If there's one aspect that the characters - and everything else for that matter - have in common, it's that they're all damn gorgeous. I can't imagine how much work it must have taken the artists at Arc System Works to achieve the aesthetic of Granblue, but all that effort shows. The beautifully animated 3D fighters pop out from the background and rarely get lost regardless of how detailed the stage is, their movements are smooth, and every attack looks as though it has some serious force to it, while stages range from high-fantasy villages with castles jutting upwards behind the buildings, to sweeping wildernesses. Granblue Fantasy Vs is eye candy of the highest calibre.
Final Fantasy Versus XIII is the primordial form of Verum Rex, and was a game planned for the PlayStation 3 as part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis trilogy. It was intended to be the fifth game in the Final Fantasy XIII anthology, releasing after the main trilogy and Final Fantasy Agito XIII, and possibly even tying into the Kingdom Hearts series, originally planned to release alongside Kingdom Hearts III. The theme of Versus XIII was "a fantasy based on reality", and the game was to take place in the age of fairy tales, a setting similar to our modern Earth.
A new game in the Granblue Fantasy universe, available on Steam! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!
The game has an overall theme of good versus evil. Characters fight for their own generally honorable motivations, but it's still basically just an excuse to get everyone together for one-on-one combat.
Parents need to know that Granblue Fantasy: Versus is a fantasy 2.5D fighting game available on PlayStation 4 and Windows PCs. Players choose from a roster of characters from the popular Granblue Fantasy series and fight in either local or online matches against other players or play solo in the game's story mode. Since this is a fighting game, violence is constant, with players using a combination of medieval weapons, magic, and martial arts against opponents. The violence is over-the-top and exaggerated, but there's little blood ever actually shown on-screen. Many female characters are presented in a sexualized manner, with lots of exposed cleavage and the like, accentuated by convenient camera angles. Characters also make comments laced with sexual innuendo.
As much fun as the fighting in Granblue Fantasy: Versus can be, it's not perfect by any means. For starters, when playing the solo story mode, the game shifts from a fighting game to more of a side-scrolling beat-'em-up style of play. Players take on swarms of enemies, broken up by the occasional boss fight. It's a boring and repetitive shift on gameplay that's just not a lot of fun. If not for the fact that this is the only way to expand on the characters' story in any significant way, this would be a mode best ignored in the grand scheme of things. Besides, actually fighting in the standard versus modes more than makes up for the story mode's shortcomings.
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