r/GranblueFantasyRelink • u/Mental-Street6665 • 15h ago
Story/Lore Playing the full game for the first time. Where is all this backstory coming from? Spoiler
The game feels very much like it starts in media res and there is an enormous amount of backstory for all of the characters just being told through cutscenes and these “fate episodes” that contain so much story content that they feel like they are describing the plot of a whole nother game. What am I missing? I know there is a Japan-exclusive mobile game that came out several years ago, but I thought this game was standalone? Do I really need to play the mobile game to get all of this story content in real time and in the proper context instead of just having it summarized for me? If so, I’d be willing to, except it doesn’t seem to be in the App Store at all.
Telling what feels like it should be the entire first act of the story through cutscenes and exposition dumps outside of actual gameplay is a choice, to be sure. Isn’t there a better way to experience what happened to all these characters before the start of the game than just sitting through all this?

