Characters and environment are beautifully rendered with stunning splashes of color, and while it's not moving art along the lines of Deus Ex Human Revolution or El Shaddai, it certainly adds a brilliancy and appeal to the game.įate/Extra is like a stick of gum: you chew too long and it loses its flavor. The intrigue in the cross-family feuds provides a perfect extra level of drama to the whole fight-or-die gimmick. Players like my history buff roommate will enjoy trying to decipher who the Servants' real identities are. Nutty battle system aside, the story, character elements, and visuals are fantastic. I don't even know how the system works as well as it does, but if you're the kind of person that thinks quickly and has a deep seated love for memory games, then you probably know better than I do.
There is nothing groundbreaking about Fate/Extra's combat system.
The learning curve is complete sphere and there is nothing you can do it help yourself ascend it. Some opponents move so fast and keep changing their combinations - keeping track of them all is a nightmare. You can equip your Servant and your player character with better garb and accessories, but after a while the rock-paper-scissors action gets monotonous. The system could be called impossible, but I'm going to go with not intuitive enough to entice you to stay up until 4 a.m. In the long run writing these combinations down is a huge help - but then again, who wants to play a game while frantically flipping through notes? This can get tiresome, as randomly choosing actions doesn't always work in your favor. Once you've fought against a certain enemy enough times, you will hopefully be able to memorize their action sequence and plans your own accordingly. Sometimes your enemy - an opponent's Servant or the random enemy "programs" hanging out in the training grounds, or "Arena" - will display what six actions it will execute.
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