What was the key message of Fate?

have sex

the key message is VN/eroge writers cannot create anything seriously worth a damn

>>716140302 (OP)
Many have sought out the Holy Grail for their own purposes, whether it be to destroy all that is good, seeking out vengeance, gaining power, or even eternal life. But time after time, the Holy Grail War either has no winners or some sort of subversion occurs. Rarely is it played straight.

Cum dumpster

>>716140302 (OP)
Heroism is fine as long as you don't try to be a messiah, use your brain think things through and it's okay to be selfish and protect those who are close to you.

>>716140302 (OP)
>What was the key message of Fate?
Mana is stored in the balls

>>716140302 (OP)
Lewd historical figures, follow your sense of just, follow your dick, play the gacha for more.

Obligatory

>>716140302 (OP)
sex with saber's disgustingly muscular back

>>716140439
That only applies to hacks like the Steins;Gate writer, Nasu has made some good stuff in his time.

>>716140302 (OP)
Never trust anyone that makes more than you

>>716140302 (OP)
Heroism is a beautiful ideal worth pursuing, but take care to not lose yourself and what's in front of you to pursue it.
>>716140627
>Fate Shirou
>does not value his life at all and refuses to accept any situation where he has to let people die
The entire point of Fate's ending is Shirou learning to value his life and accept Saber's choice to pass on.

>>716140302 (OP)
This is why Zero is the only worthwhile entry in Fate.

>>716144617
>Zero
Extra*
And it's an actual game too

PONIS IN VAGOO

>>716140302 (OP)
never trust mages
ever

Test Your Might

>>716140302 (OP)
Rules explained by people who don't understand the rules. Which makes sense because the rules are made up anyways.

>>716140708
my favorite character, the kouhai with huge breasts named Big Boobs

>>716145168
The town's bicycle.

>>716140302 (OP)
How easy is to sell bad stories and characters to weebs

>>716142110
melty blood is the only good thing to come from the nasuverse

>>716145481
judging by how normalfags and irony weebs are, extremely easy.

>>716142434
Based take. Fate's about pursuing ideals without abandoning your humanity, not becoming some martyr machine. Shirou in Fate route is basically proto-UBW Shirou with less cope and more heartbreak. He learns the cost of idealism-the hard way-but that's what makes it hit. Letting Saber go wasn't weakness, it was growth. Just wish Studio DEEN didn't make it look like a fever dream adaptation.

>>716140302 (OP)
I only know apocryoha, which is about how awesome it would be to have a sexy best bro.

>>716140302 (OP)
Being a hero sounds better on paper than it actually is, so either accept the fact that you can't save everybody or don't become a hero in the first place.

>>716140302 (OP)
that people think hacks breaking their own rules like a hallucinating roleplayer chatbot is subversive "kino"

>>716146761
Fate's whole dynamic is Shirou and Saber calling each other out for their martyr complexes only to realize they see themselves in each other; they both overcome their respective guilt thanks to their relationship, and its through this that Shirou pursues his dream in the epilogue without losing himself like Archer did. While I think the visual representation of overcoming oneself in UBW hit harder, Fate's finale and epilogue cement it as my favorite route
>>716148441
>tournament for shifty mages created by shifty mages and organized by people who hate the shifty mages (later just shifty mages as well)
>everyone involved cheats
I never understood this complaint. The Holy Grail War is the most realistic secret-society tournament ever written

<= objectively best fate
Bunch of dumbasses cosplaying holy grail cup so hard it becomes sort of real.
Also key message is that maybe you should set the rules for who wins the tournament before starting it.

>>716140302 (OP)
That the best kings in european history were battle-hungry dragon-slayers who only accepted the throne reluctantly and that women have to give up all their humanity to equal men as leaders and still end up ruining everything.
Also something about how “true” heroism requires an inhuman level of commitment that invariably brings misery upon anyone who tries to pursue it.

>>716142110
People still unironically call Steins;Gate peak vn when even entry level vns have better characters.

>>716140302 (OP)
Molluscs are the most erotic thing in the universe

I know we shit on fate

But Nasu has made two of the most compelling anime universes of all time ngl

>>716140302 (OP)
That picture is funny cuz more of those things are from diferent universes.
Also Rin is proven wrong in Stay Night, even in the prologue where Archer tells her to not presume all Archers use bows.

>>716152027
It's funny how Shirou and Artoria's beef came from the fact they are trying to tell the other that what they are doing is wrong, before they are called out for being an hypocrite.

>>716151261
Strange Fake is basically "what if we made a Holy Grail War that happens during another?"

>>716144846
I hate that I didn't enjoy CCC. It was just okay at the end. The whole trapped in time setting is not rare, but wasn't done well. I had to play manaka crash again and cry reminiscing on the ending of cross channel to cleanse my palate

>Heaven's Feel: the story where Shirou has to give up his ideals of becoming a hero to save the girl he loves
>he saves the girl he loves by being a hero
And that's why Sakura is the worst girl

Just waiting on that Illya route, any day now.

>>716140302 (OP)
>People still don't get it
The rules were only for the outside families

>>716155741
looks like she pissed herself

Kantian ethics are right and utilitarianism is wrong.

Alternatively: Caring about anything other than short-term satisfaction is weird. Any form of self-sacrifice requires you be severely mentally ill. Some actions are just wrong and you aren't human if you do them, even for good reasons.

>>716155509
I mean, Shirou was going to be a Hero if he killed her.
The path of Heroism isn't always good. Being a Hero means you can be a murderous cunt like Achilles or a warlord that burns civilians like Nobunaga.

>>716140302 (OP)

Fate/Zero is the best part of this stupid franchise.

>>716140302 (OP)
you can stretch out a coomer games idea thanks to retards constantly buying in.

>>716156772
>Zero
The lowest common demoninator for edgelords

>>716156154
Well no shit, look how much cola she drank

Reading Stay/Night for the first time (nearly fucking 30 so fuck off I just don't read VNs a lot.) and I'm surprised how long this prologue with Rin goes on for, not that it's a bad thing since it's pretty decently paced and gives decent enough worldbuilding. Just surprised since practically everything I've seen when it comes to this VN usually starts with Shirou getting Saber and nothing like Rin blowing up her house summoning Archer.

>>716140302 (OP)
Stop phantasizing about anime girls and get an imperfect but real girl friend.

>Most of the F/sn VN answers questions besides some stuff in extra materials
>People refuse to read it and ask the same damn questions over and over again
>F/sn vn is even legally available now, and yet the problem continues

>>716140302 (OP)
There isn't a central message, each route contradicts the other.

>>716157117
People don't read anymore, anon. The only thing that gets read anymore is dogshit smut novels for women to post on tiktok.

>>716140302 (OP)
that women are bitches and sluts but cunny will be good to you

>>716155741
Illya shouldnt have drank all that soda before bed

>>716157586
>drank
drunk

>>716140302 (OP)
Mages are assholes

>>716157117
I haven't watched the anime adaptations of the routes, so I don't know what's missing compared to the VN.

>>716157745
Anime onlies where very confused what happened to Shirou at the end of Heaven's Feel because Ufotable rushed through it. You see Touko walk past Rin and Sakura, but if you don't watch Kara no Kyoukai, you'd have no idea who that is.

>>716157117
>read
this is a normie fandom so anything not in game or in a lore video doesnt count.

You know what's funny? For years, the Japanese could read the Fate route for free on Google Play Store.

>>716158012
Ufotable screwed up the pacing, the story(when Heaven's Feel is the most longest of the three), they even managed to screw up the fights. Like, what the fuck happened to Kirei and Shirou's fist fight!?

>>716140302 (OP)
In fate zero it didn't even make that merc guys wish come true, it just started dumping lava on some nearby town

>>716144904
fifteenth post, best post

>>716144846
Extra Record SOON*
https://fate-ex-record.bn-ent.net/product/
Spring 2026!
Preorder now for framed Umu feet

>>716140402
This. At least according to the doujins I've seen

>>716140439
Nah, Fate has some genuine chuuni kino

>>716158792
Isn't it weird we are on a nickname basis with a demon king?

>>716140302 (OP)
King Arthur was actually a woman and had sex with Japanese men (and women). I think.

>>716140302 (OP)
The ideal of true heroism is impossible to reach and realize in reality and destroying yourself in pursuit of it is neither noble nor praiseworthy.

>>716158619
wtf is she really THAT flat??

>>716157714
drinked

>>716159196
No, cuz Nobunaga was friends with low-class irl.
The Demon King of Sixth Heaven(which represents Lust) is just a chuuni title to go against Shingen as a joke. People think it's serious cuz demonization.

>>716140302 (OP)
why do burgers need any piece of media to deliver a moral message to them?

there's no answer in fate, it is a study of character of Shirou, it presents you the whole character and tells you to arrive at your own conclusion

>>716140302 (OP)
All the lies of the premise being unravelled and the secrets behind them was the most interesting thing about F/SN.

>>716159906
Yeah that's more or less. True Heroism is again chopping someone's head cuz they irritated you. It has nothing to do with being a Superman or Captain America, for a lack of a better title.
That being said, mythological figures being good people exist, like Heracles and Sigurd. Flawed as they are, they are genuinely good people.

I liked Fate Zero.
I haven't watched tranime in years. Anything new as good as it?

If you can summarize your whole story as just a message, your story is shit.

>>716161542
So I can summarize Tolkien with a "Good creates and Evil cannot. That's why Good is better."

>>716162023
Yes.

>>716140546
If it was played correctly and was done the first time then we would have unlimited magia but no someone fucked up and ruin everything.

People often forget that the HGW was meant to be a nigerian prince scam in-universe by the three families.

HF would have been a lot better if it were about any girl other than Sakura.
>>716140627
The F/SN panel is retarded because that's him in every fucking route. In UBW, he did far worse than jumping in front of a train by trying to 1v1 both fucking Archer and Gilgamesh and don't even get me started on HF.

>>716157117
>Ugh but it's like 100 hours that's so long!
>Returns to doomscrolling x/bsky/insta/whatever for the 8,049th hour

>>716157086
there are literal zoomers who are almost 30

>>716162023
I mean, Evil created the rings of power and those were pretty radical.

>>716157086
Make sure to redo the prologue after every route. You see more and more after each time.

>>716155104
It’s actually a fake war with illegal summoning. You can basically tell because Jack the reaper is a concept of serial killers instead of one mankind that was an assassin.

The Fate route and Sunny Day route becomes a looot weirder when you remember that Arturia is technically in her mid-30s.

>>716164112
I know, being born in 98 and technically sharing a generation with kids that were born after Obama was elected is a hellscape to live knowing.

>>716164243
So does the game let me just do that or do I have to physically go back in the menu to play the prologue every time?

>>716161217
Heracles is kind of in the middle of the road, I think, because he did kill his teacher in a fit of anger just for being smacked, then got away with it by saying "He attacked me", he had major issues with his temper and was kind of a cunt, but Sigurd and Karna definitely were very good people.

>>716164386
Counterpoint, who cares?
>>716164425
I know that pain bro.
But nah, you gotta go back and reselect it. It's not that time consuming. What version are you reading through?

>>716158619
NERO FUCKING FEEEEEEEEEEET RAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHH IM GONNA GIVE MY EMPEROR A FUCKING TONGUE BATH

>>716164425
I think that anon meant that you start to understand more of the lore dumps and the implications the text hints at after each completed route rather than the prologue being literally expanded in any sense.

>t. primary

did they ever make a single version of this story that actually follows through with just straight forward battle royale between 7 mages and 7 servants?

every single version I ever saw some shit goes wrong or other people show up and it always becomes a mess after character introductions are over

its a shame because its such a strong premise on its own
you get the historyspergs AND shonenspergs, moneyprinter

>>716164617
That fucking "hint" regarding Sakura____ was bullshit though. Who fucking talks like that?

>>716164112
There is no such thing as “zoomers”. Pew Research has created the context by mistake and the mainstream media has yet to fix their mistakes: https://fortune.com/2023/06/17/pew-research-gen-z-millennials-generational-framing/

>>716140302 (OP)
Destroy Big Ben.

>>716164532
Remastered version, grabbed it on my Switch since I could read it in bed while I get ready to sleep.

>>716164617
Figured that, a lot of stuff kinda goes over my head right now outside of what's explicitly explained like how to summon Servants or whatnot. Still a pretty fun so far, I get it's just to explain why Saber is even able to be summoned but it's kinda weird how the town is half Japanese and European.

>>716164901
>Remastered version, grabbed it on my Switch since I could read it in bed while I get ready to sleep.
This was the second worst possible answer you could have given.

>>716140302 (OP)
>nasu
>a coherent theme beginning to end
he's not that kind of writer
he's simply too powerful

How are eroge vn writers so good at making cute girl characters and so god damn terrible at everything else? Are the girls only cute because everything else sucks so bad

>>716164175
>Evil created the rings of power
Even that he couldn't do without Celebrimbor and the other Elven smiths

>>716165010
Yes the worst was being a tranime tranny adobe reader rapist like you

>>716165010
Eh, I can grab the PC version but if it has all the content I really don't give a flying fuck. Nothing is going to change my experience depending on if I'm sitting at my desk reading it or in my bed.

>>716140302 (OP)
The lesser grail was never intended to actually grant wishes that was just a carrot to get people to participate in a conflict that only 3 of the participants had any real chance of winning. The grail is just a tool designed for accessing the root and/or greater grail

The only servants summoned from the future are counter agents who are tied to the Earth itself and are only summonable in extremely rare situations such as the case with the holy grail war in the original fate/stay night because of Angra Mainyu

command seals can be overcome by sheer will power but the will power needed to pull it off is rare among servants.

The only reason Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay happen within the same time period is because of Angra Mainyu, every other holy grail war takes place in alternative timelines/universes. Alt universes is also the reason there are wars with more than 7 servants.

>>716157086
The prologue is a lot of fun since Nasu doesn't really do non-MC PoV that often. Kinda wish he wrote a version of the VN where you could experience the UBW route from her perspective or something.

>>716164715
...hint? What hint?

>>716158792
How's redline doing?
Kanata finally fucked his grandma?
>Captcha:Hag TV

>>716140302 (OP)
people die when they are killed

>>716140302 (OP)
That Tohsaka is weak to anal

>>716140302 (OP)
Gender swaps of sacred historical figures will be gobbled up if tranime degenerates do it

>>716165220
It's a pretty effective way to get into the story, since from what I get Rin is pretty experienced with all this shit so she can dump exposition in a way that doesn't feel as overbearing.

>>716165148
Best way is the repackaged Realta Nua version on nyaa's fun side or just the original. The RN pack splices in almost every cut scene while adding some improved artwork, decensoring, and updated music. The only thing it's lacking are a couple suggestive scenes from specified non-H scenes that got rewritten. It's up to you at the end of the day, but I feel the scenes add a lot more than their safe counterparts and Nasu's ero writing flops wildly back and forth between heartwarming and comedic, especially with all the food analogies.
But if you don't want to see Rin go full dyke on Seiba in the most gratuitous fashion, then keep on keeping on.
Worst answer btw would have been emulating the psp version, who the fuck does that?
>>716165296
iykyk, HF spoilers.

>>716165148
The family friendly versions censor quite a bit more than just the H-scenes. Like they also remove most textual references, explicit or implicit to sex and sexuality elsewhere, too.

>>716165459
Still waiting on highschool girl Hitler

>>716165640

>>716165749
Where is the moustache and the zyklone cannisters

>>716165535
>>716165638
I'll keep that in mind, thanks Anons. But yeah for now I'll keep up with the version I'm using now since I'm sure it gives enough of the main story to at least get the main story and if I want I'll grab the OG version for the more complete experience.

>>716165795
>and the zyklone cannisters
The train looks pretty clear, no delousing needed.

>>716165910
>train looks clear of jews
That's because you can't turn around in VN games.


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>>716164443
Oh yeah, he was a bit of a cunt but tbf Hera is somewhat responsible for his anger issues, but he was willing to be punished for murdering his family through slavery.
Karna was a good person but he was also a bit... let's say he doesn't know how to word his shit.
Sigurd is ovbiously a good guy 100%. His part of the Volsunga Saga makes it clear he had no interest in wealth really and willingly parted with it, only avenged his dad because Norse Culture demands it, some versions even go as far as to say he was humble and always allowed others to speak first as a form of respecr. He even refused to kill Gunther(forgot the name of his Norse counterpart) due to being Oathbound(again, serious business) and his worst aspects come from being drugged.

>>716164286
I do know that, there's a reason it's called "False" Holy Grail War. The "True" Holy Grail War has Richard aka the only Saber.

>>716165808
Your loss. You're going to have to do the PC version of Hollow Ataraxia anyway so you'd best get used to it. I know I said "you do you", but that's my way of trying to push your towards the packaged version without pulling excalibur out of my ass.
You're also going to have to do it for Tsukihime because I swear to fucking god if your first experience with it is that garbage excuse for a remake, I'm going to kill you.

>>716165640
Archer Hitler, Rider Hitler or Caster Hitler? Or maybe Avenger Hitler? Or Foreigner?

>>716166175
Avenger Hitler
Caster Himmler

>>716140302 (OP)
When are they releasing the fucking seque and Tsukihime Remake on Steam? I'm fucking tired of waiting.

POWER RANKINGS
1. Illya
2. Ridah
3. Seibah
4. Rin
5. Taigaaaaaaaaaa
6. Castah
7. Mitsuzuri
POWER GAP
8. Issei
POWER GAP
9. Worm Pussy

>>716165808
Honestly, the reason why I far prefer the original release is that it comes off far more vicious to me than the censored release. The H-scenes are hilariously bad but the game's atmosphere suffers quite a bit from you knowing that it's not a "nothing is off the table" experience. Like the horror and violence feels more palpable in the 18+ version?

If you ever get around to Hollow Ataraxia, though, you gotta play an uncensored release. It's the only TM visual novel with actually fappable scenes, most of them quite romantic, character-appropriate and just not weirdly described like the FSN ones are.

>>716166402
>6. Castah
Shut the fuck up, Iason, you punk ass bitch.

>>716157117
I've read it twice and it's kinda ass so I don't blame people for no reading.

>>716166139
Looks like I'm gonna have to check out the remake then ;^). But to be serious it's fine and I'll make sure to just play the OG PC versions going forward, It's not gonna be a big deal to replay the VN from the start, I read both versions of The Stand back to back a year ago while reading the Dark Tower reading order and I was fine with that since I enjoyed the story. So unless I absolutely despise this VN later on I think I'll be fine.

>>716166304
>Caster Himmler
What's his noble phantasm, summoning a flock of chickens?

I read like 3/5 of Tsukihime back in like 2019. Read Arcueid's, Ciel's and Akiha's routes. Is it worth it to go back and read Hisui and Kohaku's routes or should I jump into the (incomplete) remake?

>>716166829
The remake does not include any routes besides the bicurious rainbow duo's.

>>716140546
couldn't you jist hire a team of high priced lawyers to make an airtight eish?

>>716166464
>It's the only TM visual novel with actually fappable scenes
>Golden Bathtub
My dick was not ready.
>>716166645
The Stand was such a good fucking book. Didn't know they made another version of it though.
But yeah, get on that. The only people who don't find something to like in FS/N are people with no brain or no soul, so I think you should be fine.
>>716166829
Go back. You missed the best ones and after which, you too can shitpost about how much better Kohaku is than Sakura. You're not ready.

>>716140302 (OP)
The key message was "the 2005 OP is fucking amazing and lives rent free in my heart"
https://youtu.be/Qy7Q77ZD_ME

>>716158792
Yasuke servant when?

>>716167052
>Didn't know they made another version of it though.
Not a whole new version, just an extended copy with a couple hundred extra pages with stuff like elaborating more on the guy that was trying to molest Trashcan Man and whatnot. I was just using it to make a point that I'm fine with picking up basically the same exact version of a story just for a few extra details if I really liked it. But yeah The Stand is fucking spectacular, King might be a weird loser but when he writes a good character he can really write one. I think I'll find at least a few more things since I'm already a fan of the setup in the prologue so far and Archer, even if I basically know who he is and everything about him by this point lel.
Larry and Nick deserved to live...

>>716167052
Sakura's solo one is very underappreciated even though I prefer Rin and Saber by a lot. Everyone goes crazy over Golden Bathtub and Backside of Kibisis, not without reason, but that Sakura scene is exactly the kind of bland and vanilla H-scene that you would want to wash the taste of HF out of your mouth, like, it's the perfect sexual palate cleanser. It's pretty short, too.

On the other hand I never understood the hype people had for the scene with Rin. Like yeah the character development is pretty nice but the actual H-scene is really awkward considering the state she is in there.

>>716167357
Larry I could buy as a sacrifice for intervention, but Nick deserved a lot better than what he got.
>>716167441
Yeah, I get what you mean. But as for the Rin scene, it's all about the context before and after. It's where she finally stops trying to be something other than herself and they can enjoy each other as they are. Which includes Rin being a cheeky shit and spit-swapping aphrodisiac before passing out.

>>716163391
Well I don't mean it as a bad thing, since I like Tolkien after all.

>>716167661
I think I just mentally clocked out at the point where Shirou notes that she smells like medicine. And like, whenever my GF was sick, sex was the absolutely last thing on my mind. It's a complete libido killer. It's also practically impossible to enjoy the middle third of Golden Bathtub if you ever tried to have sex in a bathtub or really any sort of scenario where you would have to penetrate your lady underwater.

>>716140302 (OP)
The grail is trap to lure retards fighting each other to the death over crumbs of power. True power is mastering yourself and your abilities to ascend to godhood, indeed the whole grail wars are simply lie. You can achieve power and your desires through other ways.

Nasu Universe is just some super insane bullshit power scaling I just don't jive with. Not even all the servant asspull powers or whatever but like even on a cosmic level there's this shit where no matter what every other planet is going to send down an avatar to pummel the shit out of all life on earth.

>>716140302 (OP)
She has one of the few good English VAs.

>>716168889
Are you insane? Her dub VA is the worst of the main heroine trio. Saber's on the other hand is probably as decent as an English Saber could ever get.

>>716168184
Yeah, the HGW is just imitating Third Magic. Everyone wants to successfully apply it on themselves to preserve their souls forever but it comes off poorly. That being said the Holy Grail makes an excellent energy source. Nobu wanted to turn one into a bomb in fact.

It's incredible how much her design improves when you change the twintails into literally anything else. College Rin mogs her younger self super hard.

>>716169019
I liked Mela lees voice. Deal with it

>>716140302 (OP)
Nasu is a hack.

>>716168447
Nasuverse is all about how powerlevels don't fucking matter at all. This quote is the most important thing in the series.

>>716166126
I really liked how they took that flaw of Karna in CCC and ran with it, it was really well done, I enjoyed his presence a lot there.

>>716140302 (OP)
Cute but bitchy asian women are the ideal gf.

>>716140402
Have sex with me coward

Rider though...

>>716156772
Fate/Zero really was the moment Type Moon peaked, watching it with /a/ was a ride. I still think of the Berserker-on-fighter-jet against Gilgamesh's flying throne fight.

>>716170842
Rin is a hafu. Or rather, a quarterfu. She also lives in a western-style mansion.

>>716169930
He had talent, once upon a time.

Rin sexo

>>716140302 (OP)
This image is so fucking nitpicky it's dumb.

There were only ever two real rules for the Holy Grail War:
1) don't let the public know what's happening.
2) last one standing gets to make a wish (provided that they're actually still alive and the grail, the thing that grants the wish, is intact)

Beyond this, anything goes.

>>716172465
True true, but she inherited the black hair and pretty eyes which are the most important part.

>>716140302 (OP)
I know the message.
BIGGER = BETTER

>>716158792
>>716159196
>hideyoshi hat
>oda sigil
>demon king
the fuck kind of schizophrenia is this?

>>716140302 (OP)
Whining about the rules of the holy grail war is at best missing the point that the game was rigged from the start, and at worse missing the point that the rules don't matter because it is just a backdrop for character drama.

>>716176508
Well that's mainly because the three families (mainly the Einzberns and Matou) were privy to cheats that no one else knew about. Obviously, these cheats never end up bearing fruit.