I didn't heed the warnings. The grind is absolutely REAL in this game.

I thought I wouldn't mind the idea of a game with a quick and easy story and then the rest of the game being post-game grind, and while it was just completing one mission after the other everything was fine, but once I started to run into missions that I just could not beat, that's when the game lost its luster for me. Realizing I'd have to go grind lower-difficulty missions for a chance at one piece of loot that I could combine with 12 other pieces of loot to uncap the max level of my weapon so that I could then go farm for weapon upgrade mats and money to afford actually upgrading the weapon just so that ONE of my 4 characters could deal slightly more damage....yeah, it just kinda killed the whole thing for me.

The polish and quality of the moment to moment combat and the character playstyle variety is S-tier, but the structure of game progression is totally whack. Give it a go and play until it gets annoying, then honestly just quit. It's not worth your sanity.

The game is mid, the combat is mid, the content is mid. Its a AA game trying to sell itself with AAA pricing. It has stat gating mechanics synomyous to the kind you find off a mobile and insists to make you grind for 1% chance drops in the main story which might i add treats itself as a tutorial. The story is the usual anime troupe stuff and has no real explanation if you never played the phone game, which i haven't since i don't play those kinds of games.

The devs are also cowards as they bent the knee and censored some of their character outfits. if the IP is based off a waifu gacha then just deal with it. Don't try to appease an audience that doesn't exist and doesn't bother buying your games.

I was going to say the game is and "alright buy" at -55% discount, but suddently the developer has marked up the base price to 106 CAD from 80 CAD which is ridiculous. The game is worth 36 CAD/ 27 USD max.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is honestly a blast. Combat feels great, there’s a ton of variety with 30ish characters, and the team building aspect is fun. Missions scratch that Monster Hunter itch, and the game just feels fun to play. You can unlock all the characters without paying, which is rare these days. This is essentially free genshin lol. Also it runs great, although there was a slight fps drop in towns but its ok.

Story is short, super simple and easy to follow. At the Endgame well.... THERES SO MUCH GRIND, take it or leave it. So going for 100% achievements is kinda pain, but it was fun and i still loved my time with the game.

Only downside is that online is basically dead. I tried many times and I never found a quickmatch. Maybe just unlucky hours idk. In any case, find better luck grouping up on dc. Its kinda sad, because Relink feels like it was built for co-op, but at least the Ai companions aren't useless.

Also the game has stopped updates, but honestly this is a fully finished game and as I see it, any extra added content well, was just extra :shrug: