The story.

[[OT]Nekrage]

Do you need to play the previous 2 games to understand the story?

[Coolsiideri]

Yes unless you want to delve into the wiki

[[OT]Nekrage]

Originally posted by Coolsiideri:

Yes unless you want to delve into the wiki

Pass.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Tamamo-no-Bae]

Yes and no, the game has pretty good explanations but you might be mildly confused. It's not a direct continuation requiring deep knowledge of the earlier games for it to be enjoyable.

[sayi50]

The game doesn't directly connect to the past Extra games. It actually follows a "retelling" of Extra's story called "Extella/Zero". But then again, you'd still prefer to play the first two to know the characters and the bonds you have with them.

[Christmas Sweater]

It takes place directly after Extra. Highly recommend Extra even if you don't play this game.

[Jean]

Haven't played any Extra games, and I understand the plot, pretty well. However, I hardly feel anything in those moments that is supposedly emotional, because I don't feel the bonds. And the writing didn't help at all. I have only finished one arc, the plot and writing is mediocre at best.
I don't recommend the game at all if you are after a good story. But the voice cast is great, all the dialogs are voiced, lots of fan service, fighting and unlockables are pretty fun, and the drawings are good. Would recommend if you want these. And I get to read and learn a lot in japanese in a fun way, that's also a plus.

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

You could just watch the Anime.

I mean, if you watch Unlimited Blade Works and Fate Zero you'll get the jist of what's going on.

[Naih]

They reference Fate Extra a bit but nothing of the story relies on it that isn't summarized for you. You were in a digital holy grail war. You won.

Also, the whole game is kind of a what if off of Extra. The ending for Extra is thrown out and you never leave the computer after you win. The most confusing thing about Extella's story is that they tell it out of order.

[Goilveig]

Even if you know nothing Jon Snow, you can probably pick up everything you need - the story is pretty self-contained.

Here is basically a synopsis of everything you might be expected to know from either Fate/Extra or the Fate series in general. No spoilers for this game, but spoilers for Fate/Extra:


In this universe, which is a parallel one to the "main" universe of Fate/Stay Night, humanity on Earth was threatened by a worldwide loss of mana in the 1970s (the basic "life force" of nature in the Fate series).

By the 2030s, humanity has found a new refuge on the moon, and has discovered that the moon houses an ancient alien supercomputer they call Moon Cell, which has recorded all of Earth's history, including parallel universes. Moon Cell simulates an artificial reality called SE.RA.PH (SERiAl PHantasm) in which a Holy Grail war takes place.

As in all other Fate universes, the basic premise of a Holy Grail war is that Masters (human mages) compete against each other by summoning and using Servants (extremely powerful heroes or anti-heroes from Earth's mythology). Like in all Fate media, servants have one of seven classes: Saber, Lancer, Rider, Assassin, Caster, Berserker, or Archer, which give them certain benefits or drawbacks. There are sometimes "Extra Classes" for non-standard Servants, particularly if a Holy Grail war goes off-track and attempts to self-correct.

Masters sustain the existence of Servants by supplying them with mana. Servants in general have minds and personalities of their own, and do not always need to act in accordance with their Master's wishes. Masters each get three Command Seals, however, which can be spent to compel absolute obedience to a single command (a command can sometimes require more than one seal if it is absolutely against the will or nature of the Servant), and can also power-up a Servant to levels they couldn't normally achieve. In most Fate franchises, a Master who spends their final Command Seal loses the right to be a Master and can no longer win the Holy Grail war, but that is not the case in this universe.

The end prize of the Moon Cell Holy Grail War is full authority over Moon Cell itself, which contains technology powerful enough to alter reality. (Typically, the Holy Grail in Fate franchises will offer the bearer the right to make any single wish).

Your protagonist in this game is the Master who won the Moon Cell Holy Grail war from Fate/Extra. You had a main servant (Nero, Saber-class) and a sub-servant (Tamamo no Mae, Caster-class) who joined you after her own master was defeated.

Fate/Extella retcons the ending of Fate/Extra a bit - this game picks up just as you have won the Holy Grail war and are invited to enter Moon Cell's Core, to gain the full system authority you were promised.

[Dreamzera]

As someone that have not played the other games, and just finished the main story of this one after 13 hours ... i can say that you do not need to , and i enjoyed it (the ending of the golden flame arc was really nice and a tear jerker lol) but they have many mentions of what happened before this one, dont go into details, but after some time you can grasp things better and figure what happened.

tl/dr: havent played the others, enjoyed this one

[Riku]

Originally posted by Burke:

I played Fate/Extra and Fate/Extra CCC and can honestly say that had I not played both I'd still be able to play this game just fine. Fate/Extra will help give a lot of backstory to what is going on in the game and Fate/Extra CCC isn't necessary at all; with that said, Fate/Extra CCC was fantastic and worth it if you understand Japanese.

Just to add to this, while you don't exactly need to play EXTRA and CCC before EXTELLA to understand what is going on, both games (mostly CCC) have important details about the lore and setting for all of the Moon Cell games.

This is more so if you already have knowledge about Grand Order and, in general, the Fate franchise along with the other 3 main ones. CCC foreshadows some things with the terms, abilities and some explanations about the mechanics of the world.

If this is your first Fate game, well, you can still enjoy it, but the important details revealed in this game may seem something trivial if you don't exactly know what they are reveaing to you.


And, that's all. Just a friendly comment. :)

[Not Jim Sterling 💯]

Whelp, it seems the game is about beating up Robots with a cute Anime Girl as a reincarnated praetorian with a split soul who became the master of Nero, the Emperor of Rome, who happens to be the aforementioned cute anime girl.

The gameplay consist of smacking robots over and over again with a sword, and occasionally fighting other spirits.

You could literally just skip all of the dialogue and get all you need to out of a game like this IMO.