It's gameplay effects or nothing at all most of the time. What a choice.
It's gameplay effects or nothing at all most of the time. What a choice.
Weren't stay night skill descriptions just tabletop lingo too
Yeah, but those are at least good gameplay
The ones in FSN could at least be mostly translated with knowledge on the system he was following. FGO gameplay has no quantifiable rules from which you can get an idea of what they're trying to say. Mentioning an increase in critical attack weight is complete gibberish that has no correlation to any in-universe mechanic. At least Muramasa's are all asides, rather than the meat of the skill descriptions like a few of these other hack writers we've had in recent mats.
Let's not forget the fact that you can check this info both in-game and from other more useful sources like Atlas and any wiki that show actual numbers, so adding them in the mats is unnecessary. They could at least describe what was the inspiration that made them consider giving them this skill/NP or how this skill would translate in a normal HGW instead of this game, but hey, a tutorial on how this character works is what we all want right?
Last edited by Oz1337; May 28th, 2023 at 03:11 PM.
BasedOriginally Posted by Petrikow
Those are all fair assessments, I meant it more in the general sense of Nasu always had game mechanics in mind when writing sheets. Too bad FGO gameplay is bad or nonsensical at best.
Yeah but tbh I don’t really minddd in this case because Nasu just adds them at the end after an actual description of what they do so it’s not like laziness it’s just unnecessary detail. It’s more an oddity than an annoyance so whatever.
Tbh I'm not sure why they haven't created and sold an FGO official guide that has description and values of the Servant's skills and NPs, instead of adding game mechanics in the mats. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would buy it.
Caster Muramasa? And why are the years listed in Arabic?
BL Character Defining Lines
Arabic numerals presumably just means 2004 and 2015, literally.
Better FGO mechanics than nothing; I can mentally correlate FGO effects to some sort of actual story performance.
They did that, sort of. Can't remember what years it was, two numbers of the TM Ace magazines came with FGO Servant Storage books, they had gameplay descriptions and ascention costs for each servants but no values. Volume 2 went up to Bunyan. They never did more of those books after that but tbh, they were terrible and no one care for them, no new or useful info in them that you couldn't get in-game or online.
The Santa Servant ends up having a much better profile than other Servants LOL.
Just let me know if any profiles have to be switched around to reflect who's doing what:
Konchew - Yang Guifei
Comun - Summer Murasaki and Kiichi
Clyton - Saber Astolfo, Europa, Galatea, and Ibuki
Smoof - Super Orion (shared) and Odysseus
PK - Super Orion (shared)
Padoru - Super Orion (shared)
Shiny - Caenis and Summer Tomoe
Jyg - Nemo
Unclaimed - Summer Illya, Miss Crane, MIXA
Mats X: 6
Mats XI: 4
Mats XII: 4
And it would be out of date every time they came up with a new strengthening quest.
They could still do a special section for SQs to show the improvements.
I don't remember those sections from TM Ace, but I doubt they had any effort put. Without numbers, some useful TIPS on how to use them (though that's honestly only good for Servants like Bazett or Super Orion that don't work like most Servants) and maybe some fun comments or jokes good luck selling them.
I'm doing Orion (almost done), Konchew is doing Ibuki. Saber Astolfo is low prio for Clyton so if some random person wants to nab it, it's effectively unclaimed.
Going by the interpretation that what we get in the mats are mostly unedited versions of the full profiles all artists say they receive before they design their characters, we can assume the FGO planners also receive this same documents and make the gameplay skills based on it, and Nasu throwing gameplay effects means Nasu is the only writer actively choosing what his characters will play like.
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By process of elimination, it can only mean the one in Shimousa.
Because that's the standard everyone follows. Like how all English words are written with the Roman alphabet.
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First Duryodhana mention in Related Characters. Let's hope he'll have a fun rivalry with Bhima in their Ordeal Call.
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