Granblue Fantasy: Relink and Versus: Rising interview with Tetsuya Fukuhara and Yasuyuki Kaji

gematsu.com:

Gematsu recently sat down with Granblue Fantasy general director Tetsuya Fukuhara and Granblue Fantasy: Relink director Yasuyuki Kaji to discuss action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink and fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising as Cygames kicks off promotional activities for its console and PC games.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising is due out for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam on November 30, 2023, and Granblue Fantasy: Relink is due out for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam on February 1, 2024.

Read the interview below.

Gematsu: Granlue Fantasy: Relink was announced in 2016 and faced numerous delays, even switching developers from PlatinumGames to Cygames Osaka. Can you guys talk a little bit about that long period of development and what it was like taking over full development from PlatinumGames?

Tetsuya Fukuhara, Granblue Fantasy General Director: “As far as working in PlatinumGames in the beginning, there were contracts that were ending and organizational things that needed to be reconstructed, so the fact that we stopped development with PlatinumGames was not negative at all. There was no falling out or anything of the sort. It was more scheduling that was the issue. As the game began to expand, and the volume of content that we started to put into the game became more and more, we decided that’s an amount that Cygames should be handling on its own, as PlatinumGames had other games on their docket to start preparing for. So with their schedule in mind, we took over development at Cygames Osaka. And originally, the team at Cygames Osaka didn’t have enough organizational strength or numbers to really support a game of this level, so we really had to start from the beginning—getting