![]() It doesn’t help that the various Masters and Servants are, ultimately, forgettable despite the series’ effort to have them spill their backstory and motivations before being killed. Although the bosses are meant to represent the Masters and various Servant classes on every floor, it doesn’t feel like a Holy Grail War because the stakes and rules are not the same, it just feels sort of like Sword Art Online where the characters used their wits and codes to make them more advanced and defeat their opponent in combat. the boss), defeat the master, and advance to the next level where the process repeats. The plot is easily summarised as this characters go to a level, find the floor master (a.k.a. However, the video-game vibes are not completely shaken off. The characters’ backstories are revealed sparingly but in a compelling manner, and although it stops for some talk-heavy scenes, they do try to keep them brief and sometimes visually interesting to avoid them being tedious. ![]() To give credit where it’s due the anime does try to provide a natural flow to the story and have the plot unfold slowly but organically as the series goes on. The anime itself, although part of the mega franchise, is based upon the dungeon-crawler PSP game Fate/EXTRA, which normally raises red flags as most anime based upon video games often fall into the trap of making many boring scenes of exposition dumps and failing to shake the feeling that you should be playing the video game instead. So, if you’re a complete newbie to Fate, I highly recommend you stop here, go read my Beginner’s Guide to Fate article to find out where to start, and then come back. However, unlike Apocrypha, Extra Last Encore is not as welcoming to newcomers the former has a completely original cast with no references to previous magi families and explained its War rules clearly, the latter instead brings back older characters in different roles and half-expects the audience to already know the rules to the standard Holy Grail War. ![]() However, as the pair begin the climb up to the multiple levels and battle the Masters they find on each one, they realize that something much darker is going on behind it all.įate/Extra Last Encore is Netflix’s second Fate-related co-produced anime in as many years, and like its other series, Fate/Apocrypha, it’s actually an alternative universe re-telling of the original Fate/Stay Night story. As his world starts to collapse around him and his only known friend Shinji Matou betrays him, Hakuno accidently summons his own Servant, a Saber class that saves his life and has her own wish to participate in the War. Hakuno Kishinami is seemingly an ordinary boy who attends school, but his world is actually an artificial environment within a space called the ‘Moon Cell’ run by the SE.RA.PH that chooses humans to become masters and participate in the Holy Grail War. ![]()
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