Thread:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/@comment-27144409-20180118224605/@comment-25936766-20180119003440

Do note that Apocrypha, Grand Order and EXTRA are separate from Zero and Stay Night, their stories are unrelated and thus you don't need to see the former to understand the latter. Different universes/timelines, and with that, different rules.

Especially with EXTRA. EXTRA, Zero+Stay Night, and Apocrypha, all have a Holy Grail War, but the one in Zero and Stay Night is a 7-people Battle Royale, and the one in Apocrypha is a 7vs7 Team Deathmatch that changes to a Battle Royale afterwards.

The one in EXTRA, meanwhile, starts at about 1000 people, dropping to about 128 at the beginning, and then following a Tournament-like format with rules massively different from the other, and not just because it's in a virtual world:

1) You got 7 days each round to prepare to fight your oponent 1-on-1.

2) Each player in the war must go to the Arena within those 7 days, and get 2 cipher keys.

3) If a player failed to get both cipher keys, they are erased automatically by the system. They are also erased when they lose, even if their Servant is still alive.

4) Any fight that occurs between Servants inside the Arena will be automatically ended by the system in 3 rounds. And before you ask, yes, if you die within those 3 rounds, you do die.

5) Since the Holy Grail War happens within the Moon Cell and not in real life, no one uses magic, and in fact there is no magic at all because unlike in Stay Night and Zero, prana vanished decades ago.

Instead, just about every participant worth a damn is hacking into the system, allowing them to both customize their virtual avatars and simulate spells.

And so on. It's massively different despite still being a "Holy Grail War".