, but unfortunately that would be too good to be true.
Sadly, given the leaked information from the Closed Technical Test in November, the game is 100% the exact same thing as the Japanese version but in English.
GREAT VIDEO KANON! LOVED IT
Yay a rng on top of a rng crafting system
I was so excited for this game but could care less anymore. By the time this comes out after waiting that entire time already I'll have other stuff to play by then I'm more excited for! They lost out on a major opportunity imo! There's so many insane games coming out next year that this game is gonna be drowned out! Mind blowing decision!
Wuthering is going to be lit
@@DefinitelyNotAFerreti don’t wanna play gachas anymore tho 😭😭
@@hahahi3061 Toram is still popular I think
I may have missed it but I’m assuming there is no stamina lock right? Just play whenever you want?
If the monetization is that bad already, amazon will just create another lost ark where endgame is just about how much money you have. Shame, I was looking forward to this one.
I was so excited about this game over the years but the more i hear about it the more waning my will to play it when it comes out it gets...basically a agressive gacha mmo... reminds me FGO.
this game got so much pvp potential but doesnt have pvp 💀💀💀💀
Good video Kanon, keep up the great work.
I really appreciate all the things you said and agree with about 90% if not more of it LOL.
I did think there was extra stuff such as (beta skills drop from lvl 40/50 dungeons) or (there's an exclusive weapon drop from the lvl 50 dungeon that only has that effect and cannot be crafted) but very accurate overall.
yeah beta drop kinda puts new perspective on end-game grind rn
I remember when they said they would make cosmetics obtainable f2p initially 😂
My question is about the benefits of having multiple characters. I'm big into RPing so i like fashion and creating characters.
Do multiple characters share inventory, rewards and quests? Also are cosmetics shared between characters like in PSO2? If the inventory is like Monster Hunter, then I'm out.
You don’t have multiple characters. You do everything on one
you can have multiple characters if you want but you don't need to you can play all classes into one
I'm starting to understand Amazon's decision to delay the western launch. Considering the lack of content and good cosmetics, adding to that the need to totally remake the monetization, it is very reasonable to delay the launch until the game is made a bit more appealing at the core instead of just being a pretty cover.
thats not the reason tho why it got delayed
@@ediiii8703 what is the reason then?
@@acrimony0 They are going to release their new game Thrones and Liberty this year (which gets alot of hate lmao) and they would have to release BP in the same time frame which would probably kill their game cuz more people are interested in BP, thats why they decided to publish BP globally next year
You are making Amazon seem far, far more competent than it is.
if you like Blue Protocol, you'll love PSO2 NGS i think. you should try it too!
ahh yes Blue Protocol... the lovechild of New World and Genshin Impact
True
anyone complaining that cosmetics cost too much better realize that their only alternative is having a cash shop that sells other things to make up the difference in sales, other things being non-cosmetics... so you really don't want that
there's no option for "please game, lower prices and make less money!" it's only lower prices and then make up for it somewhere else
Hi, just wanna ask do we have the option to trade with players? Like equipment or gold/silver?
I cant wait for the release!
You are a bro among bros, legendary review!
phew i can scratch this one off the list. thanks for the detailed review!
it looks like so much fun im excited
Was hyped for this game whens it availible to the world
first quarter of 2024 global/west
Damn, it feels like the universe is telling me something: the game has LITERALLY P2W skill buffs, terrible gatcha, overpriced outfits, battlepass and on top of that, its grindy and has the terrble genshin's random gear stats system and most of that is not changing with the global release, in fact is it getting censored for the age rating, even if people who just wont play, wont play anyway and anyone who wants to play on JP servers get banned... I'll try...But I was hoping to replace PSO2NGS with this game, which BTW, that game sucks too, due to GLOBAL MANAGEMENT and devs trying to copy genshin.
Thanks for the video! This game doesn’t look too appealing to me personally.
please review maibnogi if you haven't already, the game still holds up even though its old
I've been playing mabinogi for a decade!! You really should review the game!
You didn't mention how Feste B gives a speed buff which is a clear advantage in the Time Attack (ranked with ranking rewards). And the leads said they wouldn't make this game P2W.
We've only been waiting for two years with this game. Tired of a few Beta Testing and the game never coming out.
Looks like a semi better polished version of PSO. same type of end game systems, so grinds, same classes. I feel grinding only 2 dungeons and a few mobs for end game is going to be a no go for most players.... Game seems its currently about the journey rather then the finish line... which is great.... but the end game is what lets us playing for hundreds of hours rather then 30 on a single play thru
Honestly, i really don't understand how they failed so hard on this game. Even if we ignore the gameplay flaws, the selling point of the game was that it will be an old school type anime mmorpg with heavy emphasis on cosmetics like the Fiesta online, Eden Eternal or Grand Fantasia, stuff like that from the old days, where people would run around in the most random, colorful outfits, and everyone had a different one. And guess what, they could not even provide that, the cosmetics are incredibly shitty, few and overpriced. they are basically just re-skins of the basic armor sets.
The only name they deserve to be referred by is Scamdai.
I got to 37 in the first few days and dropped it, it got stale.
Idk what gatcha is, but seems like it’s another way to call loot boxes. Aka gambling.
Thanks for this. It seems this game is not what I was hoping for. I was looking for a ff14 replacement with a deep immersive anime story experience that will make me laugh and cry journeying along with the msq. I am not all that into the whole levelling and maxing stuff out for the sake of it gameplay. This looks a bit grindey and hollow in terms of the story. Thanks Kanon for putting all the work into this. These reviews are really useful.
The story is pretty good and the required dungeons are generally easier than their normal counterparts. You don't need to worry about gear or grinding--you can just do story content and extra story content via quests. There's no real point to rushing max level if you're mainly playing for story/immersion.
You need to give this game the same time ff14 was allowed to grow….ff14 was terrible when it first came out
Sounds like an MMORPG for people that don't like MMORPGs but want to play MMORPGs. No complicated mechanic, no complicated leveling or skills or...... anything really. Seems too simple to keep people engaged. It's the Heroes of the Storm of MMORPGs.
thanks for review. hopefully AGS accelerates global schedule.
Great video man. Ty
Thanks I played on JP for 3 days before the ban hammer but I did not notice the 10 pull thing, that at least takes some of the edge off the expensive system they have at the moment. I'm still kind of disgusted at the cost off BPP though. I'll wait and see how Global goes and keep playing Pso2 NGS JP until then.
does the gacha gears have stats? like will f2p feel they're weaker than p2w players?
purely cosmetics
@@chu_tonight thank you for this vital info, guess ill try it once it releases global
@@Khatsudum but the Battle Imagine is p2w, the two best battle imagine is pw2 nad probably the next best will be p2w too.
Thanks for the review. After watching, I think the game is definitely not for me personally. Not a fan at all of gacha systems and it seems like the endgame is pretty lackluster and uninspired. Might just be one of those games to play for a week and enjoy the grind to 50, then be done with it
The RNG component is clearly hyper-whale centric and any future price reduction won't convince me; if upon western release it financially succeeds for them then the paywall will creep into performance items further along the line which is a point of concern b/c the game ostensibly looks nice with a consistent and kinetic art style (omitting the UI) and seems approachable in the sense that it could be recommended to a layman
Can't say I'm surprise of the downfall. MMORPG genre is just lacking. There will always be something that will make it not age well. It just a general thing at this point for decades. And yet I'm still waiting for an perfect mmorpg to happen.
you said cosmetics will cost you 500 japanese dollars. what do u mean? did u mean usd?
WELP!! Blue Protocol ending service in Japan on January 18 2025. Worldwide release cancelled. What a waste!!
As much as I'd love to blame Amazon for the future failure of this game, I can honestly say the game itself will be the reason of that. It's pretty damn basic, for lack of a better word. It's like playing a mobile game, with basic combat, but with pretty graphics. The dungeons feel like I'm playing lame games such as "Tower of fantasy", that kind of stuff. I mean they made so much noise about the game, but it brings absolutely nothing new to the MMO world, quite the opposite, it's using cheap and similar features from games that died out in the past and that nobody cares about, feels like a Gacha game, minus the Gacha (not yet at least).
Also, a lot of the game is instanced, a fake feeling of open world outside cities, but everywhere you go, there's a loading screen waiting to take you to an instance.
TL;DR : It has very old and basic core features, but with cool anime graphics. This game just isn't it. It's like a mobile game on PC. We'll probably see hundreds of thousands checking it out for a few days then forget it ever existed soon after that.
Do you use a keyboard or controller?
in short this game is somewhat better than many mmorpg games, since you don't really need to pay money in game for anything outside of cosmetics and the success rate thing and that is if you are interested in it, there is as well the fact that unlike other gacha games this one doesn't have multiple characters to play with and have to pay money to inc chances to acquire them unlike other gacha game + there is too the fact that this mmorpg doesn't have high grind for anything like items or lvling up unlike every other mmorpg game? I would say damn this game is worthy playing.
I love how he's praising the dev team because in the recent livestream the top high ranking developers and game director when asked in QA about the new class they clearly didn't know how the game works. This pissed of a lot of Japanese players enough for them to quit the game.
blue protocol is amazing, before i got banned because i wasn't a Japanese citizen
Honestly don’t understand the choice to open only the Asian servers. Seems the game is really good, also the combat seems to be really cool.
I will be really happy when it comes in EU. Hyped
Wdym? There's no asian server at all. Currently the only server is Jap, no other asian is allow to play in it. Amazon server is not gonna be launching for asia
Amazon needs time to censor everything since they went woke.
I have to ask, are weapon skins, like the sword and sheilds, are always a pair, and are clothes always a set(shirt, pants, headgear) or separate items?
weapon skin only counts by class, which mean yes, if you have a weapon skin for Blade Warden, then it will be applied to both sword and shield
costumes in gacha always come as a full box (which contains all 5 pieces head, shirt, pants, shoes and gloves) so you don't have to worry about getting separate pieces
but could i mix n max pieces of clothes for further customization? and is there a glamour system?
@@lordturtlemonk yes, the pieces are independent so you can mix however you want
thank you very much. i kept trying to find info on that part but for some reason never could
For an anime MMO to not have a lot of customization is huge letdown and very ignorant of Bandai. Everything else looks good though.
doesn't seem like it would last 2 years before you get bored
Sweet shirt myguy
thanks for the breakdown.
To bad to hear about the monetization. I was really hoping for a more traditional monetization. I would rather just buy a sub and not have gotcha.