Fate/Stay Night

>>376658043
It doesn't.

If you're a weeb virgin, almost immediately.

If you're literally anyone else, never.

>>376658291
fpbp

better just to skip ahead to the porn and be done with it

>>376658043
When you read the wiki.

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>>376658043
With Extra, of course

>>376658364
If you're not a "weeb virgin" why would you even START reading this in the first place?

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>>376658568
>reading FSN for the porn

>>376550552

>>376658043
It doesn't, really. The title tackles some interesting themes and it [does] do a few cool things with them - it's the only visual novel where the main character is used in such a manner to explore various ideals of heroism and the philosophical context behind that.

BUT it's never told well at any point. The title drags, drags, and drags. There's poor exposition, baffling ass-pulls, and the frequency of nonsensical behavior in our characters is all too common. And god help you if you only speak English, because the English translation is absolute dogshit.

I'm really surprised such a thoroughly mediocre product got so popular. Especially in the Western fanbase, the text quite literally reads worse than a high-school student's ramblings.

Fate is meh
UBW is meh
HF is meh
HA is the best
Zero is okay
Extra is bad
CCC is bad
Apocrypha is meh
GO is the tits.
Carnival Phastasma is fun
Prisma is great

If you're expecting decent writing, you probably shouldn't be playing anything by Nasu in the first place.

Read Higurashi or Umineko instead. Maybe Muv Luv.

>>376658947
>Prisma is great.
Spotted the pedophile

>>376659068
Prisma is pretty fun. You get your loli fanservice, you get your fate fanservice. What more could you ask for?

>>376659068
Prisma unironically has great writing because surprise surprise isn't not written by Nasu.

>>376659068
Prisma has the best fight scenes.

>>376659219
What are you trying to say?

>>376659219
I wouldn't know if Nasu's a good or bad writer, I can't read Japanese

>>376658568
The porn is the worst part of it.

>>376658920
>baffling ass-pulls
Such as?
>and the frequency of nonsensical behavior in our characters is all too common
Such as?

>>376659507
Magic Circuits, Reality Marble, Real Assassin, vs Berserker

Heaven's Feel

>>376658043
Unlimited Bladeworks anime is very good. Zero is also okay.

Everything else is shit. Aint nobody got time for the visual novels.

>>376659795
???

>>376658043
Never nasuverse is shit

>>376658043
In any Cu scene

>>376660037
Tukihime and KnK are actually good though.

>>376660529
>Tsukihime
You wish

>>376660529
>KnK
All style with psuedo-intellectual substance.

>>376660584
Tsukhime is truly a story about optimism, valuing yourself, appreciating your life, and moving boldly into the future. Death might not be as close to our doors as it is to Shiki’s… but, then again, you never know. That is why the lessons in this story are so applicable. You are alive now, but maybe not tomorrow. So look on your past fondly, smile at yourself in the mirror now and again, and hope lovingly for the future.

In the epilogue, Shiki fatefully meets Aoko again and they muse a little bit about old times past. Shiki notes how the past several days/weeks (the span of X route) have been crazy. And some point Aoko tells him that those days will eventually end. Shiki agrees and asks something to the effect of when. The Magus just kind of remains silent and freaking Shiki just tells her that the days were fun, though.

And this is what, for me, Tsukihime was about. Yes, there were vampires and serial killers. But it was really about finding joys in today – even when it doesn’t seem like there are any… and about having faith in a tomorrow. Basically, Tohno Shiki could die ten years from that conversation with Aoko, or he might not even wake up the next day. Although we don’t “live close to death”, the same basic concept applies. There are no promises in life. So you can go through life miserable only to be potentially snuffed out tomorrow, or you can find your own happiness and hope it extends into your future.

>>376660873
that sounds fucking gay

>>376660753
Kara no Kyoukai has very efficient characterization, since its characters are constructed to mirror each other in so many ways. I finished literature classic The Brothers Karamazov recently, and ot struck me that even though the characterisations in that tier of writing are fantastic, very often they aren’t done with the grace that Kara no Kyoukai does it with, and consist of long periods of ‘characterization time’. It is a breathtaking juxtaposition of all manner of dark subthemes trailing under an overarching grimly hopeful theme of life. It has some of the sharpest, richest story-weaving and character-building I’ve ever seen.

>>376659041
>Maybe Muv Luv.
I would only recommend it if you want to read something as a time waster. Not that it's bad, it's actually really good and enjoyable most of the way through, but by the end, it's an unremarkable experience that you will forget half of in a month.

>>376658043
In the Ilya route.

>>376658043
It gets good after 80 hours :^)

>>376660873
Just because you can write a wall of text describing the story doesnt make it good.

>>376658673
>Nasufags actually believe this
Nasu's a Hack. It's nothing but trash. The worst thing to come from the doujin comunity

>>376660873
This. Especially with the true end being about moving on. I mean, Shiki is someone who has about a decade or two of life left, and he messes around with two immortal beings in the main routes. It's Nasu emphasizing the theme of death.

>>376658043
Takeuchi's 2010-2012 art was the best.

Prove me wrong.

>>376661587
Wow, you sure convinced me

/s

>>376661498
its a pasta anon

>>376658847
cute girls

>>376658947

>Prisma is great

Mah nigga.

>there are ignorant fools who don't know of badass Shirou in Prisma Illya

I pity them.

>>376662351

Best Shirou, best girl route and loli fan service. How can there be people who dislike Prisma?

>>376662351
When an anime fan describes something as a badass it's normally a giveaway for huge cringe.

>>376663232

More like it's the only time Shirou actually does something instead of being a dense MC.

>>376658043
With Fate of the Furious

>>376662428
not everyone gets off to children, for one