Granblue Fantasy has really been knocking them out of the park this year. Can’t think of any event that I haven’t liked so far. This is no exception.

I have to admit, I wasn’t wholly confident with this one. The kappa in question looked like it was going to be yet another mascot character, and I hate those. (I even hated Jade from her event; sue me.) Luckily, it wasn’t so bad. Sure, Kyuta was certainly a mascot-type character, and everyone fawning over him was slightly annoying. But he had a personality, and his interactions with the rest of everyone grew their characters some, or were at least interesting. And it took away the spotlight from Vryn and Lyria, which is rarely not a great thing.

I’ve also really been liking how the events have been using more of the Grandcypher cast. There’s, what, about two hundred possible characters to use. But older events mostly featured two or three, with the main cast and the new characters for the event. Here we had, aside from the main cast and the new NPC’s, four heavily featured characters, four more secondary characters, and at least three cameos. Most of whom had new art for this event. Pretty cool.

I’m also really digging the lack of fights. There wasn’t really room for them here – it’s a vacation, after all (even a working/helping vacation like Dancho likes to take), and they didn’t try to force any fights that weren’t appropriate. Except the final raid, which is really weird, and not in the same, good, way as the last event. It’s modestly funny, but still weird.

I wish they did more with the mini-game. I’m sick and tired of grinding the same event format every single month (and more). But you can only do the event so many times before you run out of rewards, and that’s a shame. I’d rather, at least for an event like this, have the mini-game be the thing to grind. And the prizes aren’t even that special, unlike some of the other mini-game events.

All in all, bredy gud.