Comments on: Idealism and Heroism: Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works route

By: bruce

bruce — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:41:40 +0000

i still think that archer story is tragic , having an etrnal life of meaningless battles , drove him once over the edge and made him become suicidal and cynical , he could probably get sick of his duties once more , and i think that shirou made the mistake of trusting himself and thinking he could do better then his other self , specially because he’s still wants to be a hero no matter what , the insane part is that he doesn’t care fighting infinite battles just knowing he makes a diffirence gives him the motivation to power through … but i’m sure he will get sick of that , i’m mean who wouldn’t ??

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:08:20 +0000

This summed up several of my feelings on this route as well. I liked the duality of the storyline: you could see it as both a triumph and a tragedy at the same time. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Shirou’s fight with Archer was the catalyst that truly drove him to the point Archer reached?

Still, as you say, he was not wrong.

By: Blowfish

Blowfish — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:34:39 +0000

Out of all 3 Fate Stay Night Scenarios UWB is my favorite exactly for questioning these issues.Playing Heavens Feel after this felt much less intriguing and isnt as well constructed as UWB in my opinion.

Ill be thrilled to hear your opinion when youre done

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:58:33 +0000

I really appreciated the way that this route carries on the issues addressed in Fate (and continues to do so in Heaven’s Feel…look forward to it!) – I have so much respect for Nasu in being able to write in complex moral questioning like that. It’s cruelly ironic that one of Shirou’s most formidable enemies is himself…on several levels. It’s breaking the cycle in this case too, which I thought was a nice touch.

Oh yeah, Lancer was pretty bad-ass this time around as well. Dammit, you’re making me REALLY want to re-read this VN now.