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Have you played through the latest singularity in Fate-Go. What did you think of it?

HELLO YES ANON I DID, I TANKED THROUGH IT IN TWO DAYS (and forced @kyogre-blue to put up with my rambling i’m so sorry)

Haha, the writing in FGO sure takes a sharp upward spike around Camelot, doesn’t it? I went from aggressively skip-scening to thoroughly engrossed! i’m ready for solomon (ง •̀_•́)ง

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Honestly, I had a lot of fun with Babylonia (and Camelot!) Babylonia was in it’s own way incredibly inspiring, you know? Despite the entire thing leading up to the deaths of everyone you know and care about, it still managed to be very uplifting. I got unreasonably attached to the people of Uruk, Gilgamesh’s Servants and ofc… the man, the legend… Gilbride, himself. I even got upset at Kingu’s death!

There are a lot of fantastic lines in Babylonia, the “humanity endures and lives on” message was delivered beautifully, and the final battle was hype as fuck. I went nuts when Archer Gil showed up, I’m tellin ya. (also shoutout to babylonia for creating the one version of medusa i actually give a shit about.)

It felt like there wasn’t as much happening as in Camelot - Camelot was pure chaos, and it also felt longer… though honestly that might be because I was getting slowed down by the Knights of the Round quite a bit (GAWAIIIIIIIIIN) while in Babylonia the only real problem I had was Ushiwakamaru (I swear, next time I hear her NP lines, I’m going to have PTSD flashbacks.)

In terms of characters… Merlin was about what I expected, except like… dude, you can’t have an extended rant about how much you don’t care about individual people and then flip the fuck out when Gilgamesh dies. Aside from being a liar who lies (or rather, someone totally inequipped to process what humanity they have and being amazingly unaware of it), Merlin’s just a lot of fun to read. (”spells are hard i just hit things” merlin you fucker) i am going to spend an absurd amount of my rainyday budget on this man i can tell

Medusa Lily is… I did not expect to get hit with her death so hard, but then they had the thing where she was hanging out with that grandma… and the flower crown… :’s I could probably leave Quetzacoatl, onee-san isn’t really my thing… Ishtar and Ereshkigal got out-tsundere’d by Gilbride and Merlin but were otherwise loads of fun even though I’m not sure how much water Nasu’s justification for them being Rinfaces actually holds. I don’t really regret not rolling for Ishtar, but I definitely want to pick up Ereshkigal and hug her forever.

Kingu tore out my heart and stamped all over it, but I’m disappointed we still haven’t met the real Enkidu (guess that’s what strange fake is for, which i’m reading rn). I… felt bad for them? I would trade Jaguar Man for Kingu in Chaldea even if I never used them because I want to hug them (and they can chill with my casgil).

And as for Gilbride… You know, in CCC, Gil develops a little but not a whole lot, you know? Don’t get me wrong, I love CCC Gil, but CasGil is objectively superior and I gotta say, waiting for that development was worth it. (Is it development if it technically happened a long time ago and the Gil we dealt with just didn’t have it yet? hmm. winning ccc!gil over is more satisfying, even though casgil thoroughly wooed me.) I have 100+ screenshots of Babylonia dialogue and a lot of it is just top tier Gilspeak.

Babylonia’s ending is very bittersweet. I really do love the prevailing message of humanity always enduring, but Casgil confirming that the dead stay dead was a real downer… especially after Camelot. It makes me wonder if we’re somehow going to undo all that damage after Solomon, but I really doubt that’s possible, so I’m curious to see if we’ll have to deal with the ramifications of the timeline once this arc is complete.

anyway tl;dr i loved babylonia and i’m really excited for the future. as well as hoping fgo holds up this standard of writing ^^

#replies #not fairy tail #asking me for first impressions on things never works #first impressions are always very emotional #and i'm a fast reader that misses a lot of detail on the first time through #i need to read things twice to be able to look at them subjectively #but i can't replay babylonia without restarting... :/#Anonymous

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