Finished watching Case Files (Fate does Poirot) first and then back to completing FGO Babylonia (Fate does Final Fantasy). And so my Grand Re-watch™ is at an end.
Really enjoyed Case Files, not really caring for working out the mysteries, which were just increasing levels of Nasu lore fabrications and would distract any fan not as well versed in the Nasuverse, or even any fan in general probably, from enjoying the real stars of the show which were the characters and their interactions. Melvin never ceased cracking me up with his inevitably ill-timed explosions of haemoptysis all over anyone and anything in his path. The lore dumps were nonetheless interesting, and quite a bit on mystic eyes which almost seemed to be handed out like sweeties. Loved the opening and ending credits and of course the great Kajiura score.
FGO was a fun romp as well though I must say it helped me realise one thing about the Fate series I really value, by it's absence in FGO, which is the darkness and horror elements, especially in Heaven's Feel akin to Garden of Sinners. It was strange seeing arguably my favourite Fate character Gilgamesh, as a nice guy?? but still very cool and certainly with the coolest outfit of them all, and not forgetting his place as king amongst them mongrels heh. Oh and on the outfits, Mesopotamia (and probably all other singularities) seem waaaay too hot for even short shorts for the ladies. One thing I really wished we had in Heaven's Feel was more on Medusa, in the vein of how UBW gave subtle hints of Medea's background. Therefore I was really glad we got those in FGO as poor Rider always seemed to draw the short straw in Stay/Night , even if Heaven's Feel redeemed her utility in the epic battles. Also, Nasu totally gives shows like Evangelion a complete beatdown in relation to increasing levels of senseless gobbledygook - "neon genesis" you say, bah! I give you Nega Genesis bit**es!"
The Solomon movie felt like a really lovely capstone to the story with the arrival of I am assuming
all the Heroic spirits from every singularity really putting the Grand in the tile. I can imagine that having been incredibly satisfying to fans of the game. In fact I want to play it now! Aaaand it seems I can't....It seems either to not be on Android/play store or not available in the UK??
@Vincentdante help plezz!
@Geriatric hedgehog I want to get to Case Files eventually, the main draw obviously being seeing Waver as an experienced mage and contrasting that to his younger self in Zero - loved him and his relationship with Rider.
In fact, I loved every master-servant relationship in that series, they were all so intensely interesting and different! My lord, the urge to re-watch Zero, no~~~~
You'll love Case Files then, Waver and his relationship with Rider forms his raison d'eter and is lovingly touched on especially in the send-off in the final episode. Zero is so bloody good no doubt, I just re-watched them all, and I agree on the master-servant relationships but for me the best thing about Fate is how it reimagines the Mythos of the legendary heroes from history and so subtly frames/re-frames their backgrounds as what I mentioned about Medea & Medusa above.
Heh, rewatched the first opening for Hollow Ataraxia that was made for the Vita port since this thread started, and the "feels" can certainly be translated into anime form, and considering Mahotsukai no Yoru is getting an anime adaptation I still think it'll happen eventually.
I really hope it is adapted some day too, or if nothing else we at least get an easy to access Western release of the VN. Chances are increasing as you said so I will remain hopeful.
Been trying to get through F/GO but I'm stuck at the prologue since I watched the first singularity movie and already know what's gonna happen so it all feels like a slog to get through. Hopefully, that clears up eventually when I have time.
Argh what are you playing this on? Steam? I need a mobile version (I think it is on mobiles abroad at least right?)
not sure I want to go back and bother with the Deen work, half the fun of Fate is seeing the glorious Ufotable animation work.
Very true on ufotable and you don't miss much by skipping Deen unless you're interested in the Saber route and a bit more context for her.
For Case Files, at least as far as I was concerned, it was failing to me to live up to being a mystery. Most mystery shows I watch try and give you clues you can use to work it out, but the solutions to the mysteries were impossible to guess at because they were supernatural and based on random stuff you couldn't possibly know about.
Yeah for me there really was no point in trying to tease out these mysteries as given the confabulations it just doesn't work like a standard mystery affair.
Yeah I plan to support the official release. I'm waiting for ther pre-orders to go up on play-asia, though by any chance do you know any other good sites to import japanese games from?
I'll probably check CDJapan and Amiami, see what they have. I don't know the great ones though for these either, I'd be merely falling back on reliable sites for myself.
And it's nice knowing I can import it and play it. I'll probably keep eyes out for a western release too but assuming it doesn't get one despite the english language (it's a possibility there annoyingly), I'll at least have a version I can play and read.
Keep us updated on this thread with these releases guys and also any advice on how to play FGO would be greatly appreciated (even if I mostly try to scrape time together to play the days heh).
