History VideoGame / GranblueFantasy

* SecretTestOfCharacter: One of the reasons why a few of the named characters or creatures [[spoiler:such as Bai Ze]] will suddenly provoke the party into a fight is to test if the crew is strong enough to face oncoming challenges.

** 2018: "Big Bad Shadow" has a re-run with new costumes and an exclusive weapon that boosts drop rates. The ''Oira'' minigame went up on the App Store and Google Play, a ''VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster'' parody with fifteen of the game's vocal songs available to play through.

* TwoPartTrilogy: As revealed in an interview, "What Makes The Sky Blue" wasn't originally planned to kick off a sprawling three year epic. Only after positive fan reception did they decide to make a sequel with its corresponding third part written consecutively to conclusively wrap things up to the new storyline.

* RidiculouslyDifficultRoute: The Celestial Strait, featured in "What Makes the Sky Blue II: Paradise Lost". According to Rackam and Eugen, nobody who ever dared to challenge it ever returned, and the name is rumored to either come from the idea of what lies beyond it or the fate of whoever tries to brave it. [[AcePilot Rackam]] outright claims that it's impossible with the Grandcypher as it is, and sure enough, the path is filled with falling rocks, heavy turbulence, tornadoes, monster, magnetic interference and ''space-time distortions''. The Grandcypher only barely manages to make the trip.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: Plenty of characters and summons like Albert, Goblin Mage, Medusa, Forte, Lucifer, Bahamut, Twin Elements and Poseidon are reusing their designs from ''VideoGame/RageOfBahamut'' with the same sort of role they served in the world of [=RoB=] and different backstories to fit the world of ''Granblue Fantasy''. [[spoiler:Taken even further with Lucio and Lucilius, as they’ve essentially joined Lucifer in becoming [[DecompositeCharacter decomposite characters]] for the original Lucifer from VideoGame/RageOfBahamut with each of them covering some role from his original lore. Even Lucilius’ design evokes the design of the fallen Lucifer.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The plume, revealed to be Lucifer’s feather, obtained by Lyria at the Wyvern Reverie quest in the "What Makes the Sky Blue" event turns out to be the item that allows the crew to reach Sandalphon inside the cocoon in the event's sequel "Paradise Lost". [[spoiler:It serves an importance once again when Lyria brings it all the way in the pendultimate chapter of the third event "000", unlocking Sandalphon's true potential as the Supreme Primarch.]]
** Durring "Spaghetti Syndrome", Grace meets up with Issac, tricks him into eating meat from [[IAteWhat Otherworldly Beings]] and then leaves him the scalpel she used to cut it with, which had its blade converted into chaos matter. [[spoiler: In the "bonus episode", the later allows Issac to bypass the moondweller's computer systems since they can't properly analyze chaos matter, while the former allowed him to smuggle it in the first place by giving him a plausible excuse for why it trips their sensors for such things.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The plume, revealed to be Lucifer’s feather, obtained by Lyria at the Wyvern Reverie quest in the "What Makes the Sky Blue" event turns out to be the item that allows the crew to reach Sandalphon inside the cocoon in the event's sequel "Paradise Lost". [[spoiler:It serves an importance once again when Lyria brings it all the way in the penultimate chapter of the third event "000", unlocking Sandalphon's true potential as the Supreme Primarch.]]

** "Spaghetti Syndrome" ''finally'' reveals what exactly the Foe is after. [[spoiler:They're the descendants of moondwellers trapped in the Sky World who decided to deliberately engineer conflict as a twisted means of repaying their debt to people who helped them settle after being stranded by ensuring that advancement of warfare and technology protects them from being immediately shredded to pieces if the Moon ever invades. Meanwhile, the head of the ''entire'' Society, Central Command, is an Automagod fused with a Moondweller, who has been scheming to figure out a way to return to the Moon this whole time. And with her defeat, the Foe has secretly assumed control of the Society and declared Society members in the Captain's crew to be criminals with bounties on their head.]]

* DarkReprise: Or TriumphantReprise depending on interpretation, all of the Omega raid bosses have sections taken from or resemble their respective island's themes.

* CriticalStatusBuff: Enmity, a weapon skill that increases party members' attack based on how much HP they're missing. Getting the most out of the skill be extremely risky since it requires leaving your party with very low HP.

* DrivingQuestion: The eponymous question of the anniversary events, what makes the sky blue? It's a rhetorical question as characters muse on the eternal status quo of a blue sky. Lyria thinks it's nice that the skies don't change, Lucifer envies the Skydwellers' abilities to ask such mundane questions without expecting an answer, and [[spoiler:Belial mocks the idea, claiming that the sky being blue is merely just one outcome and there isn't any reason why the sky has to be blue beyond that's just how it was.]]

''Granblue Fantasy'' (グランブルーファンタジー) is a free-to-play, [[WebGames browser-based]] EasternRPG developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} and released in 2014. It can also be played on [[MobilePhoneGame mobile phones]], with apps available on Android and iOS platforms. It has not officially been released outside of Japan, but an English language option was implemented in March 2016. It features a notable collaboration between Creator/NobuoUematsu (providing some of the music) and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' artist Hideo Minaba (as the character designer). It's ''incredibly'' popular in Japan, with over 24 million registered accounts[[note]]including players all around the globe[[/note]] as of June 2019 (gaining about a million every four to six months).

* ArmorMeterPoints: An update provided an HUD indicator for the Shield buffs - a character with this effect will have their HP numbers occasionally fading to display the Shield's value, but with a blue tint and accompanied with a blue hexagon.

* BonusBoss: Although new boss battles are added into the game every once in a while, certain permanent bosses in the game stand out in a way that is clearly meant to be this. All of them require special materials from other raids.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After Chapter 63 and the restoration of Orchis to the throne of Erste, the Black Knight pretty much disappears from the plot even with events like Freesia escaping jail and kidnapping Orchis which would seem pretty relevant to her character. It happens once again with Erste entering a second civil war with the Holy Erste Empire and Orchis putting herself directly in the line of fire on the battlefront, yet no indication that Apollo has heard about this.]][[spoiler:In Chapter 121 finally TheBusCameBack, as she shows up at the last second along with Freesia to save Orchis and Orchid from Zwei's killing blow.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:After Chapter 63 and the restoration of Orchis to the throne of Erste, the Black Knight pretty much disappears from the plot even with events like Freesia escaping jail and kidnapping Orchis which would seem pretty relevant to her character. It happens once again with Erste entering a second civil war with the Holy Erste Empire and Orchis putting herself directly in the line of fire on the battlefront, yet no indication that Apollo has heard about this.]]

* PopularityPower: Fan Popularity Polls are sometimes conducted to let players decide on which among the existing characters and summons would appear in the next rate-up banner. Near the end of 2018, a poll was also conducted to determine who would receive a new outfit for the game's 5th anniversary, with Sandalphon and Silva winning the male and female categories respectively.