Wish it was a class system not a “character system”

[Lupara]

Looks like a tight game but ultimately a pass for me

Just can’t get into the idea of switching characters to play a different class. Don’t know why Japanese devs are so obsessed with giant character roster games

Who wants to go from playing a giant sythe wielding dark knight to a 3ft tall ferry girl just to have some gameplay variety ?

[Lupara]

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Why can’t I play as a Dark knight gran? Or a mage gran?

Wow that's interesting. I want a sniper Gran. Wait, something more unique might be mine/bomb planter Gran. I also open to a shape-shifter Gran.

Nothing you typed here sounds as outlandish as you’re hoping it comes across

The best RPGs have a wide variety of classes and play styles which enables character customization and player skill expression

In Gran Blue, you play as a dull, pointless “character” and constantly switch between a smash bros style line up of characters and can’t change armor or customize them at all

I heard you guys waited like 10 years or something crazy for this? lol. What?

[ConnipShin]

A lot of people want to play different characters. The series it's from is literally a gatcha game, which are almost all completely based around playing different characters. I get that it's not what you're looking for but like, wtf is the point of making a post about it? You think they're going to change the entire game because some random person wants it to be a different game that they never once tried to sell the game as?

Like, I'm not going over to the Stardew Valley discussion and making posts saying that I wish it was a fighting game, or a first-person RPG. I'm not going to the Elden Ring page saying the opposite of you, that I wish we could just play as other characters instead of building a class.

No offence... but people think their opinions matter way more than they actually do.

[REhorror]

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Wow that's interesting. I want a sniper Gran. Wait, something more unique might be mine/bomb planter Gran. I also open to a shape-shifter Gran.

Nothing you typed here sounds as outlandish as you’re hoping it comes across

The best RPGs have a wide variety of classes and play styles which enables character customization and player skill expression

In Gran Blue, you play as a dull, pointless “character” and constantly switch between a smash bros style line up of characters and can’t change armor or customize them at all

I heard you guys waited like 10 years or something crazy for this? lol. What?

I myself hate character customisation because it's literally templates. You don't feel the characters are different, they are just the MC in different classes.

Having unique class/skills/items for each characters have always been superior.

[Senki]

i like both character creation and set characters as long they look good

in this game they look good

One bonus from set character games is that they often have way better design than what player can make because their theme,armor, weapons and skills were made specifically to fit that one character.

[Rogue Tomato]

In original GBF they have pretty neat class system for the MC, you can level up different classes and unlock advanced one, it's kind of deep system with ability customization and such.
But!
Original GBF is a turn based highly strategic RPG, it fits here pretty well, you can customize your party, summons, elemental stuff, weapons, skills... But GBF Relink is more of an action-slashing type of game, it's not so deep in terms of customization and tactical stuff, like, filled more with the react/memorize type of gameplay patterns, not really "to plan ahead and strategize", so it is pretty hard to fit all the original stuff in here, imo.
Still, would be cool to play MC as different classes, as they may be pretty different from the rest of the character roaster. The only con would be that other characters wouldn't be such versatile and won't have as deep customization as the MC...

[Photon Shield]

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Nothing you typed here sounds as outlandish as you’re hoping it comes across

The best RPGs have a wide variety of classes and play styles which enables character customization and player skill expression

In Gran Blue, you play as a dull, pointless “character” and constantly switch between a smash bros style line up of characters and can’t change armor or customize them at all

I heard you guys waited like 10 years or something crazy for this? lol. What?

Really? Maan, I thought I came up with the most absurd classes one could have wanted. Guess not, huh... Oh well, that besides the point anyway.

The game is what it is. Exactly as you said: you play as a "character" and constantly switch between a smash bros style line up of characters and can’t change armor or customize them at all... (I edited out the highly opinionated stuff, hope you don't mind). Is this game has the best RPG element? I would argue, no, it is not. But does that stop anyone from playing? I dunno, who is this "anyone" anyway. Why not check the rating from the store page for reference...

[Tenshu]

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Dark Souls is thattaway

Sounds like you don’t play many games

Dark Souls is the literal opposite of what I’m describing here.
I personally hate the “play the way you wanna play” model of RPG classes (Skyrim, Dark Souls, Cyberpunk, etc)

Give me 4-5 distinct classes any day over “1,000,000+ different combinations”

Actually sounds like you don't even know what you want, but Final Fantasy is the other way with the jobs. You also tried to throw shade at people who were waiting ten years for this game, those people are obviously fans of the core game this one is a spin-off of, which had preset characters. Your gripe has nothing to do with gameplay mechanic magnificence as you're trying to make it come across as, it's purely aesthetic. You want a single character that can switch between classes, so for example Zeta is a Dragon Knight class as a character, with a Dragon Knight-like moveset. Ok, so if Gran can switch to a Dragon Knight class he'd just have Zeta's moves, tf is the point then? It has nothing to do with player expression.

[Wolflyte]

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Who wants to go from playing a giant sythe wielding dark knight to a 3ft tall ferry girl just to have some gameplay variety ?

That's me.

[ele]

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Who wants to go from playing a giant sythe wielding dark knight to a 3ft tall ferry girl just to have some gameplay variety ?

That's me.

Also me.

[Holombo]

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Looks like a tight game but ultimately a pass for me

Just can’t get into the idea of switching characters to play a different class. Don’t know why Japanese devs are so obsessed with giant character roster games

Who wants to go from playing a giant sythe wielding dark knight to a 3ft tall ferry girl just to have some gameplay variety ?

You won't regret passing this one, the endgame was just the same boss over and over sad to say, the last boss over and over. It had not a dynamic system for the endgame which made it a very stale experience, it first gave a good impression with the Diablo loot style gem system etc with monster hunter vibes, it fell short being too repetetive as of what to expect from the gameplay. As it mostly consist of repeating same scenarios over and over with no procedural aspect to that whatsoever, it also becomes fairly easy once you got some better gems and upgrades.

[SiFi]

There seems to be a bit of a misconception about this game. There are NO CLASSES. Thinking of this game as class based will just warp your thoughts about whats possible with the characters (and watching random youtubers, dont do that).

You want to play glass cannon Vas? You can and he hits fkn hard. You want to play Tank Rosetta? Theres a build for it and it works. Same for all the characters.

[Bigboss PC Faster]

OP just want another Monster Hunter game

[Sigil]

yeah i completely understand with TC. it knida weird switching out many characters on the go. feels like back to warrior orochi time. it will be a lot better to have wide arrange of customization and class for gran just like original GBF mobage instead of changing character. imagine removing customization and changing it with cheap switch character system. well i guess its good for cygames because it save them resources and effort for making proper customization. i can't even makes a build which i want and forced to play made-up build archetype just like decades old warrior orochi system

[Dthomaz]

I'd love to have the option to create a custom character with any of the weapons playstyle from crew members you unlocked, i hate when i like the fighting style of one character but hate its design. For example Yodarha...

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Looks like a tight game but ultimately a pass for me

Just can’t get into the idea of switching characters to play a different class. Don’t know why Japanese devs are so obsessed with giant character roster games

Who wants to go from playing a giant sythe wielding dark knight to a 3ft tall ferry girl just to have some gameplay variety ?

You won't regret passing this one, the endgame was just the same boss over and over sad to say, the last boss over and over. It had not a dynamic system for the endgame which made it a very stale experience, it first gave a good impression with the Diablo loot style gem system etc with monster hunter vibes, it fell short being too repetetive as of what to expect from the gameplay. As it mostly consist of repeating same scenarios over and over with no procedural aspect to that whatsoever, it also becomes fairly easy once you got some better gems and upgrades.

It's a story game with tacked-on multiplayer. Not sure what you were expecting aside from that.