History VideoGame / BattleMoonWars

* BleachedUnderpants: Instead of being someone whose only way of giving {{mana}} was [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious blood]] and [[DeusSexMachina other fluid exchange]] that a Synchronizer can give and the typical way for a Servant to receive from a non-Mage; Kohaku somehow has a LeyLine (which supposedly requires years of training to create) with Saber that simply transmits {{mana}} through proximity. Saber only once in the beginning notes that somehow Kohaku has "something similar enough to Mana" and Kohaku wonders if that's her Synchronizer status.
** The game as a whole, considering it borrows all of its canon from games or novels originally rated adult, manages to be teen rated content wise at it's absolute worst, partially due to the art style and partially due to the nature of the CompressedAdaptation of the various plots.

* [[ThroughHisStomach Through Her Stomach]]: Saber loves eating and Kohaku loves cooking. Kohaku has no problems using this to get anything she wants from Saber. She is nice about it.
** Amusingly Shirou warns Kohaku not to go overboard with cooking because Saber never, ever forgets a dish. Kohaku smiles, nods, and then does the exact opposite.

Take the three major facets of the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''. Then mix them together into a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, and add a duo of [[OriginalGeneration original characters]] on top. Through four acts, what starts as a not-so simple maidnapping explodes into a new Grail War, as one by one, a mysterious enemy is bringing back defeated villains from Nasuverse past, with shiny new power boosts to boot.

* AllThereInTheManual: You ''have'' read/seen ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', played the Heaven's Feel version of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (which was ''not'' [[RoadCone in the anime]]), played ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', played ''Fate/Hollow Ataraxia'', played ''Kagetsu Tohya'', and read ''Literature/FateZero'', right? Actually, the game is pretty good at explaining the major bits, but the sheer {{backstory}} is overwhelming.

* {{Expy}}: The fact that several characters are Expies of each other is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a few times, such as when Touko points out that Shiki Tohno is very similar in appearance to Mikiya Kokutou (from ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'') and Rin remarks that Kohaku and Sakura are similar, as they both share {{Yandere}} tendencies and [[spoiler:a history of sexual abuse]].

** The special item gained from beating the game once, the "Abnormal Agonist" seems to be a reference to the main character of Nasu's new novel series, ''LightNovel/{{DDD}}'' aka ''Decoration Disorder Disconnection''.

* {{Fanservice}}: Any female character's OverlyLongFightingAnimation has a good chance of featuring this at some point. Special mention has to go to Shirou and Sakura's combination attack, which features Sakura temporarily changing into a revealing dress that'd be fanservicey enough by itself, then includes {{Gainaxing}} and teases WardrobeMalfunction in several shots.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Sakura in Act 2.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning Swords Are Better With Spinning]]: Saber Lily's main attack involves creating a second sword out of the back of Caliburn, and basically spinning the enemy to death. And it is awesome.

* LargeHam: Arcueid. Whether showing up as a BigDamnHeroes and admitting that she didn't do so earlier because she didn't have a lamppost to [[IHaveTheHighGround show off on]] or becoming a MagicalGirl just for lulz and busting through the FourthWall (The Throne of Heroes?) to steal Caster's Staff after she's no longer in the plot, or messing with Gilgamesh just because she ''can.''

* KnifeNut: Nanaya is almost certainly one, and Ryougi and Shiki naturally get touches of this.

** Magical Amber's attack cut-in does not really strike anything fancy aside from a PantyShot, until when Akiha, Shiki, and Hisui have a portrait that looks similar to the All-Out attack of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.

* PantyShot: Arcueid specifically redesigns her PowerUp MagicalGirl outfit to invoke this.
** Magical Amber's [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation overly long fighting animation]] includes a ''zoom in panty shot''. But everyone reaction tops it: Hisui - teary-eyed horror. Akika - [[FlatWhat what]]. Shiki: Awesome!

*** Even funnier since "[[RedBaron King of Heroes]]" and "[[FanNickname King of Braves]]" are both valid translations of ''Yuusha-Oh''.

* FandomNod: One of the oldest unanswered questions in the Nasuverse fandom is the question of whether Arcueid could beat Gilgamesh and vice versa. Guess who picks a fight with who in Acts 3 and 4?

* FanTranslation: Aroduc has literally been a one man translation team.

** There's ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' in Kaleido Ruby; her Prism Hammer attack bears an uncanny resemblance to the many incarnations of Vita's [[HyperspaceMallet Graf Eisen]] and the animation for [[WaveMotionGun Schweinstein]] even features an Intelligent Device-esque [[LockAndLoadMontage assembly sequence]].

Take the three major facets of the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai''. Then mix them together into a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, and add a duo of [[OriginalGeneration original characters]] on top. Through four acts, what starts as a not-so simple maidnapping explodes into a new Grail War, as one by one, a mysterious enemy is bringing back defeated villains from Nasuverse past, with shiny new power boosts to boot.

* AllThereInTheManual: You ''have'' read/seen ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'', played the Heaven's Feel version of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (which was ''not'' [[RoadCone in the anime]]), played ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'', played ''Fate/Hollow Ataraxia'', played ''Kagetsu Tohya'', and read ''Literature/FateZero'', right? Actually, the game is pretty good at explaining the major bits, but the sheer {{backstory}} is overwhelming.

* {{Expy}}: The fact that several characters are Expies of each other is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a few times, such as when Touko points out that Shiki Tohno is very similar in appearance to Mikiya Kokutou (from ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'') and Rin remarks that Kohaku and Sakura are similar, as they both share {{Yandere}} tendencies and [[spoiler:a history of sexual abuse]].