Some fans of Carnival Phantasm may recommend you to be familiar with all of Type Moon's Visual Novels so you can get all the references of the show, but as it happened with many like me.., as long as you've witnessed one of the routes of both "Fate/Stay Night" and "Tsukihime" then you'll be fine, and even when you're not familiar with something guess what?.., it doesn't matter since the creators clearly know how to please the mainstream audiences, as it is the case with this special, regarding more espcifically the female characters from the beginnning, who are really fun to watch, the rest ofthe special follows a little bit of a sequel to what happened after the outcome of Shirou and Shiki's "Date Plan", but mostly it presents us another version of such story in which they chose the "Main Heroine Route" and see the consequences of that choice, so.., if you loved that catastrophe of a multiple girls date in episode 12 then you are assured to love this too. P.S, I can't believe I got the chance to be the first one to write a review about this, and by the way..., could "My Anime List" seriously change the rating system given how inconsistent it is?.., since when is 4 a score you give to something "Decent".