Anyway, for the past couple months or so I've been really into this game. I have always been a fan of TYPE-MOON, so I had been anticipating this game for a while (but didn't get to play it until I upgraded my phone in November). I held my status as a F2P player, but then broke it when they had their "guaranteed 5-star summoning" event just last week. At least i got my fox waifu!
For iOS users, you need to have a Japan iTunes account in order to download the game from the appstore since it's not available in any other region. For Android users, you can download the apk file from this website and install it (when the game needs to update, you just redownload the new apk file). The game is pretty simple and gives you a tutorial off the bat. Gameplay-wise, you don't need to understand Japanese since most everything is self explanatory or there are English text along with the Japanese for certain menu options. Story-wise though, there's no translation (very regrettably...I would love to read the story too...) so you can skip through it with the skip option if your so inclined. As for translations of servant skills and such there are a couple handy sites out there FGO Wikia and FGO Cirnopedia which pretty much translated all of the servant info (and they are really fast about it too).
