2012-04-17, 03:55 | Link #222 |
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uh, *all* servants can move at supersonic speed
and Craxuan, herakles only went down like that because Ilya was there, and he still managed to break free of enkidu and nearly reach Gil (and seriously, comparing other servants to gil is kind of pointless anyways. It's like comparing two middleweight boxers by how well they would fare against the heavyweight world champion) |
2012-04-17, 04:48 | Link #223 |
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I'm sorry but this version of berserker is obviously better, not only is he fast sharp and flexible in terms of weapon management, given the right master he knows when to bloody retreat, this type of servant would just be plain devastating in a surprise attack.
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2012-04-17, 17:02 | Link #226 |
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@Craxuan see GDB's post for how Ilya held down herakles in UBW
my reply was to answer your post in which it seemed to me that you *were* making a comparison between the two using the respective battles against gilgamesh as proof. And the gist of it was that just because zerozerker has an NP that is well suited to counter Gil doesn't mean he's stronger than hreakles, and that at the end of the day, KOH is only effective because Gil is playing around and not taking him seriously at all just consider that out of all the servants between zero and FSN, only Gil, saber and Alex have any decent chance of winning against herakles, whereas zerozerker, while still pretty high tier, is a lot more defeatable. I mean, you summon herakles in a HGW that doesn't involve Gil or saber, and you're almost certainly going to win. With zerozerker, one bad encounter with a medusa pulling all the stops and unleashing her mystic eyes, or attacking medea inside ryuudo, and your war might be over... |
2012-04-21, 22:55 | Link #227 |
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Now was that an episode (16) rich in FSN parallels and foreshadowing or what?
- Lancer being forced to commit suicide by his Master. - That very same Lancer prophesying a hellish ending to the 4th Holy Grail War. - Kiritsugu, a man who's become cruelly pragmatic with time, despite having initially wanted to be a virtuous hero, and his desire to expose the hypocrisy of the foolish honorable ones. It resembles oh so much the dichotomy Archer and Shirou had going in FSN. FZ continues to prove what a top notch prequel it is. And from the preview for next week, anyone who's read FSN should know what's coming. Time for the alliance of the magnificent bastards to begin. Can't wait. |
2012-04-22, 10:25 | Link #228 |
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16 was excellent. Kiritisugu is EMIYA but with some self-control.
Oh, I don't think it's foreshadowing if it happened already. Not sure what it classifies as though. And next episode... is going to be rough. I am surprised they threw Rin's line at the end of the preview. But I suppose the foreshadowing from Kirei & Gil's conversation and the episode title was enough to figure out what is to come. And Iri sure can't take all of these Servants like Iri or Sakura did. I wonder if it's because of her age.
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I initially thought Tokiomi would die in episode 10 and that that was the reason why they'd brought Rin to Fuyuki, but he dodged the bullet there, so I'm surprised to see Rin might still be around for her father's demise after all. Either way, the man's lost his accomplice in his rigging of the system in this episode and is bound to be betrayed by his very own apprentice in the next one, Tokiomi sure is in for a shit day. Much like Kayneth, these proud archetypal magus types always seem to go through some rude awakenings in the Fateverse. |
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2012-04-29, 18:21 | Link #231 |
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Waahhh!! Latest episode connected back to the game a lot.
My memory is a little fuzzy but, was it all accurate? I had thought Tokiomi had given Rin that jewel, but now my memory is jogged and I do remember it was a book. Did the game include what he said to her? And did Kirei say he killed Tokiomi in game? I remember Haak mentioning something along those lines.
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2012-04-29, 18:34 | Link #233 |
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I don't remember the exact situation with the jewel, but I believe it was something akin to Rin following her father's will's instructions and finding it on her own.
As for Kirei telling Rin about killing Tokiomi, he did indeed do so. Surprisingly, in the route where we was least relevant, Unlimited Blade Works, in the same scene where he forced Lancer to commit suicide. And this episode made me even sadder that FSN is so short on Kotomine + Gilgamesh scenes, considering what a thing of beauty their developing partnership has been in FZ. They were never even shown to express concern over the other's death in any of the routes, and they died in all of them! Oh well, that's part of prequel curse, I suppose. And speaking of Rin knowing or not about the circumstances of her father's death in FSN, this reminds me that her mother Aoi is never even mentioned in that one IIRC, which means she's bound to die sooner or later in FZ. I'm very curious to see how that will unfold. I doubt Rin will be involved, otherwise we probably would've heard something about it in FSN, so I can only imagine it'll happen in some sort of scheme from Kirei to inflict further suffering upon Kariya, whose feelings for her are quite obvious. And as boring as Aoi herself is, I wonder just how much worse Kariya would get if he were to witness her death at this point. We'll see how it goes, I guess... |
2012-04-29, 18:49 | Link #234 |
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I bet you guys think that about the jewel because of the FSN anime depicting it that way. That's how I imagined it too.
As for them grieving each other, neither seemed to be the type to get all worked up over someone else. Gilgamesh just cares about himself; Kotomine is just entertainment to him in the end. And Kotomine can't care about anyone to begin with. |
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As for the pendent, I actually though ufotable cut the scene for time at first, since I did also think that Tokiomi gave Rin the pendent on their last meeting (from what I recalled from the UBW movie during Shioru and Rin's ''bonding'' scene) and looking back on it, I think even the Deen anime showed that Tokiomi gave that pendent ... except looking back at the game, that's not what happened at all. Rin did find the pendent on her, yes, but there was a specif reason why Tokiomi wanted her to find it on her own, to teach her a lesson Spoiler for meeting with Ayako:
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It's sort of an interesting detail about Tokiomi, now that we got to learn just how wrapped his views on the world really are. He was, to the very end, a magus, and even when it could have screwed over his daughter in a way he couldn't have guessed, he still made this test that would lead to her confusing the time, which of course jeopardized her shot at winning the war by not getting the servant she was gunning for. Even in death, Tokiomi never escaped that tunnel vision of his. I wonder why the Deen staff changed that ...
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2012-04-30, 09:56 | Link #239 |
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This is the thread for Game Players. No need for a spoiler box for something like that, especially since it's also been animated.
Though unbeknownst to either of them, it didn't matter when she summoned her Servant (except perhaps as far as stats go). Archer was her's 100% guaranteed since he had a relic of her's (as explained in UBW, the relic factor works both ways, it's not just if the Master has a relic of the Servant). |
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Thanks for posting the excerpts.
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