KotO is an odd, very ambitious little crossover. Unfortunately that seems have led to the author losing interest in it two times. It might help any would-be writers a little, looking at some of the ways it held itself back.
The story has 14 heroes right at the start. Then add in girlfriends for all of them, their monster partners, villains, more heroes, etc.
It talks about stories needing to be willing to update to modern sensibilities, but it doesn't act on that very well. Before very long (Ch.9), it turns out the fairytale cliche of The Power of Love is how a hero unlocks their Super Mode (these are teenagers, remember). Also, almost all the villains are 2-Dimensional bullies who are jealous of the knights and want to steal their girlfriends and popularity. Maybe you'd say that's the point, but the heroes always give them a merciless "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and they're clearly just meant to be seen as villains. Nobody ever tries to, like, point to that behavior as the problem with the Destiny system, and say that's why things have to change.
The fic couldn't seem to settle on a tone. It often uses EAH's silly puns in what's supposed to be a tense fight scene, and monster attacks start being portrayed as annoying interruptions. Likewise two of the heroes are supposed to be edgy anti-heroes, but the writer didn't seem to know how to write characters like that on a team with straightforward heroes. This led to the characters only doing low-key "evil" pranks (Max), or the writer trying to course-correct on the fly a lot so one of them (Kyle) didn't go too far.
The Isekai element never did anything but get in the way. It was always obvious the heroes really were the heirs of the Round Table even though it kept saying they weren't. It also never tried to explain how the different worlds related to each other (The heroes come from a world where Snow White's a character in books and a movie, and now they're friends with Snow White's daughter. How's that work? Nobody even asks). Plus the Mighty Whitey vibes this gives off, in what's supposed to be a story about having the freedom to break the mold and take control of your future. That results in canon characters barely doing anything except cheering the superheroes who do everything for them; even the ones who become Riders are in a lower "squire" class.
There's some uncomfortably provocative stuff for a story with teenage characters, like when Briar Beauty sleeps in the same bed as her boyfriend in nothing but lace lingerie. Or Lance having laid girls before the story starts, and he's only 15. Is that what EAH was missing?
When he tried to reboot this, the writer probably would've been better off adapting Saber instead of Ryuki. Just 6 heroes would've taken a lot of weight off him, and you could do some interesting things with its book power items when your M Cs know the characters in the books for real.
Paladin, if by some miniscule chance you see this, I hope it helps.
Fanfic Tries to take on too much
KotO is an odd, very ambitious little crossover. Unfortunately that seems have led to the author losing interest in it two times. It might help any would-be writers a little, looking at some of the ways it held itself back.
When he tried to reboot this, the writer probably would've been better off adapting Saber instead of Ryuki. Just 6 heroes would've taken a lot of weight off him, and you could do some interesting things with its book power items when your M Cs know the characters in the books for real.
Paladin, if by some miniscule chance you see this, I hope it helps.