FATE S/N UBW: 2x12 Reaction EARLY ACCESS

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWGVGeiO3g&amp;." rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWGVGeiO3g&amp;.</a> In all seriousness, I prefer to UBW to Zero but I enjoy both.

Rohit Nair

I mean not really what was an asspull about it?

Gin

fate zero&gt;fate ubw

shirou - protagonist vs gilgamesh antagonist thats the main reason why he won this fight has so many asspulls

Whoever told you that the Grail corrupted Gilgamesh is incorrect. It's explicitly stated that it TRIES to and his ego is so big that it literally cannot corrupt him. He's such a cocky, charismatic prick that the Grail can't even comprehend trying to corrupt him.

Polygon

Gilgamesh's pride back at it again, losing him fights since 2004 XD Welp, time to move on to the Heavens Feel Movie! By now, it shoudl go without saying that Gilgamesh would have absolutely ROFLSTOMPED Shirou if he had tried even a little bit at the start of their fight. But...if he had, he wouldn't be the Gilgamesh we love to hate. Gilgamesh lost because he didn't take Shiro seriously until the end of the fight and even then, he still hesitated to use Ea.The reason Gilgamesh didn't use Ea (and the reason he lost) is because he only ever draws Ea against those who he deems worthy, or those he respects (ie. Iskandar). When he went to draw it against Shirou, you could see him hesitate before he grabbed it because it would mean acknowledging Shirou's strength and cheap imitations as strong enough to push him to use it. That's the same reason why there's so much emphasis put on that shot when Gilgamesh backs off from Shirou. That the All-Mighty King of Heroes, the Strongest Heroic Spirit was forced to retreat from a lowly Faker. That in itself is defeat in his eyes. Shirou's UBW is the natural counter to Gate of Babylon because it's essentially a spam-fest of cheap copies vs Gil's higher quality originals. Shirou is also able to match Gil in hand-to-hand combat because while still a decent enough swordsman, Gilgamesh relies too heavily on the Gate of Babylon and because of that when someone can break through the barrage of weapons he's kinda defenseless.

Polygon

The abomination is Angra Mainyu. Like Kirei mentioned in Fate/Zero, it longs for its own birth. Unfortunately, this route doesn't really explain what any of that means.

Username

Ah, previous comment talks about it too, so yea it was Independent Action at least.

Absent1

Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think Archer's survival is ever really explained. One theory I've heard is that he was re-summoned as a Defender to stop the Grail, but I always felt like it had to do with the connection between Archer and Shirou (and maybe Independent Action too). Whenever Shirou traded blows with Archer, Archer's memories flowed into Shirou, so perhaps there was a similar link between their physical forms, where Archer survived as long as Shirou did.

Absent1

Archer did indeed manage to slip away incredible wounded in spirit form. After that he did what he could to stay alive by spending as little energy as possible and (if I remember correctly) devouring spirits around Ryuudou Temple, which works because of his Independent Action skill that allows him to stay alive without a master for a while. He then used what little energy he had left to fire off those two last attacks before disappearing. You are indeed missing a lot of details. UBW is only a third of Stay Night as a whole after all. Basically you can say that Fate introduces the mechanics of the world and the Holy Grail War on a surface level, UBW goes into the depths of Shirou's ideology and mixes things in the war up a bit (like how Caster basically hijacks the whole thing halfway through) and HF mixes things up a LOT and finally goes into finer details of what the Grail actually is. Nice job picking up that Shirou isn't actually projecting swords in the usual sense, but rather summoning them from UBW! :D I also really liked your thoughts on Gilgamesh. While it's true that he's a complete monster in some regard he can also be a really respectable person in others.You could say that his actions are based on a morality system that is so old that it differs quite a lot from ours, but that he's a great person within the context of that system. In the VN he is classified as Chaotic Good after all.

Simon Ovesen