History FateGrandOrder / TropesDToI

* DifficultySpike:
** Orleans pre-patch was dramatically more difficult than Fuyuki with [[DemonicSpiders wyverns]] with very high attack and crit rate. And it being only the second chapter was what led the enemies to be significantly nerfed.
** Okeanos is much more difficult than either post-patch Orleans or Rome, and unlike Orleans, it keeps its difficulty with enemy levels being significantly higher than in either of the first two chapters and introducing several new tough enemies. Presumably, this was to compensate for the long gap between Rome and Okeanos, since many players had been able to finish leveling most of their Servants. Still, it's a fairly minor step up compared to what came a few chapters later.
** Camelot is much more difficult than any other story chapter up to it. Enemies that showed up in the previous chapter as a BossInMooksClothing now show up in more plentiful amounts, the Servants themselves are as tough as ever, and the Knights of the Round Table, in particular, come with "gifts" that make them much tougher (ex. Gawain taking reduced damage and charging his NP faster, Mordred always having a fully charged NP at the start of each turn). Camelot is considered to be arguably the most difficult chapter in the game with the next chapter allowing you to opt-out of the more difficult boss challenges.
** ''Epic of Remnant'' begins playing around with new mechanics such as multiple health bars, enemy taunt abilities, and more hazard effects. It's perhaps not quite as difficult as Camelot or Babylonia once you're used to it, but the new mechanics can throw people for a loop, especially as gauge breaks often clear enemy debuffs or cause them to instantly use a powerful skill without using their turn.
** The Shimousa chapter of ''Epic of Remnant'' is currently the holder of the hardest chapter which is even harder than Camelot not only because of powerful bosses, but the most difficult battles in the chapter prevent players from using Friend Supports.
** This was the purpose of the "Prison Tower" questline with several tough enemies and bosses and to make it more difficult for players, Edmond Dantes was your only support for six of the battles. To drive it home, to even participate you had to have already cleared the most recent Singularity in London.
** Rashoumon has Saber Wars' Craft Essence attack boosting system up to eleven. It's a raid quest with only Ibaraki-douji as the only raid boss which all players attack to whittle down her massive HP bar in the ''trillions'' (at minimum two trillion) and you can do any of the three (four in the re-run) quests to fight her. The lowest one gives you 300,000 HP to shave off that trillions health bar, while the highest gives you 6 million. Up until the point it was rerun, it was considered probably the hardest event to date, to the point that players were required to have completed America (the 5th and most recent Singularity at the time) to participate in it. However, an evolving metagame made the event much more accessible to casual players.
** Starting with the second Nero Fest, new events began adding in challenge quests that were completely optional but much more difficult than the free or main quests. Nero Fest and later Battle in New York, in particular, was considered particularly brutal with some fights like Gilgamesh or the final boss rush, which was quickly nerfed when it turned out even more difficult than expected, partially due to a few bugs like Nero granting infinite Guts to her teammates.
** The ''CCC'' crossover is by far the hardest crossover event because it expects players to reach and defeat the FinalBoss of Part One.
** The Setsubun event is currently the most difficult "Challenge event" since it requires beating the FinalBoss of Part One as well and the event itself not only bans Friend Supports but also demands players to have a lot of efficiently raised Servants as possible and carefully manage them.

** The titular Lost Room of the second OVA shows possibilities of alternate timelines after midnight if one falls asleep in there. The DVD booklet reveals that there were one too many incidents happening in there and Chaldea called for it to be sealed off.

** Rashoumon has Saber Wars' Craft Essence attack boosting system UpToEleven. It's a raid quest with only Ibaraki-douji as the only raid boss which all players attack to whittle down her massive HP bar in the ''trillions'' (at minimum two trillion) and you can do any of the three (four in the re-run) quests to fight her. The lowest one gives you 300,000 HP to shave off that trillions health bar, while the highest gives you 6 million. Up until the point it was rerun, it was considered probably the hardest event to date, to the point that players were required to have completed America (the 5th and most recent Singularity at the time) to participate in it. However, an evolving metagame made the event much more accessible to casual players.

** Many of the characters who return do so with more revealing and {{Fanservice}}y costumes this time around, and a large number of the new characters are {{Stripperiffic}}. This also includes ''[[UpToEleven Medusa]]'' who was the Queen of {{Stripperiffic}} outfits in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''.

** Most of the game's base soundtrack was given a dramatic overhaul for ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' to carry across the tension of [[spoiler:Chaldea having little resources and needing to defeat the powerful Crypters and their Servants of the Lostbelts]] to save the world.

** The first couple of singularities tend to have their boss fights come with zero gimmicky mechanics as well as zero break bars with every story segment having a battle. However, by the time when the first story chapter in ''Epic of Remnant'', all of the main boss fights have break bars with gimmicks to make the battle feel more like a boss fight, and not all story segments come with a fight.
** When this game first came-out, there were a lot of servants that only have two skills, and not the standard three. However, those servants would eventually receive a third skill via an interlude or a rank-up quest, and all servants from there on shall automatically come with a third skill.

** The first couple of singularities tend to have their boss fights come with zero gimmicky mechaniacs and break bars with every story segment having a battle. However, by the time when the first story chapter in ''Epic of Remnant'', all of the main boss fights have break bars with gimmicks to make the battle feel more like a boss fight, and not all story segments come with a fight.

** Most of ''Cosmos in the Lostbelt'' ends with "Cosmos Denial" as Chaldea has ended an entire timeline. The exceptions are Atlantis, which simply ends with "Atlantis Surmount" as Chaldea has only finished one half of the Lostbelt and Heiankyo, which uses Kintoki's signature phrase, "Golden Finish".

* FlatCharacter: Due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, certain characters, especially preestablished Servants before their inclusion in ''F/GO'' who have undergone CharacterDevelopment in their origin work, fall here.

* GenderFlip: A staple of the ''Fate'' franchise, taken up a notch with the game's LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Currently, the list includes King Arthur, Emperor Nero, Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune), Jing Ke, Okita Souji, Oda Nobunaga, Mordred, Gareth, Raikou (Minamoto no Yorimitsu), Pollux (Dioscuri), Merlin from the ''Prototype'' universe, Frankenstein's Monster, Paul Bunyan, Xu Fu, Shuten-Doji, Ibaraki-Doji, Nagao Kagetora, Atilla the Hun, Xuanzang and Kato Danzo. A few subversions include:

** Shinjuku: A [[DarkerAndEdgier gritty]] UrbanFantasy mystery that involves fighting against a magical conspiracy with the help of fiction's most notorious {{AntiHero}}es and Jeanne Alter. Notably, the "Phantom Demon Alliance" is made up of fictional characters and {{UrbanLegend}}s. [[spoiler:It's revealed at the end that was all a side-dish to the ''real'' story, an iteration of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' within ''Fate''. The ending text is "Quod Erat Demonstratum" because the mystery has been resolved.]]

* {{Golem}}: One of the standard enemy types, they are usually rock or crystal humanoid monsters. [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCastersAToF Avicebron]] has his own versions who were mobs in the Apocrypha event. But of particular note is the Crystal CE fight during Advanced Quest Part IV where you fight the Hebrew {{Golem}}; and you have to turn the Emeth (Truth) into Meth (Death) to defeat it.

* GameFavoredGender: ''Fate/Grand Order'' is widely known for its bias being heavily skewed in favor of the female characters.

** The protagonist receives a new Mystic Code for extremely cold environments upon arrival to the Ice Age-like Lostbelt of Kadoc Zemlupus. However these clothing are way too light for -''100°C'' environment, especially with the female protagonist wearing a DangerouslyShortSkirt in such weather.

* FightingAShadow: [[spoiler: It's mentioned through the story that killing the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' demons doesn't diminish their numbers in the long run, as they'll simply be summoned back to life by the King of Magic.]]

** Played straight with Mash as she never travelled outside of Chaldea before the game's start, resulting in her having a heck of a time trying to adjust to the multiple places they rayshift to.

** This is fairly common among the servant profiles, especially the earlier ones. For example, see Mata Hari's:
--->The female '''spy''' that was active on the hidden side of the world. Mata Hari lived the strangest existence among all '''spies'''. As a stripper, she conned military officers with her body until she was executed as a '''spy'''.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: During Mysterious Heroine X (Alter)'s Trial quest (which, predictably, is a gag event in itself), Space-Agravain invokes the "Black Knight's Black Hand" Noble Phantasm upon X Alter to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia seal her memories]]. One of the last things X Alter manages to say to her mentor is that [[LampshadeHanging this name seems redundant]].

* HairColorSpoiler: Sneakily averted! The Bible describes King David as ginger but in this game he [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair has green hair]]. If he had the correct hair color, [[spoiler: he'd look exactly like Doctor Roman, who turns out to be the real Heroic Spirit of David's son King Solomon.]]

** During the "Halloween Rising" event, BB as Kaguya-hime tasks you with collecting the five impossible relics as a sidequest to remove her powerful defense buffs. If you did the event at Enma-tei, Beni-enma requested you collect those exact relics, so fielding your own Beni-enma (NOT including supports) proves you already have them and removes the buffs.

** Within the bond system, how fast a servant can get to Bond 5 is very much dependent on a servant's personality. To keep things simple, genuinely nice servants that are easy to get along with have a quicker time getting into Bond 5. Meanwhile, servants with more difficult personalities to get along with and/or have some trust issues will often take a bit longer to get to Bond 5 as usually, they'll need 50,000 Bond Points to get to Bond 5.

** Saber Gilles de Rais's profile states that he's more famous and thus more often summoned as his evil Caster version. Caster Gilles is locked to the Story Summons gacha after completing the Orleans storyline, and rare even then because there are so many other 3-star Casters; Saber Gilles can be summoned on any gacha at any time, is one of the very few 3-star Sabers, and is a meme for being such a common Servant.

** Within the bond system, how fast a servant can get to Bond 5 is very much dependent on a servant's personality. To keep things simple, genuinely nice servants that are easy to get along with have a quicker time getting into Bond 5. Meanwhile, servants with more difficult personalities to get along with and/or have some trust issues will often take a bit longer to get to Bond 5 as usually, they'll need 50,000 Bond Points to get to Bond 5).