Regarding the soundtrack...Nobuo Uematsu composed for Relink. He's known as the composer for Final Fantasy as well as games like The Last Story, and Chrono Trigger. I have never been dissapointed by his scores
Bit of an update on the difficulty thing. I agree that until very hard, they're pretty much a breeze if you're experienced in action RPGs, however, the next difficulties do actually start to be harder. For reference this are the difficulties Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Extreme, Maniac, Proud. I just got into extreme, and it does pick up. Maniac and proud are the difficulties where assist mode isn't available btw, so I'm looking forward to those.
@@livingstonem10 I honestly will never understand people who complain about higher HP pools,( not saying that's you..yet) like what rpg in existence didn't have end game bosses with ridiculous HP pools?? Yes the new moves are great and should be a thing, but that won't make a difference if the boss can't survive more than 2 minutes.
@@terminate_all The complaint is in regards to lazy devs who create "harder" difficulties, but all they do is increase boss HP and damage output. The battle itself may not be any harder at all mechanically, it's just artificial difficulty through stat manipulation.
Most of the Fate stories actually do explain how/why each character joined the crew! Added a lot more than I thought it would, as I usually don’t care for character exposition dumps
Second this - I usually don't read that much, but these were phenomenal - there are great stories behind every character and I absolutely enjoyed the little bits
1:30 A JRPG can be an Action RPG too. Like Tales of series, Kingdom Heart, FF15/16/7R, Star Ocean series, Scarlet Nexus, The World Ends With You. They can be Strategy/Tactics RPG too like Fire Emblem, FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre. All are part of the JRPG genre.
JRPGs are just an old term associated mostly with turn-based japanese RPGs because at the time, it's what devs do sue to technical limitations of consoles in that era. Older gamers tend to use it that way.
i played the demo, and immediatly after i saw the first goblin fight and heard the music in the game i was sold, i knew this was gonna be a good game , a game i would enjoy, the soundtracks in this game is so good, and the combat is extremly fun as well :) the bosses are very fun to fight and a great spectacle, , im only at chapter 6 but i cant wait to see how hard the endgame is gonna be :), you also are not supposed to struggle for the story , the real endgame is much much much harder, harder than anything that even mhw can dish out so get ready
I saw a video of someone saying that doing endgame quest solo (with ai) is borderline impossible because the ai can't keep up with the amount of attack and projectile some boss are throwing at you.
I found myself often comparing this game to wild hearts meets talesof series with hint of FF14. Each character may come of simple to pick up. As level up and unlock masteries. There is a ceiling level yet to explore. The monster battles in this game is amazing.
i keep trying to get a friend to understand that about difficulty, thats why games like hk, er, heck even mario games are so good. arbitrary number changes usually make enemies hp sponges or mindless fodder, which at that point why play? difficulty game design thats curated to teach the player and grow their skill in the game as it progresses in a steady difficulty is the correct way to do it. the former is just a bandaid for the lack of design.
Bit of a PSA on the totem trial things; crossing the boundary will stop the trial prematurely. This can be particularly bad for ones that include a boss fight, like the one Ruri showcases in this review, said boss in my playthrough had just pixels to go before defeat when it cornered an AI near the boundary but before I knew it my pogo combo with Zeta bounced me back through the barrier turning the trial off like a light switch. Hope Cygames can make a fix for this or some sort of prevention since it'll be quite frustrating if it happens to future trials. In the meantime be wary of bosses that start rampaging near the barrier.
I wish you could Customize the HUD not seeing to many people talk about this . I would like to take away some things or just adjust the size and location. Really takes away from immersion with all the oversized HUD
I agree with you 100%. The games seem super disappointing. The wait of 8 and delays was not worth it. This is why getting hyped for a game is a mistake
I was at the tail end of extreme when I made this video. Currently at the tail end of maniac, feels like I finally reached normal difficulty. Not sure what you mean by that.
About the difficulty, it looks like there is a ultimate hard mode for the story after you finished 0 chapter, i'm still in the last few extreme quests so i'm not sure. I started feeling like the game got a bit harder when i got to extrem, but mostly because my CPU party characters kept dying non stop, and because of cheap attacks that would kill me in 1 hit. I hope that at least when FAA-SAN (Lucilius) comes out they nerf the revives a bit, some times dying feels like the smarter play when you are out of potions and reviving will recover more than half your hp. The demo felt way more challenging because it was hard to complete the side objectives with lower level characters.
You can get away with that playstyle in the early difficulties but the later boss quest in mania there are two that come too mind that strat will not work well since they will one shot you and the revive bar drops fast the more people are down also proud mode they just one shot you xD
Before i buy the game. I read that the story is short. Is there end game content? Like other quest or what not we can do after beating the story? Thank Y'all.
I was excited for this game but seeing people say the story is only 10 hours or 20 if you do side content is kind of a bummer. I play RPGs for the story and the action looks crazy as heck, but I am not into games like monster hunter so the whole story is just tutorial and endgame is where the fun is at just does not resonate with me. For this game to be in development for 8 years feels like they kind of dropped the ball a little with this one. Guess I will be picking it up on sale down the line.
@@skulltula1352 I decided to fact check myself and it turns out Bahamut is an Arabian origin myth, although that version is a giant fish, not a dragon.
For the purpos of the game is too easy .Yes i absolutly agree with that untill the extrem and proud difficulty. I am now strugleling with the last report quest(Last quest befor real endgame)I am triying to do Solo(+ 3 npc) the boss it is just way harder than all other quest i have done befor i tryed the fight now for over 4 hrs but it is just impossible to get trough the last 1 shot mechanic(dmg treshold).For me it is just bad game design if i have to play online coop to clear that quest(I still need to get lucky to not get complete nooby party members).
He composed for Granblue early on in its life, but he isn't responsible for all the music in the series, and in the case of this game songs of his have been remixed.
This man reminds me of a freind I no longer speak to loves to sit far away from the fight with a long ranged weapon while his melee teammates are dieing then bitch about the game being too easy if we somehow manage to still win😅😂
@@rurikhan you showed percival gameplay early on in the video but none in the segment talking about the difficulty only showing eugen attacking from a safe distance
I feel for this game they off-loaded the challenge to the endgame and to achieving maximum rank in multiplayer missions (the devs did showcase an endgame boss that one-shotted their entire high level party), I suppose the intention is to allow as many people as possible to enjoy the story and finish the main campaign even if they play on the hardest diffculty.
The problem is, that's what the easier modes are for. On top of that the story mode has 2 levels of assist, one being fully automated aside from character movement. The whole idea of what you're saying becomes irrelevant while those assist modes exist. The harder modes should be intended for people who want to be challenged while progressing the story
Well, Cygames is mostly known for mobile games, so with every different genre they tackle they try to have the most casual-friendly approach to them. As was the case with the Gran Blue fighting game, where your specials all come from Smash Bros'-like action commands (pick a direction and press a button). Tho in this entry they did say they wanted to provide a wider scope in terms of difficulty, but I guess the hard content is way beyond the main story. I think it's pretty much a given that this is supposed to be a entry point both for the mobile games' Cygames fans, as well as Cygames themselves into the ARPG genre. Not that I'm complaining, just pointing out why the difficulty may seem lower than expected for those out of the loop. That, and the games that the audience of this channel usually play have a lot more envolved combat systems. I don't really play games for difficulty. Be it me that is face rolling enemies or the enemis are face rolling me, I can have equal ammounts of enjoyment as long as the game's mechanics and presentation work for me. Still as excited as before to play this game tomorrow!
I played the demo yesterday, and almost completely lost interest when I found out I could win all the fights one-handed, no, I'm not joking; due to the fact that most characters have a lot of movement when attacking I found that I didn't need my left hand in the slightest to play... XD
Hey, I watched all your streams so far with GBF, and I agree absolutely with everything. *BUT* ... The 'difficulty' part I feel like I need to add something to it - you died a lot. You didn't wipe even once, that's true, but the game if instead of a critical bar that slowly depletes had a "you can only die 3 times" kind of thing, would be totally, *ABSOLUTELY* different, and you would have wiped at least 10 times through your playthrough. You once said during one of the lasts fights "I did poorly, I didn't deserve to win, and we got him first try anyways", but I feel you did poorly precisely because it was hard, otherwise you wouldn't have died nearly as much. I say this specially because one hard fight you had (the boss who was 30+ levels more than you on the ice area) you had to play out of your mind even tho some NPCs almost threw the fight at the end, and it felt "hard" because you were feeling the idea of "if I die one more time, it's over". My point is, It's 'hard' but doesn't feel like it because there's absolutely no punish from dying, which ultimately makes it easy, but rather than saying "the game feels easy" I would say "being able to die 20 times in a fight makes the game easy even in hard difficulty", to what I feel it describes the problem better... but that's just my opinion on it. Dunno, could be me just rambling. All in all, loved your thoughts. Have fun with the game!
Critical is too forgiving yes, but even now on extreme we deal so much damage it doesn’t even matter, the bosses need more HP or something. Also keep in mind I purposefully gimped myself by playing multiple characters and spreading mastery points all over the place.
This is the information i was looking for. There's no penalty for death so you can almost brute force everything regardless of being unoptimized Stat wise.
I've been enjoying it a lot, it's very addictive, so far at least (just in the "final chapter" atm). It's not what I thought it was gonna be, but not in a bad way. Lol, I've playing mostly Eugen too, 😊
The fate episodes do explain what the “side characters” are doing while the story unfolds and why they are there and also contain battles, I hope you give them a shot whenever you can!
but they couldve added these to the actual game and added some actual time to the main story and instead they give you text walls and random battles for quests you couldve had that were companion specific.
I watch my friend (a pretty good player) against that exact Boss and get obliterated on medium mode (with Yodarha). I think that Eugen help a lot because you have to dodge way less attack (From what a i see on your footage). Still that remain a problem i guess !
@@yass3425 True, plus if i remember right, my friend was getting one or two shot by that boss. I don’t think he’s that wrong on his take tho but some bosses are a pain when you have no ranged options
Good game just needs another 6-8 months or a dlc to be ready I think; lot of enemy models are re used with just different colors the levels aren't visually appealing and the soundtrack is lacking. Also just to easy and even the hardest end game multiplayer stuff they just have lots of HP not actually difficult or challenging.
It's a bit of a shame to me that it looks like they focused on making a very gradual and forgiving difficulty curve for the game. I get having an easy story mode for people so that everyone has a chance to play it, and even super casual players will be able to play an hour here and there and get something out of it. I'm sure games journalists will have a wet dream over this many difficulty options, and you do have to sell the game after all. But personally I think something like Elden Ring has a way better approach to difficulty, because you can make the game exactly as hard as you want to. With something like this that has about 6 difficulties, and it looks like the first 4 steps are mostly pushovers, that means I'll have to play through at least a dozen hours just to get to something challenging. That said, I still think I'll enjoy the game and I still plan to pick it up tomorrow on PC. But I also have a feeling that because a big chunk of the game will be me breezing through the easy bits while taking in the story, the game might not have the replayability on the high end I'd like. So I may not get nearly as many hours out of this as MH or Elden Ring. It may surprise me, but we'll have to see just how many challenging fights the game has. And if it ends up being a little too shallow, I can wait for DLC or go back to my Safi'Jiva grind. Because at the end of the day I'm looking forward to this game being a nice change of pace before Dragon's Dogma 2, but not the kind of thing I'll put a thousand+ hours into over the course of 2024.
On the issue of the difficulty. The main campaign is not where the focus of any sort of challenge is. You aren't timed or graded on anything through the main campaign, and have been told by the Devs that assist mode is available for the entirety of it. The quest difficulty post game spikes, and continues to by skyfarer rank. The main game is throwaway. Its just a vehicle to dip your toes in, and have some spectacle.
Why even have a hard mode then if it's not supposed to have any challenge? Also 20 hours is a long time for throwaway content. Is it possible to skip straight to endgame?
You guys don’t get it. Screw the story, if you want a story go read a book. The game is brutal at higher difficulties why? Because longevity. It’s not a pump and dump game for cry babies. Take that shit somewhere else. If you want a challenge, play the game. IT IS NOT EASY.
22:59 He is to clarify that the game is not easy... the story and the main game is easy. There are several difficulties and what would be considered the "high" and "master" ranks quests on this game. The difference is that MH makes you deal with High and Master ranks during the main story but Granblue don't.
Do you have to do multiplayer to progress the story and power up characters? Do you have the option to solo multiplayer missions? I’m not a big multiplayer guy, don’t really have any friends to play games with and matchmaking is usually inconsistent and/or toxic.
The demo felt like a beefy mobile game. Games lack fun, almost all of them are been there done that. Stories are not improving either. Every once in a while we get a treat from a handful of development studios, but other than that it's bland boring games all the way. I hope Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade don't disappoint.
I think the game should just go to maniac at story and unlock proud and proud + after you finish it. Since even in og game the easy to very hard is walk in the park.
@@rurikhan Hahaha, jesting aside, I do consider Relink to be an Action JRPG with how Anime it looks and goes from goblin slaying to killing god, but I can also see how it can be misleading, with how JRPGs tend to be story focused single player games with slower combat. Dont let me ruin your mood, great content 😁
Regarding difficulty, post story quest have multiple difficulty level that you have to progress throught with rank up mission to unlock next tier: easy
Well the story is the story, as said a tutorial and a introduction to the game. But each character have his own Fate story with 2 missions and 11 segments. Some are really cool indeed.
i was interested reading about the biggest complain about lv 75 raid boss. well, sorry for this. it isn't the late game yet. 75 only about extreme difficulty, 2 levels below Maniac and Proud Difficulty. when you reach later raids stage there's several raid mechanics that you need to observe and prevent it almost like FF14 style raids
Great gameplay, crap repetitive story. If a game uses the "oh you're meant to lose this fight" idea more than once, then your writing staff needs fired. Look its catch up to bad guys, fight primal, lose OP boss, who if you gain no levels is severely tuned down when you fight them for real, rinse wash repeat. They give you dialogue choices that change absolutely nothing. Recruiting the side characters that pretend they've been part of the main story change nothing when you unlock them. I'd say spoilers but the story is literally 10 hrs. 10 hrs for a jrpg. I don't care if all they made were phone games, this is subpar for any rpg. Then its grinding and endgame. The fate stories are also garbage. Why didn't they just add these as companion specific quests in game? Seriously people saying these are great and they are text walls then a random fight where you play as that character. I'm not hating on this because I don't like the game, but the one thing that gets in the way is they treat the story like its the one thing they didn't want to actually do when they made the game.
This was a good review. I just finished story and finally got to do multiplayer with my brother. I really wish they let us do the story together, because it got WAY more fun when we finished campaign and got to group together.
Like with Monster Hunter, the real game starts after the credits. I did not spoiler myself and was expecting a JRPG but the thing I got was suprising in a good way. I love the game so far. And the devs already updated some bugs and thats always a good sign.
There's no doubt that the combat looks like Tales of Arise. It may or may not actually be quite different, but it definitely looks similar. Anyway, good video.
your video dident get into the actual meat of the game ; ; well great feedback on the music and gameplay and such. but, this aint even a review of what people actually play this game for. the end game. the grind and progression. the game dont start till you finish the story and go online and play the harder difficulties and unlock other weapons and builds. you didnt talk about character specific sigils, proud difficulty, the overflow system, the imbuing system and more.
the story your seeing is just a small piece. the overall story of granblue is awesome. but your just being dropped into the story, not even mid way yet. like, i love the story of the 4 knights you can play as in this game, but this is past there part, there skydoms story. so now there just playable characters. talking about difficluty, ya you need to be proficient or proud difficulty is gonna get your group killed
Dood makes a thoughts video without actually getting through most of the content. Biggest gripe came from fighting a Elite mob that's twice his level and the game's not difficult. Not even a real example.
The online is super buggy, serevers arent holding up lastnight tried a 4 player lobby and after one mission it has trouble starting a 2nd or 3rd mission with connection issues. Wish more content creators woukd talk more about this
Apparently you can't platinum this game unless you purchased deluxe or collector's edition because one of the weapons is exclusive to those. It's not clear yet if it's on purpose or an oversight but it's a deal breaker.
game gets harder if you want it to, but i'm definitely enjoying playing a game that you can just jump in and have fun without it having to be a sweaty souls-like experience.
I too was annoyed in the story progression when I would try the red timed trials only to find out it was impossible to do because they were too high a level. Also, I lost a Fate quest because AI kept dieing (and gauge ran out) despite me not going down at all.
My complains are the repetitiveness and variety of the bosses (or rather no variety). Bosses are mostly just reskins or bosses you already killed in the story for the 5th time already just with higher damagr numbers and maybe 1 extra attack. For 8 years in development I expected more.
23:37 This is fine. Too many times, or perhaps nearly all the time with these games is your party the weakest link. You level and work on developing your party but they become worthless the moment you're not controlling them directly.
Enemy HP scaling like crazy, but their damage not scaling is the worst kind of difficulty. It makes fight a drag and a test of enduring tedium instead of intensely challenging, fast paced fights.
On the difficulty note, the extreme mode for story campaign will be unlock when you finish chapter 0. all mops and boss are lvl 90 and above. I have 4 characters with lvl 100 and the highest weapon i can get but still struggled
I like how you neglected to mention the part where the lvl 20 is fighting a lvl 48 with an unoptimised party and isn’t even being challenged. But I also completed extreme difficulty today, it was easier than the boss fight I showed in this video, but ok.
i agree on the extra chara need a quest or 2, like they put that in the gacha game version why cant they put it here? to save time? that was mistake i think people can relate and like the character more if they add special quest for each characters.
I just finished the campaign the only issue I had on pc was the sound cut out for a second here and there on me during cut scenes but I enjoyed the game..
I prefer not to swap between characters. I feel much more connected to the character I'm using, which motivates me to master it. From my perspective, multiplayer is the solution to the main complaints about 'controlling' other players. Regarding the story of the other characters, I've heard there are specific quests for them. To finish on the difficulty, I honestly think it's an easy fix they can address in the next patch and addons.
This was my concern and the reason why I haven't bought the game ...... do you need to play with every character through the game or you can choose your main and stick with him till the end , I really don't like games where we have to swap between multiple characters cause of story reasons
Being able to swap characters leads to the Genshin/Honkai dilemma. The kits for the characters end up becoming extremely one dimensional and sometimes you bring them in and press one button then swap them out immediately. Completely ignoring their other attacks and the rest of their kit. Which is usually designed to be useless anyway. In Genshin there are very few characters that you actually ever even use their normal attacks. It's a trash system and i'm thankful they didn't implement it. The whole wanting to swap between characters just seems like something you'd say when you're fishing for a complaint. These aren't 20 minute fights. Tbh pretty surprised Ruri even brought it up after so much time playing the game. Pretty stupid problem to have with the game
@@danteleinguard9079you're only required to play as gran/djeeta at the very start but, after that you can play as whoever you want as long as you have them unlocked, with the only requirement being to have gran/djeeta in your party.
Am I the only one thats bothered by the fact that high lvl players can join your low lvl quests? The game is a ton of fun but I tried to do the goddamn Griffin 5 times, and as if the region lock on PC isnt enough to make things annoying in terms of multiplayer, you also have people at level 80+ queuing for starter quest. Just...why?
They are queueing for quick quest, because that rewards them gold tickets. They are not purposefully queueing for a low level quest, it’s just the luck of the draw.
Okay, I’m sorry but I disagree on the difficulty. Idk if its the characters you’re playing, like maybe youre playing as ranged a lot and thats easy, but this is NOT easy in the later chapters as melee. I’m on the last chapter on normal difficulty with no assist playing Gran through nearly all of the story, and there is some crazy shit once you hit like chapter 7. I’ve played plenty of action games and I’m by no means great at them but I’m not terrible either. Several bosses have borderline bullet hell ultimates/special attacks. Some bosses are just very difficult to position to hit in melee due to boss position + hazards and other things. I’ve had several attacks from enemies (normal mobs and bosses) with some hitbox porn. This Eugen fights is a poor example. For some reason you have to kill the mobs before it within a time limit, but the boss has no time limit. So ya if you play a character like Eugen that can dps from the other side of the room while ignoring 90% of attacks, you can whittle it down. But that is not a consistent experience across every character and every boss. There is plenty of difficulty in the later parts of the story. That said, even if I were to agree that it’s easy, I disagree that it’s an issue. Not every game is designed like a souls game where it’s constantly challenging. it’s good for some games to work like that but not every game needs that. And I say that as someone who has enjoyed both kinds of games.
I’ve barely played Eugen during the campaign. And just yesterday I was running an underleved gran through maniac difficulty and it was fine. Maniac feels like what normal should have been.
You do? I don't understand his downsides at all lol. He hasnt played enough to comment on difficulty and the switching thing is a non issue. That's not what the game is. And it's also in direct opposition to his difficulty complaint. He rushed this review i guess. Maybe he just wants to move on. Plays too many games.
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Regarding the soundtrack...Nobuo Uematsu composed for Relink. He's known as the composer for Final Fantasy as well as games like The Last Story, and Chrono Trigger. I have never been dissapointed by his scores
Thanks Nobuo
Are we sure Nobuo isn't embarrassed by being involved with this game lol
@@sanguinetales You mean the same guy who composed half of the mobile game's soundtrack? Highly doubt it
its mostly tsutomu narita now, his protege, but nobuo did composed a lot songs at the beginning
@@TheVoodoo862periphery fan??
Bit of an update on the difficulty thing. I agree that until very hard, they're pretty much a breeze if you're experienced in action RPGs, however, the next difficulties do actually start to be harder.
For reference this are the difficulties Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, Extreme, Maniac, Proud.
I just got into extreme, and it does pick up. Maniac and proud are the difficulties where assist mode isn't available btw, so I'm looking forward to those.
Attempted my first Proud quest yesterday and Proudly got my my ass handed to me
Are the battles mechanically harder with increased difficulty, or do the enemies just have more HP?
@@livingstonem10 they get more aggressive with new moves
@@livingstonem10 I honestly will never understand people who complain about higher HP pools,( not saying that's you..yet) like what rpg in existence didn't have end game bosses with ridiculous HP pools?? Yes the new moves are great and should be a thing, but that won't make a difference if the boss can't survive more than 2 minutes.
@@terminate_all The complaint is in regards to lazy devs who create "harder" difficulties, but all they do is increase boss HP and damage output. The battle itself may not be any harder at all mechanically, it's just artificial difficulty through stat manipulation.
Most of the Fate stories actually do explain how/why each character joined the crew! Added a lot more than I thought it would, as I usually don’t care for character exposition dumps
Second this - I usually don't read that much, but these were phenomenal - there are great stories behind every character and I absolutely enjoyed the little bits
Cope. You’re just excited because it’s a new game.
Sick hot take dude! No stakes in this franchise, first in the series. But if you insist I’ll try to start having a little less fun 👍
@@NotCharAznable Cope. you can't make someone dislike the game with your keyboard warrior skills.
1:30 A JRPG can be an Action RPG too. Like Tales of series, Kingdom Heart, FF15/16/7R, Star Ocean series, Scarlet Nexus, The World Ends With You.
They can be Strategy/Tactics RPG too like Fire Emblem, FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre.
All are part of the JRPG genre.
English is hard I suppose.
JRPGs are just an old term associated mostly with turn-based japanese RPGs because at the time, it's what devs do sue to technical limitations of consoles in that era. Older gamers tend to use it that way.
J RPG is a Japanese made RPG
I agree lol
By gameplay its far closer to dragon quest heroes than it is to tales. Much less Arise
Seems you don't understand what people call "jrpg" . . . no pb, you must be a millenial . . .
i played the demo, and immediatly after i saw the first goblin fight and heard the music in the game i was sold, i knew this was gonna be a good game , a game i would enjoy, the soundtracks in this game is so good, and the combat is extremly fun as well :) the bosses are very fun to fight and a great spectacle, , im only at chapter 6 but i cant wait to see how hard the endgame is gonna be :), you also are not supposed to struggle for the story , the real endgame is much much much harder, harder than anything that even mhw can dish out so get ready
I saw a video of someone saying that doing endgame quest solo (with ai) is borderline impossible because the ai can't keep up with the amount of attack and projectile some boss are throwing at you.
Nah that isn't true. It's like they play on Full Assist mode. You only have to move the joystick and you're borderline immortal 😂. AI hardly dies
can confirm runs realy smooth on pc I5 13600 kf/ 4070ti super 100-120 fps constant @ 1440P.
I agree with the difficulty. I debated on whether or not to play on hard and I'm glad that I did. It's been fairly easy. I have only died to Furycane.
Nobuo Uematsu is John Williams of video game industry.
I found myself often comparing this game to wild hearts meets talesof series with hint of FF14. Each character may come of simple to pick up. As level up and unlock masteries. There is a ceiling level yet to explore. The monster battles in this game is amazing.
i keep trying to get a friend to understand that about difficulty, thats why games like hk, er, heck even mario games are so good. arbitrary number changes usually make enemies hp sponges or mindless fodder, which at that point why play? difficulty game design thats curated to teach the player and grow their skill in the game as it progresses in a steady difficulty is the correct way to do it. the former is just a bandaid for the lack of design.
Bit of a PSA on the totem trial things; crossing the boundary will stop the trial prematurely. This can be particularly bad for ones that include a boss fight, like the one Ruri showcases in this review, said boss in my playthrough had just pixels to go before defeat when it cornered an AI near the boundary but before I knew it my pogo combo with Zeta bounced me back through the barrier turning the trial off like a light switch. Hope Cygames can make a fix for this or some sort of prevention since it'll be quite frustrating if it happens to future trials. In the meantime be wary of bosses that start rampaging near the barrier.
I wish you could Customize the HUD not seeing to many people talk about this . I would like to take away some things or just adjust the size and location. Really takes away from immersion with all the oversized HUD
this just dropped on PC so I can't wait to get into it after I finish Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth in 6 months
With nobuo uematsu (of final fantasy fame) as the composer i would expect the soundtrack to be very good.
I was kinda excited for this but after watching a few reviews I'm not so sure.
I agree with you 100%. The games seem super disappointing. The wait of 8 and delays was not worth it. This is why getting hyped for a game is a mistake
Why do people comment on the difficulty of a game without actually playing harder difficulties
This is odd
I was at the tail end of extreme when I made this video. Currently at the tail end of maniac, feels like I finally reached normal difficulty. Not sure what you mean by that.
Thanks for your honest review.
About the difficulty, it looks like there is a ultimate hard mode for the story after you finished 0 chapter, i'm still in the last few extreme quests so i'm not sure.
I started feeling like the game got a bit harder when i got to extrem, but mostly because my CPU party characters kept dying non stop, and because of cheap attacks that would kill me in 1 hit.
I hope that at least when FAA-SAN (Lucilius) comes out they nerf the revives a bit, some times dying feels like the smarter play when you are out of potions and reviving will recover more than half your hp.
The demo felt way more challenging because it was hard to complete the side objectives with lower level characters.
You can get away with that playstyle in the early difficulties but the later boss quest in mania there are two that come too mind that strat will not work well since they will one shot you and the revive bar drops fast the more people are down also proud mode they just one shot you xD
Finally someone else that read it as Eugene 😂
I have seen 4 of the characters video and Chapter 1 is always about why they joined
Before i buy the game. I read that the story is short. Is there end game content? Like other quest or what not we can do after beating the story? Thank Y'all.
Plenty of endgame content
@@rurikhan Thank you brotha. Buying the game now!!
10/10 on pc. 4k 120 fps
I was excited for this game but seeing people say the story is only 10 hours or 20 if you do side content is kind of a bummer. I play RPGs for the story and the action looks crazy as heck, but I am not into games like monster hunter so the whole story is just tutorial and endgame is where the fun is at just does not resonate with me. For this game to be in development for 8 years feels like they kind of dropped the ball a little with this one. Guess I will be picking it up on sale down the line.
So at the beginning you fight Bahamut I thought that was a Final Fantasy thing. So is this game a spin off or can any game use that name?
Bahamut is public domain. I think he is a Mesopotamian myth, but don't quote me.
@jgrif7891 Ah okay that makes sense. Thanks for the info
@@skulltula1352 I decided to fact check myself and it turns out Bahamut is an Arabian origin myth, although that version is a giant fish, not a dragon.
For the purpos of the game is too easy .Yes i absolutly agree with that untill the extrem and proud difficulty. I am now strugleling with the last report quest(Last quest befor real endgame)I am triying to do Solo(+ 3 npc) the boss it is just way harder than all other quest i have done befor i tryed the fight now for over 4 hrs but it is just impossible to get trough the last 1 shot mechanic(dmg treshold).For me it is just bad game design if i have to play online coop to clear that quest(I still need to get lucky to not get complete nooby party members).
Can’t wait to PASS on this game
I had to change difficulty to action during a boss fight with some ice creature.
How do you still not know the absolute legend and GOAT Nobuo Uematsu is the composer for the Granblue games?
He composed for Granblue early on in its life, but he isn't responsible for all the music in the series, and in the case of this game songs of his have been remixed.
base game ez af, but go do bosses on maniac and proud solo
This man reminds me of a freind I no longer speak to loves to sit far away from the fight with a long ranged weapon while his melee teammates are dieing then bitch about the game being too easy if we somehow manage to still win😅😂
I played most of the game as melee.
@@rurikhan then why show none of that gameplay for reference????
Did I not show Percival gameplay?
@@rurikhan you showed percival gameplay early on in the video but none in the segment talking about the difficulty only showing eugen attacking from a safe distance
S++ on final boss, first try as Percival.
I feel for this game they off-loaded the challenge to the endgame and to achieving maximum rank in multiplayer missions (the devs did showcase an endgame boss that one-shotted their entire high level party), I suppose the intention is to allow as many people as possible to enjoy the story and finish the main campaign even if they play on the hardest diffculty.
If you watch any streams you'll know this is not true. Looks even easier actually.
The problem is, that's what the easier modes are for. On top of that the story mode has 2 levels of assist, one being fully automated aside from character movement.
The whole idea of what you're saying becomes irrelevant while those assist modes exist. The harder modes should be intended for people who want to be challenged while progressing the story
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@@Allthenameableyea cuz you only watching
Well, Cygames is mostly known for mobile games, so with every different genre they tackle they try to have the most casual-friendly approach to them. As was the case with the Gran Blue fighting game, where your specials all come from Smash Bros'-like action commands (pick a direction and press a button). Tho in this entry they did say they wanted to provide a wider scope in terms of difficulty, but I guess the hard content is way beyond the main story.
I think it's pretty much a given that this is supposed to be a entry point both for the mobile games' Cygames fans, as well as Cygames themselves into the ARPG genre. Not that I'm complaining, just pointing out why the difficulty may seem lower than expected for those out of the loop. That, and the games that the audience of this channel usually play have a lot more envolved combat systems.
I don't really play games for difficulty. Be it me that is face rolling enemies or the enemis are face rolling me, I can have equal ammounts of enjoyment as long as the game's mechanics and presentation work for me.
Still as excited as before to play this game tomorrow!
I played the demo yesterday, and almost completely lost interest when I found out I could win all the fights one-handed, no, I'm not joking; due to the fact that most characters have a lot of movement when attacking I found that I didn't need my left hand in the slightest to play... XD
Hey, I watched all your streams so far with GBF, and I agree absolutely with everything. *BUT* ...
The 'difficulty' part I feel like I need to add something to it - you died a lot.
You didn't wipe even once, that's true, but the game if instead of a critical bar that slowly depletes had a "you can only die 3 times" kind of thing, would be totally, *ABSOLUTELY* different, and you would have wiped at least 10 times through your playthrough.
You once said during one of the lasts fights "I did poorly, I didn't deserve to win, and we got him first try anyways", but I feel you did poorly precisely because it was hard, otherwise you wouldn't have died nearly as much. I say this specially because one hard fight you had (the boss who was 30+ levels more than you on the ice area) you had to play out of your mind even tho some NPCs almost threw the fight at the end, and it felt "hard" because you were feeling the idea of "if I die one more time, it's over".
My point is, It's 'hard' but doesn't feel like it because there's absolutely no punish from dying, which ultimately makes it easy, but rather than saying "the game feels easy" I would say "being able to die 20 times in a fight makes the game easy even in hard difficulty", to what I feel it describes the problem better... but that's just my opinion on it.
Dunno, could be me just rambling. All in all, loved your thoughts. Have fun with the game!
Critical is too forgiving yes, but even now on extreme we deal so much damage it doesn’t even matter, the bosses need more HP or something.
Also keep in mind I purposefully gimped myself by playing multiple characters and spreading mastery points all over the place.
This is the information i was looking for. There's no penalty for death so you can almost brute force everything regardless of being unoptimized Stat wise.
I've been enjoying it a lot, it's very addictive, so far at least (just in the "final chapter" atm). It's not what I thought it was gonna be, but not in a bad way.
Lol, I've playing mostly Eugen too, 😊
Multiplayer mostly arena missions... yikes. I was expecting something with a little more depth to be honest.
Japan is killing it with all these games. Palworld, Granblue, Like a Dragon (if you don't count the controvercy) and later DD2.
Been looking forward to playing this game for quite a while. This review was great and made me want to play it that much more
The fate episodes do explain what the “side characters” are doing while the story unfolds and why they are there and also contain battles, I hope you give them a shot whenever you can!
but they couldve added these to the actual game and added some actual time to the main story and instead they give you text walls and random battles for quests you couldve had that were companion specific.
Sucks to be a souls player, this is what is gonna plague you forever.. and yes, such a wierd flex. This game is made for furries, they want it easy
I watch my friend (a pretty good player) against that exact Boss and get obliterated on medium mode (with Yodarha). I think that Eugen help a lot because you have to dodge way less attack (From what a i see on your footage). Still that remain a problem i guess !
I mean yeah playing a ranged character make almost every game away easier even soul like ones
@@yass3425 True, plus if i remember right, my friend was getting one or two shot by that boss. I don’t think he’s that wrong on his take tho but some bosses are a pain when you have no ranged options
Man, thanks for calling the game super easy.
Now every time I get comboed to death I am reminded how much of a shitter I am.
So fun.
:)
I’m working on a guide, we’ll fix that soon enough.
It's an action J-RPG not just an action rpg lol I thought you were a gamer dood :3
Good game just needs another 6-8 months or a dlc to be ready I think; lot of enemy models are re used with just different colors the levels aren't visually appealing and the soundtrack is lacking. Also just to easy and even the hardest end game multiplayer stuff they just have lots of HP not actually difficult or challenging.
The soundtrack is lacking?!?! Wtf?
Proud mode moment.
Game responds to player complain about difficulty too easy.
(Too easy killing bosses? Okay , lets do 3 at the same time)😂
Ah, yes, bad game design. my favorite
Think I'll pass. Right now don't have enough time to waste.
Wish I could play it on Steam, but my PC says nope. Not the only one though. Even if my Pc specs kinda suck XD. Hope for a Pc fix soon from the devs.
It's a bit of a shame to me that it looks like they focused on making a very gradual and forgiving difficulty curve for the game. I get having an easy story mode for people so that everyone has a chance to play it, and even super casual players will be able to play an hour here and there and get something out of it. I'm sure games journalists will have a wet dream over this many difficulty options, and you do have to sell the game after all. But personally I think something like Elden Ring has a way better approach to difficulty, because you can make the game exactly as hard as you want to. With something like this that has about 6 difficulties, and it looks like the first 4 steps are mostly pushovers, that means I'll have to play through at least a dozen hours just to get to something challenging.
That said, I still think I'll enjoy the game and I still plan to pick it up tomorrow on PC. But I also have a feeling that because a big chunk of the game will be me breezing through the easy bits while taking in the story, the game might not have the replayability on the high end I'd like. So I may not get nearly as many hours out of this as MH or Elden Ring. It may surprise me, but we'll have to see just how many challenging fights the game has. And if it ends up being a little too shallow, I can wait for DLC or go back to my Safi'Jiva grind. Because at the end of the day I'm looking forward to this game being a nice change of pace before Dragon's Dogma 2, but not the kind of thing I'll put a thousand+ hours into over the course of 2024.
Not everyone wants to play elden ring every single game lol
The game gets extremely difficult later with bosses one shotting you, raid mechanics and rough party wipe dps checks
On the issue of the difficulty. The main campaign is not where the focus of any sort of challenge is. You aren't timed or graded on anything through the main campaign, and have been told by the Devs that assist mode is available for the entirety of it. The quest difficulty post game spikes, and continues to by skyfarer rank. The main game is throwaway. Its just a vehicle to dip your toes in, and have some spectacle.
Huh. Was hoping it was going to be a good story game. What a waste.
Why even have a hard mode then if it's not supposed to have any challenge? Also 20 hours is a long time for throwaway content. Is it possible to skip straight to endgame?
@@Maxbillion.Its not 20 houres, closer to 10.
And the story is also fun and good.
@kefkapalazzo1092 even 10 hours is kinda pushing it. Lol.
My ps5 says 7 hours, but im pretty sure i had a little more than that.
@@Jerler91 yeah, 7 would be a good number, if you do the minimum amount of side contents 7 would most likelly be right.
if the pet dragon wasnt in the game it would triple the rating.
You guys don’t get it. Screw the story, if you want a story go read a book. The game is brutal at higher difficulties why? Because longevity. It’s not a pump and dump game for cry babies. Take that shit somewhere else.
If you want a challenge, play the game. IT IS NOT EASY.
Me and the 3 friends I’m playing with all disagree, and that’s both when we’re playing solo and in a group.
22:59 He is to clarify that the game is not easy... the story and the main game is easy. There are several difficulties and what would be considered the "high" and "master" ranks quests on this game. The difference is that MH makes you deal with High and Master ranks during the main story but Granblue don't.
Do you have to do multiplayer to progress the story and power up characters? Do you have the option to solo multiplayer missions? I’m not a big multiplayer guy, don’t really have any friends to play games with and matchmaking is usually inconsistent and/or toxic.
You can do quests (multiplayer) solo offline
As far as I’m aware you can solo everything
You don't even have to touch multiplayer for endgame content tbh people are farming it just fine solo
The demo felt like a beefy mobile game. Games lack fun, almost all of them are been there done that. Stories are not improving either. Every once in a while we get a treat from a handful of development studios, but other than that it's bland boring games all the way. I hope Dragon's Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade don't disappoint.
I think the game should just go to maniac at story and unlock proud and proud + after you finish it. Since even in og game the easy to very hard is walk in the park.
the combat looks kinda shallow tbh
Honestly looks like Strangers of Paradise, I actually enjoyed that game quite a bit.
"It's not a JRPG" **Checks Developers** Japanese... **Checks game genre** RPG... huh 😂
Is dark souls a JRPG? Are you for real.
@@rurikhan Hahaha, jesting aside, I do consider Relink to be an Action JRPG with how Anime it looks and goes from goblin slaying to killing god, but I can also see how it can be misleading, with how JRPGs tend to be story focused single player games with slower combat. Dont let me ruin your mood, great content 😁
Regarding difficulty, post story quest have multiple difficulty level that you have to progress throught with rank up mission to unlock next tier: easy
12:46 FFVIII vibes here
Well the story is the story, as said a tutorial and a introduction to the game. But each character have his own Fate story with 2 missions and 11 segments. Some are really cool indeed.
i was interested reading about the biggest complain about lv 75 raid boss.
well, sorry for this. it isn't the late game yet. 75 only about extreme difficulty, 2 levels below Maniac and Proud Difficulty. when you reach later raids stage there's several raid mechanics that you need to observe and prevent it almost like FF14 style raids
Great gameplay, crap repetitive story. If a game uses the "oh you're meant to lose this fight" idea more than once, then your writing staff needs fired. Look its catch up to bad guys, fight primal, lose OP boss, who if you gain no levels is severely tuned down when you fight them for real, rinse wash repeat. They give you dialogue choices that change absolutely nothing. Recruiting the side characters that pretend they've been part of the main story change nothing when you unlock them. I'd say spoilers but the story is literally 10 hrs. 10 hrs for a jrpg. I don't care if all they made were phone games, this is subpar for any rpg. Then its grinding and endgame.
The fate stories are also garbage. Why didn't they just add these as companion specific quests in game? Seriously people saying these are great and they are text walls then a random fight where you play as that character. I'm not hating on this because I don't like the game, but the one thing that gets in the way is they treat the story like its the one thing they didn't want to actually do when they made the game.
This was a good review.
I just finished story and finally got to do multiplayer with my brother. I really wish they let us do the story together, because it got WAY more fun when we finished campaign and got to group together.
Like with Monster Hunter, the real game starts after the credits. I did not spoiler myself and was expecting a JRPG but the thing I got was suprising in a good way. I love the game so far. And the devs already updated some bugs and thats always a good sign.
There's no doubt that the combat looks like Tales of Arise. It may or may not actually be quite different, but it definitely looks similar. Anyway, good video.
your video dident get into the actual meat of the game ; ; well great feedback on the music and gameplay and such. but, this aint even a review of what people actually play this game for. the end game. the grind and progression. the game dont start till you finish the story and go online and play the harder difficulties and unlock other weapons and builds. you didnt talk about character specific sigils, proud difficulty, the overflow system, the imbuing system and more.
the story your seeing is just a small piece. the overall story of granblue is awesome. but your just being dropped into the story, not even mid way yet. like, i love the story of the 4 knights you can play as in this game, but this is past there part, there skydoms story. so now there just playable characters.
talking about difficluty, ya you need to be proficient or proud difficulty is gonna get your group killed
Been playing strictly on my AyaNeo with 15fps to 30fps. They look fine. With bullet time happens here and there. Yeah. Fine.
Dood makes a thoughts video without actually getting through most of the content. Biggest gripe came from fighting a Elite mob that's twice his level and the game's not difficult. Not even a real example.
The online is super buggy, serevers arent holding up lastnight tried a 4 player lobby and after one mission it has trouble starting a 2nd or 3rd mission with connection issues. Wish more content creators woukd talk more about this
Apparently you can't platinum this game unless you purchased deluxe or collector's edition because one of the weapons is exclusive to those. It's not clear yet if it's on purpose or an oversight but it's a deal breaker.
game gets harder if you want it to, but i'm definitely enjoying playing a game that you can just jump in and have fun without it having to be a sweaty souls-like experience.
I waited 5 years for this disappointment. Played the demo, deleted, will NOT go ANY further with this garbage.
I too was annoyed in the story progression when I would try the red timed trials only to find out it was impossible to do because they were too high a level. Also, I lost a Fate quest because AI kept dieing (and gauge ran out) despite me not going down at all.
My complains are the repetitiveness and variety of the bosses (or rather no variety).
Bosses are mostly just reskins or bosses you already killed in the story for the 5th time already just with higher damagr numbers and maybe 1 extra attack.
For 8 years in development I expected more.
23:37 This is fine. Too many times, or perhaps nearly all the time with these games is your party the weakest link. You level and work on developing your party but they become worthless the moment you're not controlling them directly.
Plays like "Infinite Undiscovery" classic game that was great. Dimuindo Dive!!!😂😂
Enemy HP scaling like crazy, but their damage not scaling is the worst kind of difficulty. It makes fight a drag and a test of enduring tedium instead of intensely challenging, fast paced fights.
On the difficulty note, the extreme mode for story campaign will be unlock when you finish chapter 0. all mops and boss are lvl 90 and above. I have 4 characters with lvl 100 and the highest weapon i can get but still struggled
"The harder bosses are still so easy 😔"
Lucilius in the corner, waiting to be dropped as a DLC boss:
Lucilius to Ruri: Hold my paradise lost
just try solo
"DLC" lel
Apparently the game does get proper difficult, but only at endgame. Campaign is a complete cakewalk.
you can set it to 120hz frame rate when playing on PC
FYI the "side characters" has a unique voice line at the start of a story quest if you choose to play them.
Is lvl 20: "This game is too easy"
LOL 🤡
I like how you neglected to mention the part where the lvl 20 is fighting a lvl 48 with an unoptimised party and isn’t even being challenged. But I also completed extreme difficulty today, it was easier than the boss fight I showed in this video, but ok.
i agree on the extra chara need a quest or 2, like they put that in the gacha game version why cant they put it here? to save time? that was mistake i think people can relate and like the character more if they add special quest for each characters.
It looks cool but i am afraid it is just mindless button mashing and hollow Game Play without any depht.
Games being to easy is a huge deal breaker for me. To bad, because everything else looks fun.
it didnt get challenging up until the rank up to proud where u have to fight bahamut, and then they start throwing in multiple bosses.
I was wondering if you could main Eugen or Rackam.
It's a shame you can create your own character.
okayu 100% got buffed in her new fit, and i am not fucking complaining bro..
I just finished the campaign the only issue I had on pc was the sound cut out for a second here and there on me during cut scenes but I enjoyed the game..
I prefer not to swap between characters. I feel much more connected to the character I'm using, which motivates me to master it. From my perspective, multiplayer is the solution to the main complaints about 'controlling' other players.
Regarding the story of the other characters, I've heard there are specific quests for them. To finish on the difficulty, I honestly think it's an easy fix they can address in the next patch and addons.
don't want to change char? just don't do it
This was my concern and the reason why I haven't bought the game ...... do you need to play with every character through the game or you can choose your main and stick with him till the end , I really don't like games where we have to swap between multiple characters cause of story reasons
Being able to swap characters leads to the Genshin/Honkai dilemma. The kits for the characters end up becoming extremely one dimensional and sometimes you bring them in and press one button then swap them out immediately. Completely ignoring their other attacks and the rest of their kit. Which is usually designed to be useless anyway. In Genshin there are very few characters that you actually ever even use their normal attacks.
It's a trash system and i'm thankful they didn't implement it. The whole wanting to swap between characters just seems like something you'd say when you're fishing for a complaint. These aren't 20 minute fights. Tbh pretty surprised Ruri even brought it up after so much time playing the game. Pretty stupid problem to have with the game
@@danteleinguard9079you're only required to play as gran/djeeta at the very start but, after that you can play as whoever you want as long as you have them unlocked, with the only requirement being to have gran/djeeta in your party.
@@lapin7542 ok sounds good than
Too easy is a major turn off for me because I love challenging games. I heard even the coop missions are too easy.
before i even watch i'm gonna assume all the granblue fans will shit on this review cause rurikhan dare state his opinion
Am I the only one thats bothered by the fact that high lvl players can join your low lvl quests? The game is a ton of fun but I tried to do the goddamn Griffin 5 times, and as if the region lock on PC isnt enough to make things annoying in terms of multiplayer, you also have people at level 80+ queuing for starter quest. Just...why?
They are queueing for quick quest, because that rewards them gold tickets. They are not purposefully queueing for a low level quest, it’s just the luck of the draw.
Okay, I’m sorry but I disagree on the difficulty. Idk if its the characters you’re playing, like maybe youre playing as ranged a lot and thats easy, but this is NOT easy in the later chapters as melee.
I’m on the last chapter on normal difficulty with no assist playing Gran through nearly all of the story, and there is some crazy shit once you hit like chapter 7.
I’ve played plenty of action games and I’m by no means great at them but I’m not terrible either.
Several bosses have borderline bullet hell ultimates/special attacks. Some bosses are just very difficult to position to hit in melee due to boss position + hazards and other things. I’ve had several attacks from enemies (normal mobs and bosses) with some hitbox porn.
This Eugen fights is a poor example. For some reason you have to kill the mobs before it within a time limit, but the boss has no time limit. So ya if you play a character like Eugen that can dps from the other side of the room while ignoring 90% of attacks, you can whittle it down. But that is not a consistent experience across every character and every boss.
There is plenty of difficulty in the later parts of the story. That said, even if I were to agree that it’s easy, I disagree that it’s an issue. Not every game is designed like a souls game where it’s constantly challenging. it’s good for some games to work like that but not every game needs that. And I say that as someone who has enjoyed both kinds of games.
I’ve barely played Eugen during the campaign. And just yesterday I was running an underleved gran through maniac difficulty and it was fine. Maniac feels like what normal should have been.
I'm having a blast playing GranBlue Fantasy Relink. I understand your downsides but all in all, it's a really fun game so far.
You do? I don't understand his downsides at all lol. He hasnt played enough to comment on difficulty and the switching thing is a non issue. That's not what the game is. And it's also in direct opposition to his difficulty complaint. He rushed this review i guess. Maybe he just wants to move on. Plays too many games.
@@RaptchurI assume he wanted to do a review before the Steam release for anyone curious about the game without a PS5.