Fate/Grand Order - English

[Wandering Swordwoman]

Wew now you talk about it, it's true. When will we get her? I can't wait for her now

[SpoonyViking]

Damn it, I joined the hype train. King Hassan really is awesome.

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Wait, what? Is it me, or did King Hassan just one-hit kill a Bel Lahmu with a single Quick attack?!

[Tobias]

Oh sure, he seems cool now, but wait till you summon him and then every weekend he is calling you over to fix his computer or so he can complain because these damn lolis won’t get off his lawn

[madarra]

Damn it, I joined the hype train. King Hassan really is awesome.

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Wait, what? Is it me, or did King Hassan just one-hit kill a Bel Lahmu with a single Quick attack?!

5% insta kill chance on every attack card(reduced by death resist)

Mind you, thats player KH, npc version might have higher percent.

[pinetree]

Both player and NPC have the same values for instant death on card attacks, it's just that the enemies on that stage are weak to it.

[madarra]

Well, Babylonia is the singularity that has stronger npc than player Merlin so i was just covering my bases.

[Kratosirving]

Damn it, I joined the hype train. King Hassan really is awesome.

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Wait, what? Is it me, or did King Hassan just one-hit kill a Bel Lahmu with a single Quick attack?!

Have to admit, once I heard in the battle that he had Jouji's VA, I started wavering on rolling around the new year. I mean, the voice alone is one of T-M's NPs

[SpoonyViking]

So. Babylonia.
It's definitely grandiose, and deservedly so. It's also a rollercoaster of emotions. Overall, I feel Camelot hit a better balance on plot and character and was ultimately the better for it, but this was definitely a worthy ending for the Singularities.
I'm going to be in the minority and say that I liked Tiamat's siren-like wailing, it was appropriately eerie and the dissonance between her monstrous form and her voice only added to the effect, and I liked the visual nods to Dark Sakura. That said, I wish her base form wasn't so sexualised; it wasn't just cheap, it actively harmed her visual design.

5% insta kill chance on every attack card(reduced by death resist)

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining!

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Have to admit, once I heard in the battle that he had Jouji's VA, I started wavering on rolling around the new year. I mean, the voice alone is one of T-M's NPs

His animations did it for me. I still feel his Zabaniya is quite unspectacular, but I loved his regular moves! Plus, in the story, the guy is a class act, even more than he was back in Camelot.

[eddyak]

I still feel his Zabaniya is quite unspectacular

Thing about that is, IIRC his Zabaniya is basically a horror movie, every time he decides the next head Hassan needs a choppin'- they'll start seeing him out of the corner of their eye, or in dark shadows, wherever they go, and in the end they're killed by beheading, without anybody in a village of assassins noticing the kill.

Though the direction of the attack bugs the hell out of me. He's right handed, and the weapon goes from his bottom right to his top left.

[Aozaki-desu]

Azrael is not Zabaniya
i mean its in the name

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Thing about that is, IIRC his Zabaniya is basically a horror movie, every time he decides the next head Hassan needs a choppin'- they'll start seeing him out of the corner of their eye, or in dark shadows, wherever they go, and in the end they're killed by beheading, without anybody in a village of assassins noticing the kill.

what the fuck are you talking about

[Reign]

Both player and NPC have the same values for instant death on card attacks, it's just that the enemies on that stage are weak to it.

And yet I only got an instant kill once out of all those lahmu. I don't think Hassan likes me.

[eddyak]

Azrael is not Zabaniya
i mean its in the name

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what the fuck are you talking about

It's in his CM profile, or his GO profile, or something, IIRC. Once you've gone from well-meaning murderer for your god to less-well-meaning murderer for fun & profit, he starts showing up, and only the target sees him, and in the end they're ded.

[Aozaki-desu]

Its Evening Bell
he is invisible to anyone but the one he is going to kill
and he just appears once to kill them, there is no stalking involved whatsoever

[Weatherwax]

The Final Singularity is next Thursday (along with CockWizard) as expected.

[eddyak]

Its Evening Bell
he is invisible to anyone but the one he is going to kill
and he just appears once to kill them, there is no stalking involved whatsoever

Huh. You're right. I could've sworn I read something like that, but all I could find was

Presence Concealment A

A skill to erase one's presence. The vestiges of what he once learned.

As he carries a strong curse, even if this swordsman obtains a perfect success in his stealth check, his existence ends up being perceived by the “opponent he is about to kill".

In short, the opponent breaks out in cold sweat, perceiving a premonition of the death that is to be their fate.

[SpoonyViking]

Azrael is not Zabaniya
i mean its in the name

Yeah, yeah, less pedantry, please.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

Zabaniyah= Angel of Torture

Azrael= Angel of Death

[Toa of Gallifrey]

I liked the final act of Camelot better, but overall found Babylon more enjoyable. I'm a sucker for anything that lets me settle into its setting, and singularity 7 is the only where I got completely into it and really wanted to save Uruk and its inhabitants. I also appreciated pure story nodes and a lack of free quests until the ending, it helped give the conflict more authenticity and divorce it from the problem of needing content to tie directly into battles lest there be weirdly disproportionately long pre- or post-battle cutscenes. Definitely my favorite FGO content so far.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

So. Babylonia.
It's definitely grandiose, and deservedly so. It's also a rollercoaster of emotions. Overall, I feel Camelot hit a better balance on plot and character and was ultimately the better for it, but this was definitely a worthy ending for the Singularities.
I'm going to be in the minority and say that I liked Tiamat's siren-like wailing, it was appropriately eerie and the dissonance between her monstrous form and her voice only added to the effect, and I liked the visual nods to Dark Sakura. That said, I wish her base form wasn't so sexualised; it wasn't just cheap, it actively harmed her visual design.






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I don't see a problem with Tiamat Femme Fatale design Do you expect primordial gods to wear lot of clothes like royalty?
Heck do you even read myth about Greek Gods? They're fucking naked (especially the male one)
And Hassan with evening sky on the background with feathers to close it is clearly much cooler than just shouting "zabaniya"

[Sesto]

Just finished Babylonia. It was good, though I think the story would work better in an open world adventure game or something. Camelot overall was more enjoyable and had a better climax. Babylonia's climax was literally just "oh shit we're fucked, let's try thi- oh shit we're still fucked" over and over again. Which is neat and all but repetitive in the F/GO story format.

Also evil Ushi was dumb. That arc could have been completely removed and nothing would have been lost.

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But Eresh is super cute, I actually want to grail her in JP now