Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150530162910/@comment-25555436-20150605174027

Maki Kuronami wrote:

His only road block is he doesn't want to create a great story. [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/ZUN%27s_AWA_Q%26A_Panel He just wants to make a videogame that he loves. Even if all of his fans disappear.] -Sounds like Monty alright, a bit too much. I wonder if they ever met.

-I say magic cause come on, everywhere else Sorcery=Magic, they are synonimous. At worst, one is debuff and DPS and the other one is burst damage. There may be a difference in the Nasuverse, but as there is no difference in nearly every other fictional work....

-Well, the thing is like this: In that Grail War, they are inside a system. Mentally. Their bodies are not replicas of their real bodies, they are basic, generic bodies identical to the NPCs's with the only difference being having a yellow uniform to distinguish them from the real NPCs. Hackers with enough skill can hack the system to be formed in a more unique body, which may or may not be like their real one.

Leo's body, for example, is just like his real body. Touko's and Aoko's bodies are also like their real bodies, though Touko's has blue hair in contrast to her rather-brown hair in RL. Meanwhile, Rin's body is identical to her real one, but with a slightly more "sexy" build and black hair, for the real one in that universe is blonde (yes. Doesn't look good at all, at least with her clothes). Shinji is the weirdest case: He's a 10 year old in that universe, but apparently hacked the system to have a body that looks like an 18 years old's.

If you lose your elimination match, or didn't get the 2 keys by the end of the week, or your servant died before the match arrived somehow, the player and their servant are slowly deleted. In RL, they have a brain hemorrage of catastrophic level and then they are deleted too. More hardcore, you could say.

The MC is a special case. Due to plot reasons, their face and hair are unique, but their body is exactly like an NPC's with only very minor differences. It's explained by the very end (as in, by a Random Guy Out Of Nowhere right near the Grail. Yes, you heard that right).

As for Shiki (the female one, not the pussy male one), she apparently ended up in the system somehow, and is trying to get out....by massacring through countless servants and players non-stop, almost reaching the 1000 (do note that, considering other things, this proves the writers know less about math than a 3rd grade boy). If you somehow win, she leaves you alone and goes away, probably off to kill another one and go back to her universe.

I say somehow win, because her fight is almost impossible. Due to the gameplay system. She can kill your capability of using Attack, Break, Guard, Abilities and Items. This means, it's like playing Rock-Paper-Scissors and not being able to do shit. And then, she 1-hit-kills you. The only way to have anything close to a good chance at winning is to use Archer, who can block her ability that kills yours with an ability, and has a sort-of game breaker skill.

-It's proven many times that science/tech and magic can get along in at least Fate/Whatever. It's just that nearly every mage is a luddite and ignores tech. In some cases, to absurd extents.