Fate/Extra Record Feels Like Persona Meets Slay the Spire – Tokyo Game Show 2026

At Tokyo Recreation Present 2026, we obtained some hands-on time with Fate/Extra Report—a ground-up remake of 2010’s PSP recreation Destiny/Additional. Whereas the plot is basically the identical (although with massively expanded voice appearing, the gameplay has been up to date. To elucidate this recreation to anybody who has little information of the unique, I might say it performs like Persona blended with Slay the Spire.

Like with different Destiny tales, you play as a mage paired with a hero from delusion and legend. Do you have to defeat the opposite Grasp/Servant pairs, you’ll achieve a want from the holy grail. For the aforementioned Persona really feel, there are a number of days between every Servant versus Servant battle. You spend that point exploring your faculty, assembly characters, furthering the story, and powering up your Servant for battle. You’re additionally in a position to enter a dungeon associated to the Servant you’ll subsequent be preventing—and should clear it earlier than the subsequent essential combat. After all, assets are restricted, so it would take a number of days to totally full.

For the TGS demo, we have been thrown into the sport’s opening dungeon, both its first half or second, and have been in a position to decide a companion servant—i.e., Archer, Saber, or Caster. The dungeon itself is stuffed with regular monsters that you may combat or keep away from at will, together with “Gatekeepers” that you must defeat to maneuver on to the subsequent space of the dungeon. You even have occasional battles with enemy servants which have a flip restrict and particular targets past merely defeating your enemy.

In battle, the sport takes on a card-based battle system paying homage to Slay the Spire. You may have a set quantity of AP (motion factors) to spend per flip. Every card makes use of some quantity of AP. Some playing cards make protection boundaries, some assault, some draw or create extra playing cards—some even increase your max AP quickly. Your deck largely is determined by which one of many three servants you chose to pair with. That mentioned, Aniplex Inc. Employees knowledgeable ANN that it is possible for you to to regulate your deck and energy up your playing cards again on the faculty.

Exterior of the cardboard system, technique comes from having the ability to see what sort of assault your enemy will use on their subsequent flip, in addition to using Grasp abilities that use MP as a substitute of AP and provides results that may simply swing the result of a battle.

Nevertheless, the perfect a part of the hands-on expertise was all of the dialogue. Not like the unique, ANN was knowledgeable that the sport can be absolutely voiced exterior of the protagonist’s inside monologue. Within the demo, this meant not solely conversations between the protagonist and their Servant, but additionally the enemy Grasp (Shinji Matou) and Servant (Rider). Shinji additionally had an impact on the dungeon itself, throwing bombs you must keep away from along with the problem of regular enemies.

Based mostly on my time with Destiny/Additional Report, this appears to be the superior solution to play the Destiny/Additional story. The battle system feels easy to be taught however with a ton of complexity to find. Every of the three characters feels distinctive in how they play (a minimum of within the first dungeon), and the mini-bosses and limited-turn Servant battles do job of blending issues up. I am excited to see if this continues to be true within the full recreation when it releases subsequent yr.

Destiny/Additional Report is scheduled for launch on January 28, 2027, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Swap, Nintendo Swap 2, and Home windows.