The Atrocious Gacha Review | Fate/Grand Order

I have been playing Fate/Grand Order every day for the past 2.5 years. In this special volume of the Atrocious Gacha Reviews, I will be going in-depths to FGO, more so than any of the other reviewed gachas so far. Strap in, this is a long one.

On a side note: I have worked on this video on the side ever since early May. I specifically waited until the announcements of the 9th anniversary to make sure all content is up to date. Luckily, since Lasengle shot themselves in the foot, I didn't have to make too many adjustments to the video.

This video had gone through multiple re-renders and 2 delays due to last minute game announcements. At last, it's here.

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
2:25 – An overview of FGO's history
10:11 – Gameplay
18:00 – Story
22:52 – Progression
34:46 – Gacha & Monetization
51:28 – Presentation
1:18:17 – Late game content
1:21:37 – F.O.M.O
1:23:25 – Variety & Content Frequency
1:39:42 – Final rating/last words

Music used:

Outro music:

Reference materials:

Delightworks' Untitled Gacha Game post:

2015 FGO footage 1:

Unfortunate Jack Pulls – by Ziss:

Most Expensive Merlin – By TouhouSniper98:

The Oberon Saga – By Myst:

"The Legendary 18 mins":

Sakura Kakumei Trailer:

Servant profile update reddit post:

Data transfer reddit post:

Comiket entries reddit post:

Nitocris Alter revenue sales reddit post:

Bond CE 2022 interview reddit post:

Jeanne Animation Update reddit post:

Ivan Raid JP footage:

Ordeal Call unofficial Eng translation footage By Neo FGO:

Metal Gear Solid Delta Interview by Konami:

#gacha #gachareview #fgo #fgoreview

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[mr.shadow]

The amount of heart attacks and anxiety I get when switching devices using the bind code is higher than the pulls needed to hit pity

[samblindao]

I promisse you if fgo was a game from ANY other franchise it would fail miserably. The Ip/history is the only thing keeping 99% of players in.

[kaitunelovemonday]

No one agree that FGO is hell more than FGO fans.

[achinpajou]

FGO is literally a super size light novel with digital figure function installed.

[fatpurp]

Hearing you talk about FGO's gacha system really made me realize how low my standards are for rates. No wonder I've treated HSR and R1999 like its a charity

[unrankedchevron]

They didn't turn Katsushika Hokusai into an anime girl. They turned his daughter Oei into an anime girl and turned Hokusai into an Octopus that constantly hovers around her.

[emre]

FUN FACT: assassins and casters have an hidden x0.9 atk modifier for no reason causing them to do worse damage compared to servants in other classes with less atk values

[boi]

Never forget the dude who spent 950k JPY/ 7.8k USD just to max out Scatach.

[cristianomayorga]

Sherlock Holmes first entered the public domain in 1981 as that was when the copyright of the first Sherlock Holmes novel expired. 2023 is when the final Holmes novel entered the public domain. That being said Ace Attorney uses Herlock Sholmes as a reference to the Lupin novels by Maurice Leblanc which parodied Sherlock Holmes way back in the day.

[SpecsWitched]

Stockholm syndrome might not be real, but FGO players sure feel like it is.

[xanaviii]

The one thing about being an FGO NA player, is that our voices really don't matter.
Content is already scheduled 2 years ahead. At best, we could gripe about getting some NA exclusive content.

But getting the actual QoL or UI changes this game desperately needs? That's on the JP players...and clearly they haven't been loud enough. Maybe this anniversary is finally a turning point, but I'm not optimistic.

[AllMuscleFGO]

Okay Pseychie, I will wait 3 weeks to react to this, thank you for reviewing FGO tho 🫡

[KhoaNguyen-tucw]

HERE IS THE FUN FACT:
This game is the platinum standard of Gacha suffering. If you can handle the salt from FGO Shitty Gacha rate.
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You can and absolutely will be able to handle the salt of any other Gacha game that throw at you

[GreySwan-lj]

It's important to note that the Japanese fanbase can be quite dedicated, sometimes to an unreasonable extent. A well-known example of this is in Granblue Fantasy, an older Japanese gacha game (even older than FGO) with a really bad UI. When the developers asked the players if they wanted the UI to be reworked, the answer was surprisingly "no." As a result, the game only received small quality of life improvements instead of the major UI overhaul it really needed. I'm not sure if the same situation applies to FGO, but with older titles, there might be reasons like this behind the lack of improvement.

[adz]

From someone who’s been in this hell from 2017 and plays on both NA and Jp all your criticisms are all 100% valid. Esp the stuff about the game not giving proper details on skills, or have detail trials on servants and no way of being able to quick battle a free quest (at least for exp/qp) after being done with it. The game has a crazy amount of flaws especially when compared to most modern gachas and a good amount of the playerbase is just sticking around til the end because of how deep we’re already in. Pretty much Stockholm syndrome. But it is what it is we cope and move forward. Another great review btw. I watched your PTN one and it was great.

[Bananasmoothies]

This game is literally when you max out story writing and nothing else is being fixed enough by the devs coz their jp side is a money fountain

[divideking]

The fact that the 'within 24 hour response' was issued to primarily satied players that already burned their ssr coins make me finally realise that f2p and low spenders have no voice at lasengle. And the fact they tacted on a 'we will fix this soon' at the end, when ways to get more coins and the bond improvements that they hinted in previous livestreams still have not been added is telling. I'm staying until lb7, after that will stop and wait and hope for a miracle during 10 year anniversary to pull me back. Truly every fgo player is in an abusive relationship.

[greatdust]

Psey: "i know FGO players will disagree with me...."
FGO players: "no, we completely agree that feature/mechanic is bullshit"

A salute to you for escaping the FGO gacha hell, god knows we will still suffer for a very long time
Also speaking as an FGO player 6/10 is a generous score.

[Sobol]

Despite me liking the game and wanting to stuck with it until it's bitter end, I'd have to say, your 6/10 is freaking generous as hell, considering you pretty much brutalized it for what it is.
Man, story really does carry this game.
Well that and my weird space fetish, so Space Ishtar and now Space Ereshkigal is by extra binding chain to this game.

[eclipse]

NA fgo players put more effort in planning for the next 2 years of the game than for the next 20 years of their lives.