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Granblu Fantasy Relink Review Thread & |OT| "A Grand New Adventure In The Skies Await" |UP| 85,000+ player peak on Steam.
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That's a lot higher than Tekken 8 (50k) and Yakuza8 (46k). You wouldn't think Gran Blu is bigger than these massive franchise. Cygames have a hit
These two franchises are old, that's all they are.
Tekken is a fighting game, even if it's a Top 3 selling one(not counting Smash)and LaD is a mid-tier franchise, although one that has gained popularity in recent years.
Granblue Fantasy grossed 500M+ solely in Japan between 2017 and 2018. If we calculate that in 60 dollars game, that's 8.3M copies at full price. If it's 70$ that's still 7.1M copies.
Highest selling LaD game is probably 3-0M/3.5M~ (Yakuza 0).
For reference, LaD 7 sold 1.8M as of September 31st 2023.
Tekken managed to hit 10M as of Dec 2022.
These two would've achieved these figures with the help of discounts through the years.
Granblue Fantasy is the bigger franchise even though its a newer one and/or more regionally centered around Japan and a few markets.
Don't be fooled by the relative lack of success of the previous GF spin-off(the fighting game).
Just entered town after the prologue for the initial look around. I am enjoying it so far. The demo did give you a good idea how the game will play, but one of the things in the demo you don't get is to choose your character at the beginning. Female or Male. The game art is very good IMO. Voices can be a little ear piercing at times, but I haven't played many games like this so maybe that is common. Controls are fluid, and there is plenty of tutorials in the menus. I feel like the controller layout so far is spot on and easy to memorize. I just finished FFXVI, so I am a bit tainted here, but I felt a bit more satisfaction in many of the combat actions in FFXVI compared to this. Maybe it was just better use of the haptic feedback in FFXVI.
I am looking forward to playing more this weekend. Hopefully others here will check the demo out to see if it's something that will appeal to them. It's also $10.00 less than the typical game, so that might help sway you to buy it.
I am looking forward to playing more this weekend. Hopefully others here will check the demo out to see if it's something that will appeal to them. It's also $10.00 less than the typical game, so that might help sway you to buy it.
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I can agree to combat seemingly a bit dull early on but that could also be cuz it is early on. I just dumped a bunch of skill points and there’s a ton of options to mess with. I’d have to go back to arise to really compare the combat between the two but I still kinda prefer tales of.
Hard difficulty isn’t hard at all for some bizarre reason. Hopefully it ramps up soon as it still early.
Lyria’s notebook has in-game trophies to earn and those have rewards. So be sure to check that out.
I very much appreciate the straight up level-based design as opposed to some half-assed open world. Takes of Arise hit a nice middle ground for a jrpg but was lacking towns.
Granblue’s first town/hub is charming. Retro feels to a modern game.
I have nothing bad to say right now. Looking forward to a few more hours with it this weekend.
Hard difficulty isn’t hard at all for some bizarre reason. Hopefully it ramps up soon as it still early.
Lyria’s notebook has in-game trophies to earn and those have rewards. So be sure to check that out.
I very much appreciate the straight up level-based design as opposed to some half-assed open world. Takes of Arise hit a nice middle ground for a jrpg but was lacking towns.
Granblue’s first town/hub is charming. Retro feels to a modern game.
I have nothing bad to say right now. Looking forward to a few more hours with it this weekend.
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It went up to 85k on Steam 
For comparison, Persona 3 Reload peak was 42k, Tales of Arise was 60k, Yakuza8 46k.
For comparison, Persona 3 Reload peak was 42k, Tales of Arise was 60k, Yakuza8 46k.
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It went up to 85k on Steam
For comparison, Persona 3 Reload peak was 42k, Tales of Arise was 60k, Yakuza8 46k.
It went up to 85k on Steam
For comparison, Persona 3 Reload peak was 42k, Tales of Arise was 60k, Yakuza8 46k.
If you disregard stuff like Monster Hunter and FFXIV/PSO which are MMOs for the true "Pure" JRPGs then it's :
#1 Granblue Fantasy: Relink
#2 Tales of Arise
#3 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
#4 Persona 3 Reload
Granblue/LaD/P3R is even more impressive considering they've all released within a 2 weeks window and there is for sure heavy competition spreading the numbers thin(especially considering LaD and Persona and literally 2 SEGA releases).
JRPGs have been steadily increasing in popularity on Steam as more and more JP devs have put efforts into Day 1 PC releases. The oldest release is September 9th 2021 with Tales.
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100k Steam Peak milestone finally. One of the biggest Playstation console exclusive, trashing the other eksbotz-backed games such as persona and like a dragon 
. You love to see it.
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Granblue went up to 103k on Steam and nobody was using it as a Playstation win like the bots are doing with Persona and Yakuza.100k Steam Peak milestone finally. One of the biggest Playstation console exclusive, trashing the other eksbotz-backed games such as persona and like a dragon
Maybe we should use it because it proves they don't need Xbox for marketing and success like Welfare said about Square.
Nah there's no point. The only people coping about japanese games are bots, who don't even play them.
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Yeah the games speak for themselves and the numbers. The Xbox zealots see what's going on.
Xbots are boasting about numbers because they're only very loosely associated with them due to the twitter wars. It's fake brownie points.
JRPG fans, the one who are actually engaging with the franchises are just happy that their series is seeing growth.
The worldwide growth of Persona and Yakuza since Persona 5 in 2016 and Yakuza 0 in 2017 has been something to see.
Before these titles, the series were REALLY niche.
For Persona I found this: https://personacentral.com/persona-smt-sales-2022/
I'm sure it got over the 50% mark in between 2022 and before Persona 3 Reload.
If you combine the Persona 5 games, the P4G PC port and now P3R, I'm sure it's crazy lopsided.
Persona started in 1996, I'm sure the sales from 1996-2015(19 years) compared to 2016-2024(8 years) it's probably something like 80% sold in the "modern" times.
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Probably going to sell something like 15-16M~ on Steam alone in its first month even at a much cheaper price point you've got a bazillion games that are free that never even get that amount of downloads.
Just crazy overnight success for the developers, which they weren't ready for going by what their CEO is saying but it don't matter. The copies have been sold.
Can you imagine that first wire transfer into the company's bank account from Steam a month from now?
I hope they called their bank to let them know in advance that they're about to receive something the biggest amount of money ever by like x1000 or something
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I have completed the main story of my game and currently playing through the epilogue quests and missions. It has been an enjoyable experience and I am now working to unlock other characters and maxing them out. Interestingly, my daughter who usually plays only Hoyoverse games has started playing this game and is now finishing through Chapter 4. This says a lot because she never showed interest in playing anything like this before, but she is hooked now.
