Fate/Samurai Remnant Review (Playstation 5)

For our Fate/Samurai Remnant Review, it is the 4th year of the Keian Era, Edo Period. It has been several decades since the end of a turbulent, blood-soaked era. People were enjoying peace and tranquility. But, a battle between seven pairs of Masters and Servants is about to begin, as the “Waxing Moon Ritual” unfolds in the shadows. Miyamoto Iori, a young man in Asakusa, finds himself caught in the violence of a Holy Grail War.

Fate/Samurai Remnant Review Pros:

• Anime graphics.
• 29.02GB download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Action RPG gameplay.
• You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
• 21 save slots.
• Three difficulties – sword novice, sword fighter, and sword expert.
• Dialogue speed – slow, average, fast, and instant.
• Blood – on/off.
• Controller settings – Invert the axis for vertical and horizontal. Control assist, rebind controls, and battle camera sliders for sensitivity.
• Auto saves regularly.
• You can skip and pause cutscenes.
• Remarkable cutscenes that feature both Anime and in-game sequences.
• Opening tutorial section then ongoing pop-ups.
• 3rd person view.
• Save and load when you want.
• Display settings – brightness slider, display HP (on/partial/off), map display, and map rotation.
• Text conversations can be fast-forwarded, paused, slowed down, or auto-scrolled.
• Stance change changes your fighting style and you start off with Earth and Water.
• Red enemies are about to do a heavy attack, you can attack them and stun them quick enough, when stunned they take double damage.
• Moves at a fast pace.
• With combat the basics are you have a light and heavy attack and doing any combo with them performs a different attack.
• Deal damage to fill your Valor gauge and do an insane over-the-top attack.
• Afterglow is when you fight for a time as one stance and then change to another. Depending on which stance you go between determines what happens.
• Handy camera reset button.
• The full 3D world with 360-degree camera control.
• Powerful soundtrack.
• Duels can trigger and it’s a button mash to bush the bar in your favour.
• Magecraft spells – consume a gem to cast a spell assigned to your face buttons.
• When you get in trouble or low health, a servant can come in and help you temporarily.
• Affinity techniques are powerful attacks and you build the bar and then unleash one with your face buttons and affinity button.
• The map shows all destinations, mission markers, and points of interest.
• General stores are available to buy items and equipment. You buy from them to increase new stock.
• Trials can appear and these vary from fights to tasks.
• Outlaws can appear for fights, they can even show on the map.
• Outside of the combat you get free reign of the world and can explore and interact with NPCs.
• Earn EXP and level up to get skill points that then get put into the massive skill tree.
• You can have up to four spells assigned at one time, but you can freely swap them out.
• Your house is the hub where you can acquire skills, rewatch/read the story so far, and more which unlocks as you play the story.
• Memorable characters.
• Excellent character and enemy designs.
• The combat is very fast, Devil May Cry/Bayonetta speed but with the enemy on-screen count of a Dynasty Warriors game.
• Find items within the game world.
• Handy mission markers that are easy to follow.
• Fantastic artwork.
• Saber can call out interesting finds in the world as you explore.
• You can reread tutorials.
• Saber, Lancer, and Rider are your starting servants who accompany you and can jump in and help in combat.
• The biography menu fills in with details of all encountered characters.
• Place your own markers on the map.
• Gems for casting spells can drop from enemies.
• Slow Mo final kill.
• Mountings are where you add/edit the four types of swords – scabbards, guards, handle wrapping, and decorations. These add and change the stats of the sword.
• She’ll gauges on enemies are basically Shields so you have to do techniques and heavy attacks to deplete it.
• You can pet the cats and dogs for a healthy regen.
• Substitute is the act of changing who you control when in combat.
• The world map lets you leave and go to whole new locations.
• Fast loading times.
• Saber gets her own skill tree and skill points.
• Combat is good from the start but as you unlock more techniques and skills it opens up even more and is just so much fun to not only pull off but to watch.
• Saber learns new abilities during the story and you just have to equip the ones you like.
• Link strikes are callouts where you go near your servant and press the button prompt to do a crazy tag team attack.
• The technique attacks look so cool and over the top.
• I find myself constantly getting lost in the world and just exploring and chatting with people.
• When you start fighting over servants the difficulty goes up but it’s such a spectacular fight.

Fate/Samurai Remnant Review Cons:

• The combat takes a lot of learning because getting the dodge and techniques to flow is a game in itself.
• The start of the game is slow with stop-start action and huge cutscenes.
• Using health items is a shortcut but it brings up a menu and you have to click it, this slows the lightning-fast combat right down.
• The icons on the map are not selectable.
• So much to take in.
• Outside of combat, the game is quite dry, with a lot of fetch questing and little fights.

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Fate/Samurai Remnant:

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Developer: KOEI TECMO

Publisher: KOEI TECMO

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