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Granblue Fantasy: Versus Game Launches DLC Character Vira in December

Publisher XSEED Games announced on Saturday that the DLC character Vira for the game will launch in December. The company will release more information about the character and her fighting style later this year.

XSEED Games describes the DLC character:

Raised in the fortress city of Albion Citadel, Vira grew up alongside Katalina, whom she loved as a sister and worshiped as an idol. Following in Katalina's footsteps, Vira quickly rose through the ranks as a prodigious blademaster and an astute tactician. Adoration, however, warped into deadly obsession when Katalina purposely lost to Vira in a duel for the title of Lord Commander, and the younger woman was left stranded in Albion while the person she adored most sailed into the endless blue sky.

The fighting game's first character set launched on July 12. Seox is the final playable character in the second character set.

XSEED Games earlier announced that the game has sold more than 500,000 units worldwide for Steam.

The game launched on PC in March 2020.

Playable characters at launch include: Gran, Katalina, Charlotta, Lancelot, Ferry, Lowain, Ladiva, Percival, Metera, Zeta, and Vaseraga. Stella Magna composed the music for the game.

announced during the "Granblue Fes 2020" virtual event that it will also release the game for PlayStation 5 in addition to the previously announced PS4. The game will release in 2022 and have cross-play compatibility for its multiplayer mode between the two consoles.

Source: Press release