Granblue Fantasy Relink - 14 minutes of new gameplay

[thelapsukainen]

 

Still no release date though, release window went from 2019 to TBA.

 

[Pumpkin Head Cthulhu]

looks good, i will keep an eye out

[Eyjabria]

This game caught my interest. Is it a single player RPG? Looks kinda MMOish.

[thelapsukainen]

15 hours ago, Eyjabria said:

This game caught my interest. Is it a single player RPG? Looks kinda MMOish.

 

It's a single player RPG but you can play multiplayer as well. In that case the AI in your party will be controlled by other players.

 

Some quotes from the director of the game:

 

Exploration:

Quote

- Famitsu: Would it be fair to sum up Relink as a game where you move through set stages and work your way toward a boss?
- FKHR: Hmm. In the main story, the plot will advance with your progress through certain areas. We kept the demo area small to keep it from being too complicated, but the full game will have sweeping fields, snowy mountain ranges, and other locations like that. Subquests will also add an element of exploration to the game.

 

Multiplayer:

Quote

- Famitsu: You announced multiplayer - what kind of characters will you be able to use in multiplayer mode?
- FKHR: We plan on making characters unlockable through story progress. In multiplayer, you’ll be able to use any of those unlocked characters, but since players will naturally have very different progress levels when they play multiplayer, we decided to let our players use the same character as each other. You’ll be able to play with 4 Katalinas if you want to. We thought long and hard about not allowing duplicate characters, but we chose gameplay over immersion.

- Famitsu: That’s good. Will multiplayer be its own separate mode?
- FKHR: Our target for multiplayer will be a mode for people who have finished the story and are looking for more challenging quests, so they’ll team up and take on harder and harder fights. Of course, we’ll still allow players who haven’t cleared the game to play multiplayer, with less difficult quests available.

 

https://www.famitsu.com/news/201812/15169322.html (In Japanese)

[Aranea Highwind]

Relink and Versus are planned to be released simultaneously worldwide. Full interview will be available later.

 

https://twinfinite.net/2019/02/granblue-fantasy-versus-relink-release/

[chellesan]

Wow worldwide 

[Aranea Highwind]

Some small details about Relink are now available. I will probably create a thread once the full article is available.

 

• While Platinum Games left the project earlier in 2019, the bulk of what it built remains, including the level layout, character animation, and fighting systems.
• Each character has their own fighting style and is tied to a certain weapon or weapon type.
• The game progresses in a mostly linear fashion, but there will be additional activities. “You can pick up side-quests from the towns you visit along the way, and come and go between them as you please,” according to director Tetsuya Fukuhara.
• Towns also act as lobbies where you can team up with other players online and take on missions. (You can also play solo, with the rest of the four-person party being AI-controlled.)
• Regarding characters, Fukuhara said, “We know there are many fan favorites, so we’ll try to fit in as many as we reasonably can. It’s not possible to match the roster size of the original game, of course, and the development team has its hands full deciding who makes the final cut.”

https://gematsu.com/2019/05/granblue-fantasy-relink-and-versus-official-playstation-magazine-uk-preview-information-tidbits