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2. Theme: The thematic is far too clumsily handled. Shirou's choice in UBW for example is not argumented beside a NO U to Archer during their fight and in HF Nasu tries really really hard to tell you that his choice in this route is the only right one.

People keep telling Shirou that he is a moron for trying to save everyone, but he does it anyway. Then comes the battle with the final boss who is a thousand times faster and stronger than him, but he still wins through plot hax. The plot hax in this case is just the ability to reproduce virtually any sword he wants near instantly which is supposed to counter Gil's ability to essentially do the same. Now remember the situation I described in Fate? How does being able to reproduce any sword you want make up for the fact that your opponent is a thousand times faster than you. He should be able to snap his fingers and have another sword go straight through his heart before he can react. The whole fucking thing is ridiculous. Even after Shirou wins the battle, he ends up not killing the guy. Why? Because this is just a generic battle shounen and the MC isn't allowed to kill anyone. So Archer swoops in out of fucking nowhere and delivers the killing blow.

God forbid the plot lets him face any sort of moral dilemma. Why do that when we can just throw some gimmick or have someone else shoulder the responsibility. So long as our little angel gets to drag his ass into another battle and do absolutely nothing to stop the violence besides sitting there like a tard.