The original Fate/EXTRA game soundtrack is extremely underrated due to not having an official release, yet many of the tracks can't just be ignored. Battle - Fourth Chimeric Lunar Sea or School II if one is in the loof for something more calming, are some great highlights!
Of tracks originating from Fate/EXTRA CCC the BB Channel theme may be the best remembered. Getting remixed into a battle theme in Fate/Grand Order may have also helped.
With Spinal Coaster playing during said BB Channel events sounding ominous and terryfing.
Though Gilgamesh has several musical themes, none went to become his more prominent leifmotif unlike cosmic air. Even returning and getting remixed in further prominent games.
Senketsu Majou, or in english, The Blood Countess. Another track that'd become to be re-arrange constantly as the character Elizabeth would grow to become extremely popular. Quite the theme for a wannabe Idol.
Love is Like a Poison, the theme of the boss fights against Meltlilith and Passion Lip. Feeling The theme of twisted love.
BB's boss theme, Bottom Black - Moon Gazer. A battle theme that emcopasses that a ghost that shouldn't exist went made it as a living god with all the sorrow that comes with it.
Broken Base: The excessive fanservice in CCC (see Fetish Retardant). Split between the people who love it (as it was definitely geared towards them), the people who hate it (for looking ridiculous and offputting), and the people who understand how it's meant to tie into the wider themes of the story and just roll with it for what it is.
Complacent Gaming Syndrome: in the original game, as CCC made stat gains automatic based on the servant. Sure, you CAN create a balanced, Jack-of-all-trades build in Extra...or you can just pump every alteration point you get into the sergeant's main damage stat since after all, the best defense is the enemy just dying without getting to hit you. It wasnt unusual for players at mid game to have their main stat at Rank EX and everything else at Rank E.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Hans Christian Andersen is one of the most memorable characters in CCC because he's a middle-aged man with a voice to match, who gets materialized as a young boy. The man then proceeds to shit talk everyone, even Gilgamesh, in his middle-aged baritone voice and it's never not hilarious.
Even Better Sequel: EXTRA was... a perfectly competent game from a mid-tier developer, with some interesting gameplay ideas and some nice visuals and music. CCC, meanwhile, is (for all it occasionally gets a little excessively "lewd") widely considered one of the swan songs of the PSP in Japan and one of the finest RPGs released on the platform, with fantastic story and characters, a killer soundtrack, a number of improvements to the gameplay systems, and visuals that push the PSP to its limits in a number of places. (This makes a lot of people more than a little frustrated that it never left Japan... until a Fan Translation of the game was finally released 10 years later.)
Fanon: Hakuno's first servant in the near side story is thought to be Enkidu, or at least, the Berserker variant of him. This was derived from Fate/strange Fake with the narrations mentioning that Enkidu can qualify for Berserker with his original mud clay doll form and some fanworks, mostly of the Gilgamesh/Female Hakuno kind went with this as a prediction to Hakuno's first servant before CCC started in Gilgamesh's story, who is said to be of the Berserker Class. This is also fueled by the fact that Gilgamesh's second SG and the dreams Hakuno gets about Gilgamesh's past is from Enkidu's point of view. Following this, a reason why Hakuno would be able to summon Enkidu in the first place in the Gilgamesh route could be attributed to the fact that Hakuno's struggles parallels Enkidu's and Enkidu responded to Hakuno as a result.
Despite the amount of ships she has, the most popular ship for Female Hakuno in the English speaking fandom is Gilgamesh/Hakuno (which was shipped even before Gilgamesh was added). In Japan, Female Hakuno/Archer is also extremely popular.
For Male Hakuno he is commonly paired with the playable Caster. Male Hakuno/Gilgamesh also has a following in Japan, as does Male Hakuno/Red Saber.
Saber's see-through skirt is not titillating so much as pointless and hilarious-looking.
Passionlip◊ from CCC has breasts bigger than her head with only thin straps to cover her nipples. Many agreed that her design in Fate/Grand Order is much better.
The True Final Boss from CCC, whose Noble Phantasm basically revolves around spreading their legs, sticking the planet Earth into their vagina, and attacking you with the resulting orgasm. Regardless of whether it's supposed to be Fanservice or actually intended as Fan Disservice, the whole thing ends up looking rather comical.
Game-Breaker: Gilgamesh from CCC. It's mostly intentional, and already attesting his mode was known as "Hax mode". Not only his stats are higher than average already at the beginning, but he also has passive skills that give you additional income and drop rate from combats. His Gate of Babylon skill really hurts, and his Noble Phantasm, Ea, instantly ends the battlenote it can only be used when the enemy's HP is low, no matter who is against you. Having the King of Heroes as a servant with such capabilities are more often than not a godsend. To quote a Niconico Douga commenter on the battle with the True Final Boss:
Commenter:"Seriously, I don't even know who the True Final Boss is anymore."note Probably the most votes go to Gilgamesh and the player character.
Genius Bonus: Red Saber calls her master "Sousha," in game this is translated as Praetor, however a literal translation would be Player, as in one who plays music in theatre. Musical theatre being something of an obsession of hers, it being part of her Noble Phantasm.Fate/Extra Last Encore's English dub has her call him "Performer". The fan translation of CCC gives the option to translate it as "Maestro".
This game almost answers the infamous Nasuverse Power Levels question: "Can Shiki kill Servants?". The reason this is an "almost" is because the Shiki is RyougiShiki, and the Moon Cell isn't exactly the Holy Grail of the original series.
Being GAR forArcher was an early Nasuverse fandom meme. Archer's bonus CCC costume has him shirtless in a leather jacket and leather pants, making him resemble a stereotypical gay icon.
A common question raised by fans is who would win between Gilgamesh and Karna. The game almost answers this because Karna is suffering from twoDrama Preserving Handicaps due to not having his armor and having a bad master, and Gilgamesh has yet to reveal Ea when they fight.
It was a minor meme to refer to Sakura in the Heaven's Feel route of the original Fate/stay night as an "erotical black hole". Guess what the True Final Boss's Noble Phantasm in CCC, a game which places quite a lot of focus on Sakura, basically is.
Some minor examples between a male MC and Archer, such as Dan's Archer making pointed comments about 'domestic strife' and the Week 7 Day 2 scene still playing out like a Love Confession.
There's tension between a male MC and Julius, if you've got your Shipping Goggles on.
Ronnie's Lancer, on the other hand, is as forthright with the Ho Yay — upon being confronted with the playable Archer — as you'd expect from his other lines.
Lancer: "Is it not fateful, stiff-backed archer?"
Lancer: "That noble stare of yours outshines the moon. You are the Apollo that I have been searching for!"
Lancer: "I long to pierce that supple body of yours with my spear. You compel me, you, you — you supremely gorgeous creature."
The female protagonist reacts very similarly to how the male protagonist acts when it comes to interacting with other girls, including being awed by their beauty. The scene in which the girl you saved gets jealous over the other girl feeding you lunch plays out exactly the same with a female protagonist as it does with a male protag.
Both the playable Saber and Caster fall in love with her. Caster even declares her to be her husband if you choose the right options, just like with the male protagonist.
The reason a lot of fans say to pick Male Hakuno with Gilgamesh in CCC is specifically because it's the "bros for life" route.
At this point, the female MC has been paired with everyone else in the entire franchise. So much that people started saying that she's inherited the Tohno Gland.
While not to the extent as the female MC, the male MC has been paired up with a lot of the other characters as well.
Caster's Castration Punch.note In Fate/Extra, Caster mentioned using an attack combo used to Castrate people. Became an Ascended Meme in CCC where it's now an attack for her, and it deals massive damage to male enemies.
"AUO,Cast Off!"note Gilgamesh "defeats" CCC Lancer by taking his clothes off and shouts that when he does it.
PADORU PADORUnote In "Teach me, Blossom-sensei!", Saber enters the Nurse's Office wearing a Santa Outfit and singing Jingle Bells in an over-the-top manner. This has exploded into various characters from other franchises depicted in this style, with the meme peaking as Christmas approaches.
In the first game, many players hated Gawain for his jerkness toward the playable Servants◊ and because of his near blind loyalty to Leo influenced by his My Greatest Failure regarding Camelot. Fate/Extra CCC and Fate/Grand Order made Gawain more likeable and gave him a much better characterization.
Shinji. His counterpart in the original Fate/stay night, while not exactly on The Scrappy level, is a Hate Sink with irredeemable character traits. Many fans and players alike find Fate/Extra's Shinji to be a much better characterization of Shinji for being nicer and were sad at his Heroic Sacrifice in CCC. These actions made him far more likable than his Fate/stay night counterpart as a result.
Gilgamesh isn't a character that's universally hated by the fandom, but his douchebaggery in Fate/stay night hasn't exactly appealed him to a lot of fans, with the only reason why he's well-liked is because he defines Evil Is Cool. In Fate/Extra, Gilgamesh is still a colossal jerk, but is capable of showing more aspects of his personality beyond his arrogance and is capable of forming a genuine bond with Hakuno with no strings attached. Fate/Grand Order further increases his likability during the Babylonian Singularity, showing him in his Caster form which depicts him as a Universally Beloved Leader whose arrogance has been tempered by his journey to seek the Herb of Immortality.
The Scrappy: Lil' Ronnie is painfully annoying to listen to. aNd rEaD. As a result, it's not surprising that most players didn't care when CCC reveals that on this side, Liz impaled her right after being summoned out of disgust towards her master.
Spoiled by the Format: Gawain using the same battle music as the other Servants is a dead give away he isn't the Final Boss.
Squick: The final boss's Noble Phantasm in CCC involves using a planet as a sex toy.
Take That, Scrappy!: In the CCC continuity, instead of Vlad, Lil' Ronnie summons Elizabeth, who realizes how utterly batshit crazy her Master is and promptly kills Ronnie so she can get a more reliable replacement.
That One Attack: In CCC, Lancer's Tail attack is unfair. If you block the attack, you still take some damage, but you get stunned which leaves it open for her to attack you right away. If you don't block, you take a good amount of damage, and since she's already a Wake-Up Call Boss, it means you'll likely be having issues trying to keep your HP up to survive.
In the first game, no matter what path you follow, the Lancer you fight will be a pain to fight due to their high attack and extremely high defense. The Lancer from Rani's path is even worse because of his One-Hit KO.
In Extra CCC, the boss fight with Karna is this if your playing as Caster because his attacks are punishing against Caster and his Noble Phantasm is almost a One-Hit KO.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: A common criticism of the original game was that it was a watered down Persona 3 with Fate/stay night characters and concepts. The fact that two ex-ATLUS employees worked on the game didn't help either. It wasn't until CCC that the series really carved out its own identity.
(and possibly still exists today) - to say nothing of some uncommon tantric practices
