Eh, the fights aren't Ufotable's level, but they're pretty decent. Jack's outfit is still cringeworthy. Mordred is still best girl, her playing with the cat was hilarious. Also, the cameos from the entire Round Table + Merlin. Still, yeah, the fact that nobody thought Artoria was a girl is standing up to less and less scrutiny now.
Still, it does explain why Artoria used Rhongomyniad instead of Excalibur to take down Mordred. Mordred knocking the Sword of Promised Victory out of her hands was actually pretty badass - I don't think
anyone else has actually done it in the entire series.
Also, Kairi Vs. Fiore was also pretty rad, sorta in a Kiritsugu Vs. Kayneth sorta way, with similar roles, even if Fiore's mystic code isn't quite as broken as Kayneth's. Still, I knew said mystic code was pretty rad, but an in-built machine-gun? Awesome. Chiron Vs. Mordred was pretty neat, too.
Artoria[/s] Altria appears as a guest character and even the enemies can't stop saying how perfect she is. Yep, this is Fate.
To be fair, it's a reference to how Artoria was the 'perfect king' by throwing away her humanity, making the 'right' decisions even if it cost lives, but it also caused her to forsake crucial human emotions, including empathy, which caused people to question whether she was even human, and caused some of her knights to leave her service, and likely also the result of why she had a cold reception towards Mordred's reveal of her heritage (though it would've helped if she told Mordred the reason why right off the bat). At the end of her reign, when she regained her human emotions, she absolutely
freaked out, as she believed she was a failure of a king, causing her to fight Grail Wars in hopes of achieving her wish of having someone else take her place in history in hopes
anyone would do a better job.
Courtesy of the Type-Moon wiki:
She strictly kept to the oath that a king is not human and that one cannot protect the people with human emotions. She never narrowed her eyes in grief while sitting on the throne, and she settled every problem while working hard in government affairs. She managed to balance the country without any deviations, and she punished people without a single mistake. Even after, or possibly because of, winning battles in victory, commanding citizens without disorder, and punishing hundreds of criminals, one of her knights murmured "King Arthur does not understand human feelings."
It is possible everyone felt that way, that the more perfect she became as a king, the more they needed to question her as a ruler. They felt that a human without emotion cannot rule over others, leading to several reputable knights leaving Camelot. She simply accepted this to be a natural event that is part of the process of government, isolating the fair king honored by her knights. Having abandoned her emotions from the start, she did not change her mind even if she was abandoned, feared, or betrayed. There was no right or wrong to someone who saw such events as trivial.