----I have no regrets. This is the only path.
I have made a couple of reviews for this game in the past already, 1 for each route and another one for all 3. However, it has always bothered me that I never truly managed to convey my feelings towards this game, so while finding motivation to write reviews nowadays is a bit hard for me, I just want to tie this one loose end for me.
Over 72 hours played, countless hours of sleep lost, all because of one single visual novel. It's name, Fate/Stay Night a game that means a lot to me, a game that helped me understand what means a good story to me, a game that helped me understand what I wanted to be as a person.
I went into this game completely aware of what was going to unfold having already seen almost every anime adaptation beforehand and yet, it felt like I was experiencing something completely different for the first time.
The story of this game is just something special to me, while it has it's flaws I still felt immersed in it's world and it's characters. The first route was great, but honestly the weakest part of the game suffering from having to explain everything and just being walls of text early on, however I think that just serves to let the other 2 routes go all out without anything holding them back. Besides once I reached day 15 of the Fate route i felt like i was rewarded with an amazing climax that I just went back the next day to rewatch it. Saber had been the best part of this route this part did her justice making me love her as a character even more while also being the start of my falling in love with Shirou as a character.
Shirou Emiya has got to be one of my all time favourite characters. Although, I'll be honest in the first route, while I still liked him as a character, it was nothing to write home about outside of like 1 or 2 scenes.
But then, I got to UBW. His characterization in that route was phenomenal. His conflict concerning his dream and the future it holds for him hit a little too close to home for me, making me fall in love with the character of Shirou Emiya and thus making him what is probably one of my all time favourite characters. Along with the rest of the cast that got the spotlight in this route like Rin and Archer, it made for some enganging storytelling that when put together made for the best experience I had in the game keeping me glued to my screen and actually losing sleep sitting up at 4 am just reading without realizing how much time had passed.
And the game just does not let up, introducing the 3rd route which lives up to the expectations set up by UBW and carries the torch to the finish line with nonstop action while giving the spotlight to some characters that really deserved it (shirou still plays a major role).
This route might also be what could be considered the darkest of all 3 routes. They just keep you on the edge of your seat seeing how everything unfolds becoming more dire and dire and making you guess if there's even any saving in this situation it is some great stuff and while not my personal favourite its a really close 2nd.
With all 3 routes done, the game ends (Well theres is some extra content if you play the realts nua version) and man what a feeling it was finishing it for the first time. It was actually kind of hard to believe, having spent so long in this world and getting immersed it just couldn't get out of my mind, I probably went a whole week just thinking about everything that had happened the game stuck with me and never left my mind since. Fate/Stay Night is a visual novel that meant a lot of me and I honestly played it at the right moment in my life where I needed some sort of motivation, to just, keep going and not give up the most. I will honestly never forget this experience and I'm really glad I decided to read everything this game had to offer.
Final Rating
I love this game.
I have made a couple of reviews for this game in the past already, 1 for each route and another one for all 3. However, it has always bothered me that I never truly managed to convey my feelings towards this game, so while finding motivation to write reviews nowadays is a bit hard for me, I just want to tie this one loose end for me.
Over 72 hours played, countless hours of sleep lost, all because of one single visual novel. It's name, Fate/Stay Night a game that means a lot to me, a game that helped me understand what means a good story to me, a game that helped me understand what I wanted to be as a person.
I went into this game completely aware of what was going to unfold having already seen almost every anime adaptation beforehand and yet, it felt like I was experiencing something completely different for the first time.
The story of this game is just something special to me, while it has it's flaws I still felt immersed in it's world and it's characters. The first route was great, but honestly the weakest part of the game suffering from having to explain everything and just being walls of text early on, however I think that just serves to let the other 2 routes go all out without anything holding them back. Besides once I reached day 15 of the Fate route i felt like i was rewarded with an amazing climax that I just went back the next day to rewatch it. Saber had been the best part of this route this part did her justice making me love her as a character even more while also being the start of my falling in love with Shirou as a character.
Shirou Emiya has got to be one of my all time favourite characters. Although, I'll be honest in the first route, while I still liked him as a character, it was nothing to write home about outside of like 1 or 2 scenes.
But then, I got to UBW. His characterization in that route was phenomenal. His conflict concerning his dream and the future it holds for him hit a little too close to home for me, making me fall in love with the character of Shirou Emiya and thus making him what is probably one of my all time favourite characters. Along with the rest of the cast that got the spotlight in this route like Rin and Archer, it made for some enganging storytelling that when put together made for the best experience I had in the game keeping me glued to my screen and actually losing sleep sitting up at 4 am just reading without realizing how much time had passed.
And the game just does not let up, introducing the 3rd route which lives up to the expectations set up by UBW and carries the torch to the finish line with nonstop action while giving the spotlight to some characters that really deserved it (shirou still plays a major role).
This route might also be what could be considered the darkest of all 3 routes. They just keep you on the edge of your seat seeing how everything unfolds becoming more dire and dire and making you guess if there's even any saving in this situation it is some great stuff and while not my personal favourite its a really close 2nd.
With all 3 routes done, the game ends (Well theres is some extra content if you play the realts nua version) and man what a feeling it was finishing it for the first time. It was actually kind of hard to believe, having spent so long in this world and getting immersed it just couldn't get out of my mind, I probably went a whole week just thinking about everything that had happened the game stuck with me and never left my mind since. Fate/Stay Night is a visual novel that meant a lot of me and I honestly played it at the right moment in my life where I needed some sort of motivation, to just, keep going and not give up the most. I will honestly never forget this experience and I'm really glad I decided to read everything this game had to offer.
Final Rating
I love this game.