Love the HF route, but the one thing that truly sealed the deal for me with that route was Kirei. He was such a freakin badass! Seriously, compared to the other two routes Kirei was just so much more in this route. Not only was there the inclusion of some humorously out of place slapstick (Mapu Tofu!), but he was just epic, everything from his actions, his deeds, all the way down to his final end goal was amazingly well done. SPOILER In the other routes he was the clear *evil* with a very sick and twisted mindset, but this route juxtaposed this. Even if his motives could be considered *twisted*, he saved Sakura by sacrificing his Magic Crest, he allied with Shirou when everyone else had turned on him and he had nobody to help him, helped rescue Ilya, he even took on a freakin Servant solo and damn near killed it. Even at the end, when he became the final enemy for Shirou, you couldn't really call him bad or evil, his motives were in their own twisted way pure. He wanted to bless the existence of a creature that would be born without sin while Shirou wanted to pre-emptively kill it to save the potential victims of the future. Even Shirou acknowledged that Good and Evil were irrelevant in their fight, it was simply two already dead men fighting to the end to realise their dreams and crush their foes dream in it's place. That and their final fight, just a beyond brutal battering match between the two where every strike required a sacrifice in itself. Badass, throughout the entire route. No protagonist killing, no manipulations, no evil overall plot, he purely stood by his ideals from start to finish with his own life on the line. In the end he lost simply because his body couldn't hold out from the injury taken by Assassin, but even then he accepted it fairly and acknowledged Shirou's victory even as he died standing there, epic to the end.
+vc180191 agree with everything, just a small correction: kirei died from the injury he suffered from Sakura crushing his heart, not the small injuries he received from Assassin. but he is my favorite character in the story after Sakura, both of them are so complex. and HF is far the best route, Sakura, Kotomine, best version of Shirou, Rider, I couldnt ask for more..
This tribute video always gets the feels flowing. I can't believe we're almost done with the Heaven's Feel adaptation next year. Who's watching this 9 years later?
Some of these animations... Where they fan made, like some look like their from an anime, but HF anime/movie isn't out yet, or does the VN show those animations (ie: that Saber Alter Cut in)
@UltimaShadow hey are you a shirouXsakura fan if yes then watch the vid i made request for. just type shirou and sakura and you will find it the song used is anywhere but here.
