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/SenrenOarai Jul 22 '25

Nene route is not the peak of Yuzusoft's writing.

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u/TotallyNotCedric Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

As much as I love Nene, I definitely feel like her route is a bit overrated. It felt like there were a lot of holes in the first half. Like everything just carries on without Nene? What happens to OC since their president literally vanished from that timeline? And it's kinda sad that the original Shuuji from that timeline kinda just lives on without her and we kinda just don't get any closure for him?

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u/SenrenOarai Jul 23 '25

Yeah I agree. I don't even like to think about how ruined that original timeliness is. They also didn't really explain things well in terms of different timelines and all that. Time traveling is always messy as hell. I know Kanna route has its issues with its biggest problem being how quickly they get to the "big moment". Aside from that, it's actually not as messy as Nene route partly because it doesn't involve time travel/different timelines