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Granblue Fantasy: Relink PS4 Game Previewed in New 14-Minute Gameplay Video

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
3rd promo video highlighting characters also streamed

Cygames revealed at the "Granblue Fantasy Fes" on Saturday Granblue Fantasy Project Re:LINK, Cygames and Platinum Games' PlayStation 4 game based on Cygames' Granblue Fantasy smartphone game, is now titled Granblue Fantasy: Relink. Cygames is also streaming a 14-minute second gameplay video, and a two-minute third promotional video for the game.

Cygames and Platinum Games will localize the game in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

The game is an action role-playing game featuring illustrations by Cygames and CyDesignation. Cygames' Koichi Haruta is producing the game, Tetsuya Fukuhara is directing the game, Hideo Minaba is designing the characters, and Nobuo Uematsu and Tsutomu Narita are composing the music. The game will feature a new story.

Players will get to choose between an unnamed male (voiced by Yūki Ono) or female (voiced by Hisako Kanemoto) main character. Other allied characters confirmed for the game include Lyria (Nao Tōyama), Vyrn (Rie Kugimiya), Katalina (Miyuki Sawashiro), Rackam (Hiroaki Hirata), Io (Yukari Tamura), Eugen (Keiji Fujiwara), and Rosetta (Rie Tanaka). Furycane will be a primal beast in the game.

Cygames released the original Granblue Fantasy smartphone game in 2014, and the game has more than 23 million downloads.

The first anime adaptation of the smartphone game premiered in Japan in April 2017 and ran for 13 episodes. The show's seventh and final Blu-ray Disc and DVD volume, which shipped on October 25, included an unaired episode titled "EXTRA 2." Aniplex of America streamed the series on the services Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and Anime Strike.

The Zankutinzeru-Hen (Zankutinzeru Arc) anime special debuted in Japan in January 2017. Crunchyroll, Daisuki, and Anime Strike streamed the special. Aniplex of America released the anime on Blu-ray Disc with an English dub on May 15 and July 17.

Arc System Works is developing a fighting game for the franchise titled Granblue Fantasy Versus that will launch on the PS4 in 2019.

Sources: Granblue Fantasy: Relink game's website, Granblue Fantasy franchise's Twitter account (link 2)


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