Emulated it. I wanted to try out more of the Fate series videogames, and this seemed interesting. I find the whole Moon Cell storyline quite intriguing, so I was curious. Yeah, its alright. I've played worse games. The combat is mostly chance based, every turn there is a series of 6 rock paper scissors games. Depending on the result, you deal or receive damage. By the end of the game there is a bit of strategy involved, and the fights against other Servants and Masters at the end of each ingame week are quite compelling, but to be honest if you don't use a guide and refuse to memorize all of the enemy patterns (which there aren't a lot, to be fair) you just have to hope to god you don't die. Despite this game's short length of about 20 hours or so, I was kind of dreading having to fight anything but the Servants I mentioned. It got very repetitive and uninteresting, to the point I just used the fast forward option on the emulator to remove at least some of the tedium. Said tedium is not helped by the boring fucking music that repeats a lot or the bland graphics. All of the dungeons are just corridors with different colored ceiling and walls, and the school where you spend all your time not fighting is just that, a boring looking school with not much to see due to its small size. Still, if you like Fate, you are bound to find at least something enjoyable here, like I did. The story is cool, I liked the main character's arc, and I really enjoyed the extra perspective this game gives on Archer, from Stay Night. I always found him pretty interesting, so getting to see more of him was great. You can choose two other servants if you don't want a cynical asshole like him though, and I like them as well.

Reviewed on Jul 16, 2020


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