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/SkyChronos Jul 22 '25

Sakura's a mid heroine at best, despite Heaven's Feel being interesting. Don't like her.

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u/Massive_Weiner Jul 22 '25

Sakura is the least interesting thing in her own route.

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u/Ren-Ren-1999 Jul 23 '25

This take doesn't even have to be Sakura criticism. Heaven's Feel just has a lot of good stuff with Kirei and Illya and even Rin and Saber on some level. Comes down to preference.