A big thing to note is that combat plays VERY different depending on the character you're playing. The 'arts' system is unique to Gran, the main PC. If you play Siegfried after unlocking him, for example, you'll have a 2h sword user whose core kit is based on precisely timed inputs to buff his damage and pull off full combos. Even the two guys with guns, Rackam and Eugen, are completely unique from each other.
oh thats very interesting to know, i just got the demo and don't really find Gran all that interesting to play as so i'll definitely check out the other characters now that you've said that
@ninjakiwi2476 Yeah Gran is very straightforward and can fit a lot of roles but he's not super exciting. I wish they'd used his job system from GBF mobile so he could have more variety.
I been playing the Gacha game for about 8 years and big fan of the IP also as a long time subscriber, seeing GBF content in your channel is something I have never expected.
This game is genuinely amazing. For me personally it was exactly what I wanted in a game rn. Addictive and min-maxy in the best way, but despite it being a game where you grind stuff out, the campaign lacks none of the spectacle and polish you’d expect from a AAA JRPG. The only downside is the story being rather bland and predictable, fortunately it’s saved due to likable characters, spectacle, music and the aforementioned addictive gameplay. I also need to give props to the environment artists, hell the artists in general, this is the best looking JRPG I’ve ever played next to FF7 Remake.
Also the campaign is only about 12-15 hours or so, 20 if you do every optional quest, most of which are worth doing. The campaign is amazing though so it’s really worth seeing, there is absolutely zero filler.
Considering how simple controls are, the variety of playable characters and multiple abilities really help you feel endgame enjoyable. It's just so satisfying to get good with the character you like and there are more than a dozen of them!
This. Also the story feels like I just skip 250 episode and arc for each character have already been concluded. Like its hard to care about their interaction when the game assume you already know them. But the rest of the game is really fun
Haven't done much of the campaign yet, but so far it plays amazing. My main complaint is that sometimes combat becomes a clusterfuck of particle effects when more than one companion spam skills at the same time. Maybe I'll learn to filter the visual noise as I continue playing though.
1. The artists working on this deserve some major recognition. The artwork/animation is incredible. 2. Action RPG co-op? Mort, get your son set up on your steam deck or whatever and play co-op with him! Little kids pick up the button masher type games fast.
As an endgame player, yes the monsters do. They keep pushing you, and they get to the point where they will one or two shot you. But, since active dodging and many potential buffs (including invulnerability) keeps you alive and going.
A game you should look at, imho, if you have a chance is Unicorn Overlord. Besides Rebirth, it's the one game I was really looking forward to this year.
It’s on my backlog. I have the Mana series, Star Ocean series, FF10, 12, 13 Trilogy and 14, Octopath Traveler 2 and Persona 3 Reload to play. I also have the upcoming Dragons Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, FF7 Rebirth, Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong on my list as well.
@@atlplayer09 yep but I played 43 games in 2023 and 100% with the platinum trophy around 34 of them. Not especially long games. Like FF1-9 were pretty short. Done in about 7-8 weeks. Two longest games last year were Baldur’s Gate 3 and Persona 5.
@@rundown132 yep. Current plan is to finish my FF7 Remake Platinum (replaying for the trophy). Just need to fight Superboss and last 2 chapters on Hard mode. Then play Crisis Core and then Persona 3 Reload until FF7 Rebirth comes out. Definitely playing Stellar Blade in April.
Thank you very much for the video. This, I believe, the first Granblue JRPG entry. It's hard to find reviews of substance for titles like this. Onward to 300k. All glory to the algorithm.
A warning to all who are interested! The final part of the endgame quest would require online co-op play to even stand a chance. AI partners are ok for most parts but they are not helpful when you reach the most difficult part of the endgame. But if you wish to just play through its 10-15 hours story and have some fun doing some quests while don't mind tons of farming, its a great action JRPG imho. Update: It's doable with AI partners but you need op builds for the whole party which requires tons of farming. Hey but the whole game is about farming I guess if you already reach this point that means you don't hate farming that much?😂
I'm at the urgent to promote to the highest difficulty and am still doing offline with AI teammates. The urgent quest is tough though, gonna need to grind my party up to a high power level but I think it's still doable for 100% offline
@@dyrelliusit absolutely is. You just need to have the strongest maxed sigils, play a dedicated role, maxed weapon stars, and full masteries unlocked.
I just beat chapter zero last night fully offline with my ai party. Was challenging but alot of fun and definitely doable!. I used Narmaya as main and DPS Djeeta (the Female MC) as support with heals and Buffs specifically. Siegfried as DPS and His Party buff with Drain is actually really good at sustain And ID is such a monster DPS he helped Blast shit down, I had him built quite tanky to. That said I would switch ID out for Vane, Ferry and Zeta or Percival depending on elemental advantages to. Entire party of those characters were around lvl 83 with sigils to help there aforementioned playstyle, No mastery tree was maxed.
This game so far is like some of the recent Hoyo games that have super fun gameplay, but are still gacha games, but without the gacha. And the production value is really high quality stuff. I hope GbF: R starts a new trend of a games like this not being based on live service/gacha
Hope you do a full review on this when you have time. It's a really good game, the progression loop kicks into high gear after the story is complete (only about 10-15 hours).
By the way, there is a demo for it on the PS5. I enjoyed the demo so much that I am going to definitely purchase it. Definitely will give me something to do before ff vii rebirth.
You know what I also love about this game no micro transactions its not online only with allot of quest. Something that a game like Diablo 4 should have been.
it´s great, I bought it thinking I would break up my infinite wealth a bit by playin an hour or two here and there. Ended up grinding out 15 hours in two days , barely touched IW, (which is great ,re-link is just so addictive), don´t buy this thinking it´s some sort of open world RPG or anything. It´s an instanced ACTION game featuring RPG build mechanics that has interesting story bits and char lore as a side-dish.
Game is amazing, but some of the endgame rng for materials is driving me a bit crazy, but, at least it gives me something to keep doing after the story.
I've seen a lot of videos of GBFR already but I'm still half-hearted as to buying it or not. Not even considering I'm able to commit in playing. Working and personal life is hard... 😅 Last game I played and committed to was BG3.
Looking at this now that it's on sale. Combat looks really nice (although it annoys me how the character who apparently has the counter-based style I often like to play looks like a 5 year old). As I understand there isn't much character building in the game though, there is lots of progression but not really a lot of different choices or builds to make. Is that about right?
Story is about 10-20 hours depending how fast you grind through it. Side-quests/activities extend the amount of playable hours to around 60-70 hours. Endgame co-op activities further extend the replay value to nearly infinite levels.
@@iandevine3063if you mean character abilities, you'll probably get access to all of them by the end of the main story which lands you around level 40-50. Everything after the main story is pretty much unlocking the rest of the skill tree which is just a bunch of stat buffs and ability upgrades.
I was eyeing this game myself, but wasn't sure how the controls would be nor the combat. the combat looks fine, which would just leave how the controls are? it looked like to open the Skills you had to hit the "=" key which seems really inconvenient
If you don't like anime, the story will make you die of cringe. If you do like anime, its one piece but in the sky instead of the sea. But the combat is what will keep you coming back. Its simply fun to play.
Sponsored content has to be marked as such and you have to state that it is in the video as well. I could be fined like 40k minimum by the FTC for not disclosing a sponsor. Setting aside how it's ethically wrong to obscure that, it would also be catastrophically stupid for both my reputation and bank account.
Considering this is coming from a Japanese smart phone game series. The number one question I have is, what’s the monetization model and is this going to have gatcha mechanics?
I do really enjoy this game but there's a few frustrations I'd identify: Shared resources are fine, but the shared mastery points is frustrating. This feels like an arbitrary grind. I say feels because in all reality, you could just ignore that part until you advance the story significantly. You don't need to keep your party upgraded evenly. I've just reached the capital and only been able to unlock one 'new' character. That character was upgraded significantly, seemingly based on level. But I decided I don't like that character, hours ago in the story - and now I feel like I've wasted time and resources. It's not a good feeling. I ultimately decided just to keep pushing in the campaign though. The story itself is fine. It would probably be engaging if not for the fact it does feel like you're missing a ton of information if you didn't experience the other titles, and it's not good enough at face value to make you want to go looking into those stories. All in all, I'd give this a 6/10 from beginning to the capitol city. It's over hyped in that people seem to be praising its action system primarily for end game. I'd wait for a sale generally, this feels like a good 40 game that I wish was on my Switch instead of my PS5. It is pretty enough to justify the PS5, though. I will say that the actual on screen display is easily an 8/10 and that for me it's actually the early gameplay and parsed story that feel like a let down.
game starts off like you loaded a friend's 30+ hour save file with a full party already gotten, main plot already established. Very jarring for newcomers lol. Main Story is just 12 hour tutorial, as the full focus is post game content co-op raiding bosses.
Thanks for this one! I'm a bit skeptical of this and Cygames work in general, but I also feel like it's really getting astroturfed. The airship/dragon thing is definitely a nice spectacle, though.
Gameplay good Graphic Good Characters Generic Asthetic and your typical rpg cast Story Also Generic World Beautiful and fun to explore So yeah, dont play this for the story
Oh man, so glad Mort explained the sound. I felt a disturbance at the start of the vid. Hope better going well now. Hangover gone, etc etc. Now, what is all this then....
i have around 8H so far, the main plot is visually pleasant but the story has been mid and even at the hardest difficulty is brain dead easy aside from some bosses, on the other hand the side jobs are fun and more challenging
@@CheatingZubat no one said it's exactly like Monster Hunter; the rarest and strongest sigils and weapons are what you grind for. Remember that this series started as a Gatcha game for mobile.
It assumes you know nothing, so it gives some basic introductions, but it also doesn't spend minutes upon minutes explaining itself, which as someone brand new to the universe, I really appreciated. I found it fun to piece things together as I went along, and if I got curious, read them in the in-game database, I prefer that over sitting through long dialogues or cutscenes dedicated to backstory.
While the story is self contained, there are times when the characters refer to places and events that have happened prior to this game. These events are further expounded upon in the in-game database (called Lyrias Journal) and the Fate episodes that are available at the quest counter. If you don't want to read, you could just play the first few chapters of the Mobile game, but that is a traditional turn based Gacha mobile game. I'd argue that the path of least resistance to getting filled in on past events would be to watch the anime. Episodes 1 to 12.
With these JRPGs, I always feel like if I play one JRPG I've basically played them all. The characters often seem to me to be made from a template and the story is often hit or miss and quite similar to other games. Also to play 20 hours to unlock "real" gameplay feels a bit weird.
I played through the story, its mid at best. the game can't get out of its own way and let you actually play it...keeps taking control of the camera during story and its so annoying. ended up skipping most cutscenes because its just "kill god" about 6 times in a row. not sure why you would want to grind endgame to kill the same few bosses over and over again with more HP.
I read some other reviews and they have stated that it doesnt tie the other games in well. In that it doesnt do a good job telling you who all the characters are and such
bought it. refunded it in an hour. gorgeous looking game 100%. but generic chars/story and combat with zero weight behind it....nah. Graphics and pretty visual effects are carrying this game hard
Looks like a pass to me. I think it's one of those games that is pretty fun and solid but better to grab on a sale. I'm saving for Dragon's Dogma 2 holding off on the pre-order just in case it tanks.
@@BasedChadman it's real time action jrpg with a great combat system,a short story, but full of incredible set pieces and an emphasis on a long endgame and character diversity Best check out arekkz gamings review or other reviews/ trailers for a better idea It comes for a company that made an online gacha game and it's art style is similar to one ,but it isn't
A big thing to note is that combat plays VERY different depending on the character you're playing. The 'arts' system is unique to Gran, the main PC. If you play Siegfried after unlocking him, for example, you'll have a 2h sword user whose core kit is based on precisely timed inputs to buff his damage and pull off full combos.
Even the two guys with guns, Rackam and Eugen, are completely unique from each other.
oh thats very interesting to know, i just got the demo and don't really find Gran all that interesting to play as so i'll definitely check out the other characters now that you've said that
Kinda sounds like what they did with Final Fantasy 15. Each of the four characters plays wildly different from one another.
@ninjakiwi2476 Yeah Gran is very straightforward and can fit a lot of roles but he's not super exciting. I wish they'd used his job system from GBF mobile so he could have more variety.
Yeah I was very surprised to learn that Eugen can manually aim while Rackam just has tab-targeting. The gameplay variety is pretty good.
@@ninjakiwi2476if you've played Monster Hunter games, each character in this feels about as different as each weapon does there.
Appreciated the check out. I see you are picking up quite a diverse mix of games lately. :)
I been playing the Gacha game for about 8 years and big fan of the IP also as a long time subscriber, seeing GBF content in your channel is something I have never expected.
Sorry you are feeling under the weather my dude. Get better soon and thank you for another great video!
This game is genuinely amazing. For me personally it was exactly what I wanted in a game rn. Addictive and min-maxy in the best way, but despite it being a game where you grind stuff out, the campaign lacks none of the spectacle and polish you’d expect from a AAA JRPG. The only downside is the story being rather bland and predictable, fortunately it’s saved due to likable characters, spectacle, music and the aforementioned addictive gameplay. I also need to give props to the environment artists, hell the artists in general, this is the best looking JRPG I’ve ever played next to FF7 Remake.
Also the campaign is only about 12-15 hours or so, 20 if you do every optional quest, most of which are worth doing. The campaign is amazing though so it’s really worth seeing, there is absolutely zero filler.
Considering how simple controls are, the variety of playable characters and multiple abilities really help you feel endgame enjoyable.
It's just so satisfying to get good with the character you like and there are more than a dozen of them!
This. Also the story feels like I just skip 250 episode and arc for each character have already been concluded. Like its hard to care about their interaction when the game assume you already know them. But the rest of the game is really fun
Yea idk tho for me it's pretty hard to play idk why, like my ai companions play better than me and also the bosses take ages to finish
Haven't done much of the campaign yet, but so far it plays amazing. My main complaint is that sometimes combat becomes a clusterfuck of particle effects when more than one companion spam skills at the same time. Maybe I'll learn to filter the visual noise as I continue playing though.
1. The artists working on this deserve some major recognition. The artwork/animation is incredible.
2. Action RPG co-op? Mort, get your son set up on your steam deck or whatever and play co-op with him! Little kids pick up the button masher type games fast.
I love this game. So good when you get to endgame and play with others. It gets really challenging and fun.
@@cartoonvideos5 grinding is part of the experience, gear up and re challenge those encounters
cool that you're also playing granblue, didn't think it'd be under the games you'd play!
As an endgame player, yes the monsters do. They keep pushing you, and they get to the point where they will one or two shot you. But, since active dodging and many potential buffs (including invulnerability) keeps you alive and going.
A game you should look at, imho, if you have a chance is Unicorn Overlord. Besides Rebirth, it's the one game I was really looking forward to this year.
It’s on my backlog. I have the Mana series, Star Ocean series, FF10, 12, 13 Trilogy and 14, Octopath Traveler 2 and Persona 3 Reload to play. I also have the upcoming Dragons Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, FF7 Rebirth, Stellar Blade and Black Myth Wukong on my list as well.
That is like 5 years worth of games right there. 😂😂
@@atlplayer09 yep but I played 43 games in 2023 and 100% with the platinum trophy around 34 of them. Not especially long games. Like FF1-9 were pretty short. Done in about 7-8 weeks. Two longest games last year were Baldur’s Gate 3 and Persona 5.
@@rundown132 yep. Current plan is to finish my FF7 Remake Platinum (replaying for the trophy). Just need to fight Superboss and last 2 chapters on Hard mode. Then play Crisis Core and then Persona 3 Reload until FF7 Rebirth comes out. Definitely playing Stellar Blade in April.
I'm not gonna lie. Your backlog clearing speed is admirable and #goals.
Ah I see you are a man of Backlogs as well
Thank you very much for the video. This, I believe, the first Granblue JRPG entry. It's hard to find reviews of substance for titles like this. Onward to 300k. All glory to the algorithm.
Great look Mortim. I also loved the art style and it's fully voiced acted! If only all RPGs (cough cough, Owlcat games, cough) would do this (:
"Knock some sense into Proto Bahamut" is such a baller quest objective.
"Why did Bahamut go ballistic on us" - Rackam I think. The translators made it so funny to read the dialogues as well lmao
Yeah like what they're expecting my weak ass to do against this dragon?
@@shai310 to be fair and without spoilers but our MC is broken as fuck. we just don't know as players but our crew and the MC know
A warning to all who are interested!
The final part of the endgame quest would require online co-op play to even stand a chance. AI partners are ok for most parts but they are not helpful when you reach the most difficult part of the endgame.
But if you wish to just play through its 10-15 hours story and have some fun doing some quests while don't mind tons of farming, its a great action JRPG imho.
Update: It's doable with AI partners but you need op builds for the whole party which requires tons of farming. Hey but the whole game is about farming I guess if you already reach this point that means you don't hate farming that much?😂
I'm at the urgent to promote to the highest difficulty and am still doing offline with AI teammates. The urgent quest is tough though, gonna need to grind my party up to a high power level but I think it's still doable for 100% offline
@@dyrelliusit absolutely is. You just need to have the strongest maxed sigils, play a dedicated role, maxed weapon stars, and full masteries unlocked.
@ShiningT1g3R sounds about right lol a well built party that's optimized and has synergy is probably a must
I just beat chapter zero last night fully offline with my ai party. Was challenging but alot of fun and definitely doable!.
I used Narmaya as main and DPS
Djeeta (the Female MC) as support with heals and Buffs specifically.
Siegfried as DPS and His Party buff with Drain is actually really good at sustain
And ID is such a monster DPS he helped Blast shit down, I had him built quite tanky to. That said I would switch ID out for Vane, Ferry and Zeta or Percival depending on elemental advantages to.
Entire party of those characters were around lvl 83 with sigils to help there aforementioned playstyle, No mastery tree was maxed.
Wow shocked to see you touch this one :)
THANKS
This game is definitely a lot of fun to play. All the music in it reminds me of old school final fantasy on the snes.
A lot of Granblue music is actually composed by Nobuo Uematsu, so you're spot on!
This game so far is like some of the recent Hoyo games that have super fun gameplay, but are still gacha games, but without the gacha. And the production value is really high quality stuff. I hope GbF: R starts a new trend of a games like this not being based on live service/gacha
Hope you do a full review on this when you have time. It's a really good game, the progression loop kicks into high gear after the story is complete (only about 10-15 hours).
Love it! Hope you can get into it at some point.
That UI and numbers everywhere really shows that the developer is a mobile gaming company
i remember playing the mobile game years ago...quite fun to play
Thanks for reviewing this. It looks fun and Granblue is kinda a foreign gem that we westerners don't really know alot about so it give it a mystique.
It is not a review tho
I mean. Is it not though? Sure its not a 100% review or even a thorough one but doesn't it still count as a review of a sort? @@123456Luck10
All the gacha money I spent on Granblue Fantasy went into making this game. This better be good.
You’re my favourite TH-camr man
I’m in love with this game
By the way, there is a demo for it on the PS5. I enjoyed the demo so much that I am going to definitely purchase it. Definitely will give me something to do before ff vii rebirth.
You know what I also love about this game no micro transactions its not online only with allot of quest. Something that a game like Diablo 4 should have been.
it´s great, I bought it thinking I would break up my infinite wealth a bit by playin an hour or two here and there. Ended up grinding out 15 hours in two days , barely touched IW, (which is great ,re-link is just so addictive), don´t buy this thinking it´s some sort of open world RPG or anything. It´s an instanced ACTION game featuring RPG build mechanics that has interesting story bits and char lore as a side-dish.
This game is like crack. I cant stop playing...
youre the last one i would have expected to play it :D
Planning to play this after 100% inquisition
good luck, imo DA: Inquisition is a terrible game to 100%
it's gonna be hell lmao. good luck with hinterlands
Game is amazing, but some of the endgame rng for materials is driving me a bit crazy, but, at least it gives me something to keep doing after the story.
free comment. hope you get well soon.
This is a very solid and fun game
I've seen a lot of videos of GBFR already but I'm still half-hearted as to buying it or not. Not even considering I'm able to commit in playing.
Working and personal life is hard... 😅
Last game I played and committed to was BG3.
Great video as always.
I thought it WAS a mobile game from the ads. might check it out after all.
Looking at this now that it's on sale. Combat looks really nice (although it annoys me how the character who apparently has the counter-based style I often like to play looks like a 5 year old). As I understand there isn't much character building in the game though, there is lots of progression but not really a lot of different choices or builds to make. Is that about right?
I enjoyed the anime a few years back that was supposed to be tied to this I believe, question mark ❓
Story is about 10-20 hours depending how fast you grind through it.
Side-quests/activities extend the amount of playable hours to around 60-70 hours.
Endgame co-op activities further extend the replay value to nearly infinite levels.
Do you really have to beat the story to unlock most abilities? If that is the case is it unlocked after just to use it on co op?
@@iandevine3063if you mean character abilities, you'll probably get access to all of them by the end of the main story which lands you around level 40-50. Everything after the main story is pretty much unlocking the rest of the skill tree which is just a bunch of stat buffs and ability upgrades.
I’m waiting for the sequel: Gran Orange Science Fiction…
But in all seriousness this game looks fun. Probably pick it up on a deep sale
The combat and aesthetics reminds me of Ys VIII and almost any Ys after VIII.
I BECAME A BIG FAN AFTER READING THE MANGA SERIES.
Interested but not paying that price. Will wait for the spring sale
I was eyeing this game myself, but wasn't sure how the controls would be nor the combat. the combat looks fine, which would just leave how the controls are? it looked like to open the Skills you had to hit the "=" key which seems really inconvenient
I set weird hotkeys for my custom keypad is all that is
If you don't like anime, the story will make you die of cringe. If you do like anime, its one piece but in the sky instead of the sea. But the combat is what will keep you coming back. Its simply fun to play.
That feels and sounds so sponsored by GB
Sponsored content has to be marked as such and you have to state that it is in the video as well. I could be fined like 40k minimum by the FTC for not disclosing a sponsor. Setting aside how it's ethically wrong to obscure that, it would also be catastrophically stupid for both my reputation and bank account.
How is mouse and keyboard feeling? thats still my only concern! I dont have a controller so yeah.
It's fine, but I use KBM for everything
Are you gonna play a game called unicorn overlord? I’ve seen some ads for it and it looks cool. It’s a strategy rpg so it’s right up your alley.
Its not coming to PC, so no
That's too bad! Love your content. Your work ethic is inspiring!
Considering this is coming from a Japanese smart phone game series. The number one question I have is, what’s the monetization model and is this going to have gatcha mechanics?
No, nothing like that, you just buy the game and thats it
People talk about not liking the story. It definitely starts off slow but boy does it get good.
Thanks
For the algorithm!
Fantastic game!
It seems like it has similar combat aspects to Xenoblade. Looks fun.
What i really want is Tales of Arise 2, tho... 😭
I wish there was a pc demo for this game, not sure if I would like it.
Whoa, your mic changed. I couldn't even recognize you. I had to do a double-take of the channel name.
I was just sick lol
@@MortismalGaming 🤣
This looks really cool, added to wishlist
great game respect dev
I do really enjoy this game but there's a few frustrations I'd identify:
Shared resources are fine, but the shared mastery points is frustrating. This feels like an arbitrary grind. I say feels because in all reality, you could just ignore that part until you advance the story significantly. You don't need to keep your party upgraded evenly.
I've just reached the capital and only been able to unlock one 'new' character. That character was upgraded significantly, seemingly based on level. But I decided I don't like that character, hours ago in the story - and now I feel like I've wasted time and resources. It's not a good feeling. I ultimately decided just to keep pushing in the campaign though.
The story itself is fine. It would probably be engaging if not for the fact it does feel like you're missing a ton of information if you didn't experience the other titles, and it's not good enough at face value to make you want to go looking into those stories.
All in all, I'd give this a 6/10 from beginning to the capitol city. It's over hyped in that people seem to be praising its action system primarily for end game. I'd wait for a sale generally, this feels like a good 40 game that I wish was on my Switch instead of my PS5. It is pretty enough to justify the PS5, though. I will say that the actual on screen display is easily an 8/10 and that for me it's actually the early gameplay and parsed story that feel like a let down.
When i played the demo it gave me vibes of ff16
Good show sir
I'm liking the game, there's lots of characters to try and the music is quite nice, but it gets rather repetitive.
Gronk!
Do more jrpgs!
What need we to do, to make this game a priority 100% review of yours??😇
Wait
can't pinpoint why exactly, but this game gives me strong Ni No Kuni vibes
game starts off like you loaded a friend's 30+ hour save file with a full party already gotten, main plot already established. Very jarring for newcomers lol. Main Story is just 12 hour tutorial, as the full focus is post game content co-op raiding bosses.
bruh i wish i was half the gamer Mortim is, i finish like 2 or 3 games a year lol
Thanks for this one! I'm a bit skeptical of this and Cygames work in general, but I also feel like it's really getting astroturfed. The airship/dragon thing is definitely a nice spectacle, though.
Gameplay good
Graphic Good
Characters Generic Asthetic and your typical rpg cast
Story Also Generic
World Beautiful and fun to explore
So yeah, dont play this for the story
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I'd rather wait for Dragon's Dogma 2.
Oh man, so glad Mort explained the sound.
I felt a disturbance at the start of the vid.
Hope better going well now. Hangover gone, etc etc.
Now, what is all this then....
i have around 8H so far, the main plot is visually pleasant but the story has been mid and even at the hardest difficulty is brain dead easy aside from some bosses, on the other hand the side jobs are fun and more challenging
I thought it was a joke until I meet a lv48 boss at lv20. Took 20min but I beat it. Was hooked after that.
I've seen this described as Anime Monster Hunter, which seemingly is quite fitting with the way you described the gameplay loop.
It pretty much is except you don't make your own character and can fight either solo or as a group during quests.
Yeah, except there's no cool gear to chase and you get zero customization. Sounds fun right?
@@CheatingZubat no one said it's exactly like Monster Hunter; the rarest and strongest sigils and weapons are what you grind for. Remember that this series started as a Gatcha game for mobile.
@@CheatingZubatcounting on dd2 to hold me off until Wilds 😭
You mention that is is something of a sequel to the mobile/pc game. How much do you need the previous game to understand this story/world?
It assumes you know nothing, so it gives some basic introductions, but it also doesn't spend minutes upon minutes explaining itself, which as someone brand new to the universe, I really appreciated. I found it fun to piece things together as I went along, and if I got curious, read them in the in-game database, I prefer that over sitting through long dialogues or cutscenes dedicated to backstory.
While the story is self contained, there are times when the characters refer to places and events that have happened prior to this game. These events are further expounded upon in the in-game database (called Lyrias Journal) and the Fate episodes that are available at the quest counter. If you don't want to read, you could just play the first few chapters of the Mobile game, but that is a traditional turn based Gacha mobile game.
I'd argue that the path of least resistance to getting filled in on past events would be to watch the anime. Episodes 1 to 12.
I forgot this was even in development lol
Just looks too much like Tales of Arise. I’d like to know if it’s the same or better?
With these JRPGs, I always feel like if I play one JRPG I've basically played them all. The characters often seem to me to be made from a template and the story is often hit or miss and quite similar to other games. Also to play 20 hours to unlock "real" gameplay feels a bit weird.
That's the biggest Quackadile I have seen in a while....
Get well soon, I hope it's not COVID. Try fresh ginger tea 🙂
I played through the story, its mid at best. the game can't get out of its own way and let you actually play it...keeps taking control of the camera during story and its so annoying. ended up skipping most cutscenes because its just "kill god" about 6 times in a row. not sure why you would want to grind endgame to kill the same few bosses over and over again with more HP.
I read some other reviews and they have stated that it doesnt tie the other games in well. In that it doesnt do a good job telling you who all the characters are and such
bought it. refunded it in an hour. gorgeous looking game 100%. but generic chars/story and combat with zero weight behind it....nah. Graphics and pretty visual effects are carrying this game hard
looks like stripped down budget monster hunter.
Looks like a pass to me. I think it's one of those games that is pretty fun and solid but better to grab on a sale. I'm saving for Dragon's Dogma 2 holding off on the pre-order just in case it tanks.
What happen to your voice, new mic?
He addressed this in the first 20 seconds of the video.
Anyone wanna be relink buddy’s and grind and max out our characters together
Gacha? Hard pass
It's not gacha actually
@@ash-xb8yq What is it?
@@BasedChadman it's real time action jrpg with a great combat system,a short story, but full of incredible set pieces and an emphasis on a long endgame and character diversity
Best check out arekkz gamings review or other reviews/ trailers for a better idea
It comes for a company that made an online gacha game and it's art style is similar to one ,but it isn't
Isn't this a gotcha p2w cash grab??
No micro transactions
First
It’s honestly the best game ever