Nico if you wonder why Aria keep on targeting you or seducing you... This is actually Myth Accurate Tamamo no Mae and no its not just Aria. You know WHAT is their sin? The sin of lust! They are one of Japan's greatest 3 evil in myth. They take form as a perfect love for any man who she targets too. No matter what body or age. Yes, even Aria's body would be one of Tamamo no Mae's seducing form. Not to mention as a nine-tail fox? They are technically a god... To be precise "evil god" 1-3 = Minor god 3-5 = Medium god 6-8 = Great god 9 = Strongest fox god Aria and every other Tamamo counter path are 100% h*rny all the time for a good reason. They are the evil god of lust after all. Even if you talk to anyone its always going to end with h*rny talks. Despite this massive lust? They are one of the smartest and strongest god in Japan.
*Nico at the start of the game:* "Why would you not just tell us your name, Saber?!" *Nico now:* "Why would you just tell us your name, Archer?!" My, how the turn tables, huh?
@@joelsasmad Definetly, we see non historic figures as servants already (through means of plot reasons). Its only a matter of when though, which can be...around a couple years or so of wait lol.
@@joelsasmad They haven't been made Servants yet, but theoretically if they wanted to make then Servants for a bit of SR fanservice, they absolutely could
Tamamo: "If you were to give me magical energy, that would be just fine" Nico: "Why is she looking at me like that?" Those who know: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa--
Ok I just wanna know, is this canon? Like is it actually canon for servants to power up via... however you wish to call it (seggs) without having ones comment deleted? Or was that just something everyone agrees with for the... entertainment?
Zheng doesn't ask for Saber's true name because it would defeat the point. Zheng is coming to Iori for help. He's asking Iori, his rival, for a favor. So Zheng has to do something to make it worth his while, a show of trust to show that he is legitimate about wanting an alliance. Thus, giving Archer's true name freely. If he asked for Saber's true name in return, that would defeat the entire purpose of the show of trust. The deal would then be made uneven again, Zheng would be asking for assistance while giving nothing in return.
Iori: I don’t trust you, you kidnap up out of nowhere and try to ally with us? What’s you end game in all this? Zheng: I just wanted a friend ;-; Iori: Oh..........
The Orihime and Hikoboshi that Aria mentioned is based on the story that was the basis of the Tanabata festival, in which the Milky Way separates the two lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on a specific day. You've actually seen it in a previous LP before, its what Mayuri referenced in Steins;Gate 0 when talking about her relationship with Okabe that is slowly drifting apart from what it was ever since Kurisus death, that she became unable to see the real Okabe. Its also the namesake of the Bleach character Orihime, as Ichigo is basically her Hikoboshi.
There is a reason behind why they paired up Zheng with Zhou Yu. It is essentially a reference to Koei’s longest running grand strategy game franchise “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” based on the actual Chinese historical epic of the same name. In these games there is usually a fantasy scenario where you can recruit anachronistic characters from different time eras, with Zheng Chenggong being one of them. And for some unknown reason, Zhou Yu and Zheng Chenggong have the best synergy match in these games, and it has become a running trope in the series.
Zheng Chenggong is indeed a real figure from history much like Iori. He is famous for being a Ming general who fought against emerging Qing empire. He was born from a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. In addition to fighting the Ming, he also came into conflict with the Dutch, specifically targeting the island of Taiwan. Notably, his unique parentage and accomplishments make him revered by the communist People's Republic of China, the Republic of China in Taiwan and the Japanese at the same time, an honor held by very few. In mainland China he is recognized for combating the Qing, fighting imperialism and taking over Taiwan. In Taiwan, he is remembered for being a patriot who reclaimed Taiwan, bringing culture to the island and his opposition to the Qing is often paralleled with Taiwan's conflicts with the mainland. In Japan, his maternal link to the islands are expanded upon (he actually has living descendants in Japan today) and is regarded as an exemplar of samurai ideals. Also notable: in parts of costal China, he is actually regarded as something of a minor deity with several shrines dedicated to him. Fun fact: he also very likely had syphilis. Zhou Yu is, as with most servants, also a historical figure, specifically from the three kingdoms era of China. He fought for the Wu kingdom and was a close personal friend and blood brother to the warlord Sun Ce. Particularly notable is Zhou Yu's participation in the Battle of Red Cliffs, where an alliance of Wu and Shu met the warlord Cao Cao's army. Zhou Yu led the Wu navy which was notable as the Battle of Red Cliffs was likely one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world. The alliance of Shu and Wu were able to route Cao Cao and prevented him from leading his followers south of the Yangtze river, stalling his efforts to reunite the Han empire. Zhou Yu's strategies were a key to victory as the alliance was actually outnumbered but Zhou Yu along with Huang Gai devised a plan involving Gai faking a defection then setting the defecting ships on fire. Zhou Yu's record as a strategist however led him into conflict and rivalry with another notable three kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang (though it should be noted that this rivalry was likely ahistorical and invented by later writers). Sadly, Zhou Yu would eventually die after Zhuge Liang managed to troll him three times (no I am not joking).
Sir, you forgot the most important part. Zhou Yu was said to have been as beautiful or even more beautiful as a woman! Yet they didn't go with it for this game.
Zhou Yu’s antagonistic relationship with Zhuge Liang is purely fictional and was only mentioned in the historical novel written by Luo Guangzhong, who was biased towards the Shu Han faction and Zhuge Liang. In real life he didn’t know Zhuge Liang very well, let alone met him. Zhou Yu simply died from illness in actual history.
@@lionofash7700 what do you mean they didn’t!? i literally thought that was a woman till he spoke! I was about to guess him as that one famous pirate lady!
Here's a bit more to why knowing someone's true name could lead to having an advantage over them. By knowing their true name, you can find out other things about them, not just the way they died. Like what're you gonna do if they died of old age historically? Pray they grow old again? Well, fortunately, you can get more value with a true name than just that. Take Gilgamesh, for example. Guy seems fairly cocky in his origin story, just a tad bit, a teensy tiny bit. Maybe you could talk some mad shit at him and lure him into an ambush you set up. Who knows? How about Archer? Well, he's a strategist, and we have lots of records. Is he more of the patient type, or is he more about going all out right off the bat? Does he prefer tried and true tactics, or is he more of an unorthodox thinker? You can get all that, and more, just by knowing their true name.
not to mention knowing their true name means you cna figure out some of their tactics and traits, and thus figure out how to defend yourself beyond taking advatage of a weakness.
So to elaborate on the noble phantasm info in this episode- "NP" on the stats screen is referring to a servants Noble Phantasm. And when you see a description for them they tend to get descriptions like "Anti-personel" or "Anti-army" etc. And these labels give a pretty good idea of how strong or destructive the attack would be, for example an anti personel attack is great for attacking a singular target, whereas anti fortress could blow up a castle, and anti army could take down an army. Or for a more specific example, Musashi's was listed as anti-causality which to put into simple terms means she can cut or damage pretty much anything, even concepts like fate or karma. And if that sounds like complete nonsense, then the easiest takeaway I can give you in regards to the power of servants in fate is that the longer an explanation is required for an ability the more absolutely batshit insane it is. And Musashi is absolutely bonkers. 😂
Important addendum: the classification is specifically what the NP can *target*. It actually provides no information about destructive power. Anti-personnel means it can target a single individual; anti-fortress would mean it is designed to target an entire fortification, and so on. A lot of people make the mistake of seeing (it happens in places in the franchise) "Anti-World" and think it could destroy the world, but that is not what it means. What it _does_ mean would require an entire separate lore lecture, unfortunately.
@@uninspiredname2974I mean, there are some potentially capable of that level of destruction, but a lot of other anti world NPs are way more esoteric in nature.
@@blurb9319 for complicated lore reasons, no *Servant* summoned as such would actually be able to do that, but that'd require a whole lecture on what the world even *is*
@@uninspiredname2974 yeah, yeah, counterforce and all that (also potentially textures containing universes etc.) but in terms of pure destructive capacity, it’s more than possible for an NP to destroy the world (or at least a texture holding a planet).
@blurb9319 I mean within the servant spirit origin they would not be able to gather that kind of power though; now as a divine spirit or higher, yes some NPs might if you ubercharge them, but I think their spirit cores would like explode before they could actually destroy the world
Archer was probably talking about Sun Ce when his master was acting impulsive, who was his best friend and lord, he is described as a gregarious man who was generous and laid the foundation for the Wu dynasty which was established by Sun Quan, Sun Ce's younger brother following his death, which Zhou Yu would fight for before his own death from illness. The two are often described as sworn brothers and were said to be brother in laws, so they were very close. So, it is likely a big praise from Archer even if he said it in a sort of backhanded way.
"Why is she looking at me like that?!" Well Nico, the OG Fate visual novel is an eroge (As in, it contains sexual content), so it _is_ canon that bodily fluids contain mana. A Master will supply mana to their Servant continuously but in small quantities just by being contracted with them, but if you're in a situation when you need a lot of magical energy quickly, the Master could share a bit of blood, kiss them, or just straight up bang them. That being said, ever since Fate has become more and more mainstream, they've kind of distance themselves from this concept, so instead of actually seeing it in action, it's more likely you'll see it being hinted at in a joking manner, like here.
55:45 to answer Nico, that instrument is called an Er Hu (二胡 or the two-stringed fiddle), a widely-used instrument in Chinese/Oriental orchestra and ensemble. Also another fun fact, for Zhou Yu's (周瑜) name pronunctiation, The "ou" in Zhou sounds like jow/joe or similar to a Japanese ou (ō or long o), and the "u" in Yu is simlilar to the German -ü.
Zheng Chenggong, also known as Koxinga. Of all the real masters in this game, Koxinga is probably the most famous and the biggest deal. In the Fate universe there's possibly a Servant version of him out there. Long story short: He ruled Taiwan in the mid 1600s after liberating part of it from the Dutch. It was known as Tungning until 1683. He didn't live very long after establishing his kingdom, dying of Malaria in 1662.
I think my favorite thing about this LP is because I'm blind to Fate, I will pretty much have the same reaction as Nico to Fate stuff like "Oh this famous person known throughout history? Yeah they're a hot waifu now!", its pretty great honestly.
While there are historical characters that got genderswap for the sake of genderbending them with reasons why they are recorded in-universe as men lately there are some legitimate reasons for characters to get genderswap like for example with Musashi coming from an alternate universe.
it's more common for the characters that come from the mobile game since...you know, gacha. They want to make characters dudes will gamble to play as. But most of them do tend to keep the same gender.
I never realized how much I'd love to hear Nico talk about fate stuff. Hearing him say Lancer's NP and try to guess who she is, watching him react to Noble Phantasms, and seeing him react to all the different designs of the servants. It's so cool man.
Honestly, hearing the guesses has me laughing in my seat, quite certain that Nico probably doesn't know anything about THOSE servants yet. Oh the poor, poor man is about to enter a new layer of servant lore once the game reveals who Lancer is XD
Fun Fact: Just to let you know, Edo, the setting of Fate/Samurai Remnant, is actually the former name of the current Japanese Capital, Tokyo, during the Edo Peiod, prior to the Meiji Restoration. It was initially a fishing village which developed after Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun is bestowed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi the Kanto Region, after the Siege of Odawara, in exchange of not living in his ancestral lands of Mikawa Province (currently a part of the Aichi Prefecture where Nagoya is) However, during the Edo Perild, the Seat of th Emperor is still in Kyoto despite the Shogunate being de facto Head of Government of the country. The Emperor moved their seat to Edo, now renamed Tokyo shortly after the Meiji Restoration In case you didn't believe it, evidences can be seen from several places in the game having the same name as the one in Tokyo. From where Iori lives in Asakusa (famous for the Temple Senso-ji), Ueno, Kanda (Yes, the same Kanda where you meet Hifumi in Persona 5), and so on. A notable exception to this is Yoshiwara, which is a famous Red Light District in the Edo Period, but damages from Great Kanto Earthquake and later the Outlawing of Prostitution in 1958 brought that to an end.
Edo is also just a hotspot for fires, earthquakes, and all sorts of city-leveling disasters in general. Honestly it's a wonder that they just kept repairing it each time...
28:30 this is what causality is. so a anti causality attack is pretty insane 1.the relationship between cause and effect. 2.the principle that everything has a cause.
53:22 "Maybe all the servants are this way, they're like "yeah my master sucks...." Now I'm imagining all the servants hanging out in a bar after fighting all day venting to each other about their horrible bosses like regular people do.
Nico, some advice for this game and a person who completed 100% of this game. I posted some tips back in episode 2 and episode 5 but I will post it here again in case you missed it and some newly added tips. 1. Affinity (Servants) and valor are broken. It can interrupt enemies' attacks (glowing in red) and can gather enemies (like a magnet, you will see enemies gather together in your minimap) for them to hit with the skills. Try to get stats that build those. Especially affinity as it's useful in spirit font missions where Saber or getting rogue servants to help you in capturing territories. 2. There are some missable logs. One of them is "key areas" (most of them are recognizable either as big buildings or areas that look unique and you did one "key area" back in episode 3). You have to press R3 (near the important site) and then see a blue pillar of light. There are 20 of them and one is missable at the beginning of chapter 2 (the red gate at Akakasa), so watch out for it. 3. Build statues in your workshop (home), it's good money to be sold to Boss. Also, you should save scum if you messed up the QTE. There will be statue that will have a difficult QTE. 4. Constantly check your map for Digression (like some picky penguins mentioned before). Some are missable if you progress the story (ritual). So be careful before going to Sprit Font (layline). 5. Try to buy all building materials (if possible) from all merchants in each chapter. The shop reset each chapter but gets more expensive in each chapter. There's another Commission where you have to buy at least one item from all merchants and one of the merchants will be missable if you progress in the story (ritual). 6. Try using Iori's skill Riposte though it has a tight window. It's extremely helpful, for boss fights and certain monsters. Especially a skill in the skill tree that increases damage buff after a successful riposte and significantly reduces shell gauge. 7. The Local Trial (map objective) will make you beat a certain enemy. Some of those enemies only spawn in certain areas. If you check your map, and see the enemies not in that area (highlight in red of the specific area). You should leave and enter another map and reenter for that specific enemy to appear. 8. The way Spirit Font works is basically Othello. Try to surround the enemies(red) or blank(white) spirit font with your spirit font (blue) to capture it without going there, but it can ONLY CAPTURE ONE at a time. ie, White/White/Blue and you capture one of the white like this Blue/White/Blue, it will turn Blue/Blue/Blue. It will NOT capture if it's like White/White/White/Blue and capture the piece in the beginning Blue/White/White/Blue WILL NOT TURN all of them Blue. The red/white spirit font has to be SURROUNDED by your Blue spirit font. Hope it makes sense.
8:20 - it's important to know that *food* is an incredibly important theme for the Fate series. In fact, it's so important, almost every piece of Fate media features cooking and cuisine in some aspect, but there's even a spin off manga and show that is dedicated to Fate characters making food from scratch that you can actually follow along with. It's the idea of a 'home life' in the day that is cut apart by the dark world of servants fighting in the night. Nothing is more peaceful than a meal with loved ones, and so great effort is given to it. If you bought the special edition of the game, you'd actually be given an English novel of the characters from this game describing and eating a variety of food. So Saber's love of food isn't so much a reference to anything of their past, but moreso just a continued tradition started with the original visual novel that continues to this day. Fun fact, it's what encouraged me to start cooking myself!
Something interesting I learned playing this game is that Chinese names when in Japan are pronounced with the Japanese saying of the characters and vice versa. This is also why Zheng Chenggong is called Tei Seiko by everyone.
"Tei Sei Kou“ is just a bastardized imitation of middle chinese pronounciation ”Trieng Cjengkung". The japanese learned most of their chinese during the Tang era, and onyomi is like 'engrish‘ but with respect to chinese at the time.
Yeah, I actually learned that in FGO, where Yu Meiren's nickname by jp artist is "Gucchan", short for "Gubijin" which is the japanese pronunciation of her chinese name. Also Sanzang is called Sanzo
@@hashuvan425 "gu bi jin" comes from Middle Chinese "ngju mii njin", and "san zou" originally was "samu zau" before japanese vowel shifts, which comes from middle chinese "sam zang"
I should mention that the form a Noble Phantasm takes is never always a clear defined things. Sometimes it's a weapon like Saber's, sometimes it's an attack like Lancer's sometimes it's a piece of armour or a mount or a living entity or a fighting technique or sometimes it's something abstract that recreates the most infamous event of a hero's legend. And some servants can have either just the one or multiple. This is usually what makes the whole true name thing important, especially when most of the competitors of the ritual are full blown mages who have prepared for and understand the functions of magecraft better than a normal civillian.
It's not that the Servants are, like, resentful of their Masters for being weak. When Zhou Yu says that Zheng is powerless, he's stating it as a matter of fact. He's doing it in a different way than Saber is. Saber saying Iori is powerless is basically them being cocky, because they're so good at what they do. Zhou Yu saying Zheng is powerless isn't the same at all. The difference is in respect. Saber doesn't really respect Iori, at least at the start. They just want to fight and they think Iori is deadweight. Zhou Yu, however, DOES respect Zheng, he says that he might be able to entrust his dying wish to Zheng and he resolves to help Zheng get his desires. He doesn't see Zheng as deadweight, he just knows that Zheng is going to be less able to win the war on his own, because he can. Most Servants aren't really like that. Most Servants don't really care if their master is weak because they know their role in things is to be the warrior, and they're fine with that. Saber says it because they're arrogant, and Zhou says it out of concern. It's not really the norm.
I see You have yet to realize Tamamo’s greatness! You Don't even realize how OP it is to get a Second turn in a game with a timer. You were about to die last episode! And in battle she's best support. You are like a child in a candy store who met his first crush there and then despises her, because she took your favorite candy in front of you and then she gave it to you out of goodness of her heart!
The funny thing is I feel like the way the original Fate dealt with having a battle royale while also letting everyone show off what they could do is freaking splitting the timeline into three separate stories where certain guys get to be the main villain this time.
There's actually a number of Japanese snake monsters, gods, and even people associated with both in Japan's history. Though, Saber mentioning a Snake God specifically is... kind of a big deal, especially for Fate. Fate (and the Nasuverse as whole) works of a sort of hierarchy system. For example, Humans are normally weaker than mages, Mages are normally weaker than magical beasts, magical beasts are normally weaker than Servants/Heroic Spirits, etc. Gods (also known as divine spirits) are at least a step or two above servants. That means if Saber has encountered a something able to claim itself as a god, Saber is STUPIDLY strong, more so than most Servants would be anyways. It's also why servants that have divine blood or association are REALLY strong, like Gilgamesh. The more divine blood you have in you, the closer you are to teh next tier basically. It's a decent peak both into Saber's potential past as well as just how crazy strong Saber is. Also, magical circuits are basically the veins of Mage. It's what allows someone to focus mana and use magic to begin with, meaning that yes, Iori has them. The Quality and Quantity are basically just how good they are at doing their job and how many of them you have. Quality dictates how well you can handle magic and quantity helps with output. Composition basically just means how their set. Normal means they aren't tangled or arranged in any weird ways. Oh, side note, what Aria was proposing is a bit of a meme based on some lore. Servants gain mana from their masters naturally, but can also be gifted extra via something called mana transfer. This is done by have a servant absorbing something from the master charged with mana into their body. Normally this is done by offer for them to drink your blood. However, there are.... other methods that can be used. Do with that info what you will
Let me explain the Archer and Assassin class Archer: an heroic figure who where know for they expertise in shooting and may or may not have wielded a bow. While an "Archer" sounds like someone who definitely wields a bow, they don’t necessarily use, the only criteria to be an Archer is to just have great precision. Also an unique trait of the Archer class is that they have Independent Action in which if their master dies they can survive by their own for some days without mana. Assassin: an heroic figure who have killed many people or where renown assassins. They have the unique trait of presence concealment which lets them hide even from the keenest magic sensing. Their fighting prowess can sometimes be average but they excel and are mostly used on killing Masters unguarded from their Servant
Nico, since you asked, the Chinese instrument that plays during Archer’s theme is known as an “erhu”. The shamisen is a Japanese instrument, also influenced by a Chinese instrument known as a “sanxian”. There was a lot of cross cultural pollination going on between Japan and China back then and their influence on modern Japan is still in effect today, especially in the language department
Since you brought it up, most of the Masters we've seen so far have been actual historical figures. Aside of Iori, who you already know, Zeng is a famous Chinese general, Yui is one of the "Three Great Ronin" of the era, and Takao is part of a linege of renowned courtesans of the same name. The only exception so far is Chiemon, though if we're counting non-Masters as well, we can also count Kaya as well (while Iori did have adopted siblings in real-life, there is no report of a Kaya among them).
Mana transfer refers to the process of using human bodily fluids to act as a substitute for a Servant's mana. It can be blood, saliva and maybe even sweat but given the kind of person Aria is, she's obviously referring to a very specific human bodily fluid.
I'm not sure about this game, but in Fate/Stay Night they say you need to kill the seven servants, but since they are terribly strong, it'd be easier to kill the master, thus cutting off the servant's mana supply.
Think this is as good a point as any to talk about a specific meme in the Fate fandom "The Archer class truly is made of archers". Its a line from the og fate game, in context it makes sense, but the fandom uses it as a way to mock the fact that the class has soooooo many heroes that dont fight with a bow and arrow. Some times it makes sense, Billy the Kid is an Archer but he uses a revolver ( a modern bow). William Tell is an Archer and he fights with...a high-tech crossbow that fires laser arrows and dubs a sniper rifle... still a form of bow and arrow though. Then you have heroic spirits like...Nikola Tesla. How is he an Archer? Well, he "tamed" lightining and electricity, so as a heroic spirit he can...fight by summoning and firing lightining like a Sith Lord (and thats downplaying what he can do btw). Also, Gilgamesh is usually an Archer, no, he also doenst have a bow or anything that looks like one Yeah, the Archer class truly IS made of archers lol.
Random Fate Trivia #5 Rogue Servants (or Strays) are quite the enigma for those who aren't used to the series. After all, they are basically Summoned to a ritual with no Master and are heavily reliant on the leylines to gain power, and even then their power is restricted without a proper Master. So one might be asking "so what would be the point of summoning Strays?" Thing is, having Strays directly summoned to the ritual is not common in this series. In fact, aside from this game, there's only been one true instance where Strays are normal. If you ever think of Stray Servants, that usually means their Master is dead or they have forcibly cut ties with their previous Master (in both cases, they only have a limited amount of time before they are truly gone). So why are they Summoned? It's usually different on a case-to-case basis. Stray Servants are not a normal occurence, they really just refer to Servants without a Master. There's rarely a chance for extras to be summoned through a ritual.
Case-to-case basis meaning two major factors, either they were summoned by the Counter Force, an almighty and omnipotent entity bent on correcting historical and worldly anomalies (aka, Beasts or enemies of humanity). Or just like this game has tackled, powerful spirit leylines. And since the game is set on historical Japan period, magic is prevalent and the leylines are stronger than it was in the present day. Or the rare third one where they just summon themselves out of sheer will, or they just felt like it. Examples being Gilgamesh here and even Minamoto no Raikou on FGO.
Nico should definitely know who Orihime and Hikoboshi are considering he played S;G0 and how those themes were interconnected with Mayuri and Okabe's story 😅
@@ZenoKnightShade I was honestly surprised he didn't remember. Its not like I replayed the game in the time since the LP or anything but I still vaguely remember those names and the importance it had to mayuri in s;g0. I guess sometimes nico's memory has a brain fart haha.
Fun fact about the bro master who just rescue you Zheng Chenggong, alternative name was Koxinga. He was one of china two famous pirates who cause a lot of commotion to the Qing Chinese Empire. He was kicking all the asses: Quing Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese. He was the one who liberated a very very special island: Famusa or as recently known as Taiwan.
Again, he was not a pirate. He was a Chinese Ming loyalist general commander of the rump Chinese Southern Ming state under the Longwu emperor based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. “Koxinga” was not his name, but a moniker because he was given the imperial surname “Zhu”, and the title “Chenggong” meaning “victorious”. Technically he should be called “Zhu Chenggong”. His real name was “Zheng Sen”, but was widely known as “Zheng Chenggong”. He had to take out the Dutch outpost on Taiwan because 1. The Dutch had been a constant headache and liability to the Ming from behind because they kept skirmishing with the Ming over some islands. 2. Zheng needed a location as their base of operation to train troops. The Qing at this point is predominantly led by unsinicized Jurchens so I wouldn’t exactly describe them as “Chinese” at his point. They will be gradually sinicized later.
Qing’s ruling chieftain family Asin Gioro most likely was somewhat sinicized because they worked under the Ming in the past as the commander of Jianzhou. But for the other banner tribesman most likely not.
And just as a follow-up. I wouldnt say Zheng “kicked Qing asses” because he was constantly failing to retake the mainland and losing land on the mainland to the Qing. In the end he didn’t really accomplish too much and only held out on Taiwan for a bit before dying a few years later and his grandson would eventually surrender to Qing and that branch of the Zheng family would be recruited as a bannerman nobility. He did’t come conflict with the Japanese, and it is an odd statement that you made about that because the Tokugawa shogunate which replaced the Toyotomi regime at that point was full on conservative, Confucian, isolationist and anti-expansionist, and very de-miltarized (as shown in this game, the samurai class was severely suppressed by the shogunate and a lot of them lost their jobs and became ronin) Zheng did ask for help from the Shogunate and they literally said no can do. They wouldn’t be of help anyways because Qing’s ferocious horse archers would have decimated the Japanese.
Since the giant fox showed up again, I wanted to mention that your guess of Amaterasu wasn’t completely wrong. I believe the original legend or lore of Tamamo No Mae is somewhat connect to Amaterasu, so at least one of your guesses were fairly accurate in some way.
That detail in Musashi's Noble Phantasm about the revelation of " " is referencing Kara no Kyoukai, a web novel series that series creator Kinoko Nasu wrote during the mid-90s. The main character, Shiki Ryougi, has a unique relationship with the void after having awoken from a two-year coma where one of her personalities had died. This makes her the target for a magus who intends to use her to reach the Root of Alaya, the source of all magic in the world. Regarding its relevancy to this game, it just means that Musashi Miyamoto is really powerful for having access to a portion of the void.
If he gets into FGO I highly doubt he could make a series out of it.... mostly because its going to take hundreds of chapters (longest i know ongoing is 513 chapters lmao)
I don’t think Nico would LP mobile games, unless he does it like Kingdom Hearts Union Cross and Dark Road and just react to the cutscenes (if there are any, I never played the game before)
So basically Noble Phantasm's are an artifact, ability, or manifestation of a significant event in a Servant's life. For instance, if King Arthur was a Servant, their Noble Phantasm would likely be Excalibur. Also, Servants can have multiple Noble Phantasms if they're known well enough for multiple things.
What the statue carving tutorial DOESN'T tell you is the real reason you carve them. It says you gain EXP, which you do, but that's not the main reason you do it. There are two main reasons to do it. First, there are some skills that require you to carve a few of the statues. Second, and most importantly, you can sell them to Gilgamesh for a fuck ton of money. It is a very good way to make money, and the primary way you make the big bucks.
Fun fact about Zhou Gongjin, he is one of the many talented tactitans in the three kingdom civil war: the other being Sima Yi and Komeng. His rise to fame was coming up with a genius plan to catch Cao Cao involving burning his fleets and crash into the Cao Cao ship. Also he is one of two tactician who get to show their face. Also: NP means Noble Phantasm.
The NP stat in a Servant's bio refers to the power of their Noble Phantasm. Also the TEC stat can basically be read as the Luck stat of this game. Increasing that will provide a number of benefits.
Tamamo no high makes her demon face Nico: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT FACE!? MODS! THERES A WEIRD FOX OUTSIDE! that would be the demon fox part of tamamo coming out nico, and iori is her target. (Kind of reminds me of a face thay original tamamo would make in Fate extella or tamamo vitch face)
The reason they said it like "that", and implied "that", is because that is also what "that" is. And by "that" they meant "That fr". They mean SEX. I'm not explaining further, ask your mom.
I thought I was tripping but apparently Zheng is voiced by the same guy who voices Zhongli in genshin, thats kinda fun. And he also wields a polearm lmao
a mage family's magic crest is basically the equivalent of a coat of arms surgically implanted into their chosen inheritor, magic circuits (how mages can perform magic in this universe) strengthen as they grow older, and realizing this, mages developed some truly advanced techniques meant to transfer it down, as you might expect, the process is arduous and painful so it is a slow and gradual overtime project
So uhhh… Nico, you know how the original Fate/Stay Night was a Eroge Visual Novel? (Most likely not but I’m gonna to say it anyways) “Mana Transfer” is basically… You guessed already, The birds and the bees. So when Tamamo Aria suggests using Iori’s Mana as her source instead, let’s just say that line made some of us long time fate fan physically recoils backwards in real life.
@@just-eebyeah, and even then when any of the media down the line past the OG portrays/talks about it, they *definitely* always make it pretty obvious they’re intentionally referencing the 1st meaning. Hard not to recoil at times.
I wouldn't say recoil we pretty much accepted that Nasu write eroge is not like he was the only one. Almost every famous writer and artist in Japan did porn. We just now doing that Leonardo DiCaprio meme of pointing the finger when they "magical energy" reference.
If I remember correctly magical circuits are what allow people to use magic. The more they have the more they can cast spells without it backfiring. The higher the quality its easier to cast the big stuff.
1:47:09 Nico, you missed part of the Wind Stance codex, the second one of the three. Unless you saw it and just decided to not leave that part in, I dunno.
To use a Noble Phantasm(np), servants have to reveal it's true name, not their own. Like saying the name of their sword/technique, or in William Tell's case, what their legendary deed/move was known to do
if chiemon has a known historical counterpart it'll most likely be revealed in the season pass this game has, otherwise he's more famous to fate fans due to his association to another popular character and the revolution he incited which was mentioned at the beginning when he met with yui
55:20-56:40 The very distinct instrument you're referring to is called "erhu", it's a two-stringed Chinese folk instrument that belongs to the violin / fiddle family. It's often used in media as aural shorthand for "this person is Chinese" or "this scene takes places in China".
When it said “true name” it meant the name of the Noble Phantasm(NP). Think of it like how Shonen characters call out their special attack names, except here a Servant needs to call out the name of their NP to activate it or use its full might unless it’s a passive type. And if a Noble Phantasm has a super obvious name like say Excalibur, you are definitely gonna figure out who the owner of that NP is. Keep in mind a Noble Phantasm isn’t always a weapon or object. It could be an ability, an event, or action that that Servant had performed and/or experienced in their life that is part of their legend. For example, say I’m a hero who once survived jumping into lava fighting a dragon or something. That event is recorded in my legend, and I gain a NP based on it. The name of the Noble Phantasm will be in reference to it, and calling out the name could say give me the power to use the lava I had once jumped in, while also granting a passive fire resistance even without calling its name.
aria make the evil tamamo smile because one of the ways to transfer mana that is as old as the original fate is that the master and servant get intimate in bed
This game is already giving me Okami meets Zatch Bell vibes with the inclusion of Japanese and foreign lore/mythology, along with the partners in competition setting, with the grand prize being what everyone is fighting for
I remember Zhou Yu from Dynasty Warriors 9. Guy destroyed my fleet behind me with flaming arrows. He had planned it all from the beginning. Guy is a fucking genius, and I got a grudge against him.
The instrument in the digression, and generally as the theme of team Zheng, is an Erhu. It's a traditional Chinese string instrument similar to a violin and it is my favorite instrument in the world.
No, the ritual doesn't have to end in death for the Masters. The Servants do have to kill each other, that is inevitable. But you don't have to kill the Master, that's not a necessary part of the ritual. It can make things easier, because if you kill the Master you kill the Servant, but strictly speaking every Master can walk away from the ritual with their lives intact. The Servants are the only ones whose deaths are necessary.
Just so you know the stats system of servants. The baseline E rank means 10 times the average person. So one with e rank strength is 10 times stronger than the average person. Then each rank is another 10, so d rank is 20x stronger and so on. For + stats, like c+, it means it adds itself under certain conditions, so a c rank strength is 30x stronger than the average person but a c+ rank is normally 30x stronger, but can become 60x after using an ability, making them stronger than a servant with A rank strength which would be 50x.
Congratulations on moving in Nico and thanks for this nice long episode to start off with in the new office! I hope you and Bernie make many happy memories at your new house!
The classic Dynasty Warriors “Cow Cow” pronounce for Cao Cao. Brings back memories of how hilarious it was playing DW as a kid. If his name appear again, try “Chow Chow” instead. It’s the closest proper Chinese pronunciation for English speakers.
Fate/Samurai Remnant The story of a young man whose sister's think he is getting laid with all the ppl he meet. And also Saber, his servant, beeing extra jaleous everytime.
Some small trivia about the voice actors of both Zheng and Archer: Zheng is voiced be Maeno Tomoaki. He did another voice work for Fate, in FGO (mobile game) as a servant. His other roles in the industry are: Zhong Li (Genshin Impact), Tempest (Slime Isekai), Decim (death Parade), etc. Archer is voiced by Ono Kensho. At the time the game released this was his only work for Fate, but he got a role in FGO less than 1 month later. His other roles are Giorno (JoJo), Diluc (Genshin Impact), Hathaway (Gundam), etc. Also Ono is married to Hanazawa Kana, the voice actress for Chiaki from Danganrompa 2. So you can say Archer is your final oponnent LOL.
Remember the other Fate character that Aria shares her Japanese VA that aren't the other Tamamos. Then it kinda makes sense to me Meta wise and they definitely have it as a gag of sorts.
25:00 Magical Circuits are pseudo-nerves that are used to convert one's life force (od) or planet's ambient life force (mana) in one's vicinity into magical energy for spells or other supernatural acts. Mage families often try to influence Magical Circuits of their descendants, such as increasing the quality and quantity of Magical Circuits their heirs are born with and fine-tuning their composition for that family's magecraft. Even regular people have Magical Circuits, but usually dormant and in small amount, though exceptions can occur through random mutation. Technically one can force their muscular, nervous, cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to also function as Magic Circuits, but that damages them a lot. 1:27:33 The tale of Orihime and Hikoboshi is basically the story of two lovers, who can only meet each other once a year. They are represented by stars Vega and Altair. It's the focal story of Japan's Tanabata Festival, and it is borrowed from China's Zhinü and Niulang story, celebrated in Qixi Festival.
Also I might be wrong, but I assume the reason, why Saber (and Kaya) and Iori have papers in their mouths during the minigame is a form of caution, since the blade could accidentally cut them in the face, especially when working with/looking at the blade closely. So from the paper that the blade tears first they can determine if they are too close to it (and how sharp it is) and keep themselves safe.
I can't say for certain, what instrument is used in the music you were wondering about (around 55:00) but it sounds more like erhu (a Chinese bowed instrument) than shamisen (a Japanese plucked instrument, sound is similar to banjo's). It's nice to see how accurately the game brings forward traditional Asian instruments, forming a distinct sound. The erhu in the background as a leading sound with Zheng Chenggong and Zhou Yu in that scene is a nice touch :)
One thing i like about fate is their desire to explain pretty much every single thing in their story. When you got the extra mystic code from the General it could have been maybe just mail or something on the ground. But they tell you they found something extra in the their workshop and one of his lackeys send it over. I think this is also true for finding other masters. Unlike Iori, most of them seem tk have have been preparing for this waxing moon for months, and it takes a herculean effort to get to them like with yui. Though i can understand anyone that could see it as over explaining.
So, now that you're a little ways into the game and have gotten your feet wet with the juicy lore, I think this would be a good time to delve into the fundamentals of magecraft, the core magic system used in Fate (and all of Type-Moon's franchises, actually). Today, we're going to answer "What the heck is a magic circuit?!" The wiki will tell you it's a "pseudo-nervous system." That's accurate, but to the layman it's nonsensical gibberish. Kind of like how a physical body has genes that define how it grows and functions, the soul has components as well, concepts that define who the person is. A magic circuit is basically a component that is inscribed onto a person's soul, and describes how well they can use magic. Because they're part of the soul, they cannot be naturally modified. Key word there being "naturally." Circuits function by transmuting either Mana (energy created by the world), or Od (energy created by one's body) into magical energy, which is sometimes called "prana" depending on the translation. Magical energy is then used to, well, cast spells and whatnot. The idea for Od actually stems from a real-life 19th century pseudo-scientific concept called the Odic Force. The telluric energy you get from the spirit fonts in the game is Mana, it's just called by a different name. As for why, well, the best answer I can come up with is "Because." Regarding "quantity" and "quality," to put it simply, the "quantity" stat represents the number of circuits you have. The "quality" is how efficiently they work - how much energy your circuits can hold, how easily they can channel said energy, and how much effort it takes to actually use it. The terms have another meaning as well, but that doesn't apply to anything in this game so you don't have to worry about it. It's also kind of complicated, and frankly I'm too lazy to go into it. Now, it's possible to use your physical nervous system as a supplemental magic circuit. Lots of mages throughout the franchise do it, but you need to be extremely careful doing so, as it can seriously mess you up. If you don't know what you're doing it's extremely easy to wind up severely injured, permanently crippled, or just straight up dead as your body burns itself out. I'll stop here as I feel this is all that's really relevant at the moment. Besides, this comment is already getting a bit wordy and I don't want to overwhelm a newcomer to the franchise. At least not yet. I hope you found this helpful and/or informative, though! PS: The reason everyone has paper in their mouths during the katana maintenance is so they avoid getting saliva on the blade during the process, as it can potentially corrode the metal or cause other issues. This is one of the reasons swords are usually coated in a thin layer of oil during maintenance.
for god sake saber we have had more than enough miso soup this week lets go get some meat buns I just noticed that a new shop called ameterasu buns just opened up and people are going mad for them
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Sorry for the late upload. I may or may not be moved into my new place. ;)
Thanks for the late upload nicob
Congrats on the move.
NICE CONGRATULATIONS NIKO
Nico if you wonder why Aria keep on targeting you or seducing you... This is actually Myth Accurate Tamamo no Mae and no its not just Aria.
You know WHAT is their sin? The sin of lust! They are one of Japan's greatest 3 evil in myth. They take form as a perfect love for any man who she targets too. No matter what body or age. Yes, even Aria's body would be one of Tamamo no Mae's seducing form. Not to mention as a nine-tail fox? They are technically a god... To be precise "evil god"
1-3 = Minor god
3-5 = Medium god
6-8 = Great god
9 = Strongest fox god
Aria and every other Tamamo counter path are 100% h*rny all the time for a good reason. They are the evil god of lust after all. Even if you talk to anyone its always going to end with h*rny talks.
Despite this massive lust? They are one of the smartest and strongest god in Japan.
Good on you Nico
Aria terrorizing Nico is the highlight of this let’s play for me
Aria: can you bring me a beautiful life
Nico: but that movie hasn't been made yet
I'm just happy whenever she's on screen
@khiemnguyencao4324 No ignorance here o7 Just happy whenever a Tamamo is around!
@khiemnguyencao4324 Oh its easy. Just remember to love Foxes. And eveeerrrryyything will be okay o7
*Nico at the start of the game:* "Why would you not just tell us your name, Saber?!"
*Nico now:* "Why would you just tell us your name, Archer?!"
My, how the turn tables, huh?
there is in fact a lot of turns in these tables
Zheng is a real guy. So are Dayu and Yui. Chiemon is not a real guy, but he is related to a real event.
So theoretically we could see them in later games as servants then?
That's what make the game unique. Since even the masters themselves are historical figures
@joelsasmad most probably in FGO and future stuff
@@joelsasmad Definetly, we see non historic figures as servants already (through means of plot reasons). Its only a matter of when though, which can be...around a couple years or so of wait lol.
@@joelsasmad They haven't been made Servants yet, but theoretically if they wanted to make then Servants for a bit of SR fanservice, they absolutely could
Nico, its funny how you talk about Aria eating all your miso soup, because that is also an euphemism for being a married couple.
I wish I could unlearn all the meta bullshit gleaned from the comments and just enjoy the story within itself🤣Curse you, curiousity
Tamamo: "If you were to give me magical energy, that would be just fine"
Nico: "Why is she looking at me like that?"
Those who know: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa--
Try not to spoiler: Hehehe giggity giggty.
The T-9 are so funny, especially seeing newbies' reactions.
The true: Those who know VS those who don't know meme
If you know, you know
Ok I just wanna know, is this canon? Like is it actually canon for servants to power up via... however you wish to call it (seggs) without having ones comment deleted? Or was that just something everyone agrees with for the... entertainment?
Zheng doesn't ask for Saber's true name because it would defeat the point. Zheng is coming to Iori for help. He's asking Iori, his rival, for a favor. So Zheng has to do something to make it worth his while, a show of trust to show that he is legitimate about wanting an alliance. Thus, giving Archer's true name freely. If he asked for Saber's true name in return, that would defeat the entire purpose of the show of trust. The deal would then be made uneven again, Zheng would be asking for assistance while giving nothing in return.
Iori: I don’t trust you, you kidnap up out of nowhere and try to ally with us? What’s you end game in all this?
Zheng: I just wanted a friend ;-;
Iori: Oh..........
The Orihime and Hikoboshi that Aria mentioned is based on the story that was the basis of the Tanabata festival, in which the Milky Way separates the two lovers, and they are allowed to meet only once a year on a specific day. You've actually seen it in a previous LP before, its what Mayuri referenced in Steins;Gate 0 when talking about her relationship with Okabe that is slowly drifting apart from what it was ever since Kurisus death, that she became unable to see the real Okabe. Its also the namesake of the Bleach character Orihime, as Ichigo is basically her Hikoboshi.
(shit, maybe I should finally watch the Steins;Gate 0 LP so I don't get accidentally spoiled even more...)
There is a reason behind why they paired up Zheng with Zhou Yu. It is essentially a reference to Koei’s longest running grand strategy game franchise “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms” based on the actual Chinese historical epic of the same name. In these games there is usually a fantasy scenario where you can recruit anachronistic characters from different time eras, with Zheng Chenggong being one of them. And for some unknown reason, Zhou Yu and Zheng Chenggong have the best synergy match in these games, and it has become a running trope in the series.
That's so sweet and wholesome??? Their bond transcends franchises.... 🥺
Zheng Chenggong is indeed a real figure from history much like Iori. He is famous for being a Ming general who fought against emerging Qing empire. He was born from a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. In addition to fighting the Ming, he also came into conflict with the Dutch, specifically targeting the island of Taiwan. Notably, his unique parentage and accomplishments make him revered by the communist People's Republic of China, the Republic of China in Taiwan and the Japanese at the same time, an honor held by very few. In mainland China he is recognized for combating the Qing, fighting imperialism and taking over Taiwan. In Taiwan, he is remembered for being a patriot who reclaimed Taiwan, bringing culture to the island and his opposition to the Qing is often paralleled with Taiwan's conflicts with the mainland. In Japan, his maternal link to the islands are expanded upon (he actually has living descendants in Japan today) and is regarded as an exemplar of samurai ideals. Also notable: in parts of costal China, he is actually regarded as something of a minor deity with several shrines dedicated to him. Fun fact: he also very likely had syphilis.
Zhou Yu is, as with most servants, also a historical figure, specifically from the three kingdoms era of China. He fought for the Wu kingdom and was a close personal friend and blood brother to the warlord Sun Ce. Particularly notable is Zhou Yu's participation in the Battle of Red Cliffs, where an alliance of Wu and Shu met the warlord Cao Cao's army. Zhou Yu led the Wu navy which was notable as the Battle of Red Cliffs was likely one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world. The alliance of Shu and Wu were able to route Cao Cao and prevented him from leading his followers south of the Yangtze river, stalling his efforts to reunite the Han empire. Zhou Yu's strategies were a key to victory as the alliance was actually outnumbered but Zhou Yu along with Huang Gai devised a plan involving Gai faking a defection then setting the defecting ships on fire. Zhou Yu's record as a strategist however led him into conflict and rivalry with another notable three kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang (though it should be noted that this rivalry was likely ahistorical and invented by later writers). Sadly, Zhou Yu would eventually die after Zhuge Liang managed to troll him three times (no I am not joking).
Thank goodness Waver isn't in this game 😂
Sir, you forgot the most important part. Zhou Yu was said to have been as beautiful or even more beautiful as a woman! Yet they didn't go with it for this game.
Zhou Yu’s antagonistic relationship with Zhuge Liang is purely fictional and was only mentioned in the historical novel written by Luo Guangzhong, who was biased towards the Shu Han faction and Zhuge Liang.
In real life he didn’t know Zhuge Liang very well, let alone met him. Zhou Yu simply died from illness in actual history.
@@lionofash7700 what do you mean they didn’t!? i literally thought that was a woman till he spoke! I was about to guess him as that one famous pirate lady!
@@b.i.c.violet4545 Maybe it's because I consume so much but I can identify certain things and his facial structure screams man for me
Here's a bit more to why knowing someone's true name could lead to having an advantage over them. By knowing their true name, you can find out other things about them, not just the way they died. Like what're you gonna do if they died of old age historically? Pray they grow old again? Well, fortunately, you can get more value with a true name than just that. Take Gilgamesh, for example. Guy seems fairly cocky in his origin story, just a tad bit, a teensy tiny bit. Maybe you could talk some mad shit at him and lure him into an ambush you set up. Who knows? How about Archer? Well, he's a strategist, and we have lots of records. Is he more of the patient type, or is he more about going all out right off the bat? Does he prefer tried and true tactics, or is he more of an unorthodox thinker? You can get all that, and more, just by knowing their true name.
not to mention knowing their true name means you cna figure out some of their tactics and traits, and thus figure out how to defend yourself beyond taking advatage of a weakness.
So to elaborate on the noble phantasm info in this episode- "NP" on the stats screen is referring to a servants Noble Phantasm. And when you see a description for them they tend to get descriptions like "Anti-personel" or "Anti-army" etc. And these labels give a pretty good idea of how strong or destructive the attack would be, for example an anti personel attack is great for attacking a singular target, whereas anti fortress could blow up a castle, and anti army could take down an army. Or for a more specific example, Musashi's was listed as anti-causality which to put into simple terms means she can cut or damage pretty much anything, even concepts like fate or karma. And if that sounds like complete nonsense, then the easiest takeaway I can give you in regards to the power of servants in fate is that the longer an explanation is required for an ability the more absolutely batshit insane it is. And Musashi is absolutely bonkers. 😂
Important addendum: the classification is specifically what the NP can *target*. It actually provides no information about destructive power. Anti-personnel means it can target a single individual; anti-fortress would mean it is designed to target an entire fortification, and so on. A lot of people make the mistake of seeing (it happens in places in the franchise) "Anti-World" and think it could destroy the world, but that is not what it means. What it _does_ mean would require an entire separate lore lecture, unfortunately.
@@uninspiredname2974I mean, there are some potentially capable of that level of destruction, but a lot of other anti world NPs are way more esoteric in nature.
@@blurb9319 for complicated lore reasons, no *Servant* summoned as such would actually be able to do that, but that'd require a whole lecture on what the world even *is*
@@uninspiredname2974 yeah, yeah, counterforce and all that (also potentially textures containing universes etc.) but in terms of pure destructive capacity, it’s more than possible for an NP to destroy the world (or at least a texture holding a planet).
@blurb9319 I mean within the servant spirit origin they would not be able to gather that kind of power though; now as a divine spirit or higher, yes some NPs might if you ubercharge them, but I think their spirit cores would like explode before they could actually destroy the world
Archer was probably talking about Sun Ce when his master was acting impulsive, who was his best friend and lord, he is described as a gregarious man who was generous and laid the foundation for the Wu dynasty which was established by Sun Quan, Sun Ce's younger brother following his death, which Zhou Yu would fight for before his own death from illness. The two are often described as sworn brothers and were said to be brother in laws, so they were very close. So, it is likely a big praise from Archer even if he said it in a sort of backhanded way.
when he said 'genderbent medusa' about assassin, i immediately thought 'who's gonna tell him that she's already a servant?'
"Why is she looking at me like that?!"
Well Nico, the OG Fate visual novel is an eroge (As in, it contains sexual content), so it _is_ canon that bodily fluids contain mana.
A Master will supply mana to their Servant continuously but in small quantities just by being contracted with them, but if you're in a situation when you need a lot of magical energy quickly, the Master could share a bit of blood, kiss them, or just straight up bang them.
That being said, ever since Fate has become more and more mainstream, they've kind of distance themselves from this concept, so instead of actually seeing it in action, it's more likely you'll see it being hinted at in a joking manner, like here.
55:45 to answer Nico, that instrument is called an Er Hu (二胡 or the two-stringed fiddle), a widely-used instrument in Chinese/Oriental orchestra and ensemble.
Also another fun fact, for Zhou Yu's (周瑜) name pronunctiation, The "ou" in Zhou sounds like jow/joe or similar to a Japanese ou (ō or long o), and the "u" in Yu is simlilar to the German -ü.
Zheng Chenggong, also known as Koxinga.
Of all the real masters in this game, Koxinga is probably the most famous and the biggest deal. In the Fate universe there's possibly a Servant version of him out there.
Long story short: He ruled Taiwan in the mid 1600s after liberating part of it from the Dutch. It was known as Tungning until 1683.
He didn't live very long after establishing his kingdom, dying of Malaria in 1662.
He'd probably be a Rider, since someone mentioned he's also a pirate.
Zheng is just a guy who can never catch a fucking break
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So he'd be summoned with Lancer Luck?
@@DiceFTW273nah I'll give him D rank luck
I think my favorite thing about this LP is because I'm blind to Fate, I will pretty much have the same reaction as Nico to Fate stuff like "Oh this famous person known throughout history? Yeah they're a hot waifu now!", its pretty great honestly.
To be fair it’s not as common as some might think but the most famous ones just happen to be gender swapped
While there are historical characters that got genderswap for the sake of genderbending them with reasons why they are recorded in-universe as men lately there are some legitimate reasons for characters to get genderswap like for example with Musashi coming from an alternate universe.
it's more common for the characters that come from the mobile game since...you know, gacha. They want to make characters dudes will gamble to play as. But most of them do tend to keep the same gender.
Yeah, several tend to keep their gender
I never realized how much I'd love to hear Nico talk about fate stuff. Hearing him say Lancer's NP and try to guess who she is, watching him react to Noble Phantasms, and seeing him react to all the different designs of the servants. It's so cool man.
Honestly, hearing the guesses has me laughing in my seat, quite certain that Nico probably doesn't know anything about THOSE servants yet. Oh the poor, poor man is about to enter a new layer of servant lore once the game reveals who Lancer is XD
@@elizamalaguld9064 Let's not even get started on Rider...
@@elizamalaguld9064 I think he'll like that reveal (I'm trying to not be spoiler-y for anyone who doesn't know)
Fun Fact:
Just to let you know, Edo, the setting of Fate/Samurai Remnant, is actually the former name of the current Japanese Capital, Tokyo, during the Edo Peiod, prior to the Meiji Restoration. It was initially a fishing village which developed after Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa Shogun is bestowed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi the Kanto Region, after the Siege of Odawara, in exchange of not living in his ancestral lands of Mikawa Province (currently a part of the Aichi Prefecture where Nagoya is) However, during the Edo Perild, the Seat of th Emperor is still in Kyoto despite the Shogunate being de facto Head of Government of the country. The Emperor moved their seat to Edo, now renamed Tokyo shortly after the Meiji Restoration
In case you didn't believe it, evidences can be seen from several places in the game having the same name as the one in Tokyo. From where Iori lives in Asakusa (famous for the Temple Senso-ji), Ueno, Kanda (Yes, the same Kanda where you meet Hifumi in Persona 5), and so on. A notable exception to this is Yoshiwara, which is a famous Red Light District in the Edo Period, but damages from Great Kanto Earthquake and later the Outlawing of Prostitution in 1958 brought that to an end.
Edo is also just a hotspot for fires, earthquakes, and all sorts of city-leveling disasters in general. Honestly it's a wonder that they just kept repairing it each time...
@@natchu96 it would never die indeed
Damn, this game has the spot the main protagonist meme on extreme difficulty. Everyone looks like it, except the real main protagonist.
Iori just wants a quiet life
28:30 this is what causality is. so a anti causality attack is pretty insane
1.the relationship between cause and effect.
2.the principle that everything has a cause.
53:22 "Maybe all the servants are this way, they're like "yeah my master sucks...." Now I'm imagining all the servants hanging out in a bar after fighting all day venting to each other about their horrible bosses like regular people do.
1:23:50 the screams from seeing the fox girl are way funnier with the echoing from the empty room Nico is recording in.
Missing a couple zeroes on that timestamp
@@ThePontiffofPonWolf thx fixed it
@@theoneandonlyobobo np
They really do echo. I didn’t really notice the echoing Nico mentioned until he did that! 😂
Nico, some advice for this game and a person who completed 100% of this game. I posted some tips back in episode 2 and episode 5 but I will post it here again in case you missed it and some newly added tips.
1. Affinity (Servants) and valor are broken. It can interrupt enemies' attacks (glowing in red) and can gather enemies (like a magnet, you will see enemies gather together in your minimap) for them to hit with the skills. Try to get stats that build those. Especially affinity as it's useful in spirit font missions where Saber or getting rogue servants to help you in capturing territories.
2. There are some missable logs. One of them is "key areas" (most of them are recognizable either as big buildings or areas that look unique and you did one "key area" back in episode 3). You have to press R3 (near the important site) and then see a blue pillar of light. There are 20 of them and one is missable at the beginning of chapter 2 (the red gate at Akakasa), so watch out for it.
3. Build statues in your workshop (home), it's good money to be sold to Boss. Also, you should save scum if you messed up the QTE. There will be statue that will have a difficult QTE.
4. Constantly check your map for Digression (like some picky penguins mentioned before). Some are missable if you progress the story (ritual). So be careful before going to Sprit Font (layline).
5. Try to buy all building materials (if possible) from all merchants in each chapter. The shop reset each chapter but gets more expensive in each chapter. There's another Commission where you have to buy at least one item from all merchants and one of the merchants will be missable if you progress in the story (ritual).
6. Try using Iori's skill Riposte though it has a tight window. It's extremely helpful, for boss fights and certain monsters. Especially a skill in the skill tree that increases damage buff after a successful riposte and significantly reduces shell gauge.
7. The Local Trial (map objective) will make you beat a certain enemy. Some of those enemies only spawn in certain areas. If you check your map, and see the enemies not in that area (highlight in red of the specific area). You should leave and enter another map and reenter for that specific enemy to appear.
8. The way Spirit Font works is basically Othello. Try to surround the enemies(red) or blank(white) spirit font with your spirit font (blue) to capture it without going there, but it can ONLY CAPTURE ONE at a time. ie, White/White/Blue and you capture one of the white like this Blue/White/Blue, it will turn Blue/Blue/Blue. It will NOT capture if it's like White/White/White/Blue and capture the piece in the beginning Blue/White/White/Blue WILL NOT TURN all of them Blue. The red/white spirit font has to be SURROUNDED by your Blue spirit font. Hope it makes sense.
8:20 - it's important to know that *food* is an incredibly important theme for the Fate series. In fact, it's so important, almost every piece of Fate media features cooking and cuisine in some aspect, but there's even a spin off manga and show that is dedicated to Fate characters making food from scratch that you can actually follow along with. It's the idea of a 'home life' in the day that is cut apart by the dark world of servants fighting in the night. Nothing is more peaceful than a meal with loved ones, and so great effort is given to it. If you bought the special edition of the game, you'd actually be given an English novel of the characters from this game describing and eating a variety of food.
So Saber's love of food isn't so much a reference to anything of their past, but moreso just a continued tradition started with the original visual novel that continues to this day. Fun fact, it's what encouraged me to start cooking myself!
Something interesting I learned playing this game is that Chinese names when in Japan are pronounced with the Japanese saying of the characters and vice versa.
This is also why Zheng Chenggong is called Tei Seiko by everyone.
"Tei Sei Kou“ is just a bastardized imitation of middle chinese pronounciation ”Trieng Cjengkung". The japanese learned most of their chinese during the Tang era, and onyomi is like 'engrish‘ but with respect to chinese at the time.
Yeah, I actually learned that in FGO, where Yu Meiren's nickname by jp artist is "Gucchan", short for "Gubijin" which is the japanese pronunciation of her chinese name. Also Sanzang is called Sanzo
@@hashuvan425 "gu bi jin" comes from Middle Chinese "ngju mii njin", and "san zou" originally was "samu zau" before japanese vowel shifts, which comes from middle chinese "sam zang"
I should mention that the form a Noble Phantasm takes is never always a clear defined things.
Sometimes it's a weapon like Saber's, sometimes it's an attack like Lancer's sometimes it's a piece of armour or a mount or a living entity or a fighting technique or sometimes it's something abstract that recreates the most infamous event of a hero's legend.
And some servants can have either just the one or multiple.
This is usually what makes the whole true name thing important, especially when most of the competitors of the ritual are full blown mages who have prepared for and understand the functions of magecraft better than a normal civillian.
It's not that the Servants are, like, resentful of their Masters for being weak. When Zhou Yu says that Zheng is powerless, he's stating it as a matter of fact. He's doing it in a different way than Saber is. Saber saying Iori is powerless is basically them being cocky, because they're so good at what they do. Zhou Yu saying Zheng is powerless isn't the same at all. The difference is in respect. Saber doesn't really respect Iori, at least at the start. They just want to fight and they think Iori is deadweight. Zhou Yu, however, DOES respect Zheng, he says that he might be able to entrust his dying wish to Zheng and he resolves to help Zheng get his desires. He doesn't see Zheng as deadweight, he just knows that Zheng is going to be less able to win the war on his own, because he can.
Most Servants aren't really like that. Most Servants don't really care if their master is weak because they know their role in things is to be the warrior, and they're fine with that. Saber says it because they're arrogant, and Zhou says it out of concern. It's not really the norm.
I see You have yet to realize Tamamo’s greatness!
You Don't even realize how OP it is to get a Second turn in a game with a timer. You were about to die last episode!
And in battle she's best support.
You are like a child in a candy store who met his first crush there and then despises her, because she took your favorite candy in front of you and then she gave it to you out of goodness of her heart!
The funny thing is I feel like the way the original Fate dealt with having a battle royale while also letting everyone show off what they could do is freaking splitting the timeline into three separate stories where certain guys get to be the main villain this time.
There's actually a number of Japanese snake monsters, gods, and even people associated with both in Japan's history. Though, Saber mentioning a Snake God specifically is... kind of a big deal, especially for Fate. Fate (and the Nasuverse as whole) works of a sort of hierarchy system. For example, Humans are normally weaker than mages, Mages are normally weaker than magical beasts, magical beasts are normally weaker than Servants/Heroic Spirits, etc. Gods (also known as divine spirits) are at least a step or two above servants. That means if Saber has encountered a something able to claim itself as a god, Saber is STUPIDLY strong, more so than most Servants would be anyways. It's also why servants that have divine blood or association are REALLY strong, like Gilgamesh. The more divine blood you have in you, the closer you are to teh next tier basically. It's a decent peak both into Saber's potential past as well as just how crazy strong Saber is.
Also, magical circuits are basically the veins of Mage. It's what allows someone to focus mana and use magic to begin with, meaning that yes, Iori has them. The Quality and Quantity are basically just how good they are at doing their job and how many of them you have. Quality dictates how well you can handle magic and quantity helps with output. Composition basically just means how their set. Normal means they aren't tangled or arranged in any weird ways.
Oh, side note, what Aria was proposing is a bit of a meme based on some lore. Servants gain mana from their masters naturally, but can also be gifted extra via something called mana transfer. This is done by have a servant absorbing something from the master charged with mana into their body. Normally this is done by offer for them to drink your blood. However, there are.... other methods that can be used. Do with that info what you will
I dont get the fish though and why she was so ecstatic with it will that be explained?
It will, though that's more of a spoiler@@themasterofw4295
@@themasterofw4295yes, the fish will be explained.
"Bring me a beautiful life."
My thoughts: Like an elderly married couple who are still in love after 50+ years?
Game's answer: Shiny dead fish
Thought it would be a human life too :( but I think anything Iori woulda deemed beautiful would have worked for her.
Let me explain the Archer and Assassin class
Archer: an heroic figure who where know for they expertise in shooting and may or may not have wielded a bow. While an "Archer" sounds like someone who definitely wields a bow, they don’t necessarily use, the only criteria to be an Archer is to just have great precision. Also an unique trait of the Archer class is that they have Independent Action in which if their master dies they can survive by their own for some days without mana.
Assassin: an heroic figure who have killed many people or where renown assassins. They have the unique trait of presence concealment which lets them hide even from the keenest magic sensing. Their fighting prowess can sometimes be average but they excel and are mostly used on killing Masters unguarded from their Servant
Are you telling me the archer class isn’t really made up of archers 🤨
Nico, since you asked, the Chinese instrument that plays during Archer’s theme is known as an “erhu”. The shamisen is a Japanese instrument, also influenced by a Chinese instrument known as a “sanxian”. There was a lot of cross cultural pollination going on between Japan and China back then and their influence on modern Japan is still in effect today, especially in the language department
Since you brought it up, most of the Masters we've seen so far have been actual historical figures.
Aside of Iori, who you already know, Zeng is a famous Chinese general, Yui is one of the "Three Great Ronin" of the era, and Takao is part of a linege of renowned courtesans of the same name.
The only exception so far is Chiemon, though if we're counting non-Masters as well, we can also count Kaya as well (while Iori did have adopted siblings in real-life, there is no report of a Kaya among them).
Mana transfer refers to the process of using human bodily fluids to act as a substitute for a Servant's mana. It can be blood, saliva and maybe even sweat but given the kind of person Aria is, she's obviously referring to a very specific human bodily fluid.
She’s a sneaky lil lymph fiend
21:09 Really funny Nico joked about Dynasty Warriors here, because Zhou Yu IS ON DYNASTY WARRIORS.
Btw NP in the servant stats means Noble phantasm. The higher the rating is usually the crazier the effects will be.
I'm not sure about this game, but in Fate/Stay Night they say you need to kill the seven servants, but since they are terribly strong, it'd be easier to kill the master, thus cutting off the servant's mana supply.
Think this is as good a point as any to talk about a specific meme in the Fate fandom "The Archer class truly is made of archers". Its a line from the og fate game, in context it makes sense, but the fandom uses it as a way to mock the fact that the class has soooooo many heroes that dont fight with a bow and arrow. Some times it makes sense, Billy the Kid is an Archer but he uses a revolver ( a modern bow). William Tell is an Archer and he fights with...a high-tech crossbow that fires laser arrows and dubs a sniper rifle... still a form of bow and arrow though. Then you have heroic spirits like...Nikola Tesla. How is he an Archer? Well, he "tamed" lightining and electricity, so as a heroic spirit he can...fight by summoning and firing lightining like a Sith Lord (and thats downplaying what he can do btw). Also, Gilgamesh is usually an Archer, no, he also doenst have a bow or anything that looks like one
Yeah, the Archer class truly IS made of archers lol.
Random Fate Trivia #5
Rogue Servants (or Strays) are quite the enigma for those who aren't used to the series. After all, they are basically Summoned to a ritual with no Master and are heavily reliant on the leylines to gain power, and even then their power is restricted without a proper Master. So one might be asking "so what would be the point of summoning Strays?"
Thing is, having Strays directly summoned to the ritual is not common in this series. In fact, aside from this game, there's only been one true instance where Strays are normal. If you ever think of Stray Servants, that usually means their Master is dead or they have forcibly cut ties with their previous Master (in both cases, they only have a limited amount of time before they are truly gone).
So why are they Summoned? It's usually different on a case-to-case basis. Stray Servants are not a normal occurence, they really just refer to Servants without a Master. There's rarely a chance for extras to be summoned through a ritual.
The only place where that is normal is...FGO
@@natchu96 ahhhhhh
Case-to-case basis meaning two major factors, either they were summoned by the Counter Force, an almighty and omnipotent entity bent on correcting historical and worldly anomalies (aka, Beasts or enemies of humanity).
Or just like this game has tackled, powerful spirit leylines. And since the game is set on historical Japan period, magic is prevalent and the leylines are stronger than it was in the present day.
Or the rare third one where they just summon themselves out of sheer will, or they just felt like it. Examples being Gilgamesh here and even Minamoto no Raikou on FGO.
Nico should definitely know who Orihime and Hikoboshi are considering he played S;G0 and how those themes were interconnected with Mayuri and Okabe's story 😅
In fairness, that LP was 4 years ago and Nico’s memory is wildly inconsistent
@@ZenoKnightShade I was honestly surprised he didn't remember. Its not like I replayed the game in the time since the LP or anything but I still vaguely remember those names and the importance it had to mayuri in s;g0. I guess sometimes nico's memory has a brain fart haha.
@@dooroflight1 I guess it’s the price he pays for his plot prediction BS
Fun fact about the bro master who just rescue you Zheng Chenggong, alternative name was Koxinga. He was one of china two famous pirates who cause a lot of commotion to the Qing Chinese Empire. He was kicking all the asses: Quing Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese. He was the one who liberated a very very special island: Famusa or as recently known as Taiwan.
Again, he was not a pirate. He was a Chinese Ming loyalist general commander of the rump Chinese Southern Ming state under the Longwu emperor based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. “Koxinga” was not his name, but a moniker because he was given the imperial surname “Zhu”, and the title “Chenggong” meaning “victorious”. Technically he should be called “Zhu Chenggong”. His real name was “Zheng Sen”, but was widely known as “Zheng Chenggong”. He had to take out the Dutch outpost on Taiwan because 1. The Dutch had been a constant headache and liability to the Ming from behind because they kept skirmishing with the Ming over some islands. 2. Zheng needed a location as their base of operation to train troops.
The Qing at this point is predominantly led by unsinicized Jurchens so I wouldn’t exactly describe them as “Chinese” at his point. They will be gradually sinicized later.
Qing’s ruling chieftain family Asin Gioro most likely was somewhat sinicized because they worked under the Ming in the past as the commander of Jianzhou. But for the other banner tribesman most likely not.
And just as a follow-up. I wouldnt say Zheng “kicked Qing asses” because he was constantly failing to retake the mainland and losing land on the mainland to the Qing. In the end he didn’t really accomplish too much and only held out on Taiwan for a bit before dying a few years later and his grandson would eventually surrender to Qing and that branch of the Zheng family would be recruited as a bannerman nobility.
He did’t come conflict with the Japanese, and it is an odd statement that you made about that because the Tokugawa shogunate which replaced the Toyotomi regime at that point was full on conservative, Confucian, isolationist and anti-expansionist, and very de-miltarized (as shown in this game, the samurai class was severely suppressed by the shogunate and a lot of them lost their jobs and became ronin) Zheng did ask for help from the Shogunate and they literally said no can do. They wouldn’t be of help anyways because Qing’s ferocious horse archers would have decimated the Japanese.
Since the giant fox showed up again, I wanted to mention that your guess of Amaterasu wasn’t completely wrong. I believe the original legend or lore of Tamamo No Mae is somewhat connect to Amaterasu, so at least one of your guesses were fairly accurate in some way.
Shout-out to Kaya, somehow thinking Iori has so much game to sleep around all the time when the man just got pulled into funky mage adventures.
True chad wing women right there
That detail in Musashi's Noble Phantasm about the revelation of " " is referencing Kara no Kyoukai, a web novel series that series creator Kinoko Nasu wrote during the mid-90s. The main character, Shiki Ryougi, has a unique relationship with the void after having awoken from a two-year coma where one of her personalities had died. This makes her the target for a magus who intends to use her to reach the Root of Alaya, the source of all magic in the world.
Regarding its relevancy to this game, it just means that Musashi Miyamoto is really powerful for having access to a portion of the void.
i love nico reaction to aria whenever she shows up
God help us all the day Nico gets into FGO
That's a deep rabbithole that Nico will lose a lot of money and many mindblowns because every time he makes a joke that it will turn canon.
If he gets into FGO I highly doubt he could make a series out of it.... mostly because its going to take hundreds of chapters (longest i know ongoing is 513 chapters lmao)
@@Hawu__ Fgo is like the One Piece story of gacha games.
I don’t think Nico would LP mobile games, unless he does it like Kingdom Hearts Union Cross and Dark Road and just react to the cutscenes (if there are any, I never played the game before)
@@crazybagel9979 There are light novels soooo
So basically Noble Phantasm's are an artifact, ability, or manifestation of a significant event in a Servant's life. For instance, if King Arthur was a Servant, their Noble Phantasm would likely be Excalibur. Also, Servants can have multiple Noble Phantasms if they're known well enough for multiple things.
What the statue carving tutorial DOESN'T tell you is the real reason you carve them. It says you gain EXP, which you do, but that's not the main reason you do it. There are two main reasons to do it. First, there are some skills that require you to carve a few of the statues. Second, and most importantly, you can sell them to Gilgamesh for a fuck ton of money. It is a very good way to make money, and the primary way you make the big bucks.
Tamamo Aria - It's harem time (but said really slowly)
Iori, Saber, and Nico - NO!
Fun fact about Zhou Gongjin, he is one of the many talented tactitans in the three kingdom civil war: the other being Sima Yi and Komeng. His rise to fame was coming up with a genius plan to catch Cao Cao involving burning his fleets and crash into the Cao Cao ship. Also he is one of two tactician who get to show their face.
Also: NP means Noble Phantasm.
The NP stat in a Servant's bio refers to the power of their Noble Phantasm.
Also the TEC stat can basically be read as the Luck stat of this game. Increasing that will provide a number of benefits.
Tamamo no high makes her demon face
Nico: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT FACE!? MODS! THERES A WEIRD FOX OUTSIDE!
that would be the demon fox part of tamamo coming out nico, and iori is her target.
(Kind of reminds me of a face thay original tamamo would make in Fate extella or tamamo vitch face)
The reason they said it like "that", and implied "that", is because that is also what "that" is.
And by "that" they meant "That fr".
They mean SEX.
I'm not explaining further,
ask your mom.
I thought I was tripping but apparently Zheng is voiced by the same guy who voices Zhongli in genshin, thats kinda fun. And he also wields a polearm lmao
a mage family's magic crest is basically the equivalent of a coat of arms surgically implanted into their chosen inheritor, magic circuits (how mages can perform magic in this universe) strengthen as they grow older, and realizing this, mages developed some truly advanced techniques meant to transfer it down, as you might expect, the process is arduous and painful so it is a slow and gradual overtime project
So uhhh… Nico, you know how the original Fate/Stay Night was a Eroge Visual Novel? (Most likely not but I’m gonna to say it anyways) “Mana Transfer” is basically… You guessed already, The birds and the bees. So when Tamamo Aria suggests using Iori’s Mana as her source instead, let’s just say that line made some of us long time fate fan physically recoils backwards in real life.
Even the sfw retcons make it super intimate physical touch requiring a large area of skin-to-skin contact which is still really recoil worthy.
Nico is secretly playing a hentai series
@@just-eebyeah, and even then when any of the media down the line past the OG portrays/talks about it, they *definitely* always make it pretty obvious they’re intentionally referencing the 1st meaning. Hard not to recoil at times.
I wouldn't say recoil we pretty much accepted that Nasu write eroge is not like he was the only one. Almost every famous writer and artist in Japan did porn. We just now doing that Leonardo DiCaprio meme of pointing the finger when they "magical energy" reference.
If I remember correctly magical circuits are what allow people to use magic. The more they have the more they can cast spells without it backfiring. The higher the quality its easier to cast the big stuff.
1:23:50 YOU CAN RUN NICO BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE! YOU WON'T ESCAPE THE ADORABLENESS!!!
Found the Cuteness Fanatic
I think Saber has an addiction to Miso Soup and Rice. God help the soul that tries to start an intervention for them.
My favorite Japanese history edutainment let's play on the whole wide internet!
Iori is building a really awkward harem
1:47:09 Nico, you missed part of the Wind Stance codex, the second one of the three. Unless you saw it and just decided to not leave that part in, I dunno.
*nicob summarizing how most fate plots play out:*
11:07 - 11:19
To use a Noble Phantasm(np), servants have to reveal it's true name, not their own. Like saying the name of their sword/technique, or in William Tell's case, what their legendary deed/move was known to do
I loved the "KITTY!" at 44:54
if chiemon has a known historical counterpart it'll most likely be revealed in the season pass this game has, otherwise he's more famous to fate fans due to his association to another popular character and the revolution he incited which was mentioned at the beginning when he met with yui
55:20-56:40 The very distinct instrument you're referring to is called "erhu", it's a two-stringed Chinese folk instrument that belongs to the violin / fiddle family.
It's often used in media as aural shorthand for "this person is Chinese" or "this scene takes places in China".
When it said “true name” it meant the name of the Noble Phantasm(NP). Think of it like how Shonen characters call out their special attack names, except here a Servant needs to call out the name of their NP to activate it or use its full might unless it’s a passive type.
And if a Noble Phantasm has a super obvious name like say Excalibur, you are definitely gonna figure out who the owner of that NP is. Keep in mind a Noble Phantasm isn’t always a weapon or object. It could be an ability, an event, or action that that Servant had performed and/or experienced in their life that is part of their legend.
For example, say I’m a hero who once survived jumping into lava fighting a dragon or something. That event is recorded in my legend, and I gain a NP based on it. The name of the Noble Phantasm will be in reference to it, and calling out the name could say give me the power to use the lava I had once jumped in, while also granting a passive fire resistance even without calling its name.
aria make the evil tamamo smile because one of the ways to transfer mana that is as old as the original fate is that the master and servant get intimate in bed
When they talk about NP in the Servants stat they are talking about Noble Phantasm. Meaning Lancer and Archer have POWERFUL NPs
I freaking love Iori and Aria's interactions, they are so amazing
This game is already giving me Okami meets Zatch Bell vibes with the inclusion of Japanese and foreign lore/mythology, along with the partners in competition setting, with the grand prize being what everyone is fighting for
I remember Zhou Yu from Dynasty Warriors 9. Guy destroyed my fleet behind me with flaming arrows. He had planned it all from the beginning. Guy is a fucking genius, and I got a grudge against him.
The instrument in the digression, and generally as the theme of team Zheng, is an Erhu. It's a traditional Chinese string instrument similar to a violin and it is my favorite instrument in the world.
Bro this LP is so good, one of my favorites already
No, the ritual doesn't have to end in death for the Masters. The Servants do have to kill each other, that is inevitable. But you don't have to kill the Master, that's not a necessary part of the ritual. It can make things easier, because if you kill the Master you kill the Servant, but strictly speaking every Master can walk away from the ritual with their lives intact. The Servants are the only ones whose deaths are necessary.
Just so you know the stats system of servants. The baseline E rank means 10 times the average person. So one with e rank strength is 10 times stronger than the average person. Then each rank is another 10, so d rank is 20x stronger and so on. For + stats, like c+, it means it adds itself under certain conditions, so a c rank strength is 30x stronger than the average person but a c+ rank is normally 30x stronger, but can become 60x after using an ability, making them stronger than a servant with A rank strength which would be 50x.
Congratulations on moving in Nico and thanks for this nice long episode to start off with in the new office! I hope you and Bernie make many happy memories at your new house!
The classic Dynasty Warriors “Cow Cow” pronounce for Cao Cao. Brings back memories of how hilarious it was playing DW as a kid.
If his name appear again, try “Chow Chow” instead. It’s the closest proper Chinese pronunciation for English speakers.
Tsow Tsow is more appropriate
1:39:20 saber just name dropped the series name
Fate/Samurai Remnant
The story of a young man whose sister's think he is getting laid with all the ppl he meet.
And also Saber, his servant, beeing extra jaleous everytime.
Some small trivia about the voice actors of both Zheng and Archer:
Zheng is voiced be Maeno Tomoaki. He did another voice work for Fate, in FGO (mobile game) as a servant. His other roles in the industry are: Zhong Li (Genshin Impact), Tempest (Slime Isekai), Decim (death Parade), etc.
Archer is voiced by Ono Kensho. At the time the game released this was his only work for Fate, but he got a role in FGO less than 1 month later. His other roles are Giorno (JoJo), Diluc (Genshin Impact), Hathaway (Gundam), etc.
Also Ono is married to Hanazawa Kana, the voice actress for Chiaki from Danganrompa 2. So you can say Archer is your final oponnent LOL.
Of all characters to have do it why is Aria the one to insinuate that the sharing of spiritual energy through skin on skin action can still be canon
Remember the other Fate character that Aria shares her Japanese VA that aren't the other Tamamos. Then it kinda makes sense to me Meta wise and they definitely have it as a gag of sorts.
25:00 Magical Circuits are pseudo-nerves that are used to convert one's life force (od) or planet's ambient life force (mana) in one's vicinity into magical energy for spells or other supernatural acts. Mage families often try to influence Magical Circuits of their descendants, such as increasing the quality and quantity of Magical Circuits their heirs are born with and fine-tuning their composition for that family's magecraft. Even regular people have Magical Circuits, but usually dormant and in small amount, though exceptions can occur through random mutation.
Technically one can force their muscular, nervous, cardiovascular and lymphatic systems to also function as Magic Circuits, but that damages them a lot.
1:27:33 The tale of Orihime and Hikoboshi is basically the story of two lovers, who can only meet each other once a year. They are represented by stars Vega and Altair. It's the focal story of Japan's Tanabata Festival, and it is borrowed from China's Zhinü and Niulang story, celebrated in Qixi Festival.
You make fun of Tamamo a lot, but you're going to use her a lot!
She's the best support!
Also I might be wrong, but I assume the reason, why Saber (and Kaya) and Iori have papers in their mouths during the minigame is a form of caution, since the blade could accidentally cut them in the face, especially when working with/looking at the blade closely. So from the paper that the blade tears first they can determine if they are too close to it (and how sharp it is) and keep themselves safe.
Well, her "sisters" did say she was a weirdo.
Fate series doesn't miss with the banger OSTs
I can't say for certain, what instrument is used in the music you were wondering about (around 55:00) but it sounds more like erhu (a Chinese bowed instrument) than shamisen (a Japanese plucked instrument, sound is similar to banjo's). It's nice to see how accurately the game brings forward traditional Asian instruments, forming a distinct sound. The erhu in the background as a leading sound with Zheng Chenggong and Zhou Yu in that scene is a nice touch :)
27:20 yeah i think she is jeanne d arc. especially going by how usually jeanne d arc gets portrayed in anime xd.
One thing i like about fate is their desire to explain pretty much every single thing in their story. When you got the extra mystic code from the General it could have been maybe just mail or something on the ground. But they tell you they found something extra in the their workshop and one of his lackeys send it over. I think this is also true for finding other masters. Unlike Iori, most of them seem tk have have been preparing for this waxing moon for months, and it takes a herculean effort to get to them like with yui. Though i can understand anyone that could see it as over explaining.
I want one of these intro gonna be "Well excuuse mee Saber"
So, now that you're a little ways into the game and have gotten your feet wet with the juicy lore, I think this would be a good time to delve into the fundamentals of magecraft, the core magic system used in Fate (and all of Type-Moon's franchises, actually).
Today, we're going to answer "What the heck is a magic circuit?!"
The wiki will tell you it's a "pseudo-nervous system." That's accurate, but to the layman it's nonsensical gibberish. Kind of like how a physical body has genes that define how it grows and functions, the soul has components as well, concepts that define who the person is. A magic circuit is basically a component that is inscribed onto a person's soul, and describes how well they can use magic. Because they're part of the soul, they cannot be naturally modified. Key word there being "naturally."
Circuits function by transmuting either Mana (energy created by the world), or Od (energy created by one's body) into magical energy, which is sometimes called "prana" depending on the translation. Magical energy is then used to, well, cast spells and whatnot. The idea for Od actually stems from a real-life 19th century pseudo-scientific concept called the Odic Force. The telluric energy you get from the spirit fonts in the game is Mana, it's just called by a different name. As for why, well, the best answer I can come up with is "Because."
Regarding "quantity" and "quality," to put it simply, the "quantity" stat represents the number of circuits you have. The "quality" is how efficiently they work - how much energy your circuits can hold, how easily they can channel said energy, and how much effort it takes to actually use it. The terms have another meaning as well, but that doesn't apply to anything in this game so you don't have to worry about it. It's also kind of complicated, and frankly I'm too lazy to go into it.
Now, it's possible to use your physical nervous system as a supplemental magic circuit. Lots of mages throughout the franchise do it, but you need to be extremely careful doing so, as it can seriously mess you up. If you don't know what you're doing it's extremely easy to wind up severely injured, permanently crippled, or just straight up dead as your body burns itself out.
I'll stop here as I feel this is all that's really relevant at the moment. Besides, this comment is already getting a bit wordy and I don't want to overwhelm a newcomer to the franchise.
At least not yet. I hope you found this helpful and/or informative, though!
PS: The reason everyone has paper in their mouths during the katana maintenance is so they avoid getting saliva on the blade during the process, as it can potentially corrode the metal or cause other issues. This is one of the reasons swords are usually coated in a thin layer of oil during maintenance.
for god sake saber we have had more than enough miso soup this week lets go get some meat buns
I just noticed that a new shop called ameterasu buns just opened up and people are going mad for them
Me whenever I get a notification for a new NicoB upload: 1:39:18
Ooooh, archer is voiced by Kensho Ono? Another archer in his collection of characters... Where my Dr stone fans at?