Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia

they shows showed London before Orleans last episode so I doubt that.

Edited by Mami on Nov 2nd 2019 at 8:41:57 PM

I know, but a man can dream.

x3 To be more spepific, it is the Royal Game of Ur.

In fairness to myself, the boards do look pretty similar.

Pardon my Frenchness, but what does "punted" mean?

Outside of that, man it's weird to hear Gilgamesh admit that he was weaker than his opponent…

In the game, one of the very first missions you can bring him along for has a Rider miniboss which has the class advantage over his Caster class and he immediately complains about that after beating it.

Well, to explain: the game has a Rock–Paper–Scissors thing in the gameplay, where Casters>Assassins>Riders>Casters, and so on.

There's a node in it where the enemies are listed as all Assassins, so Gil (who is in the Caster class) tells you in the cutscene to bring him in battle...only for a Rider boss to show up out of nowhere, for no good reason other than to annoy him and make him useless as a gameplay unit.

For obvious reasons this was removed in the anime.

Probably should've posted it here first, Marisbury is voiced by Chris Hackney in the dub.

Speaking of that, how was he able to summon Solomon? I was under the impression that a Grand Servant couldn't be summoned in a normal Holy Grail War.

He didn't, at least not how you mean. Grand is a special class container. You can be, for example, a Grand Saber if you fulfill whatever requirements are necessary for that class, but that doesn't disqualify you for Saber.

Edited by Arha on Nov 2nd 2019 at 6:54:36 AM

Eh, there's a certain moment in this singularity that's just weird considering the containers bit.

King Hassan or Grand Caster stuff?

My question was more about the definition of the word "punted", but thanks for the explanation.

The former yeah.

He was summoned by Alaya, which is the only entity capable of summoning them. Merlin kept him hidden so Tiamat wouldn't know where he is until the moment was right for her to die.

To punt is to kick in a way that sends the kicked object flying. I don't think it was the correct word to use there, but it gets the point across.

King Hassan was summoned by the World. He's not supposed to actively side with humanity. I can't remember if he lost the class container during Camelot or during Babylonia, but while he lost the class he didn't lose all the power he had from it immediately, so he uses all that stocked up power that was slowly draining away to strike an important blow and slow down Tiamat.

It just bugs me he gets that dumb treatment when he was still doing his job.

Well, it's not like he was summoned by something intelligent. He broke the rules and an automated system said No! Bad Grand Assassin!

He lost it during Camelot: rules state that a Grand Servant can only act in the interest of humanity as a whole, and the Lion King was not a threat at that point in time, so him helping Chaldea and the rest of the Hassans essentially made Alaya fire him.

So you can summon a Grand Servant in a Holy Grail War, they'll just be a top-tier Servant instead of a stupidly powerful example of their class.

You can summon a Servant who could be a Grand Servant under other conditions. Like there's a 99% chance Artoria is Grand Saber. We've seen two at least two Grand Casters in other classes, possibly three.

I'll agree with Muffins about the Drake extended cameo being the best moment of the episode, but only for the good possibility of a similar Nightingale scene it brings to the table.

Librarian: not quite.

Just because you summon a Heroic Spirit that can be a Grand Servant, doesn't make them a Grand. They're still a regular Servant.

For example, Merlin can be a Grand Caster. However, as summoned here in the Singularity, he's just a regular Caster.

The Holy Grail War does not provide sufficient energy to summon a Grand Servant. Summoning a Grand Servant is on a similar level to summoning a Divine Spirit*: it takes WAY too much power. Only the Counter Force has the kind of power that would allow for that.

\*By which I mean a FULL Divine Spirit, not a god that has reduced itself to be able to be summoned as a Servant.

Edited by DarkHunter on Nov 2nd 2019 at 9:58:41 AM

X8 no punt is very much the word I intended to use. The first time I saw the scene was in I think one of the Chaldea ace anthologies and there Gil actually got sent flying. That was the kind of thing I wanted to see, or at least an after battle of Gil sulking in the cart with injuries and when the characters ask him if he's okay he tells them to forget what just happened

Edited by Mami on Nov 2nd 2019 at 5:27:08 PM

Thanks Arha and Mami. I kinda wanna see that now.

Edited by Lyendith on Nov 3rd 2019 at 5:50:57 PM