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Just as the title suggest was is your Favorite Fate/Stay Night route, since all the routes have been translated. It's a poll too so vote and discuss.

It's gotta be Unlimited Bladeworks for me.

Loved seeing Shirou at his full potential... And, for some reason, Rin seemed to have the happiest endings.

I have to say that I loved HFs true ending. But it seems I prefer UBW route after all. I liked the whole Shirou and Archer struggle about ideals.. I've never been too interested about love themes.

UBW, lots of Rin, great plot and great endings.

My final ranking is UBW > Fate > HF.

UBW, clash of ideals between Shirou and Archer was really great. Also, many other Servants got their background explained a bit more.

UBW, but I still think that Archer's and Shirou's were the same. And Archer never really wanted to kill Shirou.

And I prefer Shirou x Rin, I don't really care about Sakura, and love between a Master and a Servant is a pretty twisted thing, I think.

I cant decide between UBW and HF, i think I'll actually have to think about this to come up with an accurate answer.


He may not have wanted to but he felt it was necessary to try to end the cycle of death he had to live through, he saw it as the only was out. Although, his personality did become very cold during that time so i believe he felt very little remorse when trying to kill Shirou. But his change at the end of UBW was most likely due to Shirou showing Archer that he wont become the same person.

Definitely got to go with Heavens Feel besides the fact that Sakura is the main female character of this route it is in my opinion the most heart felt of the 3 also it throws in an extra twist to the story. Unlimited Blade Works is a close second they would be about even in my eyes were it not for HF being about Sakura XP

Or try not to become the same type of person.

To kill Emiya Shirou was a fake goal, it was an objective impossible to fulfill anyway. Archer needed something to withstand his condition of Counter Guardian, but he never really wanted to do it, because he doesn't regret his choice of life. If he said that he was "not wrong" in the end of UBW, there's a reason. In Fate, he's a mentor for Shirou, and in HF, he saves him.

Counter Guardian Emiya doesn't act as a Hero of Justice, but as a sweeper. So he can't see the results of his acts. And finally, like Zouken, he fooled himself, thinking that killing Shirou was his sole objective. And in the beginning of UBW, Shirou really was pathetic. He stops Saber and let Tohsaka go, says some irrealistic things (if I remember well), and decides to stop Caster himself. I think that at this time, Archer thought "Maybe I was right to want to kill him, after all. And anyway, if he acts like this, he'll be killed, so..". I think Archer actually really cares about Shirou. Even in UBW, he saved him three times, or even more. He wasn't determined when he fought against Shirou. And to finish, if I remember well, Archer is sarcastic only with people he cares about.

Actually Archer's goal was to kill Emiya Shirou. He was hoping for that very slim chance of being summoned into the Grail War; in which he would kill his so called former self in which to create a Time Paradox that which would have never made him into a Counter Guardian in the first place. He didn't want to kill Emiya Shirou because he hated him he just want to prevent the event that gave him a contract with the world.

Archer was so worked up on how he just kept killing and killing as a CG; that he forgot how beautiful that ideal was and what it meant in the first place. He was reminded of those ideals when Shirou was trying to protect that ideal and defend his beliefs no matter what. It was that resolve that Shirou had is what helped remind Archer of the ideals he once stood for; reminding him that he shouldn't regret his choice in life of becoming a CG.

Also in UBW Archer was trying to achieve his Xanatos Gambit which he was successful in the UBW route. He wasn't injured by Saber in the beginning of the route; hence which allowed him to initiate his plans. He was trying to create the Xanatos Gambit and achieve two goals:

1) Rin make a contract with the servant she wanted from the beginning, Saber
2) Kill Emiya Shirou to create a Time Paradox
3) Killing Caster in the process

well my favourite route is HF since:
ShirouxSakura's relationship is really touching.
Nine Lives Bladeworks. i reckon this is prolly even better than UBW.
Kirei killing himself from beating up shirou (lawl noob)
Saber gets killed :(

Yes. But it doesn't interfere with what I said.

hmm.. i think i liked ubw better because its has that beautiful. unlike heaven feel,ubw has a meaning even in the real life while i think heaven feel is make it more fictional (just think how ridiculous strong the character in there compare to other route O.o..). and fate..no comment i guess.

well basically while i accept heaven feel is cool and still true, i just cant accept or somethin like that for an idea to sacrifice something, either its your ideal or a person. since i think emiya shirou was a person which challenge an impossibility, and never given up to bring other ppl happiness. lets just say i dont like "only seeing reality and given up your dream" or fate "only seeing idealism and broken down when face with reality"

so guess its like this , fate is pretty normal , ubw is amazing that it brings me to tears , heaven feel is very good but i just dont like it.

so i guess no route are bad, fate is i think like introduction so its not very good. ubw well no need to ask ^^ , heaven feel are like "true" ending of fate,even though its true that i like it but i dont and cannot accept it with whatever reason.. since something doesnt seem right from all thus far..

It's gonna be Heavens Feel, of course.

Firstly, it is the only route that wasn't depicted in the anime, thus being totally unpredictable (for me anyway).
Moreover, Sakura. Now I don't want to sound like I had some obsession with her, but she is just far too great. Compare her to her sister in UBW - while Tohsaka at the beginning seems to be cool and firm, she crumbles as the story continues, showing her frightened side. (And what's with this "I will not take off the top!!!111" attitude anyway?)
In comparison, we begin to think of Sakura as of some kind of cute disturbance at the beginning of each route. But then, we gradually start to understand her true nature. Hell yeah,
What is more, if you compare
Concluding, Sakura is the best heroine of the game (it would be another story if we talked about anime), while HF is the best route. Period.

actually they say that HF is the least fictional out of all 3 routes. i mean shirou giving up his life goal to save 1 girl, thats kinda like us guys selling our computers for our girlfriend

Actually all routes have equal chance of becoming the canon ending for Fate/Stay Night. It's just that Nasu made Heaven's Feel the final ending that concludes the story of Fate/Stay Night. It all really comes down to chance and what choices Shirou would make.

i cant really say cause wouldnt zoken do sumthing to prevent sakura from not participating? like when rider dies in fate wouldnt he jump in and cause sakura to turn dark like in HF? cant remember wat happened to sakura in ubw but yea im sure sumthing would cause zoken to take action to prevent his chance from seeing the HG gate open

There are different reasons as too why Zoken did or did not take action in each route. Sakura wasn't always ready to become the grail and Zoken couldn't turn her Dark whenever he pleased. Sakura needed to be pushed into becoming Dark. it was because of Shirou that she was able to get that final push in HF. Without it she wouldn't become Dark and there is nothing Zoken could have done to change that. Thiat is the main reason why Dark Sakura was impossible in Fate and UBW and why Zoken had very little options which caused his lack of influence.