So Chewin what did you think of Shirou?
You did say that the episode could break him from a competent protagonist to a failure (I admit I don't remember exactly what you said but it was somethig along thos lines).
Well he didn't reach the heights that I wanted, but neither did he disappoint me as I feared it would. I am content with it.
Episode broke everyone tbh.
/will continue to be bitter
If the video Angel linked is the full fight in the VN, then I don't see the big issue.
Other than the anime being more unnecessary grandiose in its approach (with the VN being more "grounded"), all of the contents that got up in that video are in the anime. I actually think the anime is better, since it added Saber's and Archer's POV, which actually added a lot (especially Archer). VN seems to only have Shirou's POV and I think it suffers from it, since that video above didn't add anything new to the table, while the anime did.