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You have attack buttons that give you Light, Medium, Heavy, and Unique attacks along with an R1 button that gives you a Special Attack with a cool-down. While there are plenty of combos involved, the core gameplay focuses on your five buttons and the proximity you are to your opponent.

If you like old school gaming, a la Street Fighter 2 Turbo, with an emphasis on the fundamentals of fighting, this is absolutely for you.

That is where Granblue Fantasy Versus won me over. The real meat of the game is the fighting Online, Versus, and Arcade modes. The RPG mode is very shallow compared to the actual setup of the RPG itself. The characters are quite interesting and you know there could have been a much better story involved, but all we get are minions to beat up over and over and then the bosses followed by a bare-bones visual novel style story and some great animations. I would have been just as happy with a boss rush game and it would have cut out half the time involved.

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So, I see the RPG being only mildly entertaining for fans of the series and overall a bland offering where the only thing worth playing are the bosses. Each mission feels exactly the same as the previous one and there is no variety at all other than the mid-bosses and end-mission bosses. There are only hints of a backstory, with very little in the way of character to character interactions beyond discussing when to fight. Overall, the RPG portion of the game feels like an opportunity wasted. There is even a challenge mode called the Tower of Babel in case you need to level up and get better weapons. It is a shame the RPG section is so brief, the system setup is very well designed. Once I got to the final boss, I was dead meat without maxing out my grid as well as I could.

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I went through all the way to the final boss without bothering to do more than upgrade one weapon, but I could have made it a much easier journey if I had bothered to utilize the weapon grid. On top of that, you can fill the grid slots with other weapons, upgrade and uncap those, and then all those stats get added to your character. You can upgrade, uncap, and uncap a few more times to make a moderately powerful weapon roughly 3-4 times stronger than it could be. Apparently, Granblue Fantasy Versus incorporates a weapon grid that serves as a stat booster. What I completely overlooked while playing was that I needed to focus on my weapons more than on my levels. While not a mandatory section of the game, finishing the RPG mode does unlock Beelzebub for you. Basically, you have to fight nearly every character in the game to save the world, which is nothing new to fighting gamers. You use your skyship, called the GrandCypher, to travel to each one and investigate some odd things afoot. Each level is made of an island that floats in the sky. True to form, your character is able to level up, collect and level up weapons, assign unlockable sub-skills, change outfits, and unlock characters as the story progresses. You attack waves of minions, which are pretty much practice fodder for the entirety of the RPG section, followed by some mid-boss characters and a final boss at the end. Most of the first section of the RPG is simply a tutorial, showing you the basic moves and how the game functions with combos and specials. With the roots of the game being an RPG, it makes sense that the single-player is less of a story mode and more of an actual RPG.

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Like most fighters, there is a single-player part of the game, Arcade, Versus, Free Play, and Online. The tutorials are quite involved and if newcomers have the patience to sit back and learn it all, they will be substantially more knowledgeable about fighting games as a whole than before. This is also accompanied with videos to show you exactly what is going on.

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Yet, the game goes even further than that and shows you quite specific strategies on how to attack, use supers, block and defend.

The tutorials and free play alone are some of the best practice areas IвЂ™ve seen, showcasing easy explanations of button combos, selectable settings for the dummy, and the ability to see exactly what buttons you are pressing on the screen to make sure what you want to push and what you actually end up pushing match up, easing the frustration of not understanding why you keep missing an actionвЂ¦it is because you pressed it wrong, of course. The production value of the game itself, characters, graphics, and even the tutorials surprised me time after time. While many games flipping genres for a crossover effort tend to be half baked, Granblue Fantasy Versus shines very brightly. Here, however, we have an anime-style fighter using the same characters. You may have heard of Granblue Fantasy as the popular mobile RPG.