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Blockhouse posted:Feeling secure in my decision to never play Extella Wait for the sequel where the game actually does something with its cast other than fellate two of the three main cast members and have lovely technobabble that is i engaging even as far as typically nasu technobabble goes. The game itself is alright for a first game and could use an iteration or two before it figures out an identity for itself, but as it stands the game on its own is not really that good, but I absolutely do recommend the story mode if you have issues sleeping. Tamamo is the only one of the playable character's whose story makes sense and isn't filled to the brim with lovely wordy jargon and has an ending that actually feels satisfying and true to the character. The game of course shows her no respect after this because it's too busy making Nero it's golden child of the Extra games, but hey at least one route of the game wasn't endlessly awful.
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I stopped playing after tamamo's route and I don't regret it I think 2/3 of extella is enough for one lifetime
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Jun 25, 2017 21:10
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of course tamamo's story might be the best written but it's also the one where you have to play as tammo
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Jun 25, 2017 21:10
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It's utterly ridiculous to me that not only do you need specific equipment to change characters mid combat but it's set to specific ones who are infinitely better than the main characters. Also your levels don't transfer on those characters to their personal stories, because loving of course they don't.
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Jun 25, 2017 21:12
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Blockhouse posted:Feeling secure in my decision to never play Extella You have chosen wisely
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Jun 25, 2017 21:16
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id say nero and emiya are about as good as each other but karna blows tamamo out of the water and gilgamesh is great while atilla is eh
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Jun 25, 2017 21:24
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Endorph posted:of course tamamo's story might be the best written but it's also the one where you have to play as tammo How is that a bad thing? Tamamo is the best character in Extella.
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Jun 25, 2017 21:30
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She plays like butt in extella
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Jun 25, 2017 21:36
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Tamamo's arc was so bad, and her gameplay so unfun, that i still haven't picked up Extella again after taking a break like one third through her route
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Jun 25, 2017 21:42
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The first third is setup for character stuff that does pay off but I wouldn't blame you for thinking it wouldn't when Hakuno's response is "that's my Tamamo! Oh that wacky Tamamo  "
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Jun 25, 2017 21:44
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Altera is okay, but she's overshadowed by many of the 5-star Sabers that got released after her. She doesn't bring a lot in the way of team support to the table, and her personal skills are merely so-so. Her main draw is having a really high attack even amongst 5-star Sabers, but unfortunately they also coupled that to an AoE NP.
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Jun 25, 2017 21:52
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It says a lot that Extella is not great because it just focuses on badly written Nero and Altera when there's literally other characters I'd wanna hang out more (Iskander, Medusa, Cu, Karna...)
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Jun 25, 2017 21:53
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Captain Baal posted:She plays like butt in extella Freak Futanari posted:Tamamo's arc was so bad, and her gameplay so unfun, that i still haven't picked up Extella again after taking a break like one third through her route I had more fun playing as Tamamo than I did playing as literally any other character.
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Jun 25, 2017 21:55
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I'm sorry to hear that
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Jun 25, 2017 21:59
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Yeah Tamamo's gameplay seemed fine I don't see the issue
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Jun 25, 2017 21:59
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A lot of her moves root her in place, don't have a lot of aoe which is pretty necessary for a game with as many enemies surrounding you as it does, and she's pretty slow moving compared to most of the characters in the cast. Not that the game is hard enough for most of this to ever become an issue since the entire game is a string of the same missions constantly that don't break up the pace well at all.
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Jun 25, 2017 22:11
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I think what really killed Extella for me is that every single mission felt like it lasted twice as long as it should Like you reached a point where you thought, okay, this mission can end now, and then it keeps going for ten more minutes
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Jun 25, 2017 22:15
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Has anyone read Apocrypha and how well does it fare for the series if the anime is following that plot? Fourteen servants plus associated masters and supporting ensemble seems a hell of a cast, even if we assume most of them are gonna be cannon fodder. Hopefully if they are just animating everything we get Strange/Fake at some point because that setting fuckin' rules.
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Jun 26, 2017 01:08
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The general consensus is it starts off fine, but then dramatically worsens as the plot focuses on a fairly uninteresting set of characters. One of the stated goals of Apocrypha was to sorta combine all three routes of F/SN, so you see familiar plot beats (arguably even characters concepts) all over. Whether or not this is a good thing is up to you.
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Jun 26, 2017 01:22
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The translation of the LN is not really good, the manga's been pretty decent so far though. Astolfo steals the show for me. It doesn't really have the emotional punches that FSN, Fate/Extra, or even FGO has since so far it's just kind of a straight up shounen battle manga. I will say that Mordred and Kairi are a surprisingly good Master-Servant pair and it kind of goes to show how awkwardly written her character was in the London FGO chapter. She hasn't really grown on me either way, but I think having an interesting character like Kairi to bounce off of helps her out a lot.
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Jun 26, 2017 01:57
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i hope one day a real fate game comes out and the words are also in english
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Jun 26, 2017 02:50
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even if its just an expanded version of assault on ilyas castles
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Jun 26, 2017 02:51
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Stairmaster posted:i hope one day a real fate game comes out and the words are also in english
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Jun 26, 2017 03:28
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i forgot extra had an english translation.... also to put the word good in there
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Jun 26, 2017 03:37
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With all the VNs on steam these days I'm kinda surprised an official release of realta nua hasn't materialized
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Jun 26, 2017 03:41
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cheetah7071 posted:With all the VNs on steam these days I'm kinda surprised an official release of realta nua hasn't materialized Isn't there something about Type-Moon demanding incredibly stupid licensing fees from anyone interested in officially localizing it?
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Jun 26, 2017 03:46
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to be fair with how insanely successful fate is in japan it's hard to fault them for charging a lot, but it is weird that they're apparently charging fairly normal fees for stuff like extra or extella but then playing hardball with f/sn.
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Jun 26, 2017 03:58
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Man, I'd buy the poo poo out of a F/SN Realta Nua version if it was on Steam as well as Witch on the Holy Night. I already have Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, and Hollow/ataraxia on my PC :V
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Jun 26, 2017 04:15
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Was mahoyo good I assumed it must have been a (relative) flop because I didn't hear anything about it
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Jun 26, 2017 04:32
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Last I heard people who played it said it has some interesting pieces, but is overall pretty boring and underwhelming especially when it was about a character with as much stuff surrounding her as Aoko.
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Haven't played CCC yet, but from all I've read about it I feel like I'd like Melt and Lip's characters if I never actually saw them. Their visual designs are dumb. Kiara I think is an interesting and effective villain, though, and her visual design is a lot less dumb. Wish I'd gotten her in FGO.
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Jun 26, 2017 04:46
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I like Kiara a lot actually, but my desire for Meltout Sarasvati and Melt sound effects won over the Sex Nun
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Jun 26, 2017 04:48
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Haven't read CCC, but Mahoyo is the best thing Nasu has written that I've read. It really raises the standard for visual novels in general imo, on an artistic and technical level.
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I haven't read CCC and I didn't know much about the Sakuras, but they all won me over during the CCC event. Getting Melt with a summoning ticket helped too.
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The F/GO characterization of the Alter Egos is explicitly post-CCC, where they all got some pretty brutal reality checks cashed. Melt in particular had even more stuff happen to her offscreen, so she's an almost entirely different person now. So if CCC ever does get translated, I imagine a lot of people are going to be pretty shocked at their original characterizations.
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Bakanogami posted:Haven't played CCC yet, but from all I've read about it I feel like I'd like Melt and Lip's characters if I never actually saw them. Their visual designs are dumb. Melt and Kiara are both pretty cool, but Passionlip is...not so much. I mean, she works well as a character who both looks and acts extremely creepy, but there isn't a whole lot of depth to her character.
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cheetah7071 posted:Was mahoyo good Mahoyo has the following structure: 1) Almost Slice of Life 2) Crazy stuff 3) Almost Slice of Life 4) Crazy stuff The story is way shorter than FSN and way, way simpler. I suppose is fitting, as it's just the first third of the whole story.
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Jun 26, 2017 08:50
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Is blade works anime as depressing as fate zero? Should probably rewatch it before I start but that poo poo sad.
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Jun 27, 2017 14:06
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Blade work is by the original author, and it's more chill and less sad. The guy who wrote zero is famous for writing super sad stuff.
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Hot take but I enjoyed UBW way more than Fate/Zero. It also helps that it was my favorite route in the VN as well.
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