As much as I'd like you guys to continue debating I'm gonna interject with some completed thoughts on Fate/Stay Night.
So just now, at proximately 3:37 EST, I have completed all stories of F/SN. So what did think? It was nice but by the end of it all I finally stabbed away an odd idea that "There is nothing better than Fate!". I think I may have said this in the first post of this thread, not sure though.
I realized that between Fate and it's plethora of characters that I came to enjoy (and one character I would make my waifu but I won't because I'm not insane) and Tsukihime, I liked Tsukihime more.
I can't fully explain why though. This kinda has to do with the time it took me to complete Fate/Stay Night. I spent what may have been nearly a month on this game and it has been almost nearly a month since I completed Tsukihime.
But I will say this, my gut instinct and memory tells me that Tsukihime is a more developed world than Fate. But unluckily that's not saying much. It's kinda like saying sugar water is more of a sweet than what because I added sugar.
The issue I have realized is that while the VN's go into little or major detail about certain things but never really touch base too much on them. I guess this is because the VN's aren't going for continued stories where all of a sudden we have weekly opponents of the week or something but it would be interesting to understand how Shirou obtains the ability to
summon the Marble Phantasm "Unlimited Blade Works
or even the far future events after each ending (I blame Unlimited Blade Works on this one. I assume that for UBW to happen though that the Holy Grail War didn't happen in one scenario but did happen in an alternate universe so then the events of Fate/Stay Night did happen... or something like that IDK)
In any case, did I like F/SN? Of course I did. But here's the thing, does the VN as a whole leave me feeling satisfied? No. Each ending may leave me in satisfaction but the ultimate problem is that it leaves me with more questions about certain workings of the world and touches base lightly on questions I had from Tsukihime. My knowledge from Kara no Kyokai helps to explain something called Origins which I won't go into cause I don't feel like it.
This all comes down to one problem I have with all works connected to the Nasuverse, they explain things in that situation and what is important to explain. Tsukihime seems to do the most explaining with all the fun disks and Tsukihime Plus but it still really isn't enough. Fate explains the whole aspect of mages and further touches base on Sorceries but since this is mostly an action story and since magic has really little effect on Servants and Shirou is nearly useless except for a few incidents and Unlimited Blade Works, we only learn as much as we need to know to understand what magic is in this world.
In the end though, these were very good and I do have to keep in mind that these VN's are the first story in their franchise and that F/SN has a sequel in the form of Fate/Hollow Atarxia and that on of Nasu Kinoko's older novels is going to be adapted as a VN so this will give me some more enjoyable reading material.
But now I am off to my next venture in VN's in the form of G-Senjou no Maou.