You'd be forgiven for thinking Fate is a bog-standard anime experience from the adaptations and the spinoffs. But there's nothing like the urban mysticism, raw emotion, and humanity that shines through in the original visual novel. From modern tales of knights and romance to gripping and tense horror, anyone would be able to tell how much of a tight package this game tells through its three routes.

It may be slow at first and feel like it's wasting your time, but give it a chance. You'll be pulled into a whirlwind like no other.

(No minor typo irked me more than the intentional insistence on Altria though. That's not her name. Artoria makes more sense historically, you figured this out 20 years ago--)

The Rivals devs should make more games like this so I can play their games without blowing out my wrists. Or playing even more dice-based RPGs.

Or just make more games with Absa (my beloved <3).

Too little enemy/build variety for me to be on board and this game wants you to play so MUCH of it. The game being reliant on ONLY dice makes this game wildly more random than other roguelikes to where victory doesn't even feel good.

I will relent the game's charming and holy smokes, that soundtrack is INSANE. This game might as well be a funk jazz album in a trenchcoat.

Better than WoW.

Whoever made the levels mostly vertical, make the player take massive fall damage with little to no checkpoints, and make a moveset that's janky and makes you fall by no fault of your own half the time should be banned from game design.