First of all, the game is well created. Now in this review, I'll go through the important stuff so you don't get too bored. Yes, it's like rock, paper, scissors, BUT, you have to use your head and think. Your goal is to find info about your opponent and find out their pattern and beat them by the end of the week. You have to get two keys in two dungeons to get into the arena. Of course, the keys won't be too hard to get. In the meanwhile, you can battle, go through the story, enjoy, and yes, it's anime. There are three servants you can choose from and the story might get confusing, but you'll understand sooner or later. Overall, if you like anime, battles, nice catchy music, and epicness, this game is for you. So this is a great game for PSP. If you don't believe me, try checking out some videos from Youtube.
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Jamon
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PostedJanuary 20, 2012
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Okay, where to begin with this game? I am a little puzzled with it. Let me begin with MY thoughts on it... I started out as a nameless, helpless loser and then he * SPOILER * died. Now I have chosen my Gender-male- and have chosen my one of three “Servants” (magical figures that used to be famous mythical persons). He is called Archer, even though he fights with swords. By choosing him, over Saber and the other one, I am locked into playing out the game on Normal Mode. Fast-forward through all the mindless dribble-dabble the MC talks about and spend a little time in the Dungeon and things are seeming a little like Deja Vu for me: I am a high school teen with “abilities” talking to people around a school, completing quests and by night, I venture into the Arena, a place where the competition in the Holy Grail war starts and ends. Let me stop here before I bore myself to sleep. Anyone ever play Persona 3 (which also includes Persona 3: FES and Persona 3 Portable AND the Japanese “Greatest Hits' edition of the PSP port) or Persona 4? In Persona 3, and all its brethren, you play a silent protagonist (officially named Minato Arisato in the Manga, but I call him Takkoo Shura) who goes to school by day and does the occasional social link with the ladies or befriends dudes and then goes to the mysterious dungeon Tartarus by night equipped with weapons and the reflection of his inner self, Persona. In Persona 3 Portable, you also must choose a name, Gender, and difficulty, but your persona are changeable. Great story, good graphics and amazing game play, Persona 3 is a bombshell. Fate/Extra is just it's fat, ugly sister. Here you are saying, “I wanted a review on Fate/Extra! Not P3!” Hush, I am getting to it.
Remember how I just said Persona 3 was a good game and how Fate/Extra gives me Deja Vu? Well, seems like we have a poser here. Since Persona (and ultimately the entire Shin Megami Tensei) has been around longer, my money is on Fate/Extra being a poser. Now, at first glance, I thought, “This must be good! It is a mock of my all time favorite game, so it has to be relatively nice...” I was as wrong as I have ever been in my life.
Fate/Extra Sucks. Downright sucks. Not only does it try to be like a good game and fail, but the core of the game just is terrible. It starts out interesting and the graphics are definitely nice, but that doesn't make up for the poor game play. Battles are stylized fights similar to rock-paper-scissors, and they are turn based. Does anyone else agree that that system does not make any sense whatsoever? For the battles you pretty much have to hit and miss the entire time. Only certain enemies will tell you their moves at first. Also, if you defeat an enemy like twenty frigging times, you will start t notice their battle patterns. This should be easy to fight an enemy twenty times; they re-spawn every five minutes. You play a silent protagonist. Or as I thought was silent; he (or she) occasionally goes into bouts of goth-poetry telling how bad he (or she) is at life. You do make decisions for the MC, but they will constantly interrupt the game with these little tidbits of useless information. That is the stupid game play for you. Stale. Boring. Fat and ugly.
The story is interesting. I thought it was at first, at least. The holy grail war, the fight that has waged on for decades in search of the holy grail. The one who finds the holy grail is granted one wish. Interesting background... The game takes place in a nameless high school in a nameless town I imagine is somewhere in Japan. Life is normal for you. Or so it seems. Then you... die. You come back from the dead a completely different person, but with the same weird Gothic conscience. Then you fall down the rabbits hole and find yourself submerged in the “real” world (although you can only experience your boring school). The old world is referred to as the “Prelims” or “Preliminaries” that you had to qualify to get into the real world. The real world is programed to house the contenders of the Holy Grail War. You do your daily tasks, all that take up time that goes on a “Morning” “Afternoon” “Evening” “Night” scale, like Persona. Then at night you go to the arena. Zzzzzzz. I've seen it all before.
The fusion is similar to a fusion between hack\\link and Battle Royale, but dressing like Persona 3. I think it could have potential. It actually has a lot of it. Maybe with a little bit of polish to the story and battle, the game could have been one step up from “Poser” status. Or, if they really wanted to go nuts, they could have made it completely original; completely separate from the Fate Stay Night series (the series the game is in an alternate universe from). The graphics were nice. Maybe Atlus could have ported Persona 4 to the PSP before PSV with the same 3D style Fate\Extra has.
Bottom line, don't waste your money, folks. Don't even rent it or buy it used (even though Game Stop here probably has an overflow of used copies). Like I said, this game is terrible. Maybe if you like Gothic poems and rock-paper-scissors you'll enjoy this game. I don't know. But if I were you I would just go play Persona 3 or 4. They are the real deal. The fat, ugly chick's hot sister.
Okay, where to begin with this game? I am a little puzzled with it. Let me begin with MY thoughts on it... I started out as a nameless, helpless loser and then he * SPOILER * died. Now I have chosen my Gender-male- and have chosen my one of three “Servants” (magical figures that used to be famous mythical persons). He is called Archer, even though he fights with swords. By choosing him, over Saber and the other one, I am locked into playing out the game on Normal Mode. Fast-forward through all the mindless dribble-dabble the MC talks about and spend a little time in the Dungeon and things are seeming a little like Deja Vu for me: I am a high school teen with “abilities” talking to people around a school, completing quests and by night, I venture into the Arena, a place where the competition in the Holy Grail war starts and ends. Let me stop here before I bore myself to sleep. Anyone ever play Persona 3 (which also includes Persona 3: FES and Persona 3 Portable AND the Japanese “Greatest Hits' edition of the PSP port) or Persona 4? In Persona 3, and all its brethren, you play a silent protagonist (officially named Minato Arisato in the Manga, but I call him Takkoo Shura) who goes to school by day and does the occasional social link with the ladies or befriends dudes and then goes to the mysterious dungeon Tartarus by night equipped with weapons and the reflection of his inner self, Persona. In Persona 3 Portable, you also must choose a name, Gender, and difficulty, but your persona are changeable. Great story, good graphics and amazing game play, Persona 3 is a bombshell. Fate/Extra is just it's fat, ugly sister. Here you are saying, “I wanted a review on Fate/Extra! Not P3!” Hush, I am getting to it.
Remember how I just said Persona 3 was a good game and how Fate/Extra gives me Deja Vu? Well, seems like we have a poser here. Since Persona (and ultimately the entire Shin Megami Tensei) has been around longer, my money is on Fate/Extra being a poser. Now, at first glance, I thought, “This must be good! It is a mock of my all time favorite game, so it has to be relatively nice...” I was as wrong as I have ever been in my life.
Fate/Extra Sucks. Downright sucks. Not only does it try to be like a good game and fail, but the core of the game just is terrible. It starts out interesting and the graphics are definitely nice, but that doesn't make up for the poor game play. Battles are stylized fights similar to rock-paper-scissors, and they are turn based. Does anyone else agree that that system does not make any sense whatsoever? For the battles you pretty much have to hit and miss the entire time. Only certain enemies will tell you their moves at first. Also, if you defeat an enemy like twenty frigging times, you will start t notice their battle patterns. This should be easy to fight an enemy twenty times; they re-spawn every five minutes. You play a silent protagonist. Or as I thought was silent; he (or she) occasionally goes into bouts of goth-poetry telling how bad he (or she) is at life. You do make decisions for the MC, but they will constantly interrupt the game with these little tidbits of useless information. That is the stupid game play for you. Stale. Boring. Fat and ugly.
The story is interesting. I thought it was at first, at least. The holy grail war, the fight that has waged on for decades in search of the holy grail. The one who finds the holy grail is granted one wish. Interesting background... The game takes place in a nameless high school in a nameless town I imagine is somewhere in Japan. Life is normal for you. Or so it seems. Then you... die. You come back from the dead a completely different person, but with the same weird Gothic conscience. Then you fall down the rabbits hole and find yourself submerged in the “real” world (although you can only experience your boring school). The old world is referred to as the “Prelims” or “Preliminaries” that you had to qualify to get into the real world. The real world is programed to house the contenders of the Holy Grail War. You do your daily tasks, all that take up time that goes on a “Morning” “Afternoon” “Evening” “Night” scale, like Persona. Then at night you go to the arena. Zzzzzzz. I've seen it all before.
The fusion is similar to a fusion between hack\\link and Battle Royale, but dressing like Persona 3. I think it could have potential. It actually has a lot of it. Maybe with a little bit of polish to the story and battle, the game could have been one step up from “Poser” status. Or, if they really wanted to go nuts, they could have made it completely original; completely separate from the Fate Stay Night series (the series the game is in an alternate universe from). The graphics were nice. Maybe Atlus could have ported Persona 4 to the PSP before PSV with the same 3D style Fate\Extra has.
Bottom line, don't waste your money, folks. Don't even rent it or buy it used (even though Game Stop here probably has an overflow of used copies). Like I said, this game is terrible. Maybe if you like Gothic poems and rock-paper-scissors you'll enjoy this game. I don't know. But if I were you I would just go play Persona 3 or 4. They are the real deal. The fat, ugly chick's hot sister.
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