As the latest game in the Fate franchise, Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star is an action video game that is being developed by Marvelous and is due out on both PlayStation 4 and PS Vita at the end of the year. With some describing the game as "Dynasty Warriors with Fate characters", Fate/Extella features a brand new story from Kinoko Nasu and has characters from Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Apocrypha, Fate/Grand Order and other Fate series.
With so much to learn about the game, I spoke to Michael Fisher (Assistant Product Manager) and Jonathan Nevill (Product Manager) and got to ask them as to what their hopes were for parent company Marvelous Europe's forthcoming release. Enjoy!
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Why have you decided to focus on the musuo and the visual novel genres, as opposed to continuing down that RPG road which Fate/Extra went down originally? Why the change in direction?
Jonathan Nevill: I think this would’ve been a discussion with Marvelous Japan. We didn’t have much influence or knowledge of the background behind the decision. So we got introduced to the project last year. We knew it was being developed, but at that point we didn’t know we would be publishing it. We assumed we would.
I think it's a broader ...