I've played a lot of Granblue Fantasy (aka GBF). Too much. Rainbow grids, finished M2, all that jazz. God knows how many hours of grinding. With that said I'm excited for the upcoming fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus. CyGames made waves in the fighting game community by sponsoring the 2018 Evolution tournament in Las Vegas and even going as far as to have their own fighting game team in CyGames Beast boasting names like Fuudo and Daigo Umehara. Versus features a number of fan-favorite characters in a psuedo-2D/3D style much like the more recent Guilty Gear games and is developed alongside Arc System Works. Today we have the first publicly available gameplay footage.
CyGames has been branching out more and more with the card game Shadowverse, last year's anime Zombieland Saga, the Platinum Games co-developed action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink. Their most popular product is, of course, Granblue Fantasy, and that's what they've decided to focus their efforts around. GBF has had plenty of colloborations with other franchises, a boatload of merch, and even its own festival.
Last week CyGames announced open beta signups for GBF Versus and today they released some test footage between Fuudo and Daigo with commentary by Majin Obama and Jiyuna. This is the first time both Fuudo and Daigo have gotten their hands on the game and with a little bit of help from development staff they were given an hour to practice before the showdown best of three. The initially available characters are Gran, Katalina, Charlotta, Lancelot, and Ferry but there will be others like the Lowain bros and Fastiva joining in too. Hopefully some of my favorites like Zeta, Beatrix (side note: Aya Hirano, who voices Beatrix, will be at Fanime next week!), Korwa, and Ilsa will find their win into the game.
Take a look:
Beta test signups run for another week until 11PM PDT on 5/23 PDT (Thursday) / 6AM GMT 5/24 (Friday) so don't delay!
The beta test period is as follows:
[PDT]
May 31: 2 a.m.-7 a.m.
May 31: 6 p.m.-11 p.m.
Jun 1: 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
[GMT]
May 31: 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Jun 1: 1 a.m.-6 a.m.
Jun 1: 4 p.m.-9 p.m.
You can sign up here: https://versus.granbluefantasy.jp/en/
Note: you will need a PS4 and an active PlayStation Plus subscription for the beta