Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11312805-20170515185907/@comment-71.83.236.251-20170517020645

Yah, that's what I recommend, just to get a bit of their identity. Unlike Fate/Extra where the game forces detective work onto Hakuno, identites are basically blatantly told to you; True Names are practically worthless lol. You don't need to really read a lot of Fate/Extra CCC. Probably you could just get away with looking at Saber Nero, Caster Tomamo, and CCC Gilgamesh's wiki pages for a decent understanding. It's a warrior's game, you could even say plot is pointless if you don't care about it. Just do whatever the Lieutenant Servant tells you to, and that a good offense in taking sectors can be much so better than trying to defend sectors.

BTW as a tidbit from playing it myself, I don't remember the entire correct game wording, but you can pick 'goals' for Servants to increase bond level; a max of 5 Servant 'goals'. This lets you equip more skills on Servants eventually, and unlocks My Room dialogue for the Servant heroine. Some of the 'goals' seem ridiculously hard to me, and I just don't get how to do it properly (as you'll soon learn, Extella doesn't really have a decent tutorial). You can check the mission goals in the mission screen, and if you don't like the goals just back out into My Room then back into mission screen to see a new sortation of goals. I usually go for 1st strike on enemy Servant (just dash + swipe for an easy get), money, kill so many mob enemies, eat/drink so many breads/wines, use so many Code Casts, use the Noble Phantasm. Ones that are have so much HP (I think 70%) or do it in this amount of time (unsaid how much time) tend to be headaches for me personally.