>>280304853But the VN executed the backstory better. The entire point of Day 6 is that Shirou retroactively discovers just how much Sakura meant to him. HF is just building on what UBW established, namely that Shirou's guilt for having survived the fire has left him incapable of feeling happy any way other than helping others, feeling undeserving as he did of happiness, yet still having the natural desire for joy and fulfillment as all human beings do, which is why the route concludes with Shirou's deciding that he should only pursue being a superhero inasmuch as it makes him happy, and not as end in itself, and that being with Rin makes him happier than being a hero. HF shows us how Shirou was deluding himself into thinking he had no human desires or disposition towards companionship because being with Sakura and Taiga made him happy enough to stay sane and not confront his own contradictions. That's why when Sakura says that she considered severing all ties with him, he expresses that he wouldn't have been able to bare it; it's about Shirou's discovering not that he has to become human, but that he was *always* human and he was denying it. This dynamic is wholly absent from the films. There is nothing deep or interesting about Shirou and Sakura's changing sheets together; Sudou could've expanded some of the details of Shirou and Sakura's early relationship *within* the existing structure of HF.
I really don't get why people praise those scenes so much. I think it really goes to show how shallow and insubstantive the romance between Shirou and Sakura is compared to the prior routes that people are so easily impressed by shockingly anodyne scenes. And whatever depth there is is removed by the films in favour of saccharine self-indulgence and gratuitous fan service.