But is the world ready?
The material-hungry Masters ofFate/Grand Ordermay still be days away from finishing off the ongoing “Gudaguda Meiji Restoration” spring event, but the cruel intelligences at Aniplex have opted to announce none other than thenextevent coming to the game: a collaboration withFate/Extra CCC, titledBB Strikes Back: Let’s Meet In the Digital Sea!.
Fate/Extra CCCis based onFate/Extra, the 2010 JRPG that also serves as the setting forFate/Extella,Extella Link, and theFate/Extra: Last Encoreanime series. Though characters fromExtraandCCC,such as Nero Claudius and Tamamo-no-Mae, have been present inFate/Grand Order‘s roster since launch,BB Strikes Backis the first full FGO event based on theExtrasetting. That’s interesting becauseCCCitself was never actually picked up for localization by anyone, not even XSEED, which releasedFate/Extra, Extella,andExtella Link. The reason why not could have to do with the dire state of the PSP market in 2014, or even the dire state ofExtra‘s developer Imageepoch, which declared bankruptcy in 2015. It could also be becauseCCCis completely bonkers, even byFatestandards.
Starring a quartet of characters who all look uncannily similar toFate/Stay Nightalum Sakura Matou,CCCis a surrealist fever-dream of a JRPG with themes focusing on love and sexuality, and all its associated psychodrama. It’s the sort of title that proves that even in this day and age, it’s entirely possible for a non-pornographic game to be Too Horny For Consumption. Such is its reputation that many FGO fans speculated the event would be skipped entirely in the English version. Luckily, they were wrong.
In any case, as of press time, there’s no explicit schedule for the event’s release, but Aniplex have already kicked off a pre-release promotion campaign, along with the teaser trailer below. Smart quartz is on it coming out in a week or two. With it will come several new servants, including two entirely new playable classes: The Alterego, represented byCCCcharacters Meltryliss, Passionlip and the infamous Sessyoin Kiara, and the MoonCancer, a class of one represented solely by the titular BB.
Masters who aren’t still busy farming out the remainder of the current event can prep for their first date withCCCby improving theirFate/Extra-related Servants, such as Nero Claudius, Hans Christian Andersen, Elizabeth Bathory, and Tamamo-no-Mae.
