Talk:Fate/Apocrypha × FGO Special Campaign/@comment-35080849-20180424114344/@comment-32788591-20180425011802

To be fair, I don't think a different studio like Ufotable could salvage Apocrypha. Best they can probably do is at least make the fights prettier.

The big cast is a big problem. There's just no feasible way to give everyone their dedicated screentime in such a short amount of time. I think the writing definitely got too biased towards the Black side though. Removing nearly all the Red Masters and treating the entire Red cast (save for Mordred) as enemies kind of proved to be its downfall. Would've been nice if it was a bit more even.

Sieg kind of sucks because most of the time, he gets stronger just by being at the right place at the right time. Like his very existence entitles him to all the cool stuff he got. Compare that to Shirou who we at least see exert effort in the things he does, Sieg really does come across as bland as cardboard. Not to say I'll burn him if he does become welfare though. A free unit is still a free unit after all.

The Apocrypha anime does feel like a blatant cashgrab though. It doesn't look like a lot of care went into it at all. Even with its emphasis on action over interaction, the anime still isn't too great as evidenced by the sudden dip in the art quality in several of the action scenes. Given that Zero and UBW were released earlier--yeah, I can see why people would hate it.