>>151147>and the adaptations cover these different routes?Fate/Stay Night has never been fully adapted. That's why the visual novel is recommended. To clarify:
The 2006 anime by Deen mostly follows the first route, simply called the Fate route. However like another anon mentioned it starts trying to combine stuff from the other two routes in the second half of the show and ends up being an anime original mess.
Ufotable's 2014 adaptation of Fate/Stay Night covers the second route, Unlimited Blade Works, and it is a near-perfect adaptation of it. There is also Deen's 2010 UBW movie, which is a barely comprehensible clusterfuck because it's literally the entire route compressed into less than 2 hours of run time. If you didn't already know the basic plot you'd be confused as hell.
The third and final route, Heaven's Feel, has never been adapted, but Ufotable is planning three movies to cover it. Their release is not yet announced and they are still early in production.
So as you can see there's no way to experience F/SN's story via anime. Or manga for that matter. The only way to do it is the visual novel. I hope that in the future Ufotable will eventually adapt the entire game, doing a proper rendition of the Fate route. There should be plenty of demand for a real Fate route considering Saber is the main heroine in it and she's by far the most popular character in the franchise. They might be saving it for an anniversary date or something.
Oh and P.S., the routes are all cannon, they're like alternate versions of the same story, but they are played in order because they reveal gradually more information and secrets about the characters and settings, with HF being the most climactic and the craziest.
