This singularity left me with three crippling desires:
- I already liked Merlin from all the glimpses I got in previous singularities and Garden of Avalon, but his trollishness really shines here, and I was grinning like an idiot when the sea of mud turned into a field of flowers. Please come home you goober
- Best girl Rin? Yes. As much as I like Ishtar I've got enough AOE Archers so I'm going with Eresh here. She's apparently mediocre for an AOE Lancer but who cares. She's got a sorta "what if Rin got the bad end of the deal instead of Sakura" vibe going for her, I really enjoyed her scenes with the protagonist at night.
- LOOK UP, GODDESS OF LIFE, AND KNOW DEATH (me: HOOLYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT)
The grand battle theme is officially King Hassan's theme now, there is no going back. He was already cool in Camelot but this was that next level shit. I'm glad I got both Gils already because that makes saving for other servants much easier. Medusana is a sweetheart and I felt sad for her both times. I'll be honest here and say that FGO made me care for Medusa more than F/SN ever did, even in Heaven's Feel I found her "eh", while in Babylonia I got a better grasp of her character. The 1-3 stars didn't leave quite as big an impression here as the equivalent troupe in Camelot though, I didn't get the same huge desire to raise them as I did for CA or Bedi, but they were still nice and had their moments to shine. That said, Leonidas was a bro and he's apparently actually good so he's on my list now.
At first I wasn't sure if this would beat Camelot. The first 2/3rds of the singularity are fun and all, heads and shoulders above anything prior to Camelot, but the first 2/3rds of Camelot were much more exciting and challenging in comparison. Then Gorgon dies and shit hits the fan, and it keeps hitting the fan, and it doesn't stop why isn't it stopping, oh lawd she coming WAIT URUK IS IN FLAMES EVERYONE'S FREAKING DEAD. The sheer escalation of that 3rd act just reaches highs that Camelot doesn't even dream of approaching, goddamn. Up until "Absolute Demonic Front Mesopotamia" I was still unsure, but that entire final act of resistance against Tiamat just pushed it over the top for me. I'm a sucker for apocalyptic stories, humanity fighting creatures waaay beyond their paygrade and conflicts with absolutely huge scales and this brought it in spades. I mean I already knew things were going to get dire and I was
still caught off-guard over how dreadful the situation actually got. I wasn't expecting Uruk to actually get swallowed up and go down in flames. Gil and Enkingu's last stand, hot damn. Support Archer Gil in the final battle having his own unique sprite and lines was so cool, but now I want that as an alternate costume lol. I'm pumped to fight Solomon but how is he even supposed to top this.
Updated ranking: Babylonia > Camelot >>>>> America >> Orleans > Okeanos > London > Prologue > Septem (after reflecting a bit I changed up some positions from my last ranking, I'll probably elaborate a bit on each of them after I finish up Solomon)