DO NOT BUY Granblue Fantasy： Relink

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Granblue Fantasy: Relink, and as an

avid fan of JRPGs and fantasy games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of bland, boring, and uninspired. Now I

really like anime. I used to watch a lot

of anime when I was younger, and I really

like the anime art style and vibes. So I

thought this game would be just for me

since I like fantasy and RPGs and anime

and Japan stuff. I thought this game looks

very interesting, but after playing it for

a few hours now, it's kind of a boring

hack and slash game with RPG elements.

Now I am kind of glad and relieved they

didn't go for a turn-based mechanism

because I really think turn-based RPGs are

very boring, like the original classic

Final Fantasy games were very boring with

its turn-based combat, and I think

turn-based combat mechanisms don't really

have a place anymore in 2024. So I was

relieved to see it has more of a dynamic

and fluid action-oriented combat system,

but the combat system in this game is just

kind of lacking in some kind of lustre.

You just kind of sit there or stand around

spamming the mouse keys. You're just

spamming the mouse button left and mouse

button right to do a more powerful attack.

And then later on you get some special

attacks that you use by pressing the

number keys. I used keyboard and mouse

playing this game. It does recommend using

a control pad, but my control pad doesn't

have any batteries, so I had to use

keyboard and mouse. And I don't really

feel like the keyboard and mouse control

system is very optimized for this game.

It feels extremely awkward having to press

1 and 2 to do special attacks. And then

you've also got G, which does like a

special character team attack. So the

whole point of this game is the fact that

it's like a team game. You're supposed to

play co-op online with other people, but

since I don't know any people and I don't

have any friends, I played with the

computer. And the computer is just a bunch

of other characters that follow you around

and help you in battle and also give you

some dialogue and story for the background

of the game. And you can also do like a

team-up power move where all of the

characters engage their special abilities

and they combine it all together to do one

massive team attack, kind of like in Power

Rangers where they will yell their special

attacks and they will team up and do like

a massive explosion of damage. It is kind

of like that, and I think that's an

interesting concept, but unfortunately the

game just doesn't really execute the

concept in a very good way.

Unfortunately, I just find the combat

system to be extremely dull where I'm just

smashing the mouse button 1 and 2, and I

even put the difficulty level up to hard

so I would have some kind of challenge,

but even on the hardest mode, the game is

extremely easy. You've got a guard button

and you've got a dodge button and you just

spam the enemies with attacks and

sometimes your special attacks and your

team party will also help you attack them.

You don't really ever need to use dodge or

guard because the enemies are so

pathetically weak, they just kind of stand

there getting destroyed by your entire

team's flurry and barrage of special

attacks and moves. And I just felt like

the game combat was not very exciting.

Now I do like the way that you could smash

boxes in the game, there's kind of like a

physics ragdoll engine in the game.

Although the game looks kind of pretty

with its anime kind of feeling and art

style. I didn't really like it that much.

It kind of looks very flat and it looked

like an anime basically. If you want a

game that looks and feels like an anime,

then this game would be great for you,

but I prefer more realistic looking games

like Elden Ring or Dark Souls kind of

games. But this game's okay, I guess, but

the visuals just never really blew me

away. The game kind of reminds me of

Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail, you

know, those free-to-play Android games

that have a lot of anime characters in it.

It's just like one of those free-to-play

games on Android. If I really wanted an

anime kind of RPG game, I'd just play one

of those instead of paying £50 for this

game. The graphics are not really

impressive, not really hard for my machine

to handle this. I reckon this game would

easily run on a mobile phone, so I don't

really see why I should have to pay £50 to

play this game when I could play something

like Honkai Star Rail, which honestly, it

looks just as good as this game, and

that's a free-to-play mobile game. It's

got the same anime graphics, the same kind

of cel-shaded cartoony graphics, and when

you have those kind of graphics, you don't

really need a very powerful machine to

play it. You can play it on a phone, an

iPhone, a tablet, and this game just kind

of feels like a tablet or mobile game,

unfortunately. So unfortunately, for those

reasons, I can't give this game a very

high score, and I have to give it a 6.2

out of 10. It's decently okay looking,

and maybe the game gets more in-depth and

challenging and complex later in the game

when you've got to manage your team,

you've got more skills. There is a skill

tree, it's quite an extensive skill tree

with quite a lot of things to unlock, but

I didn't get far enough into the game to

actually be able to acquire enough skills

to really see what the skill tree is all

about. It seems quite basic though, like

unlock this to gain 10% bonus damage,

unlock this, do more damage to stunned

enemies, and the tree seemed very linear.

It doesn't really branch out in many

directions like in a game such as World of

Warcraft, for example. There's also just

way too many cutscenes. I found myself

having to skip the cutscenes so many times

because they're so drawn out and dragged

out and lengthy. And there's so much

dialogue in this game as well. It's

definitely like some kind of anime

role-playing game where you've got a lot

of dialogue, a lot of characters. They all

fill out some kind of stereotype niche

kind of trope of a character. You got the

shy girl, you got the brave strong

bearded man with loads of muscles, you got

like the strong independent woman knight

woman, you've got the mysterious girl who

has magic powers but she doesn't know how

to control her magic. You got all the

typical stereotypical anime tropes from

any kind of fantasy anime series. But

unfortunately, I just didn't really find

the story or the characters to be very

captivating, and I found it kind of

boring. Nothing really came as a surprise

in this game. Everything just kind of

played out exactly how I would expect it

to. It felt very predictable in its

writing and the stories and the kind of

character personalities that are in the

game. So yeah, I don't really feel like

this game is very good. And I have to give

it a do not buy rating.

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