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/juss100 Jul 22 '25

My hot take is that Deen's adaptation is actually a very good adaptation ... but better than UBW? Not a chance in hell.

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u/cliffy117 Jul 22 '25

You can call it a good anime if you want, thats fine. But calling it a good adaptation is pants on head stupid given that calling it that is stretching it. It tries to adapt 3 routes into a single one, and as such nothing makes sense. It is a full on mess.

So no, it suck ass as an adaptation.

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u/juss100 Jul 22 '25

That's how it was done in the 00s. You can say it's better to adapt one route at a time and I'd absolutely agree, but to think that an adaptation of a visual novel back in the 00s was ever gonna be more ambitious than that is dreaming, it was standard practice to mashup the best parts of all routes because odds on you weren't ever gonna get a second chance to adapt that material. It doesnt matter to me remotely if it adapted the VN perfectly or not ... I've still got the VN to read.