Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Really recommend this game. Lot of polish in the systems and way more depth then I thought the game was going to have with upgrades.

I've been playing this, been a lot of fun so far, the story was very average but the combat was fun enough. Difficulty surprisingly was fairly well done all throughout the story, after the first quest unlock I figured if I did all the side content I'd be overleveled for the story so ignored it all and the story kept up with decent difficulty the whole run until the last boss. Had to upgrade some weapons and do my Fate thingies to do the DPS check on that, was pretty close baseline but just barely off, took like 5mins to fix it though. Also there's a couple of seal stones in the story that are way overleveled for some reason, the first one I ran into I couldn't realistically beat was in the frost area, there's a 48 boss in there even though the area is like 20. Spent like 20mins on it and shaved off like 20% then gave up and figured I'd come back postgame, but it's weird design because most of the others are doable at intended level. Last chapter also had a weird one that I think you have to dispel to be able to kill(has a regen that ticks for 6k every second or something).

Anyway once you finish the story the game really opens up nicely into the Monster Hunter systems and it's cool. Unlocked an additional char to switch it up, but waiting to unlock more until I get further as the level and more importantly the mastery they unlock with is tied to progress.

During the story mostly played Rosetta, pretty fun char although some bosses can really suck since repositionning roses is a pain in the ass if the boss moves a lot, but you do ridiculous damage once you get the boss locked down. I wanted to play Io too but when you play her the bosses tend to target you a ton so it sucked, she's great as a damage dealer though when playing something else since the bosses tend to ignore her so she spams all her big skills. Unlocked Cagliostro now as I heard she was a good support for later anyway and she definitely is pretty neat, can mix ranged attacks during mechanics and such and her buff is suprisingly good uptime.

Also pleansantly surprised with the AI, they seem to use their skills pretty appropriately and do solid damage while dodging most things. Every character has support abilities too so you can set some up for that and others for damage, and the damage ones are surprisingly good(I'm losing MVP to some of my bots on some fights) unlike Monster Hunter where palicos/dogs are mostly just utility(MH Rise has companions but even these aren't as good although they're a lot better).

Springbok said:

Ferry and Seigfried are the tits - game is really fantastic. Finally had time to start this today and have a few characters low 20's. How long is the story? Just got to the first "big" city after the ice wolf guy.

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25hours or so? There's 10 chapters, but the length of the chapters varies quite a bit(5 is 15mins, 6 is like over 2hours if you inspect every nook and cranny trying to find everything like I tend to do). You can rush it if you want though as once you get to postgame you unlock chapter select and can replay the chapters to collect everything with a guide. I took my time cause I enjoy checking every place, although I still have to redo most chapters for like 1 chest or 1 slime and especially for crabs, I'll get to it sometimes later though.

Edit: 5 is longer, I thought 5 was just the 2nd city but it's the ice place I got my chapters mixed up, still 6 is probably the longest cause the dungeon area is super big+new city at the start.

Made it to the 2nd rank up thing after Extreme difficulty. Overall didn't really have to grind much, I had to do a couple of fights for mats for weapon cap upgrades and once I reached the 2nd unlock of quests in Extreme and saw the req was quite high compared to what I had on my char other than my main I grinded for 20mins or so to get some weapons powered up to 125. Turns out there was no rank up super boss thing I expected so overall pretty sure I could have brute forced the bosses without any gear upgrade and saved a bit of time, but no big deal. Now can finally start unlocking every other char since they start with 60-65% mastery learned which saves a bunch of mastery points.

I also run into the standard MH issue, I was upgrading all my gear and then I ran out of money even though I still had mats. Gonna have to check what's a good way to farm gold and check out a bunch of other chars.

Gonna be farming character specific Sigils too, that's a really cool thing as it adds a bunch of nice things to each chars.

The mission to get into Proud difficulty..jfc. I did it, but it was ugly and took a few tries.

Zindan said:

If your in Maniac diff, look for the Slimepede mission. Its the best XP/Gold/Mastery farm there is.

Maniac Gallanza was first mission failure I've had in co-op, he is so juiced up. Not really looking forward to Margielle at all.

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Yeah wasn't sure how annoying it'd be since I was somewhat undergeared for maniac but works fine, can't get S++ or anything but can get about 50 slimes and that's plenty of money and xp.

Also checking youtube I found out you can activate autoplay(up to extreme only) which means you can go semi afk in some quests, kinda need to pick the right ones because your char won't move from the start but if you're there you can just move them a bit, and some don't require moving(Gallanza in the small arena), so you just setup enough healing that you don't die and just afk for a bit. Supposedly there's an anti afk measure where it turns off auto restart on quest after a few restarts but it's nice when I want to eat or do something, can just launch some quests and afk for free money/xp

Tried Ferry but wasn't a fan of the summon mechanic, apparently they don't refresh duration when you're full so it's kinda awkward. Also she needs to be at max range for full dmg which is pretty annoying and even having one of the longer range, some trash mobs will still position outside of your range as you start chanelling so you can't get the ghosts up so meh. Less of a problem on bosses but then I had weird issues with my link skills not hitting on her for some reason not sure why(literally 4-5times in a row I couldn't link so never got link time).

Checked Narmaya out in training but seems needlessly complicated for me, I hate especially that you can't buffer the charge move in pink stance right away, you have to wait until she does the spinning 2nd move from stance switching to buffer it, which makes it pretty awkward to play, and it's super easy to drop your flow or have links at the wrong time, I guess it's more for ppl who like to sweat hard for slightly more dmg.

Finally, checked Charlotta and I actually quite like her, she's pretty braindead so I can see myself getting bored of it but I like how she just constantly smash stuff with both the standard dodge to reposition/avoid stuff and her built in block on Triangle and counter skill when you want to be fancier. Seems to do really nice damage on bosses too, and the fact she's short is really nice on some bosses(not so great on flying shit though). Like those Ghost in the Shell robots things, you can literally just sit under them attacking the whole time and only have to dodge the circle aoe and the charge, do ridiculous damage on them cause you don't have to dodge all the flamethrower and guns and what not.

I wanna try Vaseraga, Percival and Lancelot too but later for now farming a bit and then going to start progressing some content, I've cleared every low lvl quests I hadn't done and cleared up the story loot stuff