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There are basically two things which define Fate as a franchise. The first is fights between figures from history and myth, larger than life figures who already have cultural importance. Well here anybody can be a fucking Servant, so there goes that!

The second is high-stakes intrigue between the mages involved. Backstabs, plotting, investigation, mage politics, all of that. The battles between Servants are really to inform all of this. But to make this work, you need stakes (impossible when nobody actually dies and the whole war recurs next week), permanence (again, impossible under this setup), and an investment in the world and setting (whoops, it's a jamjar!). It just won't work here, even ignoring the fact that the villainy needed to push Fate plots forward is antithetical to the standard DWRP community.

Essentially they've made a 'Fate' game that bears none of its defining features. All it really has in common is 'Fuyuki City' and 'The Holy Grail'. You can't even really say that it has the Master/Servant dynamic in common because these Servants are radically different from the ones from Fate and all the Masters are accidental ones like Shirou and Ryuunosuke.

It reminds me of that Left 4 Dead game from a while back, which was actually a Killing Floor game dressed up in Left 4 Dead's clothes. There is a zero percent chance that this game will offer anything remotely like a roleplay version of a Fate franchise entry, because it's already broken the experience on a fundamental level.

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