Review: Fate/Samurai Remnant

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The Fate franchise spans a wide range of mediums, including manga, light novels, anime, and video games. I’m almost entirely new to the series, with my only prior interaction with the Fate franchise being the Fate/Zero light novel I discovered after seeing it referenced in Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Three Worlds Collide. This hardly felt like a problem at all in Fate/Samurai Remnant.

Samurai Remnant is the latest game in the Fate series, and Omega Force is serving as the developer with some assistance from Type-Moon and Aniplex. It’s an open-world game which features action gameplay and liberally borrows from history, and while it does extend the Fate universe, the story is still mostly self-contained. It didn’t take long before I was fully immersed in Miyamoto Iori’s story and the sometimes depressing but always captivating world of Fate/Samurai Remnant.

Fate/Samurai Remnant (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5 [reviewed])
Developer: Omega Force
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
Released: September 29, 2023
MSRP: $59.99

The story takes place in 17th-century Japan during the Keian Uprising. A battle is brewing, brought on by the Masters and their Servant spirits. You take the role of Miyamoto Iori, who is the apprentice of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Iori has an innocent face which matches his gentle personality, making it more emotionally impactful when you witness him dragged into conflict as he goes on a quest for the Waxing Moon Vessel.

While it may appear complicated at first, the game does an adequate job of explaining all the elements of its world, so it’s never difficult to keep track of the story. Fate/Samurai Remnant’s taleunfolds in Edo, which feels alive thanks to the busy villagers walking the streets and the vendors selling