Fate/Extra CCC is a sequel and companion game to Fate/Extra. It has the same game mechanics as Fate/Extra with additional changes. Players can now escape battles and dungeon floor level. Each servants has more combat animation and their Noble Phantasm animation changed. One of the noticeable changes is there are more voices recording in cutscenes. Both genders of the Protagonist and the Servants will each have an alternate costume. There will be additional costumes for the Servants, and a save game from Fate/Extra will give the player character an alternate school gym outfit. All of the Characters have a Secret Garden and Punish Start session (if you collect enough information on the SG). It shows the fetishes, likes, dislikes, etc. The Secret Gardens may be Male pictures (if you choose the female protagonist, except for your Servants and bosses) or Female Pictures (if you choose the male protagonist, except for your Servants and bosses).
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CCC Route is good and combat sucks
Well, this is certainly a huge step up from the first game.
Unlike Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC actually tries to utilise its setting in an interesting manner. The episodic nature of the first game is abandoned for a much more flexible story structure. The cast is kept small and mostly recurring from the first game in a very character-driven story. The extremely unenjoyable gameplay from the first game has auto battles and more interesting opponents added as a band-aid fix, but that's good enough for the most part. The music is amazing, KATE, James Harris and others from the original F/SN and F/HA return to give equally memorable soundtracks.
The story is far more ambitious this time around. Unlike just having an episodic tournament structure, this game sees a change of scenery and actually has a compelling overarching villain. This is one of the better examples of strong and emotional character writing in the Nasuverse, especially with how it's consistently good across the board with the entire cast. I also think I found my new favourite silent protagonist in Hakuno Kishinami (female version). She's not quite fully silent — the visual-novel style NVL text monologue sometimes leaks out as a dialogue that can be responded to by other characters, but still. Her struggles are very believable. The scenery in this game is more gorgeous than the first, with a recurring cherry blossom tree motif.
Unfortunately, despite consistency, this story still has plenty of meandering in the early couple of chapters. It feels like stuff just happens. Oh well. But the biggest actual problem is how you have to replay the entire game to get the true ending, let alone if you choose to do other servant routes, which have essentially the same ending. This isn't just skipping through a VN's previously read text and selecting a few choices, you have to re-battle everyone and redo puzzles. It was quite frustrating, I can't imagine doing this natively on a PSP instead of an emulator that lets you speed up the game drastically.
The peaks of the story and finale have made this the overall the best Nasuverse product for me, making me regain faith in Type-Moon after slowly losing interest over the years. I think Tsukihime Far Side and Heaven's Feel are better, but as an overall work, CCC is a clear winner.
Unlike Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra CCC actually tries to utilise its setting in an interesting manner. The episodic nature of the first game is abandoned for a much more flexible story structure. The cast is kept small and mostly recurring from the first game in a very character-driven story. The extremely unenjoyable gameplay from the first game has auto battles and more interesting opponents added as a band-aid fix, but that's good enough for the most part. The music is amazing, KATE, James Harris and others from the original F/SN and F/HA return to give equally memorable soundtracks.
The story is far more ambitious this time around. Unlike just having an episodic tournament structure, this game sees a change of scenery and actually has a compelling overarching villain. This is one of the better examples of strong and emotional character writing in the Nasuverse, especially with how it's consistently good across the board with the entire cast. I also think I found my new favourite silent protagonist in Hakuno Kishinami (female version). She's not quite fully silent — the visual-novel style NVL text monologue sometimes leaks out as a dialogue that can be responded to by other characters, but still. Her struggles are very believable. The scenery in this game is more gorgeous than the first, with a recurring cherry blossom tree motif.
Unfortunately, despite consistency, this story still has plenty of meandering in the early couple of chapters. It feels like stuff just happens. Oh well. But the biggest actual problem is how you have to replay the entire game to get the true ending, let alone if you choose to do other servant routes, which have essentially the same ending. This isn't just skipping through a VN's previously read text and selecting a few choices, you have to re-battle everyone and redo puzzles. It was quite frustrating, I can't imagine doing this natively on a PSP instead of an emulator that lets you speed up the game drastically.
The peaks of the story and finale have made this the overall the best Nasuverse product for me, making me regain faith in Type-Moon after slowly losing interest over the years. I think Tsukihime Far Side and Heaven's Feel are better, but as an overall work, CCC is a clear winner.
This was certainly a game. It was fun yeah and the story was great but by the end I was exhausted. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the original psp Fate Extra
I didn't really liked the original Extra, the combat was a pain, the pacing was horrendous and nothing happened until the ending. Now I'm angry because you need to play it to enjoy this gem.
This is by far a better game, better story, same characters but with better exposition, better pacing and while the combat it's still the same it requires far less farming.
The game has 2 routes, but it's probably better to call them endings. In short in the normal story you resolve a problem while in the CCC story you ask yourself how this problem came to be. I tought the game was ok when I finished the game the first time and it was obvius that you dint know everything that happened. In the CCC all those holes get explained but I dont like you need to do a NG+ to actually understend the whole story throught additional scenes that are possible to see un a new game but extremely hidden, it's still a 30ish hour game. I really liked my second run and it was worth it, a nice story about love and AI. Sometimes it gets a bit too quirky and eccentric but that's ok. Keep archer and Archer runs for the CCC ending.
This is by far a better game, better story, same characters but with better exposition, better pacing and while the combat it's still the same it requires far less farming.
The game has 2 routes, but it's probably better to call them endings. In short in the normal story you resolve a problem while in the CCC story you ask yourself how this problem came to be. I tought the game was ok when I finished the game the first time and it was obvius that you dint know everything that happened. In the CCC all those holes get explained but I dont like you need to do a NG+ to actually understend the whole story throught additional scenes that are possible to see un a new game but extremely hidden, it's still a 30ish hour game. I really liked my second run and it was worth it, a nice story about love and AI. Sometimes it gets a bit too quirky and eccentric but that's ok. Keep archer and Archer runs for the CCC ending.
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When one speaks of love,
one shouldn't speak of the reason behind it.
I want to hold / embrace / you like this, because I love you.
one shouldn't speak of the reason behind it.
I want to hold / embrace / you like this, because I love you.
Amazing sequel to Extra, story and characters are very good, I haven't seen many games that focus on twisted love and "tastes", it's super different to the first Extra, and super horny, I don't know why the change of direction, but it's fine, it's a pretty unique game.
The gameplay is so much better, in Extra you might need 20 minutes of griding just to get a single level up, but here? In that time you might get 3 level ups, dungeons and exploration are much better as well, combat is the same though, so get used to it :P
This game also introduced beloved characters like BB, Meltryllis, Elly, Hans, and I guess I should also say Kiara...(Karna's first appearance is complicated, so not mentioning him). BB and Meltryllis being my favs, Melt is super intimidating at first, but you later learn she is...incapable of understanding other people's love? I like how relatable she is with that (she is also twisted and a murderer, but can't relate to that). As for Big B1tch, I don't really like how she takes so long to say what's she's trying to do, overall it looks like she is being evil (and annoying) for the sake of being evil, but turns out she did all of what she did because she loved Hakuno, might be a strange reason for some, but I find it strangely lovely, there's something about the ai Sakura's impossible love for Hakuno that I just can't dislike.
Also bride Nero sucks, og dress better
The gameplay is so much better, in Extra you might need 20 minutes of griding just to get a single level up, but here? In that time you might get 3 level ups, dungeons and exploration are much better as well, combat is the same though, so get used to it :P
This game also introduced beloved characters like BB, Meltryllis, Elly, Hans, and I guess I should also say Kiara...(Karna's first appearance is complicated, so not mentioning him). BB and Meltryllis being my favs, Melt is super intimidating at first, but you later learn she is...incapable of understanding other people's love? I like how relatable she is with that (she is also twisted and a murderer, but can't relate to that). As for Big B1tch, I don't really like how she takes so long to say what's she's trying to do, overall it looks like she is being evil (and annoying) for the sake of being evil, but turns out she did all of what she did because she loved Hakuno, might be a strange reason for some, but I find it strangely lovely, there's something about the ai Sakura's impossible love for Hakuno that I just can't dislike.
Also bride Nero sucks, og dress better