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Fans dissatisfied, Bandai Namco too: Blue Protocol is running behind expectations in Japan

The signs for Blue Protocol things are not looking good for its impending release in the West. The console version launched in Japan in December; the service was previously running on PCs.

Bandai Namco Online had previously hosted an “emergency livestream” in September 2023. 50 percent of players in Japan were dissatisfied: the balancing was immature, the microtransactions were criticized and the endgame grind displeased fans. Class buffs and debuffs were not well received and so on.

To date, the problems do not seem to have been fully resolved. And if the players are unhappy, then of course Bandai Namco is too. As the latest annual report shows, Blue Protocol is falling short of its expectations.

Bandai Namco cites losses due to “new online game titles introduced this fiscal year.” You don’t mention the child by name, but Siliconera points out that it is the only online game that Bandai Namco has recently launched.

Will the start in the West be successful?

Amazon Games, which is launching the game in the West, promised last year to work closely with Bandai to receive detailed player feedback. Then there was the postponement to 2024. The action RPG will also be playable for free in the West.

We were able to play Blue Protocol at Gamescom. Our session had a somewhat tempering effect on our anticipation at the time. But that was just a preview version back then. However, there are currently not very good signs that the Western launch will be significantly more successful than the one in Japan.

Images: Blue Protocol, Amazon Games, Bandai Namco


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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Fans are hoping for new insights at the Taipei Game Show tomorrow


Square Enix will be hosting a stage show tomorrow, Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6 a.m. German time Final Fantasy VII Rebirth as part of the Taipei Game Show.

Co-Director Motomu Toriyama and Battle Director Teruki Endo will be present and lead through the program. Yoshinori Kitase and Naoki Hamaguchi are currently on a media tour through the rest of the world.

Interesting: The Japanese FF7 account on Twitter advertises for the live stream. The 50-minute stage show will be broadcast live! fans are not unreasonably hoping for new insights into Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

Some are even hoping that Square Enix will announce the playable demo they hope will be released. Still others believe that Square Enix is ​​saving this announcement for FF7’s birthday on January 31, 2024.

You can watch the live stream tomorrow morning on Bandai Namco’s YouTube channel. That’s right, Bandai Namco. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is being presented in Taipei at the Bandai Namco stand, right next to Tekken 8. Not only Katsuhiro Harada was amazed.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be released on February 29, 2024. Want to stay up to date on all things Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Here you can find all articles from our detailed reporting.

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Images: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Square Enix


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Aerith or Tifa? Toxic fans threaten to ruin Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, says Cloud spokesperson

Cloud and Tifa? Cloud and Aerith? Or Aerith and Tifa? Voice actor Cody Christian, who plays Cloud in the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Rebirth plays, is not very enthusiastic about “shipping”. He believes that “shippers” who “overtly ___ualize any relationship can ruin the development of a great story.”

Christian commented via Twitter, following the latest Rebirth trailer shared by Square Enix. Longtime fans of the original (as well as the remake) have many opinions about who should be Cloud’s love interest in the love triangle between Tifa and Aerith, which has sparked many heated debates online.

Toxic fans threaten to ruin history

“’Shippers’ fails at the idea that one character can have meaningful relationships with MULTIPLE characters. That ensures comprehensive depth,” says Christian. “The need to overtly ___ualize any relationship can ruin the development of a great story.”

While the relationships between Cloud, Tifa and Aerith could be interpreted as platonic, the subtext of “who will he choose?” certainly appealed to many players – although the discourse around choices often veers into toxicity. However, Christian developed a thick skin after gaining fame on Teen Wolf, which prepared him for Final Fantasy VII Remake.

“The majority of people wanted me fired and replaced without ever hearing me speak,” he says. “To do what we did and make it successful and mean so much to the core audience, I’m not afraid of Rebirth.”

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is scheduled to release exclusively for PS5 on February 29th. Want to stay up to date on all things Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Here you can find all articles from our detailed reporting.

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Jujutsu Kaisen: this was the funeral with which fans said goodbye to Satoru Gojo in a subway in Santiago, Chile

It is one of the most popular seasonal anime in recent years, its growth has been exponential like other contemporary anime such as, Although their themes are completely different, many fans enjoy both equally.and also, they quickly become trendy once something completely new comes out.

A few days ago we commented on a news that shook the entire internet, it is the last chapter of the manga where we can see Satoru Gojo dead, as explained in the vignettes, Sakuna found a way to kill him once and for all.although all this was incomprehensible to most readers and the series has not given an answer or an explanation for the death, fans did not take long to react.

This is the Gojo altar that they built in the Santiago metro.

This time it was the city of Santiago de Chile that expressed its love for Gojo, although it is a fictional character, Gojo is one of the most beloved protagonists in the world of anime and This represented a great disappointment to all fans around the world.on the altar that was built for him, the fans put notes of affection, although the subway administration made it clear that all this would be removed for obstructing the pedestrian path.

How many episodes will the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen have?

This season that is currently being broadcast will be divided into two parts, the first in the arcs of “The Hidden Inventory” and the other in “The Premature Death”, the second part will cover the arc of “The Shibuya Incident”, this season will have a total of 23 chapters divided into two parts. This last part will probably be broadcast between December 7 and 21.

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Starfield player discovers ‘planet Skyrim’ complete with river, and fans immediately feel at home


It features countless planets full of different biomes, although with very few rivers. That said, they’re definitely in the game, and you can see proof here, among other things. As a very nice and fun bonus, this planet also appears to transport us to Bethesda’s previous fantasy role-playing game, , much to the amusement of many fans.

“Hey, you, you’ve finally woken up”: a Starfield fan finds the planet Skyrim with one of the rare rivers

has handcrafted content that you experience primarily over the course of the main story. But there is also Countless planets with random content. A wide variety of scenarios await you there, which not only include laboratories or spaceship landings, but also various biomes, for example.

What happens to the rivers? Well, since the release of , there has been a persistent rumor about the supposed absence of rivers in . Many hobbyists have only seen lakes and oceans, which are apparently much more common. But that’s not true, There are certainly rivers, they are just rare.

On Reddit, a player shows off his discovery of a river. The player writes, probably jokingly, that the game . But most commenters aren’t as interested in the river as they are in anything else.

Planet Skyrim

If you’re a Bethesda fan and played years ago, you should feel right at home and feel some nice nostalgia when you look at the two images above. In fact, the screenshots could almost be coming directly from .

Consequently, of course, many community members joke that the player ended up in and that it’s a good thing he finally woke up (alluding to the beginning in , of course).

Where can you find that planet? In the Narion system. According to the author of the post, it is the second planet seen from the sun. The location is in the deciduous forest biome and not far from the ocean.

Brilliant ideas for mods, DLC or NG+

Of course, many fans also let their imagination run wild and think out loud about how cool it would be to delve into the world of but being in . Something like this would already be conceivable as an alternative scenario for New Game Plus or a DLC. But some mod will definitely guarantee it sooner or later. What do you think of the images, the river and the look of en ? Have you already seen rivers?


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Baldur’s Gate 3 is censored in Japan, but fans are having a lot of fun with it


Spike Chunsoft released the Japanese version of on December 21st Baldur’s Gate 3 published by Larian Studios for the PS5. Japanese fans who have already gotten their hands on a copy seem particularly amused by the creative decisions involved in self-censoring the characters’ private parts.

Even before release, it was announced that the Japanese PS5 version of Baldur’s Gate 3 would contain some changes compared to the global version – that is, explicit content such as depictions of blood and genitals would be self-censored.

While the standard version of the game lets you choose whether to allow or hide nudity in cutscenes, these options have been removed from the Japanese version, making it censored by default.

However, the self-censorship of characters’ genitals using a single, carefully placed fig leaf appears to have had primarily a comedic effect. The amusing measure even contributed to that people are completely okay with these cuts. But why is it so popular?

Yatta!

Well, for one thing, it’s simply an amusing picture. But there is a little more context: namely a bizarre song and music video that has apparently burned itself into the collective memory of many Japanese people. We’re talking about “Yatta!”, a parody song from 2001 by the fictional boy band “Green Leaves”. The music video shows the members wearing nothing more than their underwear with a fig leaf detail. The song was a chart hit at the time and lives on today as an immortal internet meme.

But back to Baldur’s Gate 3. Why is the Japanese version censored at all? Games ported to consoles in Japan must limit depictions of genitalia to comply with CERO guidelines. Fortunately, there are no regulations regarding the form in which this self-censorship must take place. Hence the amusing fig leaf approach, which has apparently hit a completely unexpected nerve of nostalgia among Japanese players.

In any case, the creative decision to censor character privacy in Larian Studio’s Baldur’s Gate 3 seems to have struck a completely unexpected chord of nostalgia and humor among Japanese gamers.

via Automaton Media, images: Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, Spike Chunsoft


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Bad news for fans of ‘John Wick’: the brutal fourth film starring Keanu Reeves is left without a physical edition in Spain because “it is not financially viable”


Any Spanish collector of films in physical format was already smelling it, but it never hurts to have this sad certainty: the brutal ‘John Wick 4’ is left without a physical edition, since the distributor Diamond Films He has recalled that he does not plan to publish any of his films on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD, justifying this decision with “”.

Demand is very low

The truth is that no Diamond Films film has been published in physical format in our country for a long time, so the only thing we needed was an official explanation from him. We finally got it, and this is what it says:

Since we started our activity in Spain, we are committed to the creation and distribution of DVDs and Blu-Ray. Unfortunately, the company in charge of manufacturing and logistics ceased its activity permanently, due to the low demand for these products, so we had no choice but to stop editing our films in these formats. We understand that there are still some collectors who continued to bet on the physical format and we are very grateful that you are interested in keeping it, but we hope you understand that the demand is so low that its manufacture is not economically viable.

That the physical market in Spain is not going through its best moment is something indisputable. Gone are the years of strength in which there were countless buyers. Many of them were disappearing with the rise of streaming and something tells me that the obsession created around 50% offers, very common a few years ago and rarely seen today, does not help to be profitable either. Now it seems that the only thing that really sells are steelbooks – and I am the first to give them priority over simple editions.

All in all, movies continue to be released in our country and there are distributors like Reel One Entertainment that subsist solely on DVD and Blu-ray sales, so profits should continue to give. Perhaps few and very focused on certain titles –I don’t have the slightest doubt about the good sales of ‘John Wick 4’, but what about the rest of the releases?-, so one can understand that they have opted for other sources of income. Which is it? I suspect that the exclusivity that Diamond Films titles have for a time with Prime Video when they are released on streaming must be more profitable than what they could earn without it and the extra of the physical format.

Obviously, ‘John Wick 4’ is not the only title affected -the same will happen with the recent ‘Talk to me’, the polarizing ‘Beau is afraid’ or the still pending release ‘The last trip of Demeter’-, but surely the most striking. Let’s not forget all the trouble that occurred with the physical format edition of its first installment, which did not appear for sale in our country until this very 2023. By the way, this will also affect future releases, so if ‘John Wick 5’ has just been done, you can count on the same thing to happen.

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Diablo 4 will not come to Xbox Game Pass: Blizzard denies the leak that claimed this and the fans are not happy


It is normal to think that Activision Blizzard games would arrive more and more frequently on Xbox Game Pass; Although the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has not yet materialized, both companies are already closer than ever, a situation that made it very credible the leak that claimed that would come to the famous subscription service. This, however, is completely false.

Diablo 4 says no to Xbox Game Pass… for now

In case you haven’t heard, excitement began to circulate among fans when an alleged Brazilian promotion claimed that would be available on Xbox Game Pass. The leak was even accompanied by an image that reiterated this, so many assumed that the official announcement would come in a matter of days.

Fast forward to today, it was the same president of Blizzard, Mike Ybarra, who refuted all thisresponding on social networks with a simple , and instantly breaking the hopes of all those who have not been able to enjoy this great contender for the 2023 Game of the Year.

Of course, this does not mean that It will never come to Xbox Game Pass; the house of affirmed long ago its intentions to launch its titles more frequently in the subscription service, this in order to further solve its alliance with Microsoft. It is the best-selling game in Blizzard’s history, so we don’t doubt that it will come true in the future, although for now, we can only wait.

Fans want to play Diablo 4

Needless to say that the community was extremely disappointed in what Blizzard saidWell, whether they did not like the lie or that Blizzard has responded in such a dry way, we can read comments full of disappointment and even anger, such as accusations against him for publishing a , and the discussion is just beginning at the time of this drafting.

If you are eager to play we recommend that you buy it instead of waiting for it to arrive on Xbox Game Pass, because it is a quite addictive and fun title, and in our review you can find all the good (and bad) that Blizzard did with this anticipated installment. Of course: try to measure your gaming sessions well, because the last thing we want is for you to end up in the hospital as has already happened to someone else.