Post — Aaron Ngo

Welcome to my second game review!

I have been meaning to write this game review for about a year now, and I’m really glad I put it off because getting people on board with anything Fate-related is really tricky. The problem isn’t that Fate is awful; it’s far from being terrible. In my opinion, the anime is kind of outdated beside Fate/Zero. And even that particular series has its own flaws that would turn people off.

However, this mobile game, free to download in the app store, is the reason I was able to bypass everything wrong with Fate and showed me what the series got right: the characters and more importantly, the Servants with tragic backgrounds. There are so many of them, but all of them are lovable. Fate/GO is about collecting your favorite Servants and being able to fight side by side with them.

The main story is about a demi-Servant named Mash teaming up with the player (that’s us!) to solve distortions in human history caused by rogue Servants. The tutorial is a lot like Fate/Zero’s first intro episode where they throw a ton of information at the player to catch them up: Holy Grail War, Servants, Masters, Command Spells, and how the game works.

Story mode is played out like a visual novel, and on top of that, Servants have their own personal tales called Interludes, which fleshes out their personalities, and for in-game, if you play through them, the Servants will get upgrades in skills or their Noble Phantasm, their finisher move.

The game play is turn-based combat, with the player (Master) being able to control three Servants at a time. As a reminder, Servants are Heroic Spirits from various cultures / histories. The Master’s Party is allowed to have six Servants total: three active members and three sub-members as back-up. Each Servant has 5 Command Cards and they are shuffled in a deck, then dealt out every round, giving the player a total of 5 different Command Cards to use against the enemies.

The Command Cards are called Buster (physical), Art (magic that fuels the Noble Phantasm), and Quick (low attacks that fuel critical stars).

I have been playing this game for about 8 months now, and it was my starting point for the Fate anime. To be honest, I enjoy the game a lot, and I make sure to log in everyday. Obtaining high rarity Servants is the best / most frustrating part of this entire game. Investing money into this game is borderline a necessity… normally in other free-to-play games, I find ways around spending real money, but Fate/GO does not have loopholes.

Overall, I would recommend this game to play if you want to learn more about the Fate universe without watching the anime or reading the manga / visual novels. Plus, you’ll have fun with the Servants readily available in the Friends Summon. One of the best Servants in the entire game comes from there: Cu!

Side note: I PULLED MYSTERIOUS HEROINE X ALTER! BERSERKER!

Also, if you already are playing this game, my friend code is: 228,567,965