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One of the most influential Japanese visual novels ever made gets a PC Steam remaster this weekIt must be Fate
It must be Fate
Image credit:Aniplex Inc
Image credit:Aniplex Inc
This week sees the release of a new Steam edition of Type-Moon and Kinoko Nasu’s dark fantasy visual novel and dating sim Fate Stay/Night. I randomly watched one of Stay/Night’s many anime spin-offs, Fate Zero, during the pandemic lockdowns. It triggered a short-lived obsession with the Fate series - I even dipped a toe in the long-lived mobile gacha game Fate/Grand Order. As such, I think I’m the nearest thing RPS has to a Fate “expert”. Join me for a brief and sporadically informed tour of a universe that has Shaped The Culture like few others.
「Fate/stay night REMASTERED」Release Announcement PVWatch on YouTube
「Fate/stay night REMASTERED」Release Announcement PV
Stay/Night isn’t a laidback play. It’s extremely easy to make the wrong call and perish without warning - you are, after all, a puny human who has fallen in with various juggernauts from the ancient world. The narratives can be very disturbing - the Heaven’s Feel plot path, in particular, is a ghoulish history of sexual abuse.
The original game also features some extremely cheesy, male-gazey sex scenes, but these have been removed from the Steam remaster (which is based on the intervening, non-adult Realta Nua adaptation). If the violence is too much,the Carnival Phantasm parodiesare a nice, if deeply discombobulating introduction to the fundamental idiocy of a series in which Shakespeare gets to bandy words with Hercules and Jack The Ripper. There’s alsoa cosy Fate cooking show, in which Saber, Shirou and co bond over omurice and curry. I’m pretty sure there’s a Fate-themed everything, at this stage.
The new edition of Fate Stay/Night is out on Thursday 8th August, and will be available in English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.Here’s the Steam page. I will leave you withBerser-CAR.
