Why does all these JRPG's (and I am a son who did Manly work on a 120acre Farm that had tobacco milking etc. and I am an ex soldier) seem to have 9 year old looking girls fighting and almost all the women have cat ears??? I REEEEAAAALLLLLYYYYY Love the Japanese people and love their culture and legends....BUT I just get past the little girl or cat ladies. Maybe if there was just a small amount of that stuff in a game I could deal with it...but what games? Dragans Dogma but thats not a JRPG traditionally. I have The Lost Odessey (only available on Xbox 360) and it is what got me to try JRPG's. I have the Dragon Quest XI echoes and It's good...I prefer open combat, not spawning monsters, Ilike somewhat of an open world, Do you have any ideas? Also I like exploration to find things. Thanks
The director said there will be continual support and they will add harder content starting with the Lucilius raid. This was in an interview last week in France with Kayane who host the GBVSR tournament. This is awesome news
Have never heard of the granblue series until a day before Relink came out. As a Monster Hunter and Elden Ring player, thousands of hours between em, Im happy to say GBF Relink has blown away my expectations and is super fun!
Ive been on the fence on whether to pick this up now for $30 or wait for a bigger sale, but your comment is swaying me to get it. Is it really like Elden Ring and Monster Hunter?
word like dont get me wrong Jpn dub is usually better and stuff but when you in the middle of a chaotic battle and they screaming I dont have time to read when im dodging. It was one of the reasons why I didnt buy that SD gundam game. It suffer by not having a english dub to understand what was being said as the battles started.
I'm most excited about is the AI party, most ppl are not talking about it enough but from what I see so far, it's the answer for any mmo that is struggling with players doing specific content. Example WOW, the AI party can replace missing players in a raid, and guess what? the AI will know the mechanics of the fight and if you don't know the mechanics, you can just see what the AI party is doing and learn from them. A game like lost ark will never have support problems or needing to ask anyone for ur 8 man run of old content that no one wants to do, because the AI party is always there and ready when you need it. This does not take away from the online experience, this will enhance it. You want to play with other players, go for it and if ur missing a person or two the AI is always and option and if want just to play without anyone with you and just use the AI party then go for it. Freedom is king and this will open all kinds of doors. This is why I find this game very exciting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the AI party system works.
Great review. Started playing it yesterday and it is really fun. I bought it for the great combat with 19 different characters and the ability to improve and get better and better grade while enjoying over the top monsters and fantastic visuals.
But it's not really a JRPG though, it's more akin to monster hunter, the animated art style is confusing ppl, just because it's a Japanese developer doesn't make it a JRPG
@@mathewhosier9739 how is it not a JRPG? the term JRPG isn’t exclusive to turn based combat. Look at the mana series, where every main line game has been action oriented. Because of where the game was developed, its story, and art style, it is JRPG just as much as GBF:R.
I can atest, the "main story" is short, but the character progress is pretty deep and interesting. Grinding for 20 separate characters sounds soulcrushing....but the boss battless are fun....cant get enought of SBA animations xD everytimes it makes me gigle and I have a fuzzy feeling in my chest.... JUST BIG DMG SOUNDS ALL AROUND !!! xDDD Final verdict: its fun o/
Great review. Thanks for the info. I was ready to pick this up day one after playing the demo but as someone who wants a robust narrative experience I may now wait for a sale. I'm glad you broke it down the way you did. 💯
Agreed, I was assuming this game would have a lengthy vsst narrative similar to tales of arise. Glad I found out ahead of time that's apparently not the case.
As former Genshin Impact player and still playing Trials of Mana, this game is like fast-paced and casual version of Monster Hunter mixed with Genshin Impact + Fate Extella gameplay mechanics. This game is gonna be my 1st heaviest game to play when I have gaming laptop in the future.
Thank you for the review Cas! I had a question as a steam decker. Would it be a heavy lift to include steam deck compatibility as one of the segments in your reviews? Keep up the great work!
i personally prefer longer and deeper stories in my JRPGs (my all time favorite game is Xenoblade), but i think it's cool that we're getting shorter and more straightforward games on the genre now. this could serve as a good entry point for people who want to get into JRPGs but are intimated by the longer stuff. most of these games are a huge commitment, so it's cool to get a game that delivers the core experience of the genre without being too time consuming. looking forward to trying this!
Well it's not really a JRPG, it's a coop action RPG that focuses on endgame, the main story is basically just a tutorial to teach you the mechanics of the game
I've played the demo and found it quite overwhelming, I've no idea what's going on in the combat, especially with so many characters attacking at once! Does the full game drip-feed you into it?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the game. Ill definitely be checking this out.. Also love your outro music theme... kind of reminds me of Megaman! Thanks again!
Am I the only one that likes to have everything done before the final boss? I don’t like post game stuff because I feel like I’ve already beaten the main campaign, so what’s the point? I do wish this campaign was longer though !
Someone speed through the main campaign and skip all the side quests..leveling up other chars..and trying diffent stuff out...idk seems like people rush a game and say it was short
The game is absolutely amazing BUT after 8 years of development I expected more unique bosses, however they're all extremely well designed and even the reskins have many different moves, I would've loved to see more iconic bosses in the game like the magna raids tho ngl.
I think they want to release new bosses and dungeons a little at a time. I also noticed the game takes place inside only 1 Skydom when there are many. So they definitely have alot of potential for DLC and content updates.
8 years of development doesnt mean the whole 8 years were spent working on this game. stuff gets thrown out, redesigned, etc. idk exactly what happened with platinumgames invovlement but that certainly took away some time from the project. also this is their first installment on the big gaming scene (aside from gbvs, thats a completely different thing)
@@Dillarune 8 years since the first gameplay showcase* There is no excuse and you shouldn't demand from people to lower their expectations, I'm not hating on the game and I absolutely despise people like you going akshuly ☝️🤓 over fair criticism.
Hi, thanks for the review ! Can you do the main story in Co-op or only the quests from the board ? I'm sorry if this was answered, I didn't catch it and can't find a clear answer online.
@@amoineauthe story is about 10 hours length and the game is heavily focused on end game quests which are like monster hunter. So I dont think it would be that bad decision to grab this game for multiplayer
@@cw9624 completely agree, but in my case I was wondering if I played alone, or bought a copy for my gf as well. And no way she will be interested in playing 15-20 hours (we take our time) before finally playing co-op. So I guess I'll be going solo on that one. Thank you for your input though.
I haven't played the game, so I don't know for sure but I doubt it. The color of the damage numbers actually indicates strengths and weaknesses to damage types, so I'm not sure how they'd convey that with the numbers disabled.
Been playing it and there aren’t any options like that. I also wanted an option to turn down or turn off other characters abilities, something like FF14 but unfortunately you can’t do anything like that. The amount of effects on the screen can be so chaotic you don’t even know where your character is. Game is great regardless and Im loving it
First time watching a Fextralife review, but here's my two cents: why is the pricepoint considered when giving the game a score? I get that it is important to the consumer, but it is completely separate from the quality of the game itself. It adds unnecessary noise to the final score given.
Everything mentioned about length / game structure is exactly what I want out of more games. Give me a short but well paced single player & then tons of replay able co-op content to do with friends!
I just got into action jrpg and wow. I put 120 hours into trials of mana, then 100 in tales of arise. Now I'm going to buy this game before visions of mana. Most fun I've had in gaming in awhile
@felixnunez1 the combat is similar to ToA but the story is monster hunter style. It's fun tho. Most of your hours spent will be farming for the right stat boosters and endgame upgrades
I see what you did at the available character screen 😂. I personally wished it was a retelling of the story from its original game, but I can also understand why they chose to do a complete different story. Just a quick reminder, they’ve already announced two dlc characters and a boss battle dlc. There’s also more updates planned for release in May.
I am still a bit on the fence, as you do say its for hunting fans, I just dont see the endgame being that long-lasting. Characters don't have the depth of different weapons in MH, simple combos and combined with the fact you can dodge whenever feels a lot more button bashy, sigils and weapon upgrades are just stat boosts, and because elements are tied to characters do you ever really want to change to a different weapon? That seems my impressions from playing the demo and watching various reviews. Don't get me wrong I want to like the game, just don't see what people are jazzing about. Probably waiting for a sale myself
The game maxes out at 120 fps, but everything is extremely polished. I'm managing 120 fps constant @ 1440p w/ max settings on an RTX 3080, i7-11700K, and 32 gigs of DDR4 @ 3600mhz. Fucking beautiful as well. They had us worried about the PC version, but it turns out they had it all under control. Thank god.
Psh I'll be playing at capped 60 frames unfortunately. I have a 3090 with an i9 13900k, 64 gigs of ddr5(?) Could be ddr4 I can't remember... But it's a beast if a rig but I haven't purchased a LG 48inch c3 like I've been planning to for rig. So I'm stuck playing on my UHD 60inch LG TV lol. I use to be a console player if you can't tell already
I've always like the Japanese game ever since I had found it. I thought it was so cool. I found out about it because I was playing shadows and I someone said a lot of the characters from rage of bahamut got pretty much we worked into this new thing called grand blue fantasy. And it was just final fantasy essentially but a fresh take on it so I didn't care too much for their fighting game cuz I'm not big on fighting games even though it looks cool. I do play blaze blue but I really just wanted an RPG and they finally gave it to me. I honestly wish they would have just brought their mobile game into the USA via an actual app so I wouldn't have to download a Japanese app that essentially just opens up a web browser on your phone, which was weird. But this game is scratching that edge. They did so well making the characters feel different. The game isn't overly complicated the combos the difficulty just depends on the character and the play style like this game is fun. I just started playing yesterday. I'm only a few hours in. I made it to chapter 4 and I'm having fun. I can't wait to see where this goes. I need something to hold me over until dragon's dogma gets released
Man it’s hard to find these type of games with good stories that aren’t so cliche or predictable. Scarlett Nexus and Ni No Kuni 2 suffered the same problem
Really enjoying the game, however, I do wish I didn’t have to wear headphones to be able to hear the dialogue. I googled it and ran across a thread in Steam where others were talking about this same issue, so I know its not just me. I hope this gets patched soon.
Yeah its kinda sad, its also capped at 120 fps as far as i could see i'll be camping nexusmods for a fix and perhaps flawless widescreen (Software that developes ultrawide support for games, among some other fixes like no fps caps and other small adjustments) If you want ulrawide, you might be in luck if you wait for a week to play until some modder fixes it, but no guarantees
The only issues I have with the English cast is the little lizard, and that issues is based on the writing of its lines. (I like dubs because I can't read and watch the animation at the sames time!,haha)
Kinda glad the camera is smooth, since I'm worried I might get motion sickness with camera shacky-ness. Having blast so far with Ferry. 41+USD in my country for standard edition is also a huge plus.
So you mention that AFTER the story you will be changing and upgrading weapons. Does that mean that you can customize and change weapons during the story portion?
You can. There are ~6 diff weapons per character. There's also a transmog system too if you like the look of a specific weapon. You'll only get like 1-3 weapons through the story (at least from my experience), the rest will probably be done through later questing/missions.
I’m trying to stick to side quest and combat related stuff to pad my story time out. I do think this is a buy if you like action RPGs and fantasy. I’m surprised how polished a lot of it feels.
Tbh, you don't really have to. Because you will grind till crazy at the later stage of the game. Especially end game when boss have over millions of hp.😂
This has been on my radar for about 5 years. I saw a video of a group of people co-oping through a level and then fighting a dragon at the end. However, the 3 "Quests" available on the demo were all arenas. The single player missions are separate from the multiplayer quests. Are there any multiplayer quests in this game that have the team go through a level and fight a boss or is it all multiplayer in arenas?
Do you have to problem with quest not giving the gold and mastery point they are supposed to? I am lvl 80 and this is really bothering me because upgrades are now worth 700 mastery point each. Also I seem to have capped damages and the unlock on this damages through glyphs is not very well explained. (I can see on the footage you are too) Overall I am already deeply addicted to the game. I really hope their is a lot of missions after lvl 100
Same here i saw the uncapp damage sigil also but it doesnt really specify what the threshold of damage is. I guess if you max stats the have multiple max attack/crit dmg sigils it can go past the tl lvl cap of 50?. Great fun game regardless atm.
Cas - In the demo review you mentioned camera issues. After playing the demo I noticed it too...Was this fixed or is it still an issue or do you just get use to it over time?
Honestly, after 7 long years of development and due its rich ip, some people were probably expecting a big immersive jrpg not a grind "end game" button smashing fest. I guess this is the state of the gaming market nowadays.
"State of the gaming market" pfft, stop talking so much rubbish. You sound absolutely ridiclous lol There are plenty of games of all genres and all types out there, you just so happen to have garbage taste. Move on
Well what do you expect from a game which is just a spin off of the OG game (browser), some say its good w/out prior knowledge of the very beginning of the story but just an feeling good excuse to just enjoy the game and there still people confuse whats going on.
Good video. I was very on the fence about this game as I would only be getting it to play with a friend on the endgame and if the story isnt super long then I'm probably gonna pick it up. (Never engaged with Grandblue franchise so not really bothered about the story)
I was never an OG Granblue game fan because I really don't like the art style and mechanic overall but this game looks interesting nevertheless, I'd love to give it a try. Edit: 90gb...nvm
Am I the only one who hates higher damage numbers? Like once you’re over 10,000 per hit it just seems arbitrary as it’s basically untraceable at that point
Honestly I am seeing that too, game is only 10hrs long.... the title says after 50hrs and the reviewer wants to play more???? Why do they think its 10hrs and that's it.
@@JohnDoe80808 Sigh.. The story is around 10 hours long and the rest came from coop endgame. Some people just wanted to play the game like a longer story driven game which it isn't, or explore huge open worlds. Or hope, like me, that the AI is good enough in end game as I am not a people person
@nathanscott2871 People say the dumbest shit on the Internet, make thee worst assumptions, have unrealistic expectations and are just entitled af. Can't stand it lol May have to stop reading comments soon, because my brain can't take the amount of stupidity I read sometimes.
@Kyle-Marxluxia what annoys me is they think I'm some simp for the game because I think it's getting unjust treatment. I literally have never touched the granblue franchise, I'm gonna give this a go because it seems like something I can drop in and out of on days where I don't have time to smash out hours of gaming. Outside of that I don't have any bias for this game, but people be shitting on it as if they have played it and formed the opinion themselves, when they haven't.
Do like the game, i am in post-story missions now and very few times done the weakness to bosses like Light fire ground and so on. you can do it alot but you can do it normaly to if you finde a team set up you like. I know fire on Ice bosses will kill it faster but the team have no fire type i can still kill it in okay time.
Looks like, plays like, is like every JRPG ever made. But its great. Go play one from 2010-2015 and you find...nothing different. That means this will be some GOTY contender.....for no reason what so ever.
@@rndhelpme9748Yeah there's hard difficulty on story still pretty ez tho, but on quest it depends on what quest because each quest has its own difficulty
@@rndhelpme9748 Japanese button mashers are always way too easy. If I can win just by mashing square then there's something wrong with the game, but I hope this isn't the case
@@rndhelpme9748 It starts on a pretty basic/easy story but once its over it unlocks harder modes and also allows you to go back and replay chapters of the story in harder difficulty.
For one it doesn't have that outdated crap where you have to touch an enemy just to enter some random field of combat. It doesn't compare too much though to the Tales Of series though.
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grinding mastery points for twenty characters isnt "fun". there should be a cheat option in the game to multiply them by at least 10
Why does all these JRPG's (and I am a son who did Manly work on a 120acre Farm that had tobacco milking etc. and I am an ex soldier) seem to have 9 year old looking girls fighting and almost all the women have cat ears??? I REEEEAAAALLLLLYYYYY Love the Japanese people and love their culture and legends....BUT I just get past the little girl or cat ladies. Maybe if there was just a small amount of that stuff in a game I could deal with it...but what games? Dragans Dogma but thats not a JRPG traditionally. I have The Lost Odessey (only available on Xbox 360) and it is what got me to try JRPG's. I have the Dragon Quest XI echoes and It's good...I prefer open combat, not spawning monsters, Ilike somewhat of an open world, Do you have any ideas? Also I like exploration to find things. Thanks
The director said there will be continual support and they will add harder content starting with the Lucilius raid. This was in an interview last week in France with Kayane who host the GBVSR tournament. This is awesome news
Harder? I'll pass
@@33GLOCK mods will make it easier. Trust me, this game already has some nexusmods in it and I tell ya, it's gonna be GREAT.
Have never heard of the granblue series until a day before Relink came out. As a Monster Hunter and Elden Ring player, thousands of hours between em, Im happy to say GBF Relink has blown away my expectations and is super fun!
Lol nothing like elden ring this more gentle which i like
gen alpha be like
That's good to know...from a fellow Hunter 🏹
Ive been on the fence on whether to pick this up now for $30 or wait for a bigger sale, but your comment is swaying me to get it. Is it really like Elden Ring and Monster Hunter?
I didn't mind the English dub. I find it a bit difficult to pay attention to subtitles mid fight so Ive been playing this in English.
I find subtitles always helpful. I use them all the time even when I understand the language.
word like dont get me wrong Jpn dub is usually better and stuff but when you in the middle of a chaotic battle and they screaming I dont have time to read when im dodging. It was one of the reasons why I didnt buy that SD gundam game. It suffer by not having a english dub to understand what was being said as the battles started.
English during story. Post-game all in Japanese
You say u didn't mind it like the dub wasn't great
I don't use subtitles since I know both language ^^
I'm most excited about is the AI party, most ppl are not talking about it enough but from what I see so far, it's the answer for any mmo that is struggling with players doing specific content. Example WOW, the AI party can replace missing players in a raid, and guess what? the AI will know the mechanics of the fight and if you don't know the mechanics, you can just see what the AI party is doing and learn from them. A game like lost ark will never have support problems or needing to ask anyone for ur 8 man run of old content that no one wants to do, because the AI party is always there and ready when you need it. This does not take away from the online experience, this will enhance it. You want to play with other players, go for it and if ur missing a person or two the AI is always and option and if want just to play without anyone with you and just use the AI party then go for it. Freedom is king and this will open all kinds of doors. This is why I find this game very exciting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the AI party system works.
The airship scenes are giving me Skies of Arcadia vibes... might be worth a purchase based on that alone.
was thinking that earlier when playing. feels like a crazy dream version of skies of arcadia
The true re-release we need. Even if only means porting it I'll be happy.
any airship scene with anime team gives Skies of Arcadia vibes lol
@@Groundeyes and is that a bad thing? 🤣
Great review. Started playing it yesterday and it is really fun. I bought it for the great combat with 19 different characters and the ability to improve and get better and better grade while enjoying over the top monsters and fantastic visuals.
Glad it turned out well. This has been in development for ages.
theyre charging 70 dollars for 10 hours of content.....
Short game not worth 70
@chase5298 it's $60, and theres over 160 hours of content, yes the main story is only 15 hours but it's not a JRPG, it's more akin to monster hunter
@@33GLOCKit's $60, and there's over 160 hours of content, but it's not a JRPG so a 15 hour main story us fine when there's so much other content
@@chase5298 Endgame content can offer over 100 hours of gameplay, a feat not many games can achieve.
It's refreshing to see a high quality game with
NO GACHA, NO LOOTBOXES.
Man I’m down with it, I’m so over open world games this actually feels refreshing
Yes, open world hasn’t evolved much. Even games like BotW/TotK and Elden Ring has the typical open world issues
@@Softlol 100% agree, totk felt exhausting
Why is nobody talking about this game? Even big channels just ignored it.
Can’t wait to pick this up tomorrow
Thanks for helping me understand it isn’t about the narrative - and to appreciate it as a monster hunting game
The character designs and artwork is truly breath taking in this game. Gives me hope in JRPG devs still
But it's not really a JRPG though, it's more akin to monster hunter, the animated art style is confusing ppl, just because it's a Japanese developer doesn't make it a JRPG
@@mathewhosier9739 how is it not a JRPG? the term JRPG isn’t exclusive to turn based combat. Look at the mana series, where every main line game has been action oriented. Because of where the game was developed, its story, and art style, it is JRPG just as much as GBF:R.
I can atest, the "main story" is short, but the character progress is pretty deep and interesting.
Grinding for 20 separate characters sounds soulcrushing....but the boss battless are fun....cant get enought of SBA animations xD everytimes it makes me gigle and I have a fuzzy feeling in my chest.... JUST BIG DMG SOUNDS ALL AROUND !!! xDDD
Final verdict: its fun o/
Great review. Thanks for the info. I was ready to pick this up day one after playing the demo but as someone who wants a robust narrative experience I may now wait for a sale. I'm glad you broke it down the way you did. 💯
Agreed, I was assuming this game would have a lengthy vsst narrative similar to tales of arise. Glad I found out ahead of time that's apparently not the case.
Same ^^' I will take it in 2 to 3 years
As former Genshin Impact player and still playing Trials of Mana, this game is like fast-paced and casual version of Monster Hunter mixed with Genshin Impact + Fate Extella gameplay mechanics. This game is gonna be my 1st heaviest game to play when I have gaming laptop in the future.
Thank you for the review Cas! I had a question as a steam decker. Would it be a heavy lift to include steam deck compatibility as one of the segments in your reviews? Keep up the great work!
i personally prefer longer and deeper stories in my JRPGs (my all time favorite game is Xenoblade), but i think it's cool that we're getting shorter and more straightforward games on the genre now. this could serve as a good entry point for people who want to get into JRPGs but are intimated by the longer stuff. most of these games are a huge commitment, so it's cool to get a game that delivers the core experience of the genre without being too time consuming. looking forward to trying this!
Well it's not really a JRPG, it's a coop action RPG that focuses on endgame, the main story is basically just a tutorial to teach you the mechanics of the game
@@mathewhosier9739 oh ewww that sounds terrible 😂
But it's not really a JRPG, it's an action RPG more akin to monster hunter
@@flamehirothat sounds much better, im so sick of movie games, its a video game, I want gameplay with deep progression
Preordered this game but i won’t be playing it on release date. Still finishing Like a Dragon 8.
same here this on the back burner till like after LAD 8, Persona 3R
@@nightwolf235so many JRPgs ;( and all of them ended up being great. Plus FF7 coming out soon as well 😭
@@KevinGonzalez-hs7so exactly it came out during a bad time honestly
Same, I'll buy it, but it'll wait.
I have LAD:Infinite Wealth and P3R to play before.
This game looks so warm, Is it good if the only jrpg you like is final fantasy and chrono trigger?
There’s actually 20 characters after you beat the game one being one of the best characters imo
Gonna go on a long trip next month and have been looking for a good jrpg to play on the steam deck. Hope this one’s it!
I hope they will be supporting this game also after the 3 updates with new quest just like Monster Hunter
They will there's gonna be two new characters incoming already and a boss raid
@@icarus1455yes thanx but i mean support after that with new quests just like in Monster Hunter
@@OldgamerNL yeah they also announced support down the road too with new quest
@@icarus1455oh great🎉
I've played the demo and found it quite overwhelming, I've no idea what's going on in the combat, especially with so many characters attacking at once! Does the full game drip-feed you into it?
Did you make a mistake showing Roland as a playable character?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the game. Ill definitely be checking this out.. Also love your outro music theme... kind of reminds me of Megaman! Thanks again!
The English voice actor's did their thing in my opinion.
I bought it for Easter. The game is so much fun
Am I the only one that likes to have everything done before the final boss? I don’t like post game stuff because I feel like I’ve already beaten the main campaign, so what’s the point? I do wish this campaign was longer though !
Not to spoil it but the story doesn't necessarily end after the credits, and it explains why.
Find a different game then, for fuck sake. Quit your whinning
The point is the gameplay is fun, the point of this game isn’t the campaign, the story is just a means to an end.
Format seems confusing af 😂
Someone speed through the main campaign and skip all the side quests..leveling up other chars..and trying diffent stuff out...idk seems like people rush a game and say it was short
The game is absolutely amazing BUT after 8 years of development I expected more unique bosses, however they're all extremely well designed and even the reskins have many different moves, I would've loved to see more iconic bosses in the game like the magna raids tho ngl.
They already stated post in game content is going to have additional bosses and more characters to use.
I think they want to release new bosses and dungeons a little at a time. I also noticed the game takes place inside only 1 Skydom when there are many. So they definitely have alot of potential for DLC and content updates.
8 years of development doesnt mean the whole 8 years were spent working on this game. stuff gets thrown out, redesigned, etc. idk exactly what happened with platinumgames invovlement but that certainly took away some time from the project. also this is their first installment on the big gaming scene (aside from gbvs, thats a completely different thing)
@@momintim I already know all of the post game content and the problem still remain.
@@Dillarune 8 years since the first gameplay showcase*
There is no excuse and you shouldn't demand from people to lower their expectations, I'm not hating on the game and I absolutely despise people like you going akshuly ☝️🤓 over fair criticism.
Btw 2 free DLCs has already been annouced, first one coming in march with a new super hard boss, and the april one with 2 new characters
Hi, thanks for the review ! Can you do the main story in Co-op or only the quests from the board ? I'm sorry if this was answered, I didn't catch it and can't find a clear answer online.
Main story is single player
@@KnightRaymund ok thanks, that's what I was afraid
@@amoineauthe story is about 10 hours length and the game is heavily focused on end game quests which are like monster hunter. So I dont think it would be that bad decision to grab this game for multiplayer
@@cw9624 completely agree, but in my case I was wondering if I played alone, or bought a copy for my gf as well. And no way she will be interested in playing 15-20 hours (we take our time) before finally playing co-op. So I guess I'll be going solo on that one.
Thank you for your input though.
It be better if there was more bosses instead of repeating them. Ill buy it once all the dlc is out
Can you disable the floating damage numbers?
I haven't played the game, so I don't know for sure but I doubt it. The color of the damage numbers actually indicates strengths and weaknesses to damage types, so I'm not sure how they'd convey that with the numbers disabled.
Been playing it and there aren’t any options like that. I also wanted an option to turn down or turn off other characters abilities, something like FF14 but unfortunately you can’t do anything like that. The amount of effects on the screen can be so chaotic you don’t even know where your character is. Game is great regardless and Im loving it
Does not exist sadly.
Probably will be added as an option in future updates.
First time watching a Fextralife review, but here's my two cents: why is the pricepoint considered when giving the game a score? I get that it is important to the consumer, but it is completely separate from the quality of the game itself. It adds unnecessary noise to the final score given.
It’s about value for money, it’s a legitimate concern for many
Agreed!! I feel like double the monster roster would have made this amazing...and peering is a bit dodgy
I'm hoping peering is only an issue because it hasnt actually launched yet.
This is what Dynasty Warriors wishes it could be... 💯🔥🔥🔥
Everything mentioned about length / game structure is exactly what I want out of more games. Give me a short but well paced single player & then tons of replay able co-op content to do with friends!
it’s on sale on Steam 😊
I just got into action jrpg and wow. I put 120 hours into trials of mana, then 100 in tales of arise. Now I'm going to buy this game before visions of mana. Most fun I've had in gaming in awhile
Is it similar to Tales of Arise. That is the reason im looking into it, wanted something to scratch that itch.
@felixnunez1 the combat is similar to ToA but the story is monster hunter style. It's fun tho.
Most of your hours spent will be farming for the right stat boosters and endgame upgrades
I see what you did at the available character screen 😂. I personally wished it was a retelling of the story from its original game, but I can also understand why they chose to do a complete different story. Just a quick reminder, they’ve already announced two dlc characters and a boss battle dlc. There’s also more updates planned for release in May.
Can't wait because the other two characters are supposed to be astrals
@@icarus1455 tweyen and seofon I believe
I am still a bit on the fence, as you do say its for hunting fans, I just dont see the endgame being that long-lasting. Characters don't have the depth of different weapons in MH, simple combos and combined with the fact you can dodge whenever feels a lot more button bashy, sigils and weapon upgrades are just stat boosts, and because elements are tied to characters do you ever really want to change to a different weapon? That seems my impressions from playing the demo and watching various reviews. Don't get me wrong I want to like the game, just don't see what people are jazzing about. Probably waiting for a sale myself
We appreciate everything you do for us Fextra!
The game maxes out at 120 fps, but everything is extremely polished. I'm managing 120 fps constant @ 1440p w/ max settings on an RTX 3080, i7-11700K, and 32 gigs of DDR4 @ 3600mhz. Fucking beautiful as well. They had us worried about the PC version, but it turns out they had it all under control. Thank god.
Wish it ran higher than that tbh but yea gor me it runs amazing but I have stupid good build lol
Psh I'll be playing at capped 60 frames unfortunately. I have a 3090 with an i9 13900k, 64 gigs of ddr5(?) Could be ddr4 I can't remember... But it's a beast if a rig but I haven't purchased a LG 48inch c3 like I've been planning to for rig. So I'm stuck playing on my UHD 60inch LG TV lol. I use to be a console player if you can't tell already
@@brandonenke2680 damn that's a huge screen to be playing on bahahha. I highly recommend getting a highe hz monitor games feel way better on ig
I really don’t care about all that garbage.
@@gothard5OK. Have fun playing 30 FPS on consoles then. Literal eye cancer...
I've always like the Japanese game ever since I had found it. I thought it was so cool. I found out about it because I was playing shadows and I someone said a lot of the characters from rage of bahamut got pretty much we worked into this new thing called grand blue fantasy. And it was just final fantasy essentially but a fresh take on it so I didn't care too much for their fighting game cuz I'm not big on fighting games even though it looks cool. I do play blaze blue but I really just wanted an RPG and they finally gave it to me. I honestly wish they would have just brought their mobile game into the USA via an actual app so I wouldn't have to download a Japanese app that essentially just opens up a web browser on your phone, which was weird. But this game is scratching that edge. They did so well making the characters feel different. The game isn't overly complicated the combos the difficulty just depends on the character and the play style like this game is fun. I just started playing yesterday. I'm only a few hours in. I made it to chapter 4 and I'm having fun. I can't wait to see where this goes. I need something to hold me over until dragon's dogma gets released
Im between this and Fate Samurai, what do you all think?
im gonna wait for a big sale, since I was hoping for a story driven game. But doesn't look like this one si quite right. So, until then.
That sale is now, -40% on Steam.
This game is 20% story, 80% end game.. Just saying.
This is the sleeper hit of 2024
Campgain is only 12 hours so if you plan to play this game offline its 10hours story and 80 hours repetitive side quests and leveling
so if i want to play the endgame with a friend we both have to beat the singleplayer story mode? or is multiplayer unlocked from the beginning
I think Its unlocked after chapter 1 but if you finish the story mode first, online will be better.
I’m getting mine today!!! CAN’T WAIT! 🥺😍
Looking at Charlotta & Cagliostro level 100 👀
Man it’s hard to find these type of games with good stories that aren’t so cliche or predictable. Scarlett Nexus and Ni No Kuni 2 suffered the same problem
Really enjoying the game, however, I do wish I didn’t have to wear headphones to be able to hear the dialogue. I googled it and ran across a thread in Steam where others were talking about this same issue, so I know its not just me. I hope this gets patched soon.
does pc support ultrawide monitors?
nop. At least not for now
Make it
Yeah its kinda sad, its also capped at 120 fps as far as i could see
i'll be camping nexusmods for a fix and perhaps flawless widescreen (Software that developes ultrawide support for games, among some other fixes like no fps caps and other small adjustments)
If you want ulrawide, you might be in luck if you wait for a week to play until some modder fixes it, but no guarantees
The only issues I have with the English cast is the little lizard, and that issues is based on the writing of its lines.
(I like dubs because I can't read and watch the animation at the sames time!,haha)
Kinda glad the camera is smooth, since I'm worried I might get motion sickness with camera shacky-ness. Having blast so far with Ferry. 41+USD in my country for standard edition is also a huge plus.
So you mention that AFTER the story you will be changing and upgrading weapons. Does that mean that you can customize and change weapons during the story portion?
You can. There are ~6 diff weapons per character. There's also a transmog system too if you like the look of a specific weapon. You'll only get like 1-3 weapons through the story (at least from my experience), the rest will probably be done through later questing/missions.
@@HellzAssassntransmog is exclusive to weapons? There's skins to unlock?
I’m trying to stick to side quest and combat related stuff to pad my story time out. I do think this is a buy if you like action RPGs and fantasy. I’m surprised how polished a lot of it feels.
Tbh, you don't really have to.
Because you will grind till crazy at the later stage of the game. Especially end game when boss have over millions of hp.😂
Is this a game I can play multiplayer through the whole story or just the end game?
Co-op with friends but online multiplayer is not available for story.
This has been on my radar for about 5 years. I saw a video of a group of people co-oping through a level and then fighting a dragon at the end.
However, the 3 "Quests" available on the demo were all arenas. The single player missions are separate from the multiplayer quests.
Are there any multiplayer quests in this game that have the team go through a level and fight a boss or is it all multiplayer in arenas?
Do you have to problem with quest not giving the gold and mastery point they are supposed to? I am lvl 80 and this is really bothering me because upgrades are now worth 700 mastery point each.
Also I seem to have capped damages and the unlock on this damages through glyphs is not very well explained. (I can see on the footage you are too)
Overall I am already deeply addicted to the game. I really hope their is a lot of missions after lvl 100
Same here i saw the uncapp damage sigil also but it doesnt really specify what the threshold of damage is. I guess if you max stats the have multiple max attack/crit dmg sigils it can go past the tl lvl cap of 50?. Great fun game regardless atm.
Cas - In the demo review you mentioned camera issues. After playing the demo I noticed it too...Was this fixed or is it still an issue or do you just get use to it over time?
is it worth to get the special edition or are you able to easily get those items ingame?
Yall beat the story in 10 hours? It took me atleast teoce that time. I was looking for wee pincers and stuff but still
Honestly, after 7 long years of development and due its rich ip, some people were probably expecting a big immersive jrpg not a grind "end game" button smashing fest. I guess this is the state of the gaming market nowadays.
"State of the gaming market" pfft, stop talking so much rubbish. You sound absolutely ridiclous lol There are plenty of games of all genres and all types out there, you just so happen to have garbage taste. Move on
Another asian publisher dominating the market with astonishing games🗿 the west could never
Well what do you expect from a game which is just a spin off of the OG game (browser), some say its good w/out prior knowledge of the very beginning of the story but just an feeling good excuse to just enjoy the game and there still people confuse whats going on.
Good video. I was very on the fence about this game as I would only be getting it to play with a friend on the endgame and if the story isnt super long then I'm probably gonna pick it up. (Never engaged with Grandblue franchise so not really bothered about the story)
I was never an OG Granblue game fan because I really don't like the art style and mechanic overall but this game looks interesting nevertheless, I'd love to give it a try.
Edit: 90gb...nvm
Am I the only one who hates higher damage numbers? Like once you’re over 10,000 per hit it just seems arbitrary as it’s basically untraceable at that point
I'm fine with a max of 9999!
You’d hate the browser game then lol
Will buy a physical copy for the PS5.
Ditto.
Sure isn't a half-assed, overhyped RPG. Really glad this game turned out so well.
Great looking game, but I'll probably wait for a decent sale. I don't really care about endgame and 60 bucks for a 10h story mode seems a bit steep.
A lot of thick people in the comment section it seems.
Honestly I am seeing that too, game is only 10hrs long.... the title says after 50hrs and the reviewer wants to play more???? Why do they think its 10hrs and that's it.
@@JohnDoe80808 Sigh.. The story is around 10 hours long and the rest came from coop endgame. Some people just wanted to play the game like a longer story driven game which it isn't, or explore huge open worlds. Or hope, like me, that the AI is good enough in end game as I am not a people person
@nathanscott2871 People say the dumbest shit on the Internet, make thee worst assumptions, have unrealistic expectations and are just entitled af. Can't stand it lol May have to stop reading comments soon, because my brain can't take the amount of stupidity I read sometimes.
@Kyle-Marxluxia what annoys me is they think I'm some simp for the game because I think it's getting unjust treatment. I literally have never touched the granblue franchise, I'm gonna give this a go because it seems like something I can drop in and out of on days where I don't have time to smash out hours of gaming.
Outside of that I don't have any bias for this game, but people be shitting on it as if they have played it and formed the opinion themselves, when they haven't.
This was really helpful
Do like the game, i am in post-story missions now and very few times done the weakness to bosses like Light fire ground and so on. you can do it alot but you can do it normaly to if you finde a team set up you like. I know fire on Ice bosses will kill it faster but the team have no fire type i can still kill it in okay time.
Reskinning the same 5 enemies doesn’t seem fun to me!
What platform is this review for?
PC
Um, this game is far cheaper than $60 on my steam game store, and I don't even have a sale going. Why are you guys getting ripped off?
Battle mechanics is chaotic. I prefer turn based in rpg especially when skills/attacks so vibrant and fast.
Gonna wait for a big discount.
Is there any difficulty, or can this be finished by a button masher?
You have to actually try
Normal is hard, hard is difficult, extreme is your life
and maniac is your afterlife
@@D3athW1ng AWESOME! I was looking forward to this but had the feeling it was like an Atelier game difficulty wise.
@@Syrin23you can button mash in the early game. But it steadily gets harder and harder.
Back when this game was announced I was playing games like this and was very excited. Now I don't have time for games like this
Have you tried it on steam deck?! Any info on that???
Arekkz mentioned that in their review. I didn't pay attention but it was something about running decently albeit at a low framerate like 40 fps.
I couldn’t believe how fun this game was, and beautiful looking too
I'm a bit disappointed in the story though. It's the old traditional shonen story with too much friendship power
thanks for the great review !
Looks like, plays like, is like every JRPG ever made. But its great. Go play one from 2010-2015 and you find...nothing different. That means this will be some GOTY contender.....for no reason what so ever.
Well written and great review. But disappointed that there isnt more story, but i did enjoy monster hunter so im still looking forward to playing it.
There will be more story im sure. Were not getting Lucilius randomly without an explanation
The only downside for me is that the story isn’t coop. Otherwise, this game is ridiculously good
*Grand Blue Relink:Nah Id win*
💙💥💙💥💙
Been playing it since Sunday I’m at endgame I’m loving it
Can you change the difficulty? Concerned it will be too easy
@@rndhelpme9748Yeah there's hard difficulty on story still pretty ez tho, but on quest it depends on what quest because each quest has its own difficulty
@@rndhelpme9748 Japanese button mashers are always way too easy. If I can win just by mashing square then there's something wrong with the game, but I hope this isn't the case
@@babytiny5807no you have to use abilities, link attacks and finishers if you want to do any kind of real damage during the endgame
@@rndhelpme9748 It starts on a pretty basic/easy story but once its over it unlocks harder modes and also allows you to go back and replay chapters of the story in harder difficulty.
just playing it now - IT IS AWESOME
How does Grand Blue compare to Tales of series? I really like tales series
Not at all.
For one it doesn't have that outdated crap where you have to touch an enemy just to enter some random field of combat. It doesn't compare too much though to the Tales Of series though.
@@darkraven5626 cool. Thanks
@@dr.chungusphd108 ok.
No it's not really a JRPG, it's a coop action RPG focused on progression and endgame
The doujins are masterpiece as well
you know ball
Can you play different characters in the story mode or can you only play Gran and Djeeta?
You can play as anyone, but the captain must be in the party until you finish the story.
Seeing some crashes online but when it works .. its fantastic
Anyone play on PC steam version, does the female character revealing clothings have censored? If it's censored, which country u from?