![]() And it was worth taking the effort to switch around Skybound Arts and Sigils, and visit the blacksmith to upgrade weapons before each quest. A certain amount of pre-quest communication proved useful, making sure the party was balanced between support, melee, and ranged characters. Playing with three others was pretty good fun, although live communication via gaming headsets hadn’t been enabled in the game tapping the PlayStation 5’s touchpad brought up an interface allowing communication via lists of phrases and emotes, however. It looked as though Cygames had worked hard to design a large number of post-story quests. ![]() Key quests, which tended to be boss battles, also opened up new sets of quests. What we did experience was a number of quests accessed from the quest counter that could be found in any hub town, which proved quite varied, ranging from short, timed quests in which the party had to eliminate a set amount of enemies in a certain time to full-blown major boss battles. There was plenty of flexibility to the process: Kaji confirmed that AI players could be swapped in for party members, and slots in four-player battle parties could even be left unfilled, in order to bump up the difficulty. Although that didn’t include any of the additional story gameplay, that game director Kaji had spoken about. In the next part of our hands-on experience, we jumped into four-player co-op multiplayer, experiencing what Granblue Fantasy: Relink had to offer after its main storyline had been completed. An overarching quest was revealed: Gran’s desire to get to the mythical, utopian island of Estalucia. Some quick character expositions introduce your shipmates, who include two non-playable characters in the form of a baby dragon called Vyrn (with a somewhat annoying squeaky voice) and a girl called Lyria who, we learned, was somehow bound to Gran and had the ability to interact with (and summon) giant elemental behemoths called primal beasts. The story opens in pretty cute fashion, on a retro wooden ship called Grandcypher, flying in the clouds above an archipelago of islands floating in the sky. First off, we were given the choice between playing as a male or female protagonist, we stayed with the male one and his designated name, Gran, although we could have renamed him (your character is referred to as ‘Captain’ throughout, in dialogue and cut scenes). The first part of Cygames’ preview event involved playing the first three chapters of Granblue Fantasy: Relink’s main story. This will include extra story elements that could also take 20 hours to work through, along with an endgame – which also supports co-op – that Cygames says could take up to 40 hours to complete. Kaji confirmed to us that Granblue Fantasy: Relink will provide a properly meaty chunk of gameplay: as well as a 20-hour, single-player main storyline it will have a multiplayer side, playable by up to four people co-operatively (with the ability to drop in AI-controlled party members). Although, somewhat confusingly, before Relink arrives in February a console beat ‘em-up featuring characters from the same universe, entitled Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, will launch on December 14. ![]() That, and a series of anime spin-offs, established the Granblue Fantasy universe, which Granblue Fantasy: Relink is now poised to mine in a more satisfying and credible manner on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC. Cygames has been around since 2011 and its first big hit in Japan was 2014’s Granblue Fantasy, a Japanese role-playing game for mobile that also operated in web browsers. In the great Japanese tradition, one of its first games to get a UK release will be an action role-player called Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and we managed to get a substantial taste of it at a recent hands-on event.įirst, a bit of history. Japanese publisher Cygames aims to establish itself as a force to be reckoned with via this meaty, ambitious action role-player.Ī new player has stealthily entered the games industry: Japanese publisher Cygames, which set up European and US subsidiaries this April and now seems ready to take on peers like Square Enix and Bandai Namco. Granblue Fantasy: Relink – a new fantasy (Picture: Cygames)
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