Is this game popular enough to sustain a thread? The Granblue Fantasy Platinum Games spinoff thread got a lot of replies so I figured I'd test the waters.
Granblue Fantasy is an insanely popular Japanese role-playing mobage (mobile phone game) that features artwork from Hideo Minaba and music from Nobuo Uematsu (of FFVI, FFIX, and Lost Odyssey fame). Characters are fully voiced and Cygames has spared no expense in acquiring top voice acting talent for the game.
Cygames has provided an English translation option for the Japanese version. Just simply select the English language option in the settings.
Before shitting on it just for being a mobile game, at least try it. I've had more fun playing this than a lot of more recent games (and I'm strictly a f2p player). Yes there are timers, but Granblue features tons of activities you can do to make progress even while you have no AP/EP such as a casino and co-op lobbies you can leech from. The game is also pretty generous when it comes to handing out AP/EP recovery items. It's one of the more 'fair' mobages you can play.
The game is just like any other RPG. You form a party of 6 characters (your main character + 5 other characters) and go into battles to level up and collect loot. There's the main story quest and tons of side content you unlock along the way, and eventually you can participate in multiplayer battles which have a competitive aspect and offer better loot.
You'll get some characters as you go through the story and the game has tons of events where you can get free SR characters, but the majority of your characters are going to be coming from the Gacha.
Gacha is short for gachapon. It's an onomatopoeia for a capsule toy machine. Basically you put in an in-game currency (or IRL money if you so desire) and you get to "pull" in the gacha and hope for new summons/weapons. Characters come with certain weapons, and you can view what weapon unlocks which character within the game. Your best bet of getting something good is by spending 3000 crystals to do a 10-pull (which guarantees an SR summon/weapon) or by spending IRL money when they do a special ticket campaign that lets you get a guaranteed SSR.
You have a few options.
Android:
Either sideload the granblue fantasy .apk file, or sideload qooapps and install it from that.
Chrome app:
You can play the game via your Chrome browser using the Granblue Fantasy chrome app. You can find it on the Chrome app web store.
Browser:
You can also just play it from your browser by going to game.granbluefantasy.jp
Please keep in mind with any of these options it might ask you to make a Mobage or Gree account.
