Bless Unleashed Review (PlayStation 4)

Bless Unleashed is an open-world online game that can be enjoyed with your friends and countless others. Venture out to engage in intense combat while exploring vast regions and treacherous dungeons.

Pros:

• Gorgeous graphics.
• 49.52GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Works on Playstation 5.
• Free to play.
• HDR support.
• Five character slots.
• No PlayStation Plus subscription needed for online play.
• Five character classes-Crusader, Berserker, Ranger, Mage, and Priest. Some classes allow you to pick a race and all allow you to be male or female characters.
• Link your Namco account for a golden Mount.
• In-depth character creator.
• Multiple character slots.
• ARPG MMO gameplay.
• An opening tutorial segment with a boss fight.
• Rebind controls.
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• Quests can be pinned to the menu, markers are displayed as beams of colored light.
• Big epic enemies and boss encounters.
• Full guild support.
• Can see other players running around.
• Much better loading times on the PlayStation 5.
• Map-shows quests, points of interest, characters and you can mark your own pins on it.
• Gather materials from the land.
• Gorgeous locations.
• Shortcut menu to show all current events and buffs that are active on the server.
• Teleport posts-discover these to use fast travel.
• Cool intro scene when entering a new area.
• Soul Pyre- interact with this to salvage items, sit and share food, cook, or change blessing.
• Can revive other players even if you are not grouped up.
• Full quest management system.
• You go down but not out and can use scrolls to heal or wait to be revived or choose a respawn.
• Full character sheet showing level, exp, stats, ranks for battlefield and arena along with gear score and rune management.
• Decent soundtrack.
• Season pass-bless pass which has a free and a premium tier of rewards.
• Stamina system for rolling.
• Handy lock-on button for combat.
• Bag merchants-they have repeatable quests where you can expand the size of your bag.
• Metropolitan pipes-fast travels between parts of a city or two quickly.
• Shops for everything from weapons, armor, potions to upgrading gear, mixing dyes, and crafting materials.
• Inventory is pretty straightforward as all gear is broken down into sections and has a handy icon when new items are in them.
• The hot bar is used for potions, misc, and lunchbox can be quickly navigated with the d-pad.
• Fishing-quite in-depth as you have to have a rod, reel, and line. The act of fishing is a mini-game in the vein of a quick time event.
• Satisfying pop-ups when discovering new teleports or fires.
• Mailbox-retrieve any mail. You will get an envelope icon on the screen when you have mail.
• In-game cutscenes.

Cons:

• A lot to take in all the time.
• Menus are so vast it’s overwhelming.
• Combat is very button-mashy.
• Busy screen.
• Enemies respawn back almost instantly.
• The gathering takes an age.
• So much is going on it’s hard to knuckle down.
• No way to rotate the camera.
• When crafting it always has a splash screen on completion and slows it all down.
• Just a sea of menus and sub-menus.
• Not the best game to get back into after a break.