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Jul 6, 2022 9:51 PM
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Is the fate visual novel better than the anime, and can someone tell me the best site to get the VN for free cause I don’t have money and I still want to experience this story. If anyones willing to lend the information I will be immensely grateful. Also I want to know whether rin or saber is better.
Jul 6, 2022 10:03 PM
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I mean, you definitely gain better insight into their characters as compared to their anime counterparts, but the adaptation still got its point across.

I think the audience's perception of Shirou benefits the most by reading the VN, since his monologues were lost in the anime, and they provided major context regarding his personality and actions.

As for the VN, you can find various installation guides on the subreddit.
Jul 6, 2022 10:05 PM
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You can find the whole VN on YouTube .
Jul 6, 2022 10:50 PM
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Fun Fact: The orginal Fate was an eroge
Jul 6, 2022 11:01 PM
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The visual novel is definitely better than the anime. The anime, while a good adaptation, is just a very good summary in all honesty.

For obtaining the visual novel, obviously, you will need a computer if you don't already have one.

Just for reference, do you have uTorrent or know how to torrent?

Jul 6, 2022 11:19 PM
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Whether or not the VN is better than the animes is up to you imo, cause if you're fine with reading a lot the VN is better, but if you just want quick entertainment or you aren't a fan of reading you'll like the anime adaptations more

One thing with the adaptations is that unless you watch the 2006 Studio Deen adaptation of the first VN route (most people say it's bad and that it spoils the other routes, but I haven't seen it), you end up losing out on the first route

I downloaded the VN following a yt turorial, but since I don't use my pc a lot I ended up watching a playthrough on yt where the person just had the game on auto-read and showed all the choices (Idk if I'm allowed to post a link to it)

And Saber>Rin but they're both great
サンタクロース?そんなのいるはずがないのだ!馬鹿なのか?ーーあ、あれ?今年はクリスマスプレゼント抜きなのか?ま、待つのだ!ちょっと話すのだ!サンタクロースがもしかしたらいるかもしれないのだー!
Santa Claus? Are you dumb? There's no way something like that could... Huh? There's going to be coal in my stockings this year? W-wait! Let's discuss this! I'm sure there's some possibility that Santa is real!
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Jul 7, 2022 1:10 AM
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Vn goes a deep into the characters, explaining why they did that or why did they choose that, for example shirou, like why he still choosed to do that after being told what he can end up with (not mentioning for spoilers), still anime is well adapted, Ufotable's route are enough to understand mostly whatever happened and make sure to watch 2006 one too, it's outdated but still holds the saber's route.

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Jul 7, 2022 1:18 AM
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VN is much better and goes a lot in depth into the characters and story so I highly do recommend it.
If you wanna read the entire VN for free you can search YouTube for silent walkthroughs of the different routes.
Jul 7, 2022 4:02 AM
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misterinfoman said:
Is the fate visual novel better than the anime,


Overwhelmingly so.

and can someone tell me the best site to get the VN for free cause I don’t have money and I still want to experience this story. If anyones willing to lend the information I will be immensely grateful.


A web version was created a little under a year ago.

Also I want to know whether rin or saber is better.


Saber.
Well I for one already loved Lain.
Jul 7, 2022 4:30 AM
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O_T_T said:
misterinfoman said:
Is the fate visual novel better than the anime,


Overwhelmingly so.

and can someone tell me the best site to get the VN for free cause I don’t have money and I still want to experience this story. If anyones willing to lend the information I will be immensely grateful.


A web version was created a little under a year ago.

Also I want to know whether rin or saber is better.


Saber.
thanks, hope saber is best girl like you say
Jul 7, 2022 7:39 AM

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misterinfoman said:
O_T_T said:


Overwhelmingly so.



A web version was created a little under a year ago.



Saber.
thanks, hope saber is best girl like you say

rin is also wayyy better than the ubw anime rin
ufotable for some reason turned her into an extreme tsundere in the anime
but yeah saber best grill for sure
salad77Jul 7, 2022 7:45 AM
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Jul 7, 2022 7:57 AM

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Ri-iel said:
Fun Fact: The orginal Fate was an eroge

and thats why people should install realta nua so the h scenes are disabled
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Jul 7, 2022 8:50 AM
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salad_farded said:
misterinfoman said:
thanks, hope saber is best girl like you say

rin is also wayyy better than the ubw anime rin
ufotable for some reason turned her into an extreme tsundere in the anime
but yeah saber best grill for sure

she ways always a tsundere though. just in the vn it was toned down in favor of sadist
Jul 7, 2022 9:35 AM

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HanBoitheLamb said:
salad_farded said:

rin is also wayyy better than the ubw anime rin
ufotable for some reason turned her into an extreme tsundere in the anime
but yeah saber best grill for sure

she ways always a tsundere though. just in the vn it was toned down in favor of sadist

thats what i meant yeah
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Jul 7, 2022 11:42 PM

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misterinfoman said:
Is the fate visual novel better than the anime, and can someone tell me the best site to get the VN for free cause I don’t have money and I still want to experience this story. If anyones willing to lend the information I will be immensely grateful. Also I want to know whether rin or saber is better.

Yeah, the VN is better and you should read it. It's longer, allowing for better development of the characters and Shirou's internal monologue means you can better understand his thought process. For an installation guide, look one up on YouTube.

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Only Rin vs. Saber?

Sakura is sad...

Aug 28, 2022 3:42 AM

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>is the visual novel better than the anime?
Yes. A lot.
>where to get for free
Torrent it. Torrents usually come with installation instructions, how to make the program think it's running on a japanese PC (you'll get some errors otherwise) and patching instructions for the unofficial translation if you don't understand Japanese.
>Rin or Saber
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misterinfoman said:
Is the fate visual novel better than the anime, and can someone tell me the best site to get the VN for free cause I don’t have money and I still want to experience this story. If anyones willing to lend the information I will be immensely grateful. Also I want to know whether rin or saber is better.


The vn is wayy better than the anime. The anime really doesn't get an opportunity to properly portray the thoughts and reasoning behind all the characters and doesn't make shirou out to be as good of a protagonist as he is in the vn. You can't buy the game in English as it was never released outside of Japan but information on getting the game in English can be found on the fsn subreddit. Although there is a web browser version, that's a lot more for people who've played the game and just wanna look back a certain scene and definitely not a recommended way to experience the vn. Saber best girl.
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