Granblue Fantasy

Granblue Fantasy is a Japanese role-playing game from Cygames, launched in Japan in March 2014 for Android, iOS, and web browsers. It brings together composer Nobuo Uematsu and art director Hideo Minaba, who had previously worked together on Final Fantasy V, VI, and IX, as well as Lost Odyssey.

The game features turn-based combat. Players can use summons and a class system that changes the main character’s abilities and growth. Characters gain levels and skills through experience points; collecting certain materials can unlock an extra star for some characters—called a full limit break (FLB)—which grants new abilities and a major power boost. The player character, always in the party, can switch between classes to suit different challenges. Weapons and summons provide bonuses to attack, HP, and passive skills. Building a “grid” of weapons and summons is key to progression, and tougher challenges often require different grids and character setups.

Some quests are single-player, but many challenges are cooperative raids where up to 30 players fight a boss together. All players’ damage adds up to deplete the enemy’s health, and debuffs and attacks affect everyone. Contributors receive chests based on damage dealt, with rarer chests dropping weapons and items needed for advancement.

Characters are obtained through main story or event quests, or by spending in-game currency to roll for random crystal fragments that may contain special weapons unlocking specific characters. Characters, summons, and weapons are ranked from rarest to common as SSR, SR, R, or N, and each belongs to one of six elements: wind, water, fire, earth, light, or dark. Using a superior element—for instance, water against fire—boosts damage output, and some levels penalize players who do not. Voice actors provide voices for all characters in battle and for most story and event dialogue, including collaborations.

The game regularly hosts special events. Story events are separate from the main plot and feature gacha-obtained characters. Unite and Fight is a mode where player groups called Crews compete for points and rare rewards. Collaborations have included franchises such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Love Live!, Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror, Princess Connect!