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Fate/Extra (フェイト/エクストラ, Feito/ekustura) is a Japanese Dungeon Role Playing Game created by Type-Moon and Image Epoch and published by Marvelous Entertainment. The game is an Alternate Remake of the visual novel Fate/Stay Night and part of Marvelous Entertainment's TYPE-MOON×RPG PROJECT. The game is scheduled to be released on July 22nd 2010.

Changes from Fate/Stay Night

The whole game is an alternate remake of the visual novel but goes deeper in inclusion of characters from Fate/hollow ataraxia and Fate/Zero. The story is alternately changed so it can incorporate newer themes in the games as well as revisiting the old events present in the visual novel version. Character designs were also changed with the supervision of Type-Moon's lead character designer, like Saber's new outfit and Caster's new Foxgirl appearance.

Apart from all the series, this is the first Fate game to have no involvement nor appearances of Shirō Emiya, his role filled by the player's character.

Gameplay

Fate/Extra's gameplay can be compared to the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series as it incorporates dungeon crawling, special attacks and the High-School Theme in both games. Although the player starts by choosing either a unnamed male or female characters, as well as their servants: Saber, Archer and Caster.

Exploring is done in the school and inside a virtual place called Serial Phantasm or SE.RA.PH, which can be accessed using the Moon Cell. In the SE.RA.PH, monsters are abundant in the place and the battle takes place when the player encounters one of them.

Characters

Apart from the main Fate characters, several newer ones were introduced in the game and also plays a role in the story. The Main Character are:

Master:

• Male Main Character ( Servant: Saber/Archer/Caster )
  
• Female Main Character ( Servant: Saber/Archer/Caster )
  
• ( Rival-like character )
  
• Leonard Bistari ( Servant: probably Berseker )
  
• Rin Tohsaka ( Servant: Lancer )
  
• Shinji Matou ( Servant: Rider )
  
• Rani ( Servant: probably Assassin )
  

Servant:

• Saber ( Master: Male or Female MC or (Rival) )
  
• Archer ( probably Emiya Shirou future form ) ( Master: Male or Female MC or (Rival))
  
• Caster ( ?? ) ( Master: Male or Female MC or (Rival))
  
• Lancer ( probably Cu Chulainn ) ( Master: Rin Tohsaka )
  
• Rider ( a Pirate or similar ) ( Master: Shinji )
  
• Assassin ( ?? ) ( Master: Rani )
  
• Berseker ( probably Étienne de Vignolles/ LaHire)(new person here. But if you look at Fate/Extra's own site it looks like Berserker is chinese probaly Lu Bu) ( Master: probably Leonard Bistari )
  

Music

In the first trailer, ALI PROJECT performed the official theme song of the game titled "Ranse Eroica" (亂世エロイカ, Heroic Troubled Times).

Development

The game is announced in the September 2009 issue of Famitsu. Marvelous Entertainment teamed up with Image Epoch and Type-Moon to develop a re-imaging of the Visual novel series. Some of the staff involved in the production is involved are dōjin artist Huke of Supercell, Takashi Takeuchi from Type-Moon for the character design supervision, Kazuya Niinō (7th Dragon) as the producer, while Shuetsu Kadowaki (Luminous Arc 2) as the director. The game will be released for the PlayStation Portable in both regular and the "Type-Moon Box" editions. The limited, Type-Moon Box edition includes a Saber Figma figure from the game itself, a visual book and a limited edition soundtrack. While the original release was set for March 2010, the release date was pushed back to July 22, 2010 for further testing.

References

1. http://www.siliconera.com/2009/09/29/imageepoch-developing-fateextra-for-psp/
2. "フェイト/エクストラ　公式サイト:製品情報" (in Japanese). Marvelous Entertainment. Retrieved 2009-12-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
3. "「フェイト/エクストラ」発売延期のお知らせ" (in Japanese). Marvelous Entertainment. January 22, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

External links

• Official website for Fate/Extra Template:Ja icon

• 2010 video games
• Fate/stay night
• Japan-exclusive video games
• PlayStation Portable games
• Video games developed in Japan