Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Caeruleus_CCXVI
4.5/10 ~ Only good for the biggest of fans of Fate
All and all this is just a video game adaptation that is I guess the alternative time line of FatestayNight/Unlimited Blades, kicking a dead horse there. Featuring Heroic Spirits that can Multi class, and Dark versions of Heroes of previous shows... exhilarating.
- Writing for the show was actually bad for fate, and outside of Zero, that is saying something.
- Characters are all extremely not deep and honestly barely say anything meaningful the whole run
- Extremely funny that this was clearly an add of "get the new character, look they even can beat the old best in class units", power creep at its finest.
- The real reason to come and watch this is the fight, and there was 2 main fights that more or less went on at the same time, and h…
Read at the sourceExcalibaaaa
“Before the devil dropped an endless stream of money on his lap”.
Well, here’s the source of that stream, and it fucking sucks. Kinoko Nasu’s skill as a writer is what made the Fate series such a massive success, spawning countless visual novels, light novels, video games, and subsequent anime and manga adaptations. However, somewhere along the line ( cough … cough … Fate/Apocrypha ) Nasu and Type-Moon seem to have realized where the real money comes from: “gooner games”. Fate/Grand Order is a shitty mobile game where you command around legendary heroes (who are all depicted as half-naked women) to fight evil villains who want to destroy humanity and create a new world, and naturally, all the sexy heroines fall in love with you.
Fate/Grand Order: First Order is the tutorial of t…
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FGO First Order is a skippable part of the FGO anime only perspective. I watched this after watching FGO Babylonia, and although I didn't mind watching this special, it added very little to the story that I missed by watching FGO out of order. Since this only covers 1 singularity, there is no reason to force yourself to watch this. To my knowledge, many of the singularities are game only parts of the franchise, making this special irrelevant. The overall quality of this special is pretty mid for Fate. That being said, it's not unwatchable, it's fast paced making it easy to watch.
Animation 7/10
- Rather simple, not terrible though, but definitely on the lower end of Fate quality.
Sound 6/10
- The typical awesome SE are not really present here, just below the norm compared to most Fate I'v…
Read at the sourceSveniboy
Fate/Grand Order and its consequences have been a disaster for the Fate series.
Let me explain: What made the original work Fate/Stay Night so entertaining were not just the references to history and mythology (and letting important figures emerging from there fight it out) but also the characters. None of them were particularly complicated but they all had something about them that made their journey fun to watch and they had great chemistry among each other.
Now the big problem with FGO is that it only has half of what made FSN good. We have plenty of characters from history and mythology, but no cast that one can really get attached to. The protagonist is bland as can be, which only makes sense, considering this movie is adapted from a mobile game, but neither of the side-characters a…
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For newcomers, this anime is one of several adaptations of the FGO mobile game. It adapts the prologue (Flame Contaminated City Fuyuki) to the first arc (Observer on Timeless Temple). There are also anime for the sixth (Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot), seventh (Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia), and eighth and final (Grand Temple of Time Solomon) chapters of this arc, and another telling an original story that slots between the interstitial Arc 1.5 (Epic of Remnant) and Arc 2 (Cosmos in the Lostbelt). Though no anime yet exist, manga adaptations are slowly adapting the remaining five chapters of OoTT and the five chapters of EoR.
So here's the thing.
The Fuyuki anime isn't as bad as you've been lead to believe. It makes some rather bizarre changes (including, sadly, cutting a fi…
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Eh? it was alright? This is my second romp into Fate and I really want to get into this series. Started Fate Zero and dropped it after 6 episodes. That wasn't because it was bad, that's because I'm a Japanese learner and it was my first Anime with no English subtitles. I simply couldn't keep up (but I will go back to it one of these days). This was lame. Don't expect much from this movie or whatever it is. I kinda just dinked around on my phone while it played in the background and thought that I could have used my time better. But hey, I was able to turn subs off and understand what was going on, so that means I'm probably able to get back into Fate Zero!
Read at the sourceNatsumiKagami
Story (6/10): It's very mediocre and it's just about three very clueless people that got sent to fight back in 2004. It's very rushed compared to the game, but it's not that badly executed.
Art (10/10): There's nothing bad to say. The characters and animation are done beautifully.
Sound (8/10): The soundtracks are decent and the voice actors do a good job.
Character (6/10): The characters are all clueless, but are not annoying or bad characters exactly.
Enjoyment (3/10): It was SO BORING until the end, and even then, it was not that good.
Overall (6/10): This is one of the worst fates, but the series is amazing. If you want to watch a good story with great fight scenes and animation, watch Fate Grand Order: Babylonia.
Read at the sourceMr_Yaz
Reviewer's note: This is my 1st entry into the Fate/Grand Order spin-off works, but 16th in the franchise overall.
✪ Genre: action (gunfights, swordplay), contemporary fantasy, dystopian, magic (spellcasting, magic weapons), seinen, superpower (emotions awaken superpowers)
✔Positive Aspects✔
◧ Animation: the characters' design is generally good, based on a combination of colors of moderate to low saturation/medium to high lumination, with the urban environment and the urban landscapes being more muted in comparison. Overall, I feel that Lay-Luce's work trails Silver Link's work in the Fate/Kaleid spin-off series.
◧ Concept: an interesting take on a somewhat familiar scenario - humanity's future appears to be on very shaky grounds, thus time-traveling may be the only way to put it bac…
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I loved this movie. Love the art, animation, action scenes and story. It's an incredibly entertaining experience.
However, it's not perfect so I'll list what I felt didn't make sense and everything on the list below is a SPOILER!!!!!!
1) During the fight with Saber, while Mash is defending, it's show multiple times that Saber's attack is being deflected to the sides, which means that Fujimaru would never be able to approach his servant safely. It's a huge plothole that could've been easily avoided by having Olga cast some sort of protection around him just for that purpose.
2) Real villain plotwist is no plotwist at all as it's too obvious and anybody with a blindfold on would see it miles away.
Regardless, it's an incredible entertaining movie and it actually made me want to check t…
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A boy gets roped into a slaughter ritual without knowing much about the war and servants. Does this sounds familiar? If yes, then you know this is a alternate version of Fate/Stay, Apohcrya, Extra Encore and so on. Somehow Type-Moon loves to depict the end of humanity and let a slow sluggish boy with his "feelings" save the day.
Fate/Grand Order the First Order is an introduction to the whole Grand Order series. This show assumes you're already familiar with the Stay and Zero series. There are references towards those series and some information is left out as Grand Order assumes you already know this. As result the whole introduction towards Grand Order feels a bit messy if you don't know the other titles. This being the only disappointment, let's see what First Order has for us.
Charac…
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Well, here comes my first review.
The guidelines ask to be objective (lol), so I guess I'll try to develop the arguments on my subjective experience to make it appear as something objective.
TLDR : I don't recommend the movie, I think it's a waste of time.
Okay, being a fan of the Fate franchise, I was hoping that this introduction to FGO would be at least enjoyable and would convince me to invest some time into this new franchise.
I pretty much expected it just to be a glorified ad, and oh boy! What an awful ad it was.
Story: Well... Basically it's not great.
Like... at all.
You know what, I'll say it : It's bad.
The story is clearly not focused as much on its setting as it is on simply driving the story to its next fight. No it's worse than that: the setting has never been about…
Read at the sourceMegapala
Ok, I'm just going to cut right to the chase: This movie was extremely disappointing. At once just as a peiece of media on its own it fails, but even more so as an adaptation.
This is supoposed to be an adapatation of the tutorial level of the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. Just storywise, it does an ok job of retelling the story going on in that part, they kept most of the important things in there, so I will commend them for that. My main gripe is how the characters were handled, more specifically, Mash.
Mash Kyrielight is one of my favourite characters of the game, but if you were to judge her character based on this movie, you'd think she was just a bland piece of borderline mute wood, whereas in the game, she does a lot of talking, she has a lot personality. She'll even crack jokes,…
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After seeing little to no reviews made after the English version of Fate GO was released, I'm here to defend this hour-long special!
Most are upset that this is just a weird, poorly executed entry into the highly acclaimed Fate series we all know and love. However, most did not know of or mention the game that is supposed to accompany it.
Fate Grand Order is a gatcha mobile game released in 2015, in which you summon servants and play with a turn-based battle system. The gameplay works alongside a visual novel-type story, as with games like Love Live! and Fire Emblem Heroes. ***This special is subtitled "First Order" because it is a straight, pure adaptation of the entire first block of story in the game.***
I believe this entry takes place in the present day, but 2004 Singularity F spec…
Read at the sourceSyrene_Windsor
Pros
- Great art style and character design. Each person has different looks (Especially the supporting characters) and the equipment looks cool (Weapon, armor, etc)
- Great sound effect
- Cool battle scene and visual effect. Each character has distinct battle style and skills
- Has great potential in the future if they decide to make a sequel
Cons
- Lack of character's personality and background
- You need to watch the precursor anime (Fate/stay night or Fate/zero) to get a better grasp about the whole situation. Since both of them are good, I recommend you to watch it first to raise your enjoyment and your knowledge about Fate series
- So many things left unexplained and it's quite confusing for newcomer in Fate series
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I got quite excited when I saw that the Fate franchise had launched a spinoff (of sorts) to the original Fate saga. Unfortunately, this spinoff turned out to be garbage.
There is no really interesting story to Grand Order. It really tries to align with the original Fate storyline, but it does a miserable job at doing so. For example, what happened to Emiya? And why is the original Lancer now a Caster? No explanation at all.
If the story wasn’t bad enough, the movie is just poorly conducted and executed. The action scenes of OK, but the music, characters, flow of the entire thing, and general animation are poor. Most of it is just too tacky.
This was probably one of my worst reviews, but I honestly don’t feel like putting in any effort after I already wasted an hour and half watching…
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Yeah, this sucks compared to Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, and even Fate/stay night. Not all that much can happen in 74 minutes anyway that's like 3 episodes.
Is it worth watching? The fight scenes are pretty good (not as good as those in FZ and FSNUBW but better than those in FSN). The soundtrack's great. Anime soundtracks are usually great especially those for battle-themed anime like Fate/Grand Order: First Order. This anime does best, perhaps, in its title. Other than that, it has little redeeming value and is barely entertaining. Took me 2 sittings to watch.
Not recommended if you've seen the three series mentioned above. If you haven't, don't see this one anyway because you should see those ones.
RATINGS
Enjoyment -- 6
Resonance -- 2.5
Overall Quality -- 5
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With the FGO china server having their new year draw, I thought "Hey why don't I write a review for the FGO anime, maybe the karma of introducing new wallets, I mean, fans to the franchise would allow me to draw the Okita that I always wanted."
So here it is, Fate/infinity crisis. Or that is pretty much what it is.
First of all, since the anime is nothing but advertisement and a celebration/mourning of the death of doctor Roman, I will be talking spoilers for the game. If you are just going to watch the OVA, I gave it a 5, it is average, some nice fight scenes (Okay, ONE good fight scene), overall, none nasuverse fans aren't going to understand anything. And regular watchers can stop now, as for all you other curious people who don't understand anything about what is happening and want…
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No spoilers in here-
As a long running fan of the fate franchise i honestly had my jaw drop to the floor when i started to see the direction this movie took. Maybe if it wasnt having to live up against the rest of the Fate franchise it would be an ok movie but you cant even begin to compare the two.
The story is honestly just so... out of nowhere. I had absoultely NO idea what was going on half the time, and there is literally no character development in the entire move. They try to make emotional scenes but i just find myself unable to care about any of the characters because i know NOTHING ABOUT THEM.
As for the animation quality and fight scenes they just dont live up to the Fate standard. The animations are all missing that brilliant flair that made the series so well known for its…
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This is an OVA based on the first arc of the Fate Grand Order mobile game. As such, the story is incomplete and ends on a cliffhanger in order to entice the viewer to start playing the game, however it's Japanese exclusive for now so if non-Japanese want to play it they'll have to put some work into it. The characters and story will feel incomplete, but that's fair given its nature.
This is a good short that captures the spirit of the game well enough- going through what-if and alternate scenarios that feature established characters in different classes, or alternate versions of them that draw deeper into their mythology. The standout example of this is Cu Chulainn, formerly Lancer, now a Caster in this scenario that draws on the character's druid and runic magic aspect. This is somethin…
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This "Special" glorified advertisement has the most ironic anime name in history. A woeful way to cap off 2016. For anyone who saw this shortly after, what a horrible way to start off 2017.
*SPOILERS FOR FATE/GRAND ORDER: FIRST ORDER AND ONE SPOILER FOR FATE/ZERO SECOND SEASON*
Fate/Grand Order: First Order isn't grand in the slightest. The only thing "grand" about this special feature film is how much of a grand travesty it is. It simply doesn't GET how any of the intricacies of the Holy Grail War or the servants work. Instead, it opts to be generic and full of black holes (that's how gaping these plot-holes are), and as a result, this glorified mobile game advertisement fails as an addition to the franchise, and is the literal worst place for a newcomer to start. Why, you may ask. What…
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