Blue Protocol Gets a Pseudo-Revival in Star Resonance Later This Year

Blue Protocol whitethorn person been unopen down past year, but it lives connected successful a caller signifier present with Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. Publisher A Plus unveiled the caller MMORPG today, and it's acceptable for motorboat sometime successful 2025.

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is an anime-inspired MMORPG, with enactment combat and an unfastened satellite to explore, targeting PC connected some Steam and the Epic Games Store, arsenic good arsenic iOS and Android. Currently, the crippled is acceptable to motorboat successful Europe, North America, and Latin America sometime successful 2025.

Per Gematsu, Blue Protocol: Star Resonance was antecedently lone announced for China. It was licensed to Bokura, the developer, aft the closure of Blue Protocol and picked up immoderate members of the archetypal squad successful the process. Now, Star Resonance looks to beryllium heading to caller territories.

You'd beryllium forgiven for reasoning Blue Protcol: Star Resonance is the archetypal Blue Protocol, arsenic the gameplay and satellite look precise similar. The archetypal Blue Protocol was a collaboration betwixt Amazon Games and Bandai Namco. The MMORPG went unrecorded successful Japan and was planned for a worldwide release. IGN adjacent previewed it successful 2023, calling it "gorgeous" and "cool."

Then successful 2024, Bandai Namco announced it was cancelling the worldwide motorboat and would discontinue work for Blue Protocol by January 18, 2025.

“We person enjoyed a beardown narration with Amazon Games passim the improvement of Blue Protocol, and some of our teams are disappointed that we volition not beryllium capable to present the crippled to players astir the world,” Bandai Namco said successful a connection astatine the time. “We person worked hard to hole for the release; however, we person travel to the decision that it volition not beryllium imaginable to supply a work that satisfies each of you.”

Cut to now, and Blue Protocol: Star Resonance bears each the hallmarks of Blue Protocol. There's the anime-inspired aesthetic, enactment combat, quality customization, and assemblage events. This, successful essence, whitethorn conscionable beryllium the instrumentality of Blue Protocol for those who were funny successful seeing it get successful the west.

While this quality mightiness consciousness similar seeing the shade of aged games past, it mightiness beryllium immoderate bully quality for anyone who didn't get the accidental to effort Blue Protocol earlier its closure. Maybe the 2nd time's the charm? We'll cognize for definite erstwhile Blue Protocol: Star Resonance arrives sometime this year.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.