Lack of Lancer and the lameness of Zouken and Assassin hurts the route as well.
I also thought Rin was terrible in HF. Which is a shame, because she was so great in Fate and UBW.
Kotomine was amazing though, and remains one of my favourite anime-culture characters =)
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if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it do the other trees laugh?