Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Played it, was pretty good. I had to turn vocals off or very low due to the insane amount of chatter during combat. Combat itself felt rather spammy, but I think I can get used to it over time.

Still not a huge fan of forced party play, during the Story. Multiplayer was good.

Springbok said:

Anyone else play the demo? Had a blast - hard to describe, seems like the first 20-30 hours will be a basic party based JRPG driven loosely by a story then end game loop will be kill bosses from a hub and master all characters while leveling up weapons and sigils. It's a ton of fun, plays great and the combat is really interesting. Every character from the demo plays quite a bit differently from one another and I'm really stoked for release. Going PC to test out new OLED 4k monitor because the two resolution modes on PS5 are kinda meh - it looks kind of janky in performance mode, looks great in quality mode but locked to a piss poor 30 fps.

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Played the demo on PS5 on an OLED. The games art style didn't really need to be playing at 4k, imo. Looked great on both settings to .e.

Mist said:

Oh so this is some kind of service game and not just a single player game? Bleh.

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Yea, its not a GAAS, its a full fledged jrpg, but with MHW like encounters to do as you go through the MSQ and after. The MP is pretty fun once a character gels with your playstyle.

With these types of games do you play one dude in the party and the rest auto or is it more like a real-time bg3 or so,ething where you need to control everyone?

it reminds me of an anime “bioshock” which was a good game, neat combat and ideas, beautiful world, fluid controls, meh story.…but the problem was reptiti nature of it all. It would be like permanently fighting trash mobs in an mmo

Hmm so this is another MH like game where you cant play the story with friends?

This guy is streaming the campaign live right now. If this runs on steam deck day one buy for me.

Been playing this today and its rather good. Performance mode on ps5 is a rock solid 60, and combat is smooth and responsive. The skill effects are a bit much, and I wish I could tone them down. So far the MSQ is moving pretty quick, and there hasn't been a ton of side quests to do, those will probably increase after finishing the story. Have been playing a ranged character mostly as it feels less spammy that the melee's I've tried out. Will most likely get the game on PC later on too.

How much content is there after you do the story and side quests stuff? Are we looking at potentially 100s of hours of farming like monster hunter?

Uriel said:

How much content is there after you do the story and side quests stuff? Are we looking at potentially 100s of hours of farming like monster hunter?

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Yea, the Story itself is pretty short, maybe 15hrs. Then you hit the endgame stuff with various difficulties which can all be done in co op matchmaking.

I do like that there is some variety to the endgame stuff instead of "go kill boss in this arena". So far there has been Boss fights, Horde mode, Survival mode and Defend modes. The Horde/Survival modes will get pretty fun once characters are fully developed since their are to s of mobs coming at you.

I'm on Chapter 8 of 9 (+1), and it's been quite fun. There has only been one boss fight which I didn't like so far. Some tips.

Whenever you zone into a new area, always look behind you for shines, the devs seem to love putting stuff there.

You get your first recruit voucher at around lvl10. If there isn't a character that you really want to try out, consider holding off on getting them until you are done with the Story. Those new characters will be scaled up to near your highest lvl characters, with fleshed out Masteries. This can save you a lot of time/resources. Then again, if a new character seems interesting, grab it. Note, you can't try them out before recruiting them..sadly.

Masteries. This is where you will get the bulk of character strength. Also where you get all your Skills. The Defensive tree is where you'll get all the Support skills, so don't forget to spend points in there. Weapons also have passive that you unlock in Masteries as you lvl them up, so make sure to get every weapon for your characters (these also scale up to be close to where you are lvld).

Story and MC. The MC has to be in the party for all the Story missions, but you don't need to play them. Whichever character you place in the leftmost slot is the on you control. If you spend points in the Defensive Mastery tree, you can make the MC into a Support type with good buffs.

Sigils. These are like Decorations in MHW and will allow you customize how your characters play a lot. You'll gain more Sigil slots from Mastery trees and Fate quests (lore quests for each character that also buffs stats).

Anyway, the game is an easy recommendation, can't wait for April when they release the Bow waifu.