playable characters

[omfgboom1]

please dont tell me they made a fate/stay game and you only play as one guy. it also looks very simple like playing berserk band of the hawks. have they had this just sitting on a shelf since early 2000s.

[Rizo the Hunter]

Yes, you play only as the dude with occasional servant gameplay.

[Lestrad]

Emphasis on the "occasional". Ironic, considering the super powered servants are the main draw of the entire franchise, and how they inundated us with flashy gameplay videos of the servants.

Personally, I'm hoping this is something a trainer or modders can address somewhat quickly and get it to play more akin to FF7 Remake where you could play almost every battle in the game without having to ever touch Cloud. That's what I'm hoping for anyways.

[Sunset Margatroid]

Damn you people are picky as hell

[Rizo the Hunter]

Originally posted by Sunset:

Damn you people are picky as hell

Picky how? This is a Fate game or whatever, aren't servants the main draw in this series? One would asume people want to play as them for more than just 5 minutes tops. I have watched several hours of gameplay on YT and have come to the conclusion you only play as Musashi once in the whole game for a few minutes and that's it, for example.

Waiting to get final confirmation on this. If my suspicions are correct, I am refunding this game and getting it when it is on deep discount.

No point on preordering at full price for an npc outfit.

[Lu Bu]

You can play as other servants, an Uesugi Kenshin like character literally becomes playable after you played as Musashi

[Lestrad]

Originally posted by Rizo the Hunter:

I have watched several hours of gameplay on YT and have come to the conclusion you only play as Musashi once in the whole game for a few minutes and that's it, for example.

That's what I've heard. Makes me really sad that the best Fate game available are the Extella games. They're not awful, but we could have gotten so much more game-play and level design wise. The roster in Link wasn't terrible but compared to Koei's Orochi franchise, it paled in comparison (Warriors Orochi 4 had 170 playable characters). And dear god did they do Jeanne dirty - rendering her Noble Phantasm useless. Combine with the complete lack of coop support...

While Extella was done my Marvelous, I blame Koei for us not having a single decent Samurai game to date. It's like they have a friggin monopoly on feudal Japan and China and nobody want's to challenge them (despite Koei's games being fun, but technically mediocre)