Granblue Fantasy: Relink
A grand adventure in the skies awaits! Form a party of four from a diverse roster of skyfarers and slash—or shoot or hex—your way to victory against treacherous foes in this action RPG. Take on quests solo or with the help of others in up to 4-player co-op play!
Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a anime, jrpg and action rpg game
developed and published by Cygames and Inc..
Released on January 31st 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, Japanese, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and French.
It has received 44,904 reviews of which 40,391 were positive and 4,513 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit Required)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-9100 / AMD Ryzen™ 3 3200G
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX™ 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 580 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 90 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended (Capable of 1080p/30fps when graphics are set to Standard.)
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You really don't have to reinvent the wheel to make a good game. Banger soundtrack, gorgeous visuals, stellar voice acting, wicked fun mechanics and gameplay loop, etc. Story makes you feel like you did as a kid watching anime for the first time. If I knew what being loved by a woman was, I'd imagine it feels a lot like playing this.
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This reaffirms to me that gacha games can be great but actively choose to lessen themselves in the name of greed.
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Long story short, do I recommend this game? Yes. But... You need to understand this is not a live-service game. It is entirely linear, and while the second half of the game opens up a bit, it's just an illusion. Once you reach the end of the endgame, that's it. All builds converge into the same place, and once you have your final weapon, there's only one optional mega boss ahead of you. There's nothing left to grind for, no incentives to chase - I hope you enjoyed the ride like I did. If you go the completionist route then you'll have plenty to do, but I can't attest to that personally since I'm not a completionist. That isn't to say there isn't variety available, though: the different characters each have unique playstyles that make them feel powerful and flashy. Every character is viable to the endgame (as of the 1.2.1 update), so pick whomever you like, as you're probably going to have fun with them. You can always transfer your main Sigil build from character to character, as they all require the same Sigils by the endgame. The story itself is average, but the visuals, music (featuring Nobuo Uematsu on some tracks), and gameplay (this was originally a Platinum Games project) are great. The real trouble is running out of things to do, and that's OKAY! Plenty of critically and publicly acclaimed games are a one and done affair, and Relink is no exception, it just takes longer than average. It's okay to feel like you're done with the game and to put it away for good. I do hope you have fun with the game! It took me the full 116 hours (as of this review) to feel like I was satisfied with the game and had done everything I wanted to do, and I don't regret getting it.
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Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a fantastic action RPG that masterfully combines fast-paced combat with stunning presentation and a strong postgame. 🟩 Pros 🟥 Cons ✔️ Very capable party A.I. making progressing through even the postgame content viable for solo players. Likewise, this means developing characters you may not even play but who are part of your regular group feels rewarding. ❌Raising multiple characters is difficult to do. Throughout the roughly 30 hours it took me to progress into the final difficulty, I only managed to have one character up to the performance I would deem acceptable for those levels of quests. ✔️ Fantastic presentation due to unrivaled visuals for its art style and a wide cast of accomplished Japanese voice actors, delivering an extremely cinematic experience during the main story. ❌ The English localization is infamously atrocious and ranges from awful voice acting on top of an already somewhat shaky script to outright mistranslations. ✔️Strong replay value due to the large variety of unique characters and consistent unlocks even very late into the postgame, allowing for further difficulty modes in the campaign and a strong multiplayer component. ❌There are some balance issues. Originally, GBF was being called trivially easy, which in part is definitely true due to the Critical Gauge mechanic, but eventually begins outscaling the player during the postgame content. 🟨 Miscellaneous Thoughts The main story is somewhat short. If people merely focused on playing the campaign without side objectives for the credits, it would run between 12 and 14 hours. I, personally, got to the credits at 16 hours and then to the True Ending, another roughly 7 hours, which requires some decent progression into the harder postgame content. Technical Issues and Performance GBF:R ran without any issues. While there are some reports of people struggling to be able to boot the game shortly after launch, I have not encountered any such problems. The game never crashed, stuttered, or otherwise bugged out. The few hours of multiplayer I have played were stable, although the matchmaking is not exactly fantastic. Graphics and Sound Visually, GBF:R is utterly unrivaled for its art style. Both gameplay and cinematics look gorgeous, and there is an incredible amount of detail in just about every location. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3153437575 The sound design is not quite as impressive, with a soundtrack that is still generally good but not that memorable. The voice acting in the game’s original language is beyond fantastic, with a wide range of extremely talented and recognizable voice actors. The English dub, however, suffers from the aforementioned awful localization, at times changing the meaning of entire phrases, and likewise quite horrid voice acting. Story and Setting You play as either Djeeta or Gran, depending on your gender preference for the main character, the Captain of a diverse cast of Skyfarers in a world entirely made up of floating sky islands. While in search of Estalucia, a fantastical utopia, you encounter a religious cult that takes interest in one of your friends who has the ability to seal and summon pseudo-godlike creatures like the dragon Bahamut. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3151952766 Needless to say, GBF is very much a JRPG with some interesting thematical parallels to specifically Final Fantasy, but it sets itself apart by its very unique setting. As a spin-off title to a gacha game, I was somewhat worried that the story may be an afterthought, but was generally surprised for that to not be the case, and as someone who has not played the gacha, I could follow the story fairly easily, though with a constant feeling of just lacking some context as to the interpersonal relationships of the different crew members. There is a glossary that is just as boring to read as they always are, but it is nice that the game does give you an extensive interface through which you can browse anything from terms related to the world-building to the backstory of various characters and more. Characters also have mini-stories attached to them, which you unlock as you progress through the main story and level them up. Sadly, this seems to be a bit of a missed opportunity, as they are usually inconsequential enough to not provide significant character development and are also merely a few sentences short per episode. Despite this, while I wouldn’t recommend GBF:R for the story alone, it is certainly on par with similar titles, such as the Tales of […] series, and may even be good enough to be recommended to fans of certain Final Fantasy titles due to the aforementioned thematic similarities. Gameplay GBF:R can be broadly described as a hub-based and mission-centric action RPG. Campaign missions usually take place in a large, but fairly linear, level that encourages some exploration through collectibles and chests that consistently feel relevant and rewarding due to the different methods to progress your characters’ power level. Side missions, and therefore the bulk of the postgame, take place in smaller segments of those aforementioned levels and range from mission types such as defending a static object to simple boss fights. Unlike other games in the genre, even later bossfights tend to be much faster, lasting typically between 2 and 8 minutes for the longer fights on anything above Maniac difficulty. Fights are not just fast due to raw numbers, however, but combat tends to be very fast-paced in terms of how quickly attacks come out. To offset this, bigger attacks offer a telegraph a few moments before the attack actually fires. This is something that is very reminiscent of Final Fantasy 14, and I haven’t seen something like this used anywhere else. While this sort of MMO design, at first glance, feels a little odd, it actually does wonders for the game to be able to be as visually striking and responsive as it is, and I’m not sure combat would feel as good without this design decision. As you progress through the story, you get to unlock more characters for the roster, each of which has a distinct weapon type and a unique gimmick; for example, Io, one of the immediately available characters, is a mage that augments her big spells through basic attacks, allowing for devastating combo-finishers. Each character also features multiple linear skill trees that eventually unlock further active abilities that can be freely slotted in to create unique builds. While this feels impactful, it never felt like I could augment a character towards a distinct role. Rather, the game is very centered around dealing as much damage as possible, even on the later, extremely lethal missions, since outlasting enemies through support just doesn’t feel very feasible. Final Thoughts GBF:R is fast, flashy, and eventually scales to become extremely difficult in the late postgame. While this results in an awkward difficulty curve, it is an incredibly rewarding experience that still has a serviceable story on top of it all. Looking back at the game, while it probably will not end up breaking any new ground, I can’t really pinpoint any single aspect of the game that is outright bad and was a rare experience that I simply enjoyed going through from booting it up for the first time up until the very end. Follow our Curator page, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41449676/] Summit Reviews , to see more high-quality reviews regularly.
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It's a good JRPG in 2024, with no gacha, season pass, battle pass, in game cash shop with xp boosters or MTX for power, launch day issues can very quickly be resolved, we should treasure games like this.
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Online players
2,429
Developer
Cygames, Inc.
Publisher
Cygames, Inc.
Release
31 Jan 2024
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