History YMMV / FateStayNightHeavensFeel

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skLD2yhyVRo The Four Rings]]'' and the preceding ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAVtYNcppvc She Holds the Black Holy Sword]]'', two incredibly awesome tracks that plays [[spoiler: during Saber Alter and Rider's clash]], the former involving a OneWomanWail [[spoiler: as the battle begun and Rider used her speed to strike Alter from multiple angles]]and the latter having a full-on orchestra with OminousLatinChanting that reached its peak as [[spoiler: Rider invoked her Noble Phantasm Bellerophon and burst through Alter's Excalibur with the help of Shirou's Rho Aias]].

* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler:Saber Alter]] already fell into EvilIsCool in the visual novel, but AdaptationDeviation also makes her this in the movies. Here, she has her [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless]] ElegantGothicLolita dress from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' in addition to her armored getup, and she sports a rather attractive smile instead of the perpetual frown from the VN.

* AuthorsSavingThrow:
** Shirou falling in love with Sakura was rather rushed in the original novel. He just suddenly finds Sakura super hot and within a short time, he's so in love with her, that he's willing to throw his ideals away to protect her. It comes across less as Shirou awakening to a ChildhoodFriendRomance he just never noticed, but instead having a switch go off by the writers to make him fall for Sakura. The films heavily focus on their backstory in an effort to specifically avert this.
** Byakuya Matou was portrayed in the novel as a BitchInSheepsClothing who pretended to care about Shinji only to cut all ties with him after he found out the truths of the family. The manga adaptation of Heaven's Feel shows Shinji's backstory from a neutral point of view (while in the novel it was told from [[UnreliableNarrator Shinji]]'s point of view); revealing that, while distant, Byakuya did care about Shinji at some point, or at least wanted him to have a normal life away from magecraft.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Creator/CristinaValenzuela is a somewhat divisive voice actress, but her performance as Sakura in the English dub has attracted ''universal'' acclaim, to the point where some even think [[UpToEleven she's better than]] [[Creator/NorikoShitaya the original Japanese seiyuu.]]

** There are also those who think [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn Saber Alter]] [[FoeYay would make a very interesting girlfriend for Shirou]] given how they both abandon their former ideals.]] This gets more fuel poured on it in ''spring song'' [[spoiler: when during their battle, Rider taunts Saber Alter by suggestively teasing to her that she (Rider) knows Shirou better than his former Servant did, which evokes a near ''jealous'' response from her.]]

** To promote ''lost butterfly'', ufotable put out an endless clicker browser game where you protect Sakura from [[spoiler:her infamous worms.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A criticism shared by the source material. ''Heaven's Feel'' is by far the darkest route of the game, and the sheer amount of characters who either die horribly and/or become evil is so high, it goes straight over the top for some people, making it difficult for them to care about what's happening. The first two films, even though they try to lighten the mood in a couple of places, are still so incredibly dark overall, they have the exact same effect, sometimes even more due to the graphic violence displayed, which holds no punches. ''Spring Song'' has somewhat alleviated this, adapting the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happier ending]] of the visual novel route; however, the fact remains that the first two movies are extraordinarily dark and somewhat hard to watch at times.

** The third movie, ''Spring song'', is the one that shows the most obvious signs of being a heavily CompressedAdaptation, with the skipped content from the previous two movies catching up with it, and as a result . In particular, VN readers were most unhappy with [[spoiler: the final fight between Shirou and Kotomine being greatly shortened and simplified as it is the culmination of all the themes of the ''Fate/stay night'' trilogy]] while anime-only viewers were completely perplexed at the trilogy's ending [[spoiler: of how exactly Shirou was able to be revived after destroying the Greater Grail]] thanks to the movie [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication only using a brief montage of events with vague narration that doesn't actually explain anything.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A criticism shared by the source material. ''Heaven's Feel'' is by far the darkest route of the game, and the sheer amount of characters who either die horribly and/or become evil is so high, it goes straight over the top for some people, making it difficult for them to care about what's happening. The first two films, even though they try to lighten the mood in a couple of places, are still so incredibly dark overall, they have the exact same effect, sometimes even more due to the graphic violence displayed, which holds no punches. ''Spring Song'' has somewhat alleviated this, inaccurately adapting the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happier ending]] of the visual novel route; however, the fact remains that the first two movies are extraordinarily dark and somewhat hard to watch at times.