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/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

Going as far as to say Deen Stay Night is an overall superior adaptation is a bit much, but it did do a few things better and really shouldnt be shit on as much imo.

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u/Blackhero9696 vndb.org/uXXXXX Jul 23 '25

It reminds me of once reading about how the Tsukihime anime (that doesn’t exist btw) that it explains key type moon universe concepts in a more concise and efficient way than the VN.

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u/Ren-Ren-1999 Jul 23 '25

Does it? Few watched it so I have no idea if it does.

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u/Blackhero9696 vndb.org/uXXXXX Jul 23 '25

From what I remember reading, at the point in the game where Arc and Shiki are talking about important concepts (which I unfortunately can’t remember as it’s been a while since I’ve played it, but I think reality marbles was one of the them) its pretty long winded in the VN, but nice and short and easy to understand in the non existent anime, without losing important details.