Fate/Grand Order

I mean, Mash is basically female Galahad, soooo

That's what I mean. After that, I thought it was set in stone.

Galahad being male was confirmed a year ago with the Lostroom OVA

Also stuff from the 4gamer interview:

• Nasu wrote the da Vinci, Roman, Mashu in Chaldea beginning/ending scenes for all of part 1's Singularities, same with the Lostbelts for Sion/Gordolf/everyone else, he estimates that he has a hand in about 30% of each main story chapter handled by someone else, but only 10% from LB 2 and onwards.
• Russia had all the writers pitch in because it was super important to establish atmosphere but all the other Lostbelts have each writer doing their thing.
• Nasu wrote all the Craft Essence text for part 1, EOR and onwards had other writers handle them with a Servant's author writing text for a CE for the corresponding Servant or their bond CE. Noted exception is Team Phoenix which was Nasu doing something fun with Gordolf.
• During the TM trip to Hawaii, they all went to an anime con (their planned premise of convention in Hawaii was a coincidence so they were really surprised) for an entire day with the exception of Nasu who wanted to scope out the planned location for the final battle at Mauna Kea. He got a fever and had to stay in the hotel as a result.
• The original plan was to emulate Chrono Trigger with all seven Singularities open for the player to tackle in any order but they had to scrap that because only up to America was finished when the game launched.
• The battle sprites originally were going to be Super-Deformed.
• Takeuchi was the one who pushed for changing a single roll from 4 to 3 Quartz
• Nasu's favorite movies are The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, Gattaca, and the Utena movie, Zathura was in his top 3 but Big Fish pushed it out.

Talking about grinding

Edited by Nouct on Dec 28th 2018 at 7:53:47 AM

So the Servants would of look like the riyo style?

im so glad the battle sprites arent chibi, cause (especially nowdays) theres so much personality in them

No because Nasu didn't even know Riyo was doing FGO stuff until like six months after the game launched

Huh, Nasu has pretty good taste in cinema! Zathura's dope!

Chaldea Ace 2 comic translated, it's about Chaldea's time in Babylonia and food.

It makes what happens later all the more sadder.

@Nouct Wait, WHAT? Regular Galahad hasn't even done anything yet!

Also "Epic of Remnant" is getting four Manga Adaptations, with "Deep Sea Cyber Nirvana SE.RA.PH" being the only Singularity that's ignored.

EDIT: Speaking of the first bit, would it be okay for me to add a YMMV sub-page for Fate Requiem so that I could list that person as an Unexpected Character, or is that not allowed or recommended considering that it's currently a Sandbox page and not a legitimate one?

Edited by WolfThunder on Dec 28th 2018 at 8:56:13 AM

I'm somewhat wary of the fact that Galahad Alter doesn't look that different from normal Galahad.

Galahad does have jerkass streak from what I gather.

Make the main page for it and then add a YMMV page would be best, but also give some more time for spoilers to come out because things are still unclear.

Not to be nitpicky at Chaldea Ace, but Akkadian was not the language of Sumer until Sargon of Akkad conquered the southern cities, Sumerian was.

Galahad has the magic tan like Emiya has.

Well okay probably not that but they are both tan looking Whereas Galahad Alter is pale white.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Dec 28th 2018 at 10:39:42 AM

So apparently it is spelled Goredolf◊.

Are Master sprites a thing in JP? It'd be a shame if those renders were relegated to pins (or whatever those are).

Talking of tan, I dread to ask, but is EMIYA Alter genuinely of african descend or is he the same Emiya as other timelines, but with extra tanning?

Other question. We've all discussed how Agartha is the worst thing after trying to cut soft, puffy bread with really dull knife, but I haven't heard consensus on quality of other Epics. Anyone care to share their opinions?

Man, it would be such a badass name if it wasn't so stupid.

Edited by Prany on Dec 28th 2018 at 11:50:19 AM

when can i get Dracula Lily so i can pretend he's Soma Cruz

Dracula Lily is just Dracula from Lament of Innocence

@Prany: Same exact Shirou. They just put him in blackface.

Shinjuku was quite fun. I don't care for Salem. I don't think it was very popular. I don't really know much about Shimosa because it's all a huge homage to a movie I'll never watch and apparently would be a pain in the ass to translate.

Shinjuku is definitely my favorite or it at least made the best impression by virtue of being first, by being so unlike any of the preceding story chapters in presentation, there are lots of fun (meta) twists like CA Hassan approaching Chaldea as an ally only for it to be Yan Qing in disguise, Moriarty attempting to win a Sherlock Holmes story by bringing FGO and other stories into play is an intriguing take on the franchise's appropriation of stories, and Moriarty is all around just the best

SE.RA.PH was all around the tightest written with an exceptionally great climax but Kiara's pretty eh as far as villains go

Shimosa has a lot of cool hype moments and reining back the stakes along with a smaller group of allies allowed for some great character work with Musashi and Kotaro

Salem is a mixed bag, some of the plays in hindsight don't feel needed for the narrative, but the horror atmosphere of the witch trials and Lovecraft stuff works

Oh, right, SE.RA.PH was definitely the best of the lot.

Seems Requiem namedrops a bunch of new Servants besides Galahad Alter, posting list here since they might appear in GO

Circe, Blackbeard, Armstrong, Columbus, and Drake are also mentioned but it's unknown if they're the same as other depictions or not.

Edited by Nouct on Dec 29th 2018 at 2:45:22 AM