English-speaking players can finally experience Fate/Stay Night for themselves with the remastered release but some major glitches rendered it almost unplayable; have they been fixed yet?
20 years ago, Type-Moon released the original Fate/Stay Night visual novel to a Japanese audience. What followed for the Fate franchise was a meteoric rise to success, with TV anime series and movies of all three of the original Fate/Stay Night routes, spin-offs, spin-offs of spin-offs, adaptations of spin-offs, a lucrative gacha game, and collabs with other lucrative gacha games. While an unofficial English translation has been passed around the internet for years, the release of Fate/Stay Night Remastered on August 7, 2024, made it officially available.
It wasn’t immediately playable at launch, though. Distracting, confusing, and hilarious glitches defined the launch experience for the game. But have those Fate/Stay Night Remastered glitches been fixed?
Fate/Stay Night Remastered launches with a randomizer glitch
Fate/Stay Night Remastered launched with a bug that seemingly shuffled together visual and audio elements of the game.
For players new to the Fate franchise, the first few hours of Fate/Stay Night Remastered’s launch have been a confusing time. Voice lines and context clues say that the person supposed to be on screen is the main character’s shy childhood friend, but nope, that’s a man dressed for an early-2000s anime battle royale. Is Rin Tohsaka supposed to be an eldritch horror? Signs point to no. Genderbent King Arthur? That one is intended, actually.
As funny as some of these randomizations are, it makes the lore-dense story of Fate/Stay Night Remastered even more inaccessible for new players. All-in-all, as X (formerly Twitter) user zzzzviktor so eloquently puts it, this was a “horrible launch.” Regardless of the problems in presentation, the game retains a “mostly positive” rating on Steam as the players take it in stride. Many are making jokes as they go through Fate/Stay Night Remastered, making what would be a huge issue for others a jovial experience for players to laugh together on social media.
Did they fix the Fate/Stay Night Remastered glitches yet?
Type-Moon and fuzz, inc put out a patch for Fate/Stay Night Remastered that fixed many of its glitches, including the randomization issue.
\While the comedic value of the randomizer certainly made for some fun reviews, this will make the game more accessible to people who want to see what the Fate franchise is about. Likely, those who found the randomizer entertaining will be able to relive it soon- after all, there are already reviews calling for modders to make it happen.
