Why Is Fate So Hard To Get Into?
My father and I have been watching the Fate anime by ufotable for a while now, and it’s gotten me thinking about the franchise as a whole, its accessibility and what it does to lower that accessibility barrier (or increase it in some cases). This essay is going to be a bit shorter than my others, but it mainly addresses why I think that Fate is notoriously difficult for Western newcomers to get into. Along the way, I’ll be giving some of my own, small criticisms of the series’ writing. ___________________ First , there’s the original medium: a visual novel. Visual novels are a notoriously niche, hard-to-explain medium, lurking in the gray area between literature and video games. There are few examples of visual novels that originated in the West, so it can be difficult to explain to Western fans what it even is. Not helping matters, Type-Moon is famously averse to translating their works because of how time-consuming it is and how busy they are with other projects like Grand Order and