Midway through 2019 I set out on probably the dumbest project anyone has thought of: I wanted to document as much of the world of the dying (and of course, now dead) Bless Online. I’ve had a fascination with imaginary worlds for as long as I can remember, and above all the limitless creativity that can be expressed is like a magnet that’s just too powerful for me to resist. Some of the best of these worlds, in my opinion, are given to us in video games. In fact, it’s worth a future debate if “imaginary” even applies to these sprawling, complex universes given how alive they feel and how many emotions the people playing them experience.



I’ve made a separate post detailing the vast challenges I faced throughout the project, but the most obvious issue was and is my lack of decent hardware. I can only dream of one day having contemporary devices, but for now what I have is…what I have. It’s wishful thinking to picture how much better this journey could have been had I a semi-modern monitor, but it’s far too late now as the game is gone forever (at least in the iteration I played).

Spending more time writing a long post is pointless as the entire objective of what I’ve tried to do is render down a game meant to last thousands of hours into a few short video clips and screenshots. No one reads quest text anyway. I hope what extremely few people who were ever interested in the game can have an enjoyable experience seeing the immense waste that was Bless Online.

———The Video———



—> Youtube link



———NPCs———

—> The husbandos

—> The waifus (part 1)

—> The waifus (part 2)

—> The waifus (part 3)

—> Complete album (Google images)

———LOCATIONS———



—> Ban Sen

—> Campagna

—> Curia

—> Dustbowl

—> Dwarven/Underground City

—> El Gradis

—> Floren

—> Hieracon Area

—> Land of the Sun

—> Magus Basin

—> Marta

—> Migdal

—> Navarra

—> Ostium

—> Rustica

—> Rutilanis



—> Saltus



—> Shaqqara



—> Shiraka



—> Southern Peninsula

—> Spezia



—> Spezia Circuit



—> Terny

———BORING TEXT———



—> The Challenges of Bless

—> General Thoughts

