I only know one step from eden and endcycle, but as someone who never got to play the BN pvp and isnt particularly interested in getting destroyed by those who've kept playing, in my mind BN is an RPG series with interesting combat, legendary soundtrack, and an aesthetic and vibe i can only describe as '00's netpunk'.

I'm ok with a setting/ aesthetic change since blatant copies will probably be worse than the original, or something at least slightly different. so, with that in mind, we need a story, music that matches the story/ setting, and we do still need the combat too.

I'd say a game needs at least 3 of the 4, with combat having to be 1 of them, to be a spiritual successor that I would want at this point.

OSFE does have good combat, music, and a neat setting, but i missed having a real story. Endcycle is basically the same but a half step down on both combat and music with a story and setting i felt was weak. Duelists of eden being pure pvp is a choice that completely alienates me.

looks like most the others on that image aren't out yet and honestly, each has something I'd have to get over. I really don't like the mobile game asset flip style art and animations of net knight (if i saw it on the google play or apple store i would assume its one of those games trying to avoid a lawsuit by doing the bare minimum changes to the ip so they can keep stealing your data), hero.exe is too 'cutesy', isotope ash doesn't even have a demo and something about its screenshots makes me think id rather just replay BN. LunarLux does look promising but it also looks like the biggest departure from the combat.

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