Later this year, Arc System Works? latest balls to the wall, anime-lookin?-ass-fighting game will be releasing worldwide. This new fighter, which is following the likes of Guilty Gear Xrd, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, and Dragon Ball FighterZ, is called Granblue Fantasy Versus. That may sound, to a layman, like another original IP from the BlazBlue team, but it actually isn?t. It?s based on a mobile game from Cygames, which is one of the most popular mobile games out there internationally. A second game based on Granblue Fantasy is set to follow the ArcSys fighter, called Granblue Fantasy: Relink, which was developed in part by Platinum Games. Both of these games look awesome regardless of the property, but the fact is that they?re also the first time North American players are being directly introduced to Granblue Fantasy. That said, people in the know have been enjoying the original title for years now. If you aren?t one of those people, you may be wondering what the heck is going on here. That?s what I?m here for. What is a Cygames, Anyway"

Granblue Fantasy is one of the biggest titles from Cygames, a developer that has been on a serious rise since being established in 2011. Its first game was Rage of Bahamut, which is also one of the few games in Cygames? library to get localized and released in the west. The servers have since shut down in North America, but that first game did a lot to establish Cygames? own internal canon of sorts. While Cygames doesn?t really h...