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Originally Posted by Triple_R
In fairness to Reckoner, some people prefer action scenes where the combat is very rules-based and cerebral, where the cunning and tactics and wits of the combatants are just as important as (if not more important than) their emotions and will to win and explosive powers. Rules-based in the sense of either abides by real life laws of physics, or at least by the internal logic set by the fictional universe the action is in.
But then, some prefer action scenes with a lot of emotion infused in it, and lots of flashy explosions and dashing moves.
While I do like a little bit of smarts in my action heroes/heroines, I do admit I lean more to the latter, so that's probably partly why I liked this episode a lot more than Reckoner did. That, plus I've always been fond of the magical girl genre and this show embraces that genre wonderfully, imo.
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This makes sense in general, but Type Moon is not really a good source of rules-based combat scenes. Nasu the storyteller has never really let his own complicated systems and abilities get in the way of a good dramatic action scene, even if it requires lengthy exposition to explain why the previous fight did not go according to the elaborate rules he had previously established. In one case this involves a dying character temporarily regaining his sanity just so he can explain to the audience what the heck just happened.
There's also one fight in the UBW route where an explicitly inferior fighter quite literally wins due to the strength of his beliefs, come to think of it.
Prisma Illya as a standalone work actually does a better job of sticking to the rules that it has previously established than FSN does, because it exposits less and less elaborately; therefore, there is no need for awkward exposition to explain away why explicitly numerated abilities did not work in practice like they were supposed to in theory.
(As an aside, Gen did a better job of keeping Fate/Zero internally consistent than Nasu did with FSN, at the mild cost of creating some inconsistencies between the two.)
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