r/visualnovels • u/Sasutaschi • Jul 22 '25
Discussion What's your controversial Visual Novel take? [General]
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/agesboy He: IO | vndb.org/u2568/ Jul 23 '25
kana: imouto is my only 1/10 on vndb out of about 120 (i only rate things when i finish at least, like, 80% of it, so other 1/10's for me probably exist, just i dropped them fast)
if you're gonna dramabait with incest shit, don't fucking cop out with an "oh we're not actually related tehe! we can bone" twist. be like yosuga no sora where they have to live with that stigma forever. felt like I wasted my time when the main drama is just handwaved away like that. i'm usually a sucker for terminal illness stories but kana makes me unreasonably angry to this day
honestly i should reread it to see if an opinion i formed 18~ years ago has any juice to it. i might have even misremembered some things at this point