Aaaaaaah tis was such a frustrating movie to watch because of how much it butchered the source material. Yknow what? maybe because there was literally no source material to begin with. In FGO, the last singularity was more of just a fancy way to have closure over the singularities and introduce some new mechanics. The story was literally nonexistent, and the romani and mash plotlines were literally everything that were going on. A large part of the story was just focused on beating up the 72 demon sticks which was a good way of having closure over the past singularities by presenting some interesting thoughts on how the previous singularities could have been written to actually be good by showing some rly interesting relationships that the characters in them could have had. And despite them kind of being shoehorned into the plot to fix the past singularities, it was honestly one of my favorite parts of the singularity and y know what they did? THEY LITERALLY CUT THE WHOLE THING OUT! like wtf man! Curse budget restraints(what im guessing is the cause)! So instead of a bittersweet fight to the end, all we got was a stretched out plot filled with flavorful language that did absolutely nothing other than pad run time and confuse everyone. big sad.
Oh yea they also somehow failed to even adapt the part that they chose to adapt and flipped the order of several events around and made the romani twist way too obvious. Additionally, they also kind of rushed thru the mash plotline and made there be like absolutely no emotional impact whatsoever. I would have much rather seen some better dialogue than a fight scene that made absolutely no sense and went on for way too long. And speaking of the battle with solomon, that was messed up too. They literally skipped over an entire phase of his, and power balance was all over the place. Plus plot wise, nothing made sense either. How tf was a beast defeated so easily? nero was able to destroy his arm in a single shot despite the big tiddy mespotamia monster being op af and being almost nigh unkillable and the team had to actually do some tricks and stuff like throwing it into the underworld to debuff it in order to defeat it. And then if Goetia could regenerate his arm, why did it take a whole entire cut scene for him to heal it? and why were so many servants able to be resummoned that the end despite Goetia destroying their attachment to the singularity? I dunno if that was a thing in FGO since it was a while since I beat it but dam if that was true that would have rly messed up the plot. I understand that they wanted some more servant cameos, but that isn't justification for screwing up so horribly. In addition, how in the world was Fujimaru able to fight one on one in the climax? a F tier master like him has no chance in beating a beast. Heck, I don't think he should even be able to pick up mash's shield!
Additionally, Lev was also rly annoying. He was as basic of a horrible anime antagonist as he could be, and literally explained every thing that was happening in the movie like a lifeless puppet. also his hand gestures felt rly out of place. and what was with the decision to have him arbitrarily close his eyes for half of the scenes? made absolutely no sense at all.
And one final thing, which may just be my largest complaint. The directing in this movie was lowkey bad. I went to sleep last night wondering about why despite goetia being such a almighty being, I could barely even feel any power seething out of him. And after a long time of restless wandering, I finally realized it. In many of the shots used, everything is zoomed out to a large degree, which stops the viewer from realizing just how large and towering of a being goetia is. Additionally, when it zooms in, a lot of the time the camera instead follows the servants attacking goetia instead, making the servants take up a lot larger piece of the frame and making them seem like more of a force to be reckoned with instead of goetia. Another thing that is only tangentially related is goetia's design. Goetia's muscles are in the perfect spot where they seem comically large to fit on a being on the size of a human, but his frame is too small to make his seem like he is a ginormous otherworldly being. FGO got around this by having a more outlandish design for goetia, instead opting for a mesmerizing design where one can not simply pinpoint where one limb ends and another one begins. Take his arms as an example. you can clearly see that there is indeed a forearm and upper arm, but his muscle structure is so outlandish that the two basically blend into one. Additionally, his chest curves in way above where it should curve in and his abdomen curves out in irregular geometric shapes that when combined with the rest of his design, make an almost Lovecraftian creature that unlike man yet also unlike a true monster. But I kind kind of forgive them for that point since I am almost sure that sticking to goetia's og design would have killed the animation staff so im kinda fine with that i guess.
However, this does not mean that everything in this movie is trash. The god pillar cg in this movie was on point. by shedding the 2d art style and instead going for a more realistic look, they were able to make the cg look like it wasn't just infuriatingly barely out of place. I think there was only one scene where they didn't rly fit in to the background, and with so many shots of them in the movie, I'm fine with one small detail like that.
Furthermore, despite most of this movie being nonsensical, the nostalgia factor was absolutely there. The movie used many of FGO's soundrtracks which made me feel rly invested into the story which all culmunated with mash's soundtrack near the end. ykno, I rly have a soft spot for that song. It just goes so hard and the emotions that I felt when I first saw mash sacrafice herself came out with it.
tldr; nothing makes sense at all so just empty out them wallets and go play FGO
well anyways thats the end of this rly long rant cya
