Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Top-tier Mana game.

The action is fun and chaotic, the length is refreshing. Some of the boss battles are cool and I like how it doesn’t waste time getting into some pretty cool events (the opening has you fighting Bahamut), even if the story itself is full of tropes. Like many RPGs, it’s too wordy. The Fade episodes fall into that as well. Unnecessary padding. Also, I don’t care about the side quests or anything, but that’s partially a me issue. Solid, warts and all, but hardly innovative or especially memorable.

Relink has a solid base but I think the game is way too forgiving with how its revive system works among other small things that I think could be done better. The general campaign is solid, but the MH-styled post-game is muddled by how cookie cutter a lot of its setups are and how little extra enemies add to boss fights, not to mention multiple players being able to stunlock enemies for insane levels of damage just puts the balance too much in the player's favor for my liking.