Granblue has been my fandom-in-law through my best friend for years, so I'm just glad it's finally in a genre I can play.

I wasn't sure what to rate this, honestly; it's not that the highs aren't high, but most of them have a fairly significant low attached somewhere. The combat is great, so much so that I'm actually enjoying the postgame grind, but the way said grind works can be cloyingly reminiscent of its gacha game roots (despite not involving a real money gacha). The main story is more than charming enough in its context as a simple, self-contained onboarding point for a universe with years of sprawling lore, but even my Granblue friends are appalled by the writing in some of the Fate episodes. My favorite character has the same exact conversation with a little boy who has a crush on her about eight or nine times! It's genuinely torturous!

I guess what it comes down to is that I don't think I could really call Relink a great game, but it's good enough that I'm well past credits roll and still planning to spend a lot more time with it. I'd like to see more of these, honestly; I think with some further evolution it really could be something special.