The Xbox One’s New Free-To-Play MMO Is Something To Do

Screenshot: Bandai Namco (Kotaku)

Launched this week for the Xbox One, Bandai Namco’s Bless Unleashed is a free-to-play fantasy MMO that sprang from the ashes of canceled Neowiz PC recreation Bless Online. I don’t know why it was resurrected, renamed, and changed into an Xbox One unique, however it’s right here, it’s free, and it’s stored me from desirous about getting sick for a number of hours. That’s one thing, proper?

Bless Unleashed is a collaboration between Bless On-line makers Neowiz and developer Spherical eight Studios. It’s not a direct port of the unique, which is nice, because it died in beta with “mostly negative” reviews on Steam. Unleashed makes use of the identical fantasy setting, races, and lots of the character lessons from On-line in a extra console-friendly MMO with action-oriented fight. Battle is combo drive, with gamers urgent completely different combos of buttons to work their manner by way of a branching tree of spells and talents. It’s a neat system.

Screenshot: Bandai Namco (Kotaku)

Set on the world of Lumios, Bless Unleashed tells the story of a participant character going from quest giver to quest giver, accepting and finishing duties for expertise factors, cash and gear. There’s an excessive amount of lore on the official website, which I’ve not felt compelled to dive into. It’s all about my mage, Siani, and her quest to stage up and hold me distracted.

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The character creator is sweet.

Screenshot: Bandai Namco (Kotaku)

Bless Unleashed options 5 playable lessons—berserker, crusader, mage, priest, and ranger—divided between 4 playable races. The character creator is nice, permitting for a variety of appears to be like.

Bless Unleashed runs like many console-based MMOs. The body price isn’t nice and the entire affair feels a bit muddy, particularly when there are a ton of free-to-players flooding the beginning areas. However hey, that’s an indication of a doubtlessly robust group, which is all the time a plus.

You don’t want to purchase an costly founder’s pack or spend cash on in-game forex to get pleasure from Bless Unleashed. You may—that’s type of its complete deal—however you don’t need to. You may obtain it to your Xbox One proper now and play it for a bit, see the way you prefer it. It’s undoubtedly one thing to do.

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