Koei Tecmo has released two short but sweet gameplay videos for Fate/Samurai Remnant, giving us a slightly closer look at how the action RPG's combat system works. For those out of the loop, you primarily play as lead character and swordsman Miyamoto, but you switch to your servant, Saber, in order to dish out powerful elemental attacks. You can also combine your assault with your partner, pulling off flashy super moves.
Against standard foes, there appears to be an emphasis on Samurai Warriors-esque crowd control, with large, sweeping attacks that hit whole groups of enemies at once. But when you're toe-to-toe with tougher enemies, you'll be forced to dodge incoming blows and retaliate at the right time to break their defences,
Honestly, it all looks very promising. There's a boss battle clip in the second trailer that immediately reminds us of other fast-paced action RPGs, like NieR or even Final Fantasy 16. The animations are great, too, and it's clear that developer Omega Force has been handed a decent budget for this particular project.
Fate/Samurai Remnant is out on PS5 and PS4 in just over a month, on the 29th September. But are you looking forward to this sword-swinging adventure? Summon your own servants in the comments section below.
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This looks extremely generic, why is this so hyped up by some outlets?
Can't wait for this, definitely the game im looking forward to the most next month, hopefully Eternights is good as well.
Cool.the gameplay looks good.word up son
@KaijuKaiser Adventure of Dai looks brilliant, but I'm biased about Dragon Quest...
Here just to read the negative comments. Game looks awesome.
@Lup I want to be convinced, really, as I tend to like anime hack & slash when they are good enough.
Can you tell me what you think looks "awesome" in this game?
Looks very shallow. Like Just another iteration of 'mash the button to get to the next generic anime clip.'
Well, I think it looks cool...
Looks average at best to me. Just your prototypical JRPG combat imo.
It seems some people haven't played a musou game before.....
Looks like fun! with a packed Sept and a busy oct with catching up with those games plus spiderman, i'll prob pick this one up in Nov/Dec (Might even have a bit of a discount by then).
Looks very good. Might be my game to play this autumn after finishing and doing the platinum for FF XVI and Kingdoms of Amalur. Enjoyed Persona 5 Strikers very much, and if it's anything like that, I'm all in.
I know many people are hyped for BG3 but I'm more into action RPGs, than D&D Turn based stuff.
@UltimateOtaku91 Why would you assume people not being convinced by the trailers and gameplay aren't so simply because they don't understand the genre?
Please, I love animes, I enjoy musou games when they're good, convince me : what do you see I'm not seeing that makes you think this will be anything better than very average at best?
@Olmaz Because some are expecting an Action RPG yet that's not what this developer is going for, it's a musou game so expect lots of fighting against generic enemies that don't do much damage until you get to bosses. It was the same with the two previous Fate games that were on console, the same with Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors and Dragon Quest Heroes and they were all excellent games and scored quite well.
Also I never said it was the best looking game around I said it was the game I was looking forward to the most next month as I love the fate universe, I've played the previous Fate games and this one looks miles better than those.
@UltimateOtaku91 Thx for the reply!
Even in musou games, some are better than others. The franchise of course is important there, but also the specific mechanics the games will add. Good enough graphics are a plus.
So if you take away the franchise (you admitted being a Fate fan), I really don't see what could make this game different : the fighting mechanics look very simple and generic, the graphics look good in screenshots, but a lot less good in motion.
And even if you consider yourself a fan of the franchise, is this really what you expect from it? For example, I'm a big Fairy Tail fan, and I absolutely loved the Fairy Tail RPG that came out in 2020. It was everything a fan could expect, but I wouldn't have hyped it up for anyone else than the fans.
So is this a simple discussion of musou fans against non musou fans? Or even just a Fate fans vs non fate fans? Because I enjoy a good musou now and then, and I've enjoyed some of the Fate animes, but I still don't see what looks good enough in this game that a bunch of outlets are hyping it up... I'm just curious as to why it's happening... If the author of this article is a Fate fan and this is the reason he's loving what he's seeing, he should mention it, and not make readers think there is anything special in this game beyond the franchise.
@Olmaz Maybe you're right I'm biased as I'm a fan of the musou genre and the Fate series as a whole. But I'm not only basing my opinion of this game just based of the trailers site shares. I've been keeping a close eye on the game lately watching some previews on YouTube such as this one a couple of days which shows off some better gameplay, town exploration, features and mini games.
https://youtu.be/tETGjOfpQ7c
I think the game looks quite good to me especially when comparing it to other games in the genre, I'm not comparing it to games like FF16 and Nier as that would be pointless as its a different genre and has a way less of a budget, this game is more a AA game than a AAA game so you need to take that into consideration as well. I'm not expecting a 9/10 game, but a solid 7/10 and that's fine. But I do think this will be a hard sell to gamers who don't like musou style games, I hope people don't go into this expecting an open world action rpg.
Also I agree with the Fairy Tail game, such a nice surprise from the guys who usually just make Atelier games, hopefully they can make more games based off other anime series such as Made in Abyss or Dr Stone.
Thanks, and fair enough about the Fate game!
And a Made in Abyss game as good as the Fairy Tail RPG would be my dream... but alas, we got this weird abomination of a game a few months ago...
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