Granblue Fantasy: Relink

Overview

Granblue Fantasy Project Re: Link is an action RPG being developed by Cygames for the PlayStation 4 and Playstation 5 that is a single-player title with optional four-player multiplayer.

Characters

Available in the base game:

• The Captain [Gran or Djeeta]
• Katalina
• Rackam
• Io
• Eugen
• Rosetta
• Ferry
• Lancelot
• Percival
• Vane
• Siegfried
• Charlotta
• Yodarha
• Narmaya
• Zeta
• Vaseraga
• Cagliostro

DLC Characters

• Seofon
• Tweyen

NPCs

• Vyrn
• Lyria
• Rolan
• Id
• Lilith
• Gallanza
• Magielle

Production

The game was initially announced at the Cygames Next 2016 event and is based off the popular mobile game, Granblue Fantasy. PlatinumGames was originally working with Cygames on development, but left the project in 2019. Little else was revealed about the game aside from a couple of trailers between then and the end of 2020. At Granblue Fantasy Fes 2020, Director Tetsuya Fukuhara said that 2022 was a more realistic release date for the game, and apologized for revealing the project too early.

The developers at CyGames claimed that they had initially planned to make the protagonist a new girl named Blue, even designing a few concepts for her appearance. However, over the years the project languished in development, the team decided that Gran and Djeeta (the default male/female Captain from the mobile game) were not just blank ciphers for the player, but fleshed out characters in their own right. Blue's costume was then repurposed onto that of Gran and Djeeta, who would reprise their role as protagonist in Relink.

Reference

1. https://www.dualshockers.com/granblue-fantasy-relink-2022-release-ps5-director-apologizes/