Fate/Grand Order

Well, used to

Now it’s hell all the way up

Something came to me just now: Hans (and other author Servants) talks a lot about deadlines and all that, and I am now like "Who are you even writing for in the first place?".

ah yes, america. for whatever reason it's a pretty popular singularity and i just. dont get it. i voiced my distaste pretty clearly when it first dropped and my opinion has not changed.

nursery rhyme?

Edited by EpicBleye on May 6th 2020 at 5:11:58 AM

Blackbeard's Servant Comiket obviously

x2 it was just fun for me. Plus Florence Nightingale is the reason I'm studying medicine so I was happy tp work with her

Now you can also threaten to shoot your patients in order to let them treat you :P

I personally find America to be So Okay, It's Average. It isn't the most memorable chapter to me, but it isn't bad. Only real bad part about it is Cu Alter himself.

America is so dedicated to applying the nation's motto of E Pluribus Unum everywhere as a Central Theme that I found it to be weirdly endearing.

The biggest problem so far is probably the painfully obvious railroading. They literally pulled the "you win but actually not" twice in a row. I could deal with the annoying characters if I was allowed to beat them and not have it immediately nullified.

Also Mami, no one cares what Roman says, that's pretty much canon.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

x5 that sounds kind of illegal so I'll stick with corpses for the time being

Edit: Mapo tofu man...

Edited by Mami on May 6th 2020 at 10:33:56 AM

i could absolutely go on and on about how much nonsense it is that they're traveling across the whole country on foot as if that is in anyway plausible

or how killing all the founding fathers would have absolutely caused america to not happen, along with literally every future event that happened because of america ("spirit of america" or not, as much as i adore that sentiment, falls flat when you keep in mind how ridiculously integral George Washington was to actually forming the country as it is, among the rest of them

or how even a couple year delay in the formation of america would have completely changed how France was formed, and how much help the US would have gotten from France during the war of 1812

on top of the rest of the ridiculous issues with how much land other countries and native americans still owned at the time of the US's formation

i entirely choose to fanon it as the entire singularity being completely undone because otherwise it just makes no sense

and that's on top of a bland story and largely unremarkable characters (Nightingale and Edison notwithstanding, disregarding how stupid edison's concept is and how little that makes sense as well)

Edited by EpicBleye on May 6th 2020 at 5:30:21 AM

Helena might not be so bad after all. I tentatively don't wish death on her anymore.

Geronimo is pretty cool.

Hey, they do actually acknowledge that we summon more Servants to fight! That's like... second time, I think.

Defeated Karna in one turn. Perks of having a level 90 Saber.

And yeah they victory actually counts. Nice.

Oh yeah, there seems to be no functional difference between traveling between streets in London and States in America.

Edited by Shlugo_the_great on May 6th 2020 at 11:38:14 AM

Pretend I wasn't lazy and made a photoshop of that History channel guy where the text is "Alien God/Daybit did it" in regards to the inconsistencies in America.

Edited by Nouct on May 6th 2020 at 2:42:59 AM

The fox is trying to goad me and I'm more annoyed that she stepped on Fou than anything

i'm 100% sure that the writers just didnt know how fucking big america is

texas alone is bigger than most European countries

the fox might be evil but god do i love her

plz game drop tamamo assassin

gimme that skin-tight suit

Edited by EpicBleye on May 6th 2020 at 5:47:41 AM

Be fair, most people don't live in continent-sized countries.

At least they got the geological positions right, us from the land of football are lucky if writers don't make the Amazon border São Paulo.

There's a kinda Author's Saving Throw where Sakurai or Nasu seem to have realized Higashide's error because one part of Wodime's simulation is entirely dedicated to him complaining about the fact that it takes so long to get anywhere in the US without vehicles.

Edited by Nouct on May 6th 2020 at 2:51:28 AM

USA is the Totem Pole Trench of countries (not my joke)

Pretty sure Shimousa points out the absolute trek of the America Singularity.

Yeah, America's map is...uh...

As much as I hate Camelot with the burning passion of a thousand suns, at least its map makes sense.

also like the USA is intimately tied into the Lostbelt storyline in a way that no other country is besides arguably England as something that's been seeded throughout the game

• It's where Specimen E made its crash landing during the Incineration of the Human Order crisis -> Bluebook specifically mentions the US as the only nation that could put up a fight against the Alien God -> Area 51 is the only non-bleached area on Earth.
• The USA is basically the only place besides Chaldea where weird alien stuff actually keeps ending up in the modern day (Specimen E, Yog-Sothoth's rift and Randolph Carter in Salem, Nyarly's deal with BB in Hawaii)
• The final Crypter is from Nevada and it's still unclear how it'll pay off.
• Bunyan's entire shtick/event literally just foreshadows the entire linchpin of the Lostbelt conflict (ok this one doesn't really count but also like it's so resonant that I refuse to believe it wasn't intentional)

Considering the alien invasion is plausibly a massive farce, it seems like the US is the only place that actually matters to this mystery plan by conceptually being the most receptive to Weird Alien Shit and to engineer the story of "an alien invasion". It follows then that Medb's invasion is the only part of Goetia's seven-tiered scheme that actually would've meaningfully impeded the Alien God.

and straight from Nasu as the Doylist explanation was that America was when he started seeding stuff to set up part 2

Edited by Nouct on May 6th 2020 at 3:05:18 AM

Is Florence answer to every medical problem amputation?

Oh yeah, Rama, he's... here.

Norman was married?

I like how we just jump straight to assassination plans.

Well that's a first, Camelot is usually the part of the game people agree the writing actually gets sharp.

Edited by HailMuffins on May 6th 2020 at 7:07:28 AM

America is actually worse than Septem in having less meaning to the overall point of Part 1

American may seem a fun romp but that’s it. London manages not to be as pointless except for Goetia. There’s nothing here except maybe token philosophizing by Nightingale. And Bleeding Mash.

I actually hate London the most conceptually because it had fucking nothing to say.

Industrial revolution, Mordred protecting Arthur's domain centuries after the Battle of Camlann ended, something something Tesla's legend of modernity, blah blah being compelled to do evil or whatever, exploring what it means to be in London or a murder mystery could've been fine if Sakurai actually fucking committed to picking something instead of the godawful jumble.

I’m in agreement with that

You raise a good point on how relevant Bunyan mini event was but that’s honestly coincidental