Honest Review of Granblue Fantasy Relink | Asmongold Reacts

so this game I played a little bit of it yesterday I tried it out for the first time never played a single game in the grand blue franchise and I'm going to be real guys this is a game that in a little bit kind of gets in the way of itself right it's like oh I've got to listen to the story again I think the story was like uh I didn't like the story didn't like the Story gameplay was great that's my opinion let's see what IGN says you've probably seen the trailers or gameplay for this highly anticipated anime stylized action RPG Grand blue fantasy relink maybe you've actually played the free PlayStation demo to get a gist of the core gameplay but even with those details in because it's way different to a standard traditional acual game like it first appears to be you see reink actually takes some of the better elements of different game series like Monster Hunter and the tales of and more with its various different different gameplay mechanics Quest flow combat and multiplayer we've played over a 100 hours together as myself and 26 powered through the game story and then the subsequent questing system see bro he knows he knows what's up he knows what's good right there see that system which honestly has us kind of hooked I'm going to try my best to not spoil anything so no details of the story itself will be mentioned or spoiled and we'll be using thank you please let's not talk about the story at all let's pretend like it didn't even happen very early gameplay or the official trailers so you don't have to worry about us showing you anything that isn't already out there but we will mention some of the different gamep playay systems and elements as they're prudent to explaining how the game flows and progresses as you start ranking up and unlocking harder quests in the post campaign gameplay so let's go over broadly what the game as a whole is and what you can expect from it because we were way off with what we thought the game would be and I mean that in a good way you start the game off with a set roster of characters which is the crew of The Grand scier your Airship which after a short tutorial section you can then switch between and play as them or have them in your party throughout the game progressing the story will be your first focus and this will take you through the various different areas or Sky Islands as they're called in relink s games have consistently marketed the story as around 20 hours in length and although this is definitely possible depending on your play style we feel for the majority of players it will actually come in at around 10 hours the story itself is very interesting with lots of boss fights and epic moments but did feel the boss fights are great like this boss fight was actually pretty decent and I could see it on like a hard mode being good short in comparison to our expectations however if you enjoy trying out all of the different characters doing quests and farming along the way as well as leveling them up so that you can use them in your party as you get further and further through the story then naturally it will take longer to complete whereas if you just want to go back to back and run through the story missions you will be slightly underpowered but with enough skill you can still complete them and that will make the story a lot shorter so the story's duration all depends on how you enjoy playing your games now while the story itself is a fun part of the game it really ends up being a lesser focus of the overall experience as you progress in the story as well as other objectives you'll unlock additional crewmate vouchers letting you unlock more characters into your roster each with a massively different play style and role but then after finishing the story you go on to start your progression into the game's questing system the best way to explain this to all of you is to think of it I just like I mean this game to me just seemed like Monster Hunter with like a few other guys like I that's really the vibe that I got out of it it's like Monster Hunter but you have these other guys with you and there's like more upgrades you can do and like maybe I don't know enough games like this yet to like have a better comparison but that was my comparison like I yeah I thought it was good Monster Hunter sucks you think so I don't think so I thought it was great a monster hunter game you have a story but also the repeatable Hunts or quests to farm either gear in Solo or multiplayer online with other people well really has kind of the same flow there's a full story but also the quest board with different Mission types from horde battles to defense missions and most importantly bosses to farm in Monster Hunter you also have all the weapons to try out to learn and grind and in relink you have all of the characters which function and play differently each needing to be leveled up and grinded to increase in their power if you want to take them to the higher level content yeah I think that the leveling stuff like I I feel like a lot of games don't really have like super super interest interesting leveling but like with this game it was like it was fine rambl fantasy relink also has a difficulty system one guy yeah yeah one guy in chat said monster hunter sucks everybody else said monster hunter was good I read his one message and everybody in chat thinks that everybody hates Monster Hunter yeah yeah no it was like literally one guy whereby after completing the story you will need to complete marked quests kind of like urgent quests that will then unlock more missions for you eventually to a rankup quest which will unlock a whole new tier of difficulty so the game basically has its own version of low rank high rank and so on with normal easy hard and even more difficulty levels to unlock this means there is a lot to do unlock and experience even after you finished the story when you start getting into the questing furthermore different man this looks a lot easier than whenever I did it at level 16 this looks way easier rankup tear keep actually progressing the story and there's entire missions with big impact on certain Story characters and the world which you would only experience if you actually get to these higher and higher difficulty quests which means if you include the time it takes to go through this questing system to get these extra missions which are pretty awesome then the story is substantially longer but it's not like these repeatable missions are unique content so it doesn't really count and it's a bit of a shame because some of these missions are actually really awesome and we think the average player probably won't get to experience them unless they keep playing even after they think the story is over yeah I'm kind of like a little bit like that's weird to me that like the majority of the game happens after the story is over like for me I really liked how and it depends on like what you mean by a storyline because like I like how in Monster Hunter there's like still full voice acted quest lines for like hard mode bosses because it makes me feel like I'm not just doing random I'm like actually continuing to like round out and finish the game this aspect the game really does just keep on giving anding entirely new progression systems ways to improve our weapon or higher level sigils as we got further and further through the questing we often found we thought we were at the end only to discover that there was more and more each time we ranked up and unlocked a higher difficulty I won't show anything but there is some awesome stuff awaiting you guys at the very highest final difficulty level really well thought out quality of life and different gameplay mechanics that make playing the game a lot more enjoyable and smooth unlike other games that could potentially fit in this genre there's a really easy to ous wish list system for finding specific materials and items that you need loads of tips in the in-game journal and a bunch more things that just Mak your life easier as you play through then with all of this you can factor in that the game has many different characters which all level up unlock masteries and require weapon upgrades individually making the total possible Play Time exponentially higher if you're someone that doesn't like sticking to one single character and these characters really make the game shiny they're all incredibly designed with totally different play Styles strengths and functions yeah I do feel like playing the Scythe guy was M was like way different than playing the uh what do you call it uh playing the sword and shield guy like I haven't played a lot of the different characters yet but it actually does feel like it's different if you're someone that doesn't like to experiment and try different characters out then of course you'll lose out on a lot of additional time and content leveling those guys up but in general you'll be testing different characters out in the training room learning Combos and even making builds with the in-game sigil system which offers your character a ton of different traits to increase their damage utility or survivability for example I've been loving Sig freed and have fully committed to maxing him out with loads of damaging skills to get those big meaty chops with his great sword but it does 128,000 guys did I pick the wrong character oh he's level 100 okay yeah yeah no no it's fine it's fine does feel pretty good to try a new and different character and it sort of makes you want to start progressing them for that extra variety for example there's another character called fery that is totally different and interesting and I genuinely might need to switch to her and start grinding again to get her up to a higher level and that's just one of the characters which by the way there are more characters planned in DLC after release with two that we've seen so far looking pretty awesome now let's touch on performance and platforms because I have now played this on PlayStation 5 Via the free demo my full playthrough on PC and have some Play Time on my steam deck by trying out some of the quests to see how it plays in my experience PlayStation felt all right to play on I would say the demo felt as though it had some input lag or perhaps a bit of variable frame rate making it feel a little off because on PC like which I do have a highend setup it runs buttery smooth looks great obviously it has stylized Graphics so it's not a pure Fidelity focused game and the inputs felt responsive which is quite important because you will be doing things like guarding dodging perfect guarding and dodging and even timed inputs on certain characters attacks interest all of the responsiveness and gameplay of this game I would say is a 10 when I hit the button the thing happens it sounds crazy but it's that simple there it isly I've had no crashes stutters or frame rate drops or even issues with the multiplayer stable in this way but the game hadn't launched yet so the servers haven't been under stress for the steam deck it is good news as it was pick up and play for me without any tweaking needed game is designed with the controller in mind so it's mostly seamless to adjust to the controls and it's great when docked with a controller I haven't tested it low I played it with a keyboard and mouse and I thought it was great too I had no problems with keyboard and mouse I also beat sakiro with keyboard and mouse so uh maybe there's something wrong with me but yeah but I had no crashes although I was lucky to get higher than 40 FPS with it being very variable in an ual quest which isn't ideal for a game with a large focus on timed inputs definitely all right and playable but it wouldn't be my first choice to play on as it's just so smooth on a full PC I personally would recommend playing it on PC if that's an option for you just because it feels great to play with higher frame rates and seemingly no drawbacks overall Grand blue fantasy relink is really more similar to a hunting game than a pure action RPG it has crazy boss fights cutcenes characters and abilities that you would expect from from a more traditional anime action RPG but also like I was really like I'm I I'm interested because the reason why I heard about this game when people started talking to me about it is that you could play with other people that's what I want to do like that's my goal like I want to play with other people and like you know do boss fights with them like I don't really give a about like the story or you know any of that stuff I want to play with other people like do bosses uh upgrade my gear do the most DPS there it is you can now yeah I'll probably like I'll probably just go through the story just for the you know sake of uh brevity and just complete it myself and then maybe do that afterwards so the replayability diverse play Styles and progression of a hunting game with more story that's unlocked along the way so this is a game I would feel comfortable recommending to someone who's looking for either a romp of an anime story albeit a short one as well as someone hoping to get hours and hours of solo or multiplayer boss battles in with tons of different and unique characters to play somewhat akin to something like the weapons in a monster hunter game the game is a fantastic blend of both the action RPG and hunting genre but the lack of content does bring it down a notch from standing aside some of these great titles that many of you know and love we absolutely it's going to be pretty hard for I mean like this game to compete against Monster Hunter because Monster Hunter had a like the iceborn expansion is probably the biggest expansion that I've ever seen for a video game and like I know that they built off of it it's not like it just happened all at once but like obviously this game isn't like you know I would say like base Monster Hunter like no iceborn none of that compared to this that's what I'd be more curious about it's an expansion yeah I know well it's it's a separate game bigger than blood and wine I know what that is I know that's the Witcher uh but I don't know if that's I don't know anything about it the game keeps on giving and the core gaml is super addictive with both myself and 26 sinking hours into it without realizing how late in the day it actually gets but it's not without its drawbacks the game has an okay range of monsters and bosses but let me tell you you will be fighting some of these bosses over and over again to get into the higher and higher difficulties and this is probably where the game suffers most you will like I think that like this is like if that's a problem for you these kind of games aren't for you because I think that these are combat Perfection games where people constantly play them to get better at them over and over and over like for example I watch like this video of this dude that font a a reang like in in Monster Hunter iceborn and like he was charging up his attack and like the boss was over here I was like why would you charge your attack and then the boss just goes right here and he hits him in the head and I'm like oh my God this guy how many times he done this and it was so cool to watch right so it's like if that's not the kind of stuff that you're looking for with a game then you're probably not going to like a game like this this is probably not going to be the kind of game that you like but for somebody like you know for you know fighting Dark Souls bosses or you know doing Monster Hunter or something like that that to me is like really cool because it's like you just keep getting better at it it's like it's not like speed running but it's like uh a like something that's like adjacent to it you know you get tired of certain bosses and their different various Elemental versions by the time you're 30 or 40 hours in and you do need to farm and defeat them in order to progress if the game had double the number of unique boss types and a longer story could have been a masterpiece title however due to a couple of these shortfalls it does bring the game down a notch simply because the lack of variety ends up making it a bit repetitive but I'll be curious to see what that's really like because I'm just so early in the game I haven't played enough monsters to really have that experience yet I wonder how true that is first entry into this space it's actually very impressive does things differently and is a bunch of fun throughout so we do still feel this is a top tier title oddly enough this is where this game is one of the very very rare games that would actually really benefit from being a live service and trust me I don't say this lightly as often we do not want a live service game but in this instance it's actually incredibly well stanced to have everything in place to be a superb game as a service if they dropped frequent and regular new characters to play additional boss types and new enemies higher difficulties raids and even additional or higher level sigils so this might be one of the first he brings up a really good point I think he's right I do and I think that it shouldn't be live service in the way that like uh Destiny 2 or World of Warcraft is live service I think it should be live service in a way that like monster hunter or um what's another game that's kind of like that is live service ah like genin no like I feel like monster hunner is like the only one that I've like really played that's like that um yeah I don't know like I I think monster Runner is probably that that's the only one I can really give a strong example of uh fire dancer thank you very much the raid what's up boys how y doing hey hey hey thank you very much for the raid I appreciate it thank you thank you thank you so really only monster owner it's a specific genre yeah yeah and so like I don't think that they should just like keep adding in like new gacha or new characters that constantly power creep the old characters but just like having collabs having like new monsters that they get added in every once in a while with maybe some things that you can buy you know Cosmetics Etc like one thing that I I really like about like any sort of like online type game is seeing other players in the game and I really wish that like maybe they have one of these later on but I wish that there was a place that you could go and see all the other players like to me that's really important to feel like I'm playing an online game I just think it's super cool games I ever feel like could have been better as a live service game which is something I but don't let these drawbacks be the main takeaway the story is still a bunch of fun the actual boss fights they have are pretty awesome and I said before I think the story is I I really didn't like the story I haven't liked the story so far they're like I think it's mediocre but again the gameplay makes up for it and I really like that like you look at like the the weird like pastel like style like over here I really like the style of this game I really really do it reminds me a lot of games that I grew up with the character variety is incredible and each one feels unique and different to play and it's a blast to jump in a multiplayer quest with your buddies make sure to stay subscribe below cuz we're going to have more grandl fantasy relink content and guides coming your way soon drop a like if you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for watching I think that's that's right it's me you've probably just a second um yeah no I'm I I'm I'm really happy about this like I I played it as I said I really really enjoyed the game a lot I I think it's great and so I I would would I recommend this game like I have I cannot give you a review of the game you know this guy spent way more time in the game than I have but so far my experience in the game has only improved and I've only begun to enjoy the game more and more you picked the wrong character I did not I I picked the right character that's it if you like monster you like this game yeah there it is Fantasy Star online is live service you use for reference see like that's the thing I can't use that for reference because I never played it right there's the video make sure to give it a like

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Published: Fri Feb 02 2024