Trivia / Fate/EXTRA

• Dummied Out: There are dialogue strings in the game's code for story branches that are not available in the final game; the player option to use Command Spells to save Julius in week 5, the ability to save both Rin and Rani in week 6 (at least on the Rani route), and saving Leo in week 7.
• Fan Translation: A long-waited, unofficial fan translation of CCC was released in December 8, 2023 by a group called Iwakura Productions.
• He Also Did: Natsuko Ishikawa, mainly famous for her writing on Final Fantasy XIV, was a subwriter for CCC.
• No Export for You: CCC's lack of an official English version, or even any version outside Japan, tends to set people's teeth on edge, as not only is it a very well-regarded RPG and one of the last big games for the PSP, it's also now the only "normal" video game entry in the Fate franchise to not get exported. Fate/Extella came out in English before it did! And Anglophones have even gotten Fate/Grand Order, which now features every single character from Extra and CCC! Unfortunately, as time passes and with the outright closure of Imageepoch, the development studio Type-Moon partnered with to create the original EXTRA games, an international release looks ever-less likely; the only hope now is that Type-Moon's new BB Studio eventually does a remake or other re-release of it.
• Star-Making Role: Red Saber is the role that really brought Sakura Tange back into the spotlight after her ten-year absence from acting; for the entire decade, across both EXTRA games, Fate/Grand Order and a whole bunch of little spinoffs and whatnot, it was the role she played most consistently in the 2010s.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Saver had an additional Noble Phantasm, a 7 kilometer wide chakram with a ring of light that looked like a rainbow above Saver that acted as a mobile artillery platform, shooting beams of light to anyone inside the ring. The number of rings of light increased with every turn until the seventh turn when his true power would be unleashed as the rings of light combine into one with a clang and the ring starts spinning at high speed to resemble the ring that floats behind the Celestial Buddha Variocana, and pillars of light coming from all 360 degrees of the ring converge on the player’s Servant, and the convergence causes a huge explosion that resembles a black hole. It got axed for gameplay due to the costs it would take to render it (especially since, back when the game was developed, Fate budgets weren't nearly as big). It was later dusted off and used as a pivotal plot point for Last Encore.
  • Similarly, the original storyboard for BB's Noble Phantasm, C.C.C. (or Cursed Cutting Crater), originally had a shadow spilling out of the Moon Cell in the shape of a shadow giant from Fate/stay night's Heaven's Feel route before turning into a giant BB. BB would then scoop up the portion of the arena the player team was standing on, and crush it in her hands (thus creating a Cursed Cutting Crater). This was once again axed for both budget and technical limitations (as the whole sequence, with terrain destruction and increasing a model's size to that extent, proved difficult to do convincingly on the aging PSP). Fate/Grand Order would eventually use this original concept for the animation for BB's summer version, making use of the fact that even smartphones at the edge of F/GO's minimum spec are vastly more powerful than a PSP (and the fact that, by 2018, the available F/GO budget vastly eclipsed anything else the franchise had ever had available).
  • Nasu revealed on his blog that Florence Nightingale would have made an appearance in CCC as a Servant but was cut for time. She made her debut in Fate/Grand Order.
  • Similarly, Suzuka Gozen was heavily planned for CCC, down to having a design finalized and some initial scripting done for her, but in the end development was already running late and she ended up on the cutting room floor. This design work was later used in the CCC Foxtail manga and in Fate/Grand Order's SE.RA.PH story chapter/event.
  • Three of the Alter Egos along with their significant roles got cut because they only had time to implement the two that got in. All of them eventually saw use in Foxtail.
    • Kazuradrop and her village of Sakuras was initially where the player traded in their drops for healing and other assorted functions. This was scrapped incredibly early on because they were redundant with Sakura performing nurse duties.
    • Violet was going to be the main Alter Ego who would side with the good guys (being, of course, basically a souped-up version of the fan-favorite Rider from stay night).
    • Kingprotea was an Anti Poop-Socking mechanic writ large: she would destroy areas to prevent long grinding periods or block off paths for item farming. She would also function as a rare encounter and beating her would restore the blocked or destroyed parts of the dungeon. Even after they cut her from the story, they did consider making her an Optional Boss but time got in the way.
  • A boss for chapter 3 of CCC was BBB, a Humongous Mecha originally concieved as cobbled together from destroyed arenas but truncated down to a Palette Swap of BB. The In-Universe reason for it not appearing in the game is Passionlip destroyed it. Grand Order, once again, would revive part of this concept, with "BBB" being one of the Superbosses in the epilogue of the Summer 2018 event, an "Avatar" of BB specifically, BB as the Foreigner-class she's supposed to be in this event who you defeat to help power up Jeanne d'Arc Alter's Noble Phantasm.
  • The published version of Extra's script revealed three unused endings for the game.
    • There was going to be a Leo route where if the player had all Command Spells by the time they beat him, they had the option of saving him. The ending has Hakuno email Leo the location of their original body with the implication that Leo will use all of the Harway Foundation's resources to revive them.
    • Another cut ending had the option to not save anyone and go alone to face Twice. Hakuno wishes for peace in the world and disappears.
    • The dialogue option, "...I can't really deny his words", and not saving anyone would have triggered an event flag and the final cut ending, Hakuno decides to take up Twice's place in the core of the Moon Cell, awaiting the next winner of the Moon Cell Holy Grail War.