"Unfortunately" for Pippa, Blue Archive is having its Steam Release delayed because the Steam approval is taking longer than anticipated!
...Which is to be expected, with part of Steam's review team being against Anime and Anime-adjacent games for the past decade now, and with the fact that it's Blue Archive, I'm just surprised it was ever considered for the platform in the first place!
If you are /here/, and somehow not aware of Blue Archive and its reputation, here is a single reply chain from the announcement! Some things don't need to be archived:
As a potential replacement for Pippa's need to spend money on anime women without actually playing the game (before Uma Musume releases and she goes bankrupt), Zenless Zone Zero is releasing a new character in a few days, combining Pippa's love for Kemono Friends, and Chinese Brainrot.
To further entice her falling for the Chinese propaganda, she can skip all of the 1.X story and go straight to the Urban-Wuxia Fantasy of 2.0 after the tutorial. This is where all of the improvements went, where they ripped out everything from 1.X that people hated, such as the TV segments, and implemented such genre defying QOL features as:
-A Map
-A Mini-Map
-Actually playing through the segments that would otherwise be turn-based TV screens
-Playing as the character you want on the non-story/non-combat field, instead of just the protagonist
-No but seriously, there was no map before, just fast-travel buttons of each location lined up in a row, what the fuck-
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