Sadly, Fate/Stay Night feels like it's getting shafted by bad production and writing. The animation is pretty lame, and the writing seems clumsy. The strength of the original material shines through here and there - like when Saber shows up - but other scenes that seem like they should be powerful just fall flat. I thought the scene where Rin decides to stay by the first innocent victim of her fight should have a had a lot more impact than it did, for instance. And the anime is packed full of exposition, which gets annoying real quick. Too much telling, nowhere near enough showing.

I only played the translated demo version, but pretty much all of the really good back-and-forth between Rin and Archer that was in there at the start has been cut, or existed but didn't work in the anime.

Overall, standing on its own, I liked Tsukihime a lot more after the first two episodes.