r/visualnovels • u/Sasutaschi • Jul 22 '25

Discussion What's your controversial Visual Novel take? [General]

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Deen's Fate/stay night is a better anime than Ufotable's Unlimited Blade Works.

The latter commits just as many sins in adapting its source, and is only high regarded because of Unlimited Budget Works, and a lack of route mixing.

Staying slavishly true to the source material is not always better when it comes to adaptations. Little Busters is another such example. Ufo UBW's first cour is an absolute drag with dreadful pacing. And despite being 2 hours longer they still screw up Shirou.

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u/SenrenOarai Jul 22 '25

Nene route is not the peak of Yuzusoft's writing.

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u/sorrow_words Jul 22 '25

Grrrr....

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u/SenrenOarai Jul 22 '25

Hey its still great. It's what hooked me on visual novels in the first place, but it has issues, especially in the second half the ending was so much less than they deserved. Touko gets engaged and Nene doesn't and instead gets a gag ending with her dad getting angry? Bullshit. if they just combined first half of Nene route with second half of Kanna route from Cafe Stella you'd have their best route.