I'm about to finish the original Fate route VN, is this anime a good adaption of the second route?

HunLepto said:
does the anime skip necessary explanations or something?

HunLepto said:
reading something that has an animated adaption feels like I'm missing the enjoyment I could get from watching the anime and I surely won't enjoy it as much if I will know what what happens.

Shayon said:
good to see someone read the first route instead of skipping straight to the anime

if you like the VN and enjoy the reading, then stick with it. it remains the best version of FSN and the second HF movie is the only adaptation of the VN so far that i can consider to be good

if you don't enjoy reading then you can try this and see if it's to your liking better, given that you've read the Fate route, it should cover for some of the areas where this anime fails, but this is still not a good adaptation

yes, the MC's monologues are missing, which help you understand and like him better as a character, most of the servant powers aren't explained either and the amount of explanations for everything is cut down


on the other hand, watching a mediocre adaptation that fails to capture the story and characters, but has fancy animation and explosions to offer, misses you the enjoyment of fully understanding the story and characters on the first try

HunLepto said:
Well, I was talking about more like brief explanations that are harder to understand, I usually don't need to hear monologues or what power the servant has if I can get it pretty much from the detail. I mean, aren't most of the things about magic and stuff are explained through the first route too? Also, I don't think it would be alright to have characters talk for like every single second and eat away every screen time with explanations. But I shall see if I should stick to the VN after checking out the anime, only after I finish the Fate route though.

Shayon said:

to give an example, remember when during the very beginning of the Fate route

you'll get more moments like that in this anime, things that could've been easily and briefly explained, yet they get no explanation, even when the status screen of the VN isn't involved.

in the UBW and HF routes, new powers are revealed and used in different situations, and your understanding of what the grail is changes. when you have a character that manages to do something he shouldn't be able to do, what seems like an asspull in the anime has a proper explanation in the VN, for the vast majority of the time

having read the Fate route does help you understand some of things here better, but not everything, some things will still look like asspulls without knowledge from the UBW route of the VN

HunLepto said:
It depends only if they have so much unexplained scenes, it becomes a confusing mess for someone who hasn't read it yet and would eventually get lost, but I assume that's not really the thing here.