History VideoGame / GranblueFantasyRelink

** PlayedWith concerning Sierokarte's trading system. On one hand, trading for her Knickknack Vouchers is extremely easy, automatically matching your treasures to the amount of vouchers they're supposed to receive and stopping you if you would exceed the cap on them, plus the sorting system for Sigils is quite robust and comes with a mass-trade option so you don't have to handpick every single one. On the other hand, actually ''using'' the vouchers for Sigil/Wrightstone trading and the Transmarvel system, which you ''will'' be using constantly in the endgame, ''has no mass-trade option'', making it a horrendous slog of one-at-a-time button mashing to get through it. Plus, the cap on Vouchers is relatively low, at 999 when each ideal Voucher use costs 25, meaning you're constantly flipping back and forth between trading for Vouchers, burning them, and trading for more.

''Granblue Fantasy: Relink'' (initially unveiled as ''Granblue Fantasy Project Re:Link'') is an ActionRPG and SpinOff of the ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' video game series. The game was developed and published by Creator/{{Cygames}} for the Sony Platform/PlayStation4 and Platform/PlayStation5 on consoles and Platform/{{Steam}} on PC. The game's official website can be found [[http://relink.granbluefantasy.jp/en/ here]].

* AdaptationalBadass: In the gacha game, certain enemies, such as the Griffin, Golem, and Goblins, are usually SR summons at best and basic enemies at worst that can be dispatched with one attack from any player prepped beyond the bare minimum. Here, they're full fledged bosses that require entire parties to take down.

* GatheringSteam: A great number of characters do this, most often by landing combo finishers to build up a character-specific resource that can either be expended for extra benefit (e.g. Gran[=/=]Djeeta's Adept Arts), maintained for consistent increased strength (Rackam's Heat Gauge), or a combination of both (Ferry's Pets, which can be maintained or expended as desired).

* JustFrameBonus: Common masteries across all characters grant this - blocking or dodging within a few frames of an attack hitting you will execute a Perfect Block or Dodge; the former will lose no durability on your shield, while the latter grants a brief period of invincibility. Certain equipped sigils will grant additional bonuses to these, from extra attack power to boosts to your Skybound Art gauge.

* Some of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Terminus Weapons]] also fall under this, being event-farmed or character unlock SSR weapons from the original game that see little use beyond being filler weapons until you get better ones, but here are the most powerful weapons available for their respective characters.

* '''Expansion Characters:''' Seofon, Tweyen

* BarrierChangeBoss: The fight against [[spoiler:the Automagod Pyet-A]] employs this. It starts the fight NonElemental, and will occasionally cast Elemental Shift to summon several adds which correspond to [[PlayingWithFire Fire,]] [[AnIcePerson Ice,]] and [[HolyHandGrenade Light]] that it will absorb to change the properties and status effects inflicted by many of its attacks as well as taking on the appropriate elemental weakness. While it's impossible to stop this process, the adds can be destroyed to influence which element is absorbed, and every so often the boss will lose its typing and cast the move again which can result in a different element.

* PlayedWith concerning Sierokarte's trading system. On one hand, trading for her Knickknack Vouchers is extremely easy, automatically matching your treasures to the amount of vouchers they're supposed to receive and stopping you if you would exceed the cap on them, plus the sorting system for Sigils is quite robust and comes with a mass-trade option so you don't have to handpick every single one. On the other hand, actually ''using'' the vouchers for Sigil/Wrightstone trading and the Transmarvel system, which you ''will'' be using constantly in the endgame, ''has no mass-trade option'', making it a horrendous slog of one-at-a-time button mashing to get through it. Plus, the cap on Vouchers is relatively low, at 999 when each ideal Voucher use costs 25, meaning you're constantly flipping back and forth between trading for Vouchers, burning them, and trading for more.

* {{Tropperific}}: The game's main story absolutely ''revels'' in its tropes, playing a bunch of standard fantasy tropes and imagery completely straight and with earnestness (even ones that the original mobile game has both used before and even ''riffed'' on). This is one of the game's strengths; if it was a bit more cynical or "clever" about its tropes, it would run the risk of coming off as insincere. And while its tropes are still incredibly easy to identify and even predict, the sheer gusto of the production prevents it from coming across as tired or played-out.

* Tropperific: The game's main story absolutely ''revels'' in its tropes, playing a bunch of standard fantasy tropes and imagery completely straight and with earnestness (even ones that the original mobile game has both used before and even ''riffed'' on). This is one of the game's strengths; if it was a bit more cynical or "clever" about its tropes, it would run the risk of coming off as insincere. And while its tropes are still incredibly easy to identify and even predict, the sheer gusto of the production prevents it from coming across as tired or played-out.

* DeflectorShields: If an enemy tries to attack Lyria, she will let out a blue dome to protect herself. She can also unleash a larger dome to protect the entire party.

* TurnsRed: The Overdrive mechanic works differently in the action game compared to the mobile game. When half of its health is taken down, a part of Furycane's armor shatters, revealing its humanoid female form.

Similar to the smartphone game, players can form a party of up to four characters - one controlled by the player, while the AI controls the others. CoOpMultiplayer is also a possibility, allowing four players to form a party by selecting various ''Grancypher'' crew members to go on quests in a fashion not dissimilar to ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''.

* AntiVillain: Maglielle may be one of Lilith's top generals, but she is an affable and noble woman who is AMotherToHerMen and genuinely believes in the cause of saving the world, [[spoiler:and later turns against Lilith when she finds out she never actually planned to bring salvation to the skies.]]