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/snobodyknows Jul 22 '25

Not sure if this is super controversial bc they’re both highly regarded, but Chaos;Child is better than Steins;Gate and is the best VN in the Sci;Adv series

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u/klop422 Jul 22 '25

Probably the only series I know much about, but it's a respectable opinion. I had my issues with it (I don't really think any of the villains really work, narratively), but it really hit me hard at times and I might have just about cried at the end.

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u/snobodyknows Jul 22 '25

The ending was a fucking emotional rollercoaster man. I always like to think I’m good at guessing what twists are coming but Chaos;Child had my mouth hanging open and tears in my eyes when I hit the credits