>get recommended by fricking everyone that this is a good mystery VN
>"DUDE METAVERSE MAGIC"
>"OH YEAH, YOU CAN'T SOLVE THE EPITAPH WITHOUT KNOWING YOUR CHINESE CHARACTERS"
>"NO, ALL THOSE LOCKED ROOM MURDERS ARE IRRELEVANT, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IS THAT EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION"
UMINEKO FRICKING SUCKS
The meta commentary about mystery and seeing Battler try to pull solutions out his ass was interesting, but this shit was NOT worth the time it took to read it
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>EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION
Sounds like you didn't "get" the end to that tea party. It's only one interpretation of what might've happened (or I should say more likely than the rest of them).
I do agree that it's overly long due to alot of repeated dialogue and meandering inner monologues. The best part about the VN is the soundwork and OST.
>doesn't understand the metaverse
>doesn't understand that the epitaph being practically unsolvable is a clue in and of itself
>believed someone else's explanation
You are incompetent!
Say it in red, you mutiliated b***h
lmfao i love VN threads on Ganker, they're peak top tier content. VN recommendations are always very hit or miss, op, sometimes you're get GREAT recommendations and sometimes it just won't be your thing. It's the same thing for me, I love romance VNs and sometimes they're good and sometimes they're shit. You just gotta roll with the punches. I get the green texts though, I do that shit while I'm playing bad VNs too
SEGGS WITH RAIN
I am the only person in existence who likes the gameplay of Baldr sky and thinks the fricking vn part is a boring drag.
the vn part is good and the gameplay is legit 10/10 though, god hand tier
I'm about to read this nice girl's VN, should I be worried? And yes, Umineko does suck, since the whole plot is a troony sperging out.
what vn?
Subahibi or Subarashiki Hibi.
this wasnt me but the app is saying it is. are you my little brother???
Excuse me?
i know where you live
No, it's kino and she is best girl
I have seen some of her pictures and I can already tell I'm going to love her.
>double
THIS IS A PROPHECY.
kek, nice
It's settled, I'm destined to read this VN and see what makes her the best girl.
The only good parts of that VN are chapter 3 and scenes with her in it. Nothing to worry about, she's cute.
keep coping homosexual
Higurashi being a complete shitpile from the moment K1 becomes a protestor for children's rights at City Hall to the end was enough to ensure I never read another R07 work ever again
>lmao dude trained soldiers that knock out Akasaka and Ooishi get beat by kids with Home Alone traps
frick off
But anon, you forgot the power of friendship!
good thing I never touched Higu
It's so fricking bad that I can read another mystery VN with the same kind of rural setting (Raging Loop) that also has a questionable ending but not be mad at it because it's great in comparison.
I heard that Gnosia had some inspiration from Raging Loop and I was planning to give the latter some reading, it does look better in comparison and it doesn't seem to have Ryukishi's hack writing.
Gnosia is a great underrated vn. I'm happy it's nichie and the quick gameplay to get through the time loops is perfect. Unique art and everything.
Not playing your troonyge
You're okay with an alien virus that makes people go insane but draw the line at human error?
Who said I was okay with it? I said the entire thing from the Satoko Arc to the end was dogshit.
But yes, an alien virus is LESS moronic than trained special forced losing in a fight to moronic kids with hole traps and trash can traps.
Well to be fair Rika has probably seen the soldiers' movements a thousand times so she could reasonably come up with a strategy to counter them.
No, I'm sorry, it's just moronic.
Sounds like you're looking for realism in writing that is far from it. Perhaps Love Plus is more your flavor of VN? Not trying to bash of course. Everyone has their own tastes.
I'm pretty sure they had never fought them before up to that point because the other shards until then were all the same shit
but it's still fricking moronic, one of MANY moronic things
>You can just enjoy the clowns milling about
>the clown was me, wasting my time reading it
BRAVO
It's a shame because the idea of the time loop and the hate plague had a really interesting set up.
In any story where it is not clear if it's mundane or magic (supernatural) causing things it always ends up being magic because it's too easy and convenient to write.
Even that EVN The Sekiemeiya or whatever where they jack off how 'serious' the mystery is and tell you to take notes and shit ends up having it be about magic portals
I prefer when it's magic but done well. Don't recommend me any because me saying that ruins the point of me reading it.
Half assed mundane/magical solutions like Higurashi just boils my piss.
well don't worry. I don't recommend The Suckimeiya because it sucks. The characters are written like robots that were programmed to do nothing but expose and over analyze everything
>"Hello," said Bob
>Before Jim acknowledged Bob, he took stock of the room. The brown was a brown that...*insert 5 paragraphs here about the room*
>"Hello," returned Jim, 5 pages later.
Anon, I suggest you play Raging Loop. It proves your hypothesis wrong.
Guy Raging Loop is about fricking magic users causing trouble all over the world, and this incident just being one of many.
and I actually LIKE the ending unlike most anons
raging loop is the perfect example of an interesting setup/story with a fricking stupid magic explanation.
I like it overall but you can't tell me the ending was handled that well.
Loop's problem is the exact opposite. The fact the wolf game WASN'T magic bullshit made it infinitely worse.
Anon, the wolf games we see never happened .
Yes, they were bringing/brought back the actual deadly version of the festival that had been benign for so long, but what we see in the game was all part of the Spider prostitute's Hex; a dream where she could re-do it over and over and over to find the solution that ended in summoning that monster God.
Rec me some good mystery VNs where you can actually deduce the answers through logic and evidence bros
Doesn't matter if they're linear, just so long as I can make it a game of playing detective myself
Spider prostitute makes Rika look like a fricking 200 IQ genius with how ridiculously incompetent she made out to be after that reveal
I don't think there's really any, man. Maybe Ace Attorney, but Ace Attorney relies on some Rube Goldberg type shit.
Maybe Ouka Sabaki/Master Magistrate? Pretty grounded and a good VN to boot. Then there's Cartagra/SnK1 and 2 I suppose.
>Ouka Sabaki/Master Magistrate
Never heard of it, looks neat
It's good. I unironically liked the 'bad route' which is fully fleshed out.
>Rec me some good mystery VNs where you can actually deduce the answers through logic and evidence bros
You can try my game. It's short and free:
https://max-stern.itch.io/mistalone
Danganronpa unironically
I got some of them right ahead of time. The ones I remember tricking me were
See Saw
Hopeman and the Spear
Strong Toilet Paper
Many DR murders are impossible to solve until the trials, because you're given more information. I wouldn't call them good mysteries.
Thats true, but its supposed to make the game feel more interactive. you asking questions and firing truth bullets or whatever is supposes to feel like solving the mystery in real time, so you can self insert. i dont think it makes it a bad mystery, its just a different kind.
YTTD is just about the only thing I can think of. It's less mystery and more drama due to how its Main Game works, but it's still a good read nonetheless.
Its last part isn't out yet, though.
ch 7 was fine, it's the final chapter's second half that drops the fricking ball with how it defeats the villain.
i love R07 and his vns but this particular part was too much for me. unironically home alone in something that isnt supposed to be a comedy. i literally loled when i realized it was sctually what was gonna happen. the cope is that the bloodhounds or whatever werent actually a combat specialized group but still very hilarious. Higu and umi are still amazing to me overall and the point isnt to be ordinary, its supposed to be out there and more about the human element than the rational one.
I like the idea of the yamainu actually being weak in a direct fight and more built for undercover shit, but frick did Ryukishi take it too far
Yeah but even the pencil pushers for the Special Forces are peak physically fit and can fire guns correctly.
Yeah wasnt defending it just mentioning what i remember. I was pissed and laughing during the home alone segment
You mong, based Okonogi threw the fight against Mion because he knew they had already lost.
The only genuinely bad part was the start of episode 2 because I don't like romance in general and shannon and george are the worst characters (especially shannon).
Umineko has lots of genuinely bad parts. Ange's entire section of the story, for example.
I liked it becauase I was self inserting as her for some reason. The environment also felt comfy and the imaginary friends felt like they were my friends.
>man is named Battler
>doesn't battle anyone
the fighting game exists.
Battler is literally me. The battle isnt physical. Wait. This is a bait into getting me to admit something that makes me vulnerable. heehee. I see through you.
I thought the bad end was interesting because it effectively contracticted the entire message of the game, hinting at another deeper layer.
troony shit is always pushed loudly
Umineko is actually about fricking your lonely and HOT auntie and taking responsibility
it's the hime cut she isn't hot without it.
only decent post in this asylum thread
battler will never ever frick you rosa give up already
Beatrice is overrated
Umineko is just a really long cope apologist story. Believing magic means surrendering to self-delusion and escapism. The real message is: you're too weak to face the truth, you will always be too weak, so why not take the magic pill? It's either that or suicide according to the BS false dichotomy that's been presented here. Any way you slice it, that's what magic means, it's just coated with sugary euphemisms.
so its 07th shitting on his audience?
No, on the contrary, he truly believes that's a perfectly healthy and responsible message to make in his story. Why try to face your demons and come out on top when you can just use '''''''''''''''''''magic'''''''''''''''''''' to make things go away? What could go wrong? It's not like this will totally come back to bite you in the ass in the future when your brain is incapable of keeping the illusion alive. Like what happens with Maria: eventually she would be unable to delude herself away from the hard, cold truth that her mother was neglecting her in favor of dick and she would snap. The coping mechanism of magic only makes things worse in the long run.
Low IQ take, my friend.
Embarrassing projection. Just because you can't control your thoughts and emotions without external stimulus doesn't mean that nobody else can.
The actual point is that if the "truth" isn't useful to your psyche then there is no reason to know it or accept it. You may have autism.
I never understood why people argue so much about the "it's cope delusions" vs. "It's going through life in good faith" or however else you want to call it.
I think it's just easier to say that knowing the truth can be painful, and doesn't always offer the closure to feel worth it.
What is easier at first might not be what's healthier in the long run. Also the author frames magic as clearly being the ''enlightened'' path, while truth seekers can only be bitter, paranoid and depressed (like Ange and Erika).
truth seekers that only care about who and how are bitter, at least from Umi's narrative
Yeah, but the author goes out of his way to stablish a false dichotomy between truth and magic. Notice how all the truth seeking characters are framed as failed, pathetic losers or bitter psychos. Is it not possible to overcome your traumas without resorting to escapism? You can't face reality without turning into an edgy suicidal detective? Ridiculous.
Why is escapism bad inherently bad if you can maintain it?
Fundamentally? Because it's the same as accepting weakness and giving up on real self-improvement.
And besides that, odds are that you won't be able to maintain the illusion for long, and the more you try to, the more you distance yourself from reality and other people, creating even more problems that you have to force your brain to accommodate or ignore. The more you hold on to the illusion, the more explosive and damaging will be the inevitable snap, the falling of your house of cards, and you will have no more pillars to sustain yourself.
>giving up on real self-improvement
The only thing that matters here is your happiness. This can be achieved by working, thinking, or both.
>odds are
Nope, there is no proof that you can't create your own reality and maintain it in your head. You don't even have to distance yourself from others if you don't want to.
treating escapism as a long term solution is the problem, but I think it's okay to acknowledge that you can't handle something right now and will face it later.
I think that would be a better message, since harping on something without the ability to do anything about it is just you making yourself sick over it.
Yeah, but there is nothing at the end of Umi that suggests that magic was transitory for Ange. On the contrary, the epilogue reinforces and rewards the views she upheld through most of her adult life.
I agree with you there, but that's not exactly what happens in Umineko. There is a difference between avoiding hard truths and reality and having hope in the unknown, even against all odds. I don't want to get into specifics because it's been a long time since I've read Umi, and it will take a long time for me to build up a solid case with prints and everything, but the gist of it was that Ange had access to the truth in Eva's diary but chose to ignore it because it was painful to deal with. All the last part of the meta-adventure is about preventing the truth from the diary from coming out, after all.
If you want to see where delusion leads look at trannies.
What about them? Most people are probably too connected to the external world to create magic, but some can be whatever they want and live perfectly happy lives. The fact those individuals have a penis then becomes your problem to cope with.
There's no magic, and that's why delusion can't be viable long term. You can believe as hard as you want but reality will repeatedly intrude upon your fantasies, and you'll run yourself ragged trying to keep up the illusion.
(NTA) I think i believe in the x variety of magic. Believing the currently impossible sometimes makes things possible. will to power, kind of. I think theres a middle ground between "i believe there are people who can shoot lasers with magic spells" and "There is only cause, and effect. every action can be predicted and understood and has no greater meaning beyond their physical form".
See people like you keep getting hung up on the truth versus magic thing. Angie is explicitly fully aware that her parents murdered almost everyone else. The difference between truth and magic in the meta sense is Angie choosing to believe that despite how shit her parents and other family members could be that didn't invalidate the good they did as well.
In universe it was the difference between
Angie being unable to accept that contradiction and defaulting to either.
>Aunt Eva was a shit my parents were good therefore Eva lied even in the journal
Or
>Everyone in my family was a shit without exception
Even for someone like Erika her being able to say Red that her boyfriend cheated doesn't actually mean anything because Witches can say Red for any individual or multiple universes (it's why they can use red on Leon who usually doesn't exist) meaning that there's a chance she breaks up with him and kills herself for no reason (at least in some realities)
>The difference between truth and magic in the meta sense is Angie choosing to believe that despite how shit her parents and other family members could be that didn't invalidate the good they did as well.
If the ending actually focused on that aspect, I might actually enjoy it. It's a beautiful universal message: despite most of us being horrible people, we might still choose to love and forgive (but not condone the evil actions, of course), and remember people not only from their bad side, but also their good side. That being said, that's not what happens at the end of Umi, when Ryukishi goes full on magic moron.
Why would you even consider that dead people that you loved may have committed misdeeds? If they're not around to commit any more then it makes more sense for them to be perfect in your head.
the effects of those dead people's misdeeds might not die with them
Not my problem since they don't exist
but they do
but they don't doe
It was an experience of mine
I'm not advocating that anyone should be brooding about that all the time, but simply acknowledging that the people you loved were real human being with flaws (sometimes big flaws) is just reasonable, don't you think?
It's not reasonable if it doesn't benefit you more than believing that they were perfect beings to look up to
Then you're crating unhealthy, unrealistic, unachievable expectations for role models and damaging yourself.
If striving for perfection isn't something you want to do then you shouldn't do it. Maybe you're happier being perfect right now, or maybe you're happier being average. That's for you to decide before you leave my consciousness and disappear into the sea of nonexistence.
It kinda did. I read it 8 years ago, but that's what I got from it at least. You are focusing on "magic" too much.
It's not like Ange brainwashed herself, she just chose to ignore the murder bullshit and focus on remembering her relatives as a family. What good will it do to her if she finds out who killed who and why. It's not that important, so she chose to move on.
Damn I picked some image from buffer. Should sleep some more.
>despite most of us being horrible people, we might still choose to love and forgive (but not condone the evil actions, of course), and remember people not only from their bad side, but also their good side
That is the message. You can blame either r07 or the readers for not getting it in the VN but the manga makes it explicit that Ange is well aware her parents are the killers.
Then I blame Ryukishi for failing to convey that message clearly, because the VN conveys a very different message. Is it possible that Ryukishi backtracked due to criticism and decided to tone down the pro-escapism elements in the manga?
In the VN Ange also acknowledges the truth, then she falls into meta-oblivion or something and Battler has to bring her back. When she comes back she takes the magic pill and decides to ignore the truth, because ''magic is real'' and they are all happy in the golden land and everyone who disagrees is a heartless dumb goat.
That sounds moronic.
thats kinda what i got from it, but not exactly with the same conclusion. sometimes believing in the irrational or having hope where there should be none is a noble thing.
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. I don't see anything noble about surrendering to weakness because the truth is a hard pill to swallow. I believe that in the real world nothing good can come out of that.
not surrendering to weakness, it can be the opposite. i know it isnt how its portrsyed in umi, but having irrational hope in the face of misery and tragedy to be a beacon of light for yourself and those around you is different. Believing and hoping you CAN improve even when its not reasonable, that sort of thing. Like having faith you will be able to fight off a pack of wolves surrounding you and your family even though you probably wont be able to when there are no other options.
I never really understood the motivation behind the perpetrator in Umineko. Sayo was upset over having a crippled body, plus some other stuff about love involving Battler, George, and Jessica, so he/she...freaked out and decided to go on an overly elaborate suicidal killing spree? The frick?
idk I didn't read the manga which apparently is a required reading
What does the manga explain?
Supposedly it says who "actually" committed the crime and explains the whole yasu deal
And who was it? Explain it to me.
I'm just aware that is is supposed to explain all that. I don't actually know what happens in the manga.
It explicitly shows how each murder is committed and does more damage control for the series' theme (something something don't use real tragedies for entertainment).
So who was behind it all?
Basically
Yasu having their dick/vegana destroyed meant they didn't think they were lovable. They also learned they wanted to frick their cousins aka commit incest just like Kinzo. Then finally Battler coming back and they couldn't decide between Joji and Battler they decided to just kill everyone.
Right, but it just seems like a bit of an overreaction is all.
Unironically they say it was the shittiest possible solution to their problem. Especially because 07th has stated their chosen partner would accept them regardless
The family is full of terrible people, and the servants who weren't rape enablers bullied Sayo. I'm not sure why the cousins (besides Battler) needed to die, though. My first thought would be "jealousy" but it's not like Maria's had an especially great life.
I'm not saying that this justifies blowing up the island, by the way, but I can see why a battered, impulsive, and unstable mind might jump to "all these fricking people need to go NOW" when presented the option.
They are the new head of the family
They can so whatever they want with their property (relatives)
filtered
>Like what happens with Maria: eventually she would be unable to delude herself away from the hard, cold truth that her mother was neglecting her in favor of dick and she would snap. The coping mechanism of magic only makes things worse in the long run.
We even see that happening in the meta-narrative. I don't remember which chapter, but it's the one where magic girl Maria goes bananas on her mother and torture-kills her repeatedly when she is forced to face the reality of what was happening. Something similar (although obviously without the magic elements) would have happened in real life if Maria lived long enough for that, because coping mechanisms are not healthy in the long run. Ryukishi is a hack, a terrible writer. The premise of Umineko was great and I wanted to enjoy it, but he does nothing of value with it.
books for homies that haven't read a book
books dont have music and ost
I have no idea why westerners latch onto Umineko so hard compared to the Japanese
Ryukishi is a hack, he isn't even that popular in Japan, or at least Umineko doesn't have the same success.
Didn't nips turn on Umineko hard in the last chapter or two?
They realized Ryukishi is a hack that can't write stories worth shit.
pretty sure that's just a copypasta
Isn't it obvious? The weak minded and weak willed love to hear what supports their own delusions and fantasies, no matter how self-destructive that is in the long run.
>Nope, there is no proof that you can't create your own reality and maintain it in your head. You don't even have to distance yourself from others if you don't want to.
Good luck with that, buddy. I see you in the suicide statistics.
>The only thing that matters here is your happiness. This can be achieved by working, thinking, or both.
The only way you can achieve happiness in the long run is to build that on solid ground.
>muh statistics
>solid ground
This is why you can't use magic. You can't see yourself as an outlier. You're not one in a trillion and as such you think like a normalgay. You're too weak to take risks.
How so? Anything can be explained by magic with the devil's proof since there is no red truth or personified literary guidelines saying that you can't.
I believe in esoteric occultist shit to a degree but you're failing to grasp the basics of it if you think you can completely disregard reality and make up your own instead of using those processes to influence it.
>occultist shit
You don't even need that. You can make up your own truths when they're convenient to you.
Soulless
Yet the inconvenient truth will still come back to affect you.
Not if I use my imagination
Why should I live by your social rules? Why is my truth worth less than your collective truth? The answer is that it isn't. I am free and you are a slave.
Imagination is subjective. Reality is objective. You can cope all you want until reality intrudes upon it. But it will.
Your perception is objective. Your interpretations of said perception are subjective. Only you can interpret your own perception, however, so it effectively is objective but changes based on your thoughts.
Nothing can exist outside of your mind.
My perception OF things is subjective, but what I'm perceiving is not. Because I perceive a rock one way does not make it not a rock.
How do you know what it is for sure? Do you trust your senses that much? Only your conscious mind can be trusted to work in your favor.
As someone with a mental illness I know your mind and senses can lie to you, that's why I try my best to operate based on concrete facts.
What you're advocating is a bad road to go down full of nothing but disappointment.
Your mind playing tricks could be the "objective" state. It could also be a further muddled state of an already muddled reality. The only thing you can know for certain is that you can think, and because you can think you can decide what is real and what isn't.
You can't do that, that's merely a delusion.
You're conflating social rules with truth. Truth exists outside yourself, weather you like it or not. Your infantile notions of freedom, ironically, are what keep you imprisoned in your own delusions that can only cause you suffering in the long run.
>imprisoned
What a meme. Delusions let you turn anything into something good. You can morph the world as you see fit and be logically consistent in doing so using the catbox, devil's proof, solopsism, etc.
You keep assuming that I'm suffering but that simply isn't the case. Maybe you can imagine it as such and make it so.
I can't even begin to imagine how conceited someone has to be to believe they can outrun reality with silly mental games. Like the other anon said, reality always finds a way to intrude itself against your will, and no matter how good at lying to yourself you are, you're always doomed to lose in the end. I was just joking about the suicide statistics at first, now I'm legit concerned. No matter how fricked up you think your life is, you can face reality, anon. I believe in you.
Maybe I can. My point is that I can choose what I want to deal with and what I want to create whenever I want, and that the chains of the normalgay "reality" do not bind me.
You can't lose until you give up thinking.
>My point is that I can choose what I want to deal with
You really can't, though.
>You can't lose until you give up thinking.
Wait, so you're not even into post-modern philosophy? you're basing the principles of your life around a second rate japanese visual novel for teens? How old are you?
>You really can't, though
Except I can. I'm doing it right now. You're not some homosexual on the internet but actually one of my demon nee-sans playing devil's advocate who I'm debating with.
>philosophy
I think for myself based on my own thoughts and experiences. I'm not "into" anything.
>I think for myself
>that's why I contextualize everything around this cool japanese VN I've read once
>the chains of the normalgay reality do not bind me
this makes for a good pasta, I genuinely lol'd
nta but you should check out
tangentially related and since you are le erika furude based you might enjoy it
>You don't even need that. You can make up your own truths when they're convenient to you.
This is what post-modernism has done to society. They truly believe this shit.
>This is why you can't use magic. You can't see yourself as an outlier. You're not one in a trillion and as such you think like a normalgay. You're too weak to take risks.
>it will totally work out for me, though, because I'm special
Again, see you in the statistics.
You got memed on anon. Higurashi and Umineko are dogshit but you need to get through them in order to play the third entry in the franchise, Ciconia no naku koro ni.
phase 2 in 10 years, please look forward to it.
If anyone wants to understand the meaning of Umineko, I suggest reading this blog post:
https://blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-asia/the-umineko-review
It's easily the most in-depth literature critique of Umineko ever written.
reading someone elses take of umineko is the best way to absolutely not understand umineko. the whole point of r07s works is for each person to derive their own meaning from it. it something you can discuss, but suggesting someone do anything but find their own understanding by reading is against the spirit of the vn to begin with.
>it something you can discuss, but suggesting someone do anything but find their own understanding by reading is against the spirit of the vn to begin with.
your logic makes no sense. if discussions are fine, it is inevitable that somebody will bring up a fact that is new to you, changing your perception of the work.
that has nothing to do with what i said at all. the point is that if you dont understand you need to think it over yourself and read the vn or you literally didnt get it. Discussion is a multi-actor process, not reading someone elses thoughts and trying to take them as your own. you are being an autistic contrarian, but just look up any higu or umi interview and he says the same thing. if its illogical then so is R07
Not him, but having formulated your own understanding of a work doesn't prevent you from reading about the interpretations of others and thus expanding your own horizon. Surely you're not that arrogant to suggest that it's impossible that someone, somewhere, is capable of insight that went over your head.
yeah, discussion is nice and all like i said. the anon said " if you dont understand umi, read this". It just goes against the spirit of the story.
>console art
>shitty quote at the beginning
no thanks, the only 'in-depth' umineko discussion I've seen has been on Ganker and maybe a little on /jp/.
No youtube video or shitty article from someone who just finished the VN has ever been good or impressed me as much as some autists have on here.
Just read this. It doesn't go too deep into the meaning of Umineko. It just details Ryukishi being a hack. Comparing visual novels to actual novels is a mistake.
It explained R07's intent with the story, which was to solve two problems that don't exist. Those are:
1) Critique classic detective fiction (ignoring all later developments)
2) Criticizing the death of the author, believing authorial intent matters above all else (only he gets to decide what truth is allowed).
Although silly, those make a lot more sense than the conventional view of a pro-escapism message being introduced out of nowhere.
You could always just google an R07 interview or read the authors notes if you want his actual intent.
But then he wouldn't get an opportunity to advertise his blog on Ganker like a homosexual.
umisisters...he can't be getting away with this...
I'm not reading that shit.
>NOOOO LET ME PEAK MY NOSE INTO EVERY LITTLE CROOK AND NANNY
>G-grow up!
What a little b***h.
>another false dichotomy
umitrannies are utterly deranged, not a surprise to see them gravitate to this shitpile of a vn
ya seeth?
>potentially large scale terrorist event
>NOOOO YOU CAN'T INVESTIGATE BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT THE FEELINGS OF THE SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS
>THE TRUTH DOESN'T MATTER, WHAT MATTERS ARE THE FEELINGS FROM THE VICTIM
Umineko is SJW progressive trash at it's core lmao
this post would be a lot more true if the right wing in the USA didn't suck the dick of Saudi Arabia constantly, who killed a US reporter and did 9-11, so I don't believe you when you say "hurrrr find the troof"
why did R07 write such a long VN about a troony coping
Because Ryukishi is a hack. Reading Umineko was a huge mistake and I'm probably going to wash that off by reading better VNs like Subahibi.
>probably going to wash that off by reading better VNs like Subahibi.
Please do not hype yourself up this much for it. It has one good chapter and a few good scenes outside of it. Subahibi excels at schizokino and expecting anything more than that will cause you to have a bad time, unless you know jack shit about philosophy and are impressed by random quotes and the authour jacking off how well-read he is.
Couldn't be worse than Umineko. I didn't read Umineko expecting schizo shit, this time it will be different, hopefully.
Stop thinking too hard about it and get to reading then, you little shit. Take note that chapter 1 is nonsensical bullshit until after you finish it. If you think about dropping it there try and make it to chapter 2/3 so you can give it a fair judgement.
If you thought the endings to Higurashi and Umineko sucked then I wouldn't expect much from the ending of Subahibi. It turns into a generic anime happy ending at complete odds with the rest of the VN.
Well I assume it would at least make sense unlike what Ryukishi decided to do with Umineko or that new Higurashi anime. I swear to God Ryukishi can't write endings worth shit.
There is nothing wrong with escapism. Escapist fantasies are several times better than real life, and the negatives of them are very exaggarated.
Everyone had tea and incest until Kinzo's suicide island bomb accidentally misfired due to water damage from the typhoon, prove me wrong.
dumb goat
it's time to read the superior r07 vn.
>JAPANESE ARE BAD
>oh hey a cool fight scene and villain
>BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT THE JAPANESE SUCK?
I tried but it never hooked me like higurashi/umineko/higanbana, even ciconia has a better start for frick sake.
keep reading until the end of season 2 at least
the first two arcs suck
Visual novels are gay weeb shit. you got what you paid for
thank you for this valuable insight you useless Black person
zero dollars for dozens of hours of entertainment and deep philosophical pondering
bretty good deal
I honestly can't tell if he's a clueless 13 yo that read the first thing that made a big impression on him, a late stage troon or a really good troll. That's why I love Umineko threads.
im literally battler. seethe.
Without cope it cannot be seen.
Isn't Battler a gigantic moron?
Sometimes fighting battles that may seem hopeless makes you look more foolish. That doesnt make the cause any less just! Hey, i think my name might be a bit fitting after all.. nihihi
eh? I dont think i get it. what does it mean?
eh? i dont watch western films that often... i was never really into the western obsessionbour grandfather had. I could always play myself!
Shut up you FRICKING gay!
When's the Umineko hollywood adaptation w/ Battler played by Ryan Gosling?
>Zendaya as Beatrice
Nihi.
The only redeeming quality of Umineko, the superb soundtrack. And Krauss.
>HURRY SPONGEBOB THE MUSIC'S GETTING FASTER
Regardless of which 07th works you think are good or shit, do you think he'll ever write anything new that's decent?
Ciconia is good.
I can't say whether it is or not, but I can say that it only has one part out and it's been 3 fricking years.
He's doing a sequel with the protagonists of the previous series' kids, there's no backing out once you reach that degree of hackery.
Technically he's not the one writing it(at least I don't think?) but it shows he's willing to continue milking Higurashi past a fricking gacha and the shitty new anime.
RGD and phase 1 were both good. Loopers could have been good if it was longer.
isn't RGD like a decade old?
>doing shrooms while listening to melancholic and moody tracks from Umineko
I prefer the 'thinking music' when I'm high. The melancholy stuff usually makes me way too sad by bringing up memories of the past.
*posts far (flat) all up in yo shi*
We can always compromise with some UNTZ instead.
Is this any good? It looks comfy but nobody really talks about it.
no one really talks about it much since it's just a collection of short horror stories. i did find it pretty fun so if that seems interesting to you give it a try
also it not being wtc
it s composed of seven little stories if i remember correctly
setting is interesting
there is like 3 stories i enjoyed a lot
one chapter is completly garbage
art and music are cool
What's the real reason Ciconia 2 has yet to see a release?
Nobody bought it. R07 wrote a dark mecha story and slapped the WTC label on it to get more sales, which didn't work.
>which didn't work
It worked great. I have had Ciconia burning in the back of my thoughts for three years now.
Are you Rikagay? He's the only person I've seen care enough about Ciconia to think about it.
No, I'm a Yasudagay.
I only check in on WTC threads infrequently, not enough to have been a declarative namegay.
But I had a whole document about Ciconia and the alters I think I've identified.
>But I had a whole document about Ciconia and the alters I think I've identified.
Hand it over.
Can't, lost it in early 2021.
I do remember a few.
Mari and Carmen are separate sisters. Mari is bubbly and cheerful, Carmen is suspicious and distrustful.
Momotake has a female alt named Momo. She is very unhappy with their masculine body.
Naomi had a male alt but he was "killed", causing (or through) brain damage. She now lives a half-life, incomplete, and she dresses somewhat masculine in compensation, this is a reference to Ryougi Shiki.
Nobody knows really. Ryukishi claims that 2020's events struck way too close to what he was writing so he held it back but there's probably more to it than that. The project is far from dead though (pic related). Once he finally releases two I'm sure that three and four will come pretty quickly after.
This isn't true.
Honestly something striking "way too close" is just a good thing, it makes it more relatable to the reader
Either someone he knew died of the virus or he was being painfully japanese and having too much consideration for everyone else in relation to the pandemic.
The third option is that he needed an excuse to get time to write but I highly doubt it. He has gone on record saying that he is very strict with the deadlines he sets for himself.
Come October it will have been longer since Ciconia's release than all of seacats 1-8.
I know that. What are you trying to say?
What sort of strict deadline goes on for 3 years?
The point is that the deadline was cancelled for either the reason he gave publicly or something else that he is keeping hidden.
>this is a reference to Ryougi Shiki
Huh, interesting. I always forget that ryukishi was/is a nasugay.
I am just frustrated seeing all this higurashi spin-off trash that's been put out since and hardly a peep about Ciconia.
Prease understand and wait patiently, ryukishi is a very busy man
The longer we go without anything substantial on Ciconia the more I doubt Ryukishi's initial explanation of pushing back phase 2.
I just don't buy it anymore, I think even he thought Ciconia would be on the horizon when the recent Higurashi anime came out, considering the handful of random namedrops that were in it.
DDLC > UmiBlack person
>dude what if kimi to kanojo but NO SEX
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
>No sex
Instant 10/10, sexcucks forever coping
i remember laughing about that joke game when it came out then when i first came to Ganker and /vg/ a couple weeks back i was actually flabber ghasted that ddlcgeneral exists. im a literal brony and i dont autistically latch onto something that short lived and cringe
I didn't even touch Umineko because after I finished Higurashi's 4th episode I knew ryukishi is a fricking hack and can't write a mystery worth a frick.
Umineko falls appart because Rukishi bit more than he could chew. If he made a more straightforward, unpretentious story like what was presented first it could have had a smoother development and a satisfying payoff. Just a based moron having to THINK to save his family from sadistic witches in a surreal meta-game. The moment you're asked to sympathize with Beatrice, it's all downhill from there...
>Just a based moron having to THINK to save his family from sadistic witches in a surreal meta-game.
This, so much this. Chapter 1 is the most kino from that rollercoaster that is the game for this exact reason, shame it couldn't stay that way for long
I just wanted more hype Battler ENTER moments.
>aunt is being tortured in an endless satanic banquet
>ENTER
>tit sandwitch line
>grabs Beatrice by the head and smashes her against the table
When Battler turns into a wizard he never does cool shit again.
Because at that point Battler completely cucked out to her and worships the floor she walks on.
>Ange I know Beatrice is responsible for repeatedly murdering and torturing our family members in increasingly sadistic ways, but please understand, I forgot about some silly promise I made when I was a little kid
That's not just moronic, that's infuriating.
inb4 that was just the meta-narrative, so none of that (which comprises 98% of the VN btw) matters :^)
My favorite chapters were 1 and 6, everything else was either dull or actively annoying and bad. Chapter 1 has the best atmosphere and the best pure "mystery" since there's no magic bullshit yet. 6 has easily the best debates, main characters, and my favorite tracks. Nothing else comes close for me other than those two. I don't get the love for Umineko, the majority is just dull.
>>>/u/
>>>/r/
Wrong board
Wrong board
>>>/y/
UUUUWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH
filtered
t. Ange
I am not a femcel.
Are you George then?
I am not a fat groomer.
Can we all agree that Umineko went mostly to absolue shit past chapter 5?
7 was great. 6 and 8 were made for morons that couldn't figure shit out and morons still complained and needed the manga to spell it out for them
the japanese as a collective have never written a good mystery
Japs have this weird thing where they can't not write in tropes and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things.
To say a statement like that, you must be rather well read.
>and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things.
>I've never read a real book in my life, by the way
Think hard about how many engaging books there actually are. Not well written ones, engaging.
N-Gaging in what sense?
>and yet they're the only ones that can write decent things
Anon I am a weeb as much as anyone else on this shithole and even I know this is a huge exageration at minimum
Why is that?
You know, that sounds like a good mystery, anon.
why is maria so fricking fat
Magic
Tricking that little moron into giving you magic blowjobs.
Because she's constantly stuffing her dumb face with candy.
Rosa erotic
I played/read it back when it got originally released.
It was a fun ride all things considered, but Ryukishi really shat the bed with it, and I wouldn't recommend starting it.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Take Maria, for instance. Everyone threats her like a larping autistic moron and that severely impacts her options in life. What she chooses to believe in her own mind has no effect in reality. Even R07 acknowledges this when the stakes are incapable of killing for Ange when Ange herself isn't capable of killing. Her delusions don't exist outside her own mind, it's just a coping mechanism.
>get recommended by fricking everyone that this is a good mystery VN
Umineko isn't mystery VN. Never was.
I hate you and people like you
He's right, though.
Yeah you also first read umineko a couple years ago but pretend to be an oldgay that was there from the start.
>I'm le epic oldgay and I should automatically win the argument for it :^)
Thanks for proving me right.
Oh, the irony kek
Whatever helps you cope with being an eternal newbie.
Read this with doorway of summer playing in my head, I laughed.
>EVERYONE JUST GOT BLASTED BY A SHOTGUN AND ALL THE INTERESTING SETUPS WERE JUST THE CULPRIT'S IMAGINATION"
No the servants besides Gohda was killed by a shotgun, 5 of the family members were killed in various ways and the rest died in the explosion or drowned and lost his memory except for Eva.
>this thread
ryukishi cultists are fricking embarrassing
>says a gay posting a picture of some literal who manga trash
>He doesn't recognize that reaction image
The state of newkeks
Sorry, I stopped browsing Ganker back in 2010 and don't recognize your stupid shit.
Oh wow, totally le epic oldgay who doesn't know shit about the board talking shit about mangas he's never read.
Totally got me then dog
>seething this hard
>those filenames
>can't even spell properly
frick off moron
Yeah, go ahead and try to pick apart minute details in my post, the matter of the fact is you don't lurk and you look like a moronic newbie. Please lurk more before posting, you do remember that much right, le ebin oldgay?
fricking have a nice day already you pathetic piece of shit god you are embarrassing
>gets btfo
>resorts to shitposting
every time with anti-magicgays
>muh magic makes me a woman because I said so
shouldn't you be attending your dilation session? your sisters on discord are waiting!
>he doesn't understand how magic works
yes magic in umineko is an allegory for troonyism
You wish
>he literally does not understand and has to filter everything through his diseased 2022 idpol brain
>beato fumo
wtf I want one
All you clowns do is shitpost in a thread about an author you supposedly hate. It's pathetic.
IIIIEEEEEE
KORE WA DAIKIRAI tbh WA
MOU YADA YADA YADA
JUST READ THE FRICKING TEXTBOOK YOU DUMB b***h
NOOOOO RYUKISHI DON'T BUTCHER MY CHARACTER
I DON'T WANNA BE EVIL I DON'T WANNA FORGET ABOUT NII NII
IIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I had the same vibe about Higurashi.
>Dude, just keep watching it'll all make sense.
I watched the anime though.
Uhh what? Sounds like another braindead tard filtered by umikino.
is this a fun game OP?
is it like phoenix wright can I solve the mystery before the game tells me?
It's not really a game but you are encouraged to solve the mystery before the answer becomes obvious.
Guess I'l play it and try to solve the mystery. Hopefully I can talk about what I think in a thread like this when I'm done. It's kinda wild people still talk about this game.
Wish me luck anons.
If you haven't been spoiled yet especially in this thread you must be a fricking moron so good luck.
I read the OP, my post and replies to my post I didn't really think I'd have anything worth talking about. so I ignored the rest of the thread. Thanks anon.
Godspeed anon it's a helluva ride.
Get out of here my dude. Play the version with voice acting. Its objectively better.
You can but the game will never explicitly tell you what actually happened.
Bernkastel literally tells you what happened and Ange just b***hed out.
anons here have a hard time to accept she s right
no its shit
mystery is bullshit and entirely hinges on lame wordgames
troony servant goes schizo and attempts kill its entire family
the 8 episodes is mainly meta-homosexualry with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died
and you wonder why are you are still a virgin incel
no need to thank me
authors friend was the actual writer, umineko goes from shit to irredeemable burning garbage after he died(ep 5 onwards)
Take your meds.
why are you projecting all your baggage on me?
see
take your meds and frick off nobody wants you here
>all this seething
you alright m8? need some titty skittles?
>with the author going nuts at the end because his boyfriend(the real author) died
What
he's one of those homosexuals that think ryukishi's friend bt was the real author
Headcanon from 2010. He helped r07 with the website and coded debugging(?) solutions.
Here is how it started:
>morons read poorly written summaries of ep 6
>hurr durr umineko is grimdark now because BT is dead
>Actually, BT was the REAL WRITER ALL ALONG, despite some people noting that the story is going a different route when ep 4 was translated
It's a story with a mystery setting and not really a mystery tbh
It absolutely is a mystery. Why lie so blatantly?
It's impressive how hard this game filters morons. Bravo Dragonknight.
>umineko thread
>full of mental illness
seems about right
Mentally ill anti r07 shitposters yeah.
>game where a deranged, pathetic troony commits homicide-suicide
>gets put on a pedestal by the SJW troony community as a pro-trans rights work
Do they lack any sense of irony? kek
yasu is not a troony
Yasu is a troony.
nope
I mean Yasu has an excuse for having a fricked up gender identity, but he was still a mutilated guy who assumed an idealized female identity as his 'true self'
sag
Nowhere was it ever stated yasu was a guy.
>but he was still a mutilated guy
Fanfiction.
Yasuda's default configuration is unknown. They could have been a mutilated woman just fine. It really doesn't change the facts.
They are a eunuch with a mass of scar tissue where their genitals should be. You cannot call them "trans" because they don't assert any gender for themselves; they were raised as a girl and thought they were a girl for a time, but the conclusion they actually came to is that they are neither male or female, only "furniture", less than human.
It does. Yes the penis/vag was mutilated but his DNA would still have an X or a Y chromosome which influenced how his body developed. Bone density, muscle density, skeletal development, etc.
It'd also influence how his brain developed. Male and female brains are not the same.
go back to r*ddit you fricking moron
>reddit
Huh?
You need to go back.
You need to come back.
the game
>he tells me to go back to plebbit when he's the moron who assumed having mutilated genitals makes you a sexless blob of a human
Having been deprived of the gonads in infancy, their body is accordingly too androgynous to identify, even for a trained doctor. Sure, their DNA has chromosomes, but they never got any appropriate dosage of testosterone or estrogen, and so their bone density, muscle density, skeletal development, and brain development are all warped and nonstandard to the point of poor identification.
QED, you cannot actually say Yasuda is a mutilated man or a mutilated woman. Furthermore, it does not matter which one they were, because in both cases they are still not trans.
>Sure, their DNA has chromosomes, but they never got any appropriate dosage of testosterone or estrogen
I don't think mutilating a girl's vegana stops them from going through puberty
It does when their ovaries are ripped out by jagged rock.
Remember: Yasuda was so violently gored that it was a miracle they survived at all. It was not a simple snip of the dick. It was not a minor wound. It was a brutal injury that was almost unthinkable to recover from.
And yet she has no visible scard, has all her arms and legs and eyes and shows no motor disabilities...
umineko is not an eroge you pervert
>And yet she has no visible scar
What? Their lower body is ravaged with a scar. Yasuda literally doesn't have genitals.
>has all her arms and legs and eyes and shows no motor disabilities
Because the injury was upon their torso.
>It does when [headcanon]
Hypothetical, not headcanon. I'm the one saying we don't know, and we don't know.
Saying declaratively the other way is equally "headcanon".
Are you moronic? It's outright stated that the surviving the fall was miraculous and that it rendered Yasu infertile. The only way for that to happen would be for her or his genetic organs to be destroyed
Yes, that does not necessarily include ovaries you moron
It does in a baby and when it's explicitly stated that they became infertile and suffered a wound that was miraculous to survive from. If it was just the vegana that was damaged they wouldn't have been outright infertile. Pretty sure artificial insemination was already a thing in the eighties if not vaginoplasty after all.
Literally headcanon
How the frick did you slog through umineko while being so incapable of deriving the correct conclusions from the evidence presented to you?
Yasu isn't even female you fricking moron, you're pulling shit out of your ass. Even in your fictional universe, going so far as to say that artificial insemination being a thing in the 80s proves Yasu lost "her" ovaries is so fricking moronic I shouldn't even be responding to you. Bait.
do you kiss your mother with that mouth
>Yasu isn't even female
Prove it.
Thanks for proving you have no reading comprehension buddy. The point was never about Yasu being female, it was that either male or female, the accident would have left them sexless and incapable of going through puberty in order to develop an actual gendered body.
I'm not saying Yasu was written to be trans. I'm saying that's how it came out. I don't think the author could have predicted the insanity of modern day idpol.
I don't doubt the damage was pretty severe and did result in lessened testosterone production, but he's still a man at the end of the day. Even eunuchs end up with masculine traits.
have a nice day redditor nobody will ever take you seriously
Nice projection homosexual.
His name was Lion, dude.
go back already man tired of seeing your shitty posts
>His name was Lion
And Lion is not expressly identified as male or female either. So this is indicative of absolutely nothing.
First of all you don't have any friends. Second of all if you did have friends who actually read the VN, they would only hedge with a muttered "probably" and never make declarative statements.
As we can see here, the average troon will is in danger of suffering a mental breakdown at the slightest challenge to their worldview:
They are very fragile creatures. When exposed to the real world, their survival rate falls drastically. On the next chapter, we will explore their dilation habbits...
Don't bother with your meds just have a nice day already.
>meds meds meds meds meds
Why do burgers do this? Do they actually think most people take meds? Is this because they are slaves of the US Pharmaceutical oligarchy?
"Meds" is Twitch/Discord lingo. Now you know where the people who use it are from.
>Black folk don't know memes
Meds is Ganker, just as schizo is Ganker. Accordingly:
Meds. Now. Schizos.
No it isn’t. It’s what secondaries think of Ganker and it’s users, it’s an outsider meme.
Imagine caring and not just using what you like/making your own shit up. Tribal brain.
What does this even mean?
I meant
and
I don’t like it. Did you miss my point entirely?
You don't like it because of who you associate it with and not for legitimate reasons.
Your fanfiction holds no water.
Why are you trying to argue with someone using troony logic, anon? Might as well debate politics with a dog...
yasuda was a male on birth did you even read the VN
Did you? Because that was never stated.
then why does 99% of readers assume yasu was a male? is everyone moronic and you're smart?
>then why does 99% of readers assume yasu was a male?
They don't.
Not everyone is moronic. Just you, for thinking this statistic that you made up on the spot is in any way reflective of the When They Cry fanbase.
if i ask any of my friends who read umineko what gender yasu is they're gonna answer male, what the frick is this new cope that we don't know yasus gender when everyone already knows its male this isn't even up for debate
i feel like obsessed umineko autists got so bored of talking about the same thing they started inventing new shit just for the sake of arguing
Source for that statement you just pulled out of your ass?
The only people that assume that are trannies. The only thing that can be reasonably inferred from the VN is that Yasuda was a girl and was either insecure about it due to the accident destroying her genitalia and/or womb or, ,as Lion, because she didn't develop a very feminine body.
Even these occlusions are up to interpretation of course, however there is no real evidence for Yasuda being female besides the gender ambiguity which is explained due to the reasons stated above
Did you? The only real indicators we have for Yasu's gender is that regardless of how they're raised they're insecure about it and that Nanjo and Genji feared that Kinzo might end up raping Yasu.
The first clue doesn't specify anything and the second makes it very likely that Yasu was a girl considering Kinzo is only ever shown to be attracted to women.
Oh, she's a troony alright.
seethe, chud
Then he 42%'s himself 2 years later.
The End.
>Japanese family
>George
>Rudolf
>Maria
>Jessica
>disliking higurashi (watching it)
>on episode 22 of the first part
>"riku takes down soldiers & also everyone is evil because of an alien virus."
...?
>dislike something
>don't drop it by 3 episodes
Your opinions on it are irrelevant because you're a moron
nah, I'm watching it with my girlfriend. it was that or elvis.
How'd she react to the finger nail scene.
boredom
i'm too far in, sorry
Just so you know, Higurashi is mostly bad, VN or not. Same with Umineko actually. It has a few scenes which are amazing, and the rest is dull or bad.
but I just downloaded the other 80 episodes I've not seen yet
You're in for a fun time ignore the moron.
24 episodes in and I'm having a boring time!
Cool keep me updated I just subbed to your blog
ok but you have to create the threads
I actually really like Higurashi though. The end of chapter 6 is one of the peaks of all VNs I've read. I'm just saying that most scenes are dull, which they are.
ok
>fell for the 3D trap
Opinion discarded even more. Now go back normalgay
Higurashi had a kingdom hearts crossover?
>umineko thread
>it's full of poltards
>everyone I disagree with is a poltard
shut up troony
>everyone who disagrees with me is a troony
where is your chin
When confronted with simple questions about the reality that surrounds him, the troon expresses deep confusion and anxiety. Some of them start barking in incoherent transpeak...
That is why you play the fighting game and do not bother with the plot because at the end it is a major dissapointment of LOST's ending scale.
i get the distinct impression that umi was written in reaction to the fact that the major reveal near the end of higu broke mystery genre conventions, and the criticism really needled him. so he made a classic agatha christie setup and let it play out multiple ways. cool. i didnt really care for it but it was fine.
but then after reaching this goal he wanted to really show he could transcend beyond the rules of the whodunnit, to show that the caring about genre rules is a mistake. but he cant, hes not that good of a writer. so the further you go on the more the metaverse becomes shitty shonen action drama stage. the finale asspulls a bunch of rules out of nowhere that have no set up, to reach unearned payoffs.
he seems keenly aware and embarrassed of this so he has to write in his critics as goats trying to destroy his world. "y-you just didnt understand it!" no. i understood it perfectly fine. the more it goes on the less i care about the characters, the setting, the plot or the themes. its a bloated meandering mess that you couldnt finish properly. if higu's sin was breaking whodunnit rules, umi's sin is breaking the contract between the reader and the author.
i wish him luck with ciconia but im not going to read a word of it.
>i get the distinct impression that umi was written in reaction to the fact that the major reveal near the end of higu broke mystery genre conventions,
Was it the Rika stuff?
The combination of Hanyuu being an actual supernatural force, breaking Knox's 2nd, and the nature of Hinamizawa Syndrome as a "device X" that could not possibly be predicted, breaking Knox's 4th.
Maybe I'm just not good for detective stories; because I don't mind supernatural explanations so long as they're interesting and consistent.
But the reveal of Hanyuu being a god thing and the Hinamizawa Syndrom being Evil Science Juice was like the absolute worst of both worlds. I still can't believe he managed to frick it up that hard.
specifically i think he got a lot of people pointing out to him that hinamizawa syndrome violated knox rule #4
NOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T SAY THESE THINGS
UMINEKO IS A MASTERPIECE,YASU SAYS TRANS RIGHTS, AND I AM A WOMAN
GET HIM SISTE-ACK!
ciconia is enjoyable anon
>ciconia
will never ever be finished
ryukishi realized it was a waste of time because it didn't make money so instead he's gonna milk higurashi dry until he dies
>the finale asspulls a bunch of rules out of nowhere that have no set up, to reach unearned payoffs.
Such as?
i was most upset with the entire we gotta save lambda from the heretofore unmentioned council of evil metaverse overlords oh thank god ultimate dragon god not-hanyuu saved the day with a deus ex machina. but the further you get past the major identity reveals the worse everything gets.
nobody was talking about the mobile game
>heretofore unmentioned council of evil metaverse overlords oh thank god ultimate dragon god not-hanyuu saved the day with a deus ex machina
What the frick are (you) talking about?
sorry maybe they were planning on eating bern? really the entirity of Twilight of the Golden Witch just pissed me off
try to understand when the goat said "none of this matters" i really identified with that, and as a consequence ive forgotton most of the plot and characters because i thought it had such a strong start and an awful finish. the only things that i remember are broad strokes of melodrama that pissed me off.
Nothing you're saying makes any sense. How does umineko filter mongoloids like you so often? Can you people even read?
That's funny coming from VN readers. I've probably read more books this year than you've read in your entire life.
Cool story Ganker.
Huh? What does that have to do with you clearly having no idea what you're talking about? You have to be shitposting.
Read bible.
hi maria
>if maria was still alive she would be older than most of Ganker
its been several years since i read umi and no im not going to have perfect recall of the finale between bern lambda and 'Featherine Augustus Aurora' beyond it was extremely moronic.
im not sure why you have to pretend that isnt in the vn but ok.
Why would you go on the internet and tell lies?
>ive forgotton
Nah, you are just baiting for (you)s. You haven't read umineko.
moron talking shit about umineko has no idea what he's talking about. What a surprise.
Well, Japan is a very strict collectivist society where you have to just shut up and follow the rules, so it's no wonder some japanese try to escape reality or defy rules as a way to vent their feelings. In this case, the author tried to do just that with the mystery genre, something he was not capable of doing successfully because he doesn't understand why the ''rules'' became ''rules'' and that they were already successfully broken many times by competent authors.
>makes his ''badass'' character confront and humiliate his ''goat critics''
Ah yes, I too remember when Tolkien broke the 4th wall in Return of The King and made Aragorn give a speech about how the fantasy genre should be taken seriously as literature in front of an orc army (a stand in for his critics in the academia).
Ciconia second phase fricking when? Or now Ryukishi would say that he can't release anything because of war in Ukraine?
>ciconia second phase when
hope you enjoy higurashi for the rest of your pathetic life
Ryukishi reminds me of a japanese George Lucas (Hideo Kojima): he has a good eye for style, aesthetics and characters, but can't be trusted to write a script if his life depended on it. All style, little substance.
But George actually has good taste in waifus.
kojima is japanese you dumbass
As complicated as umineko is i just don't think this follows. Think whatever you want but r07 executed a difficult story concept pretty well.
>Think whatever you want but r07 executed a difficult story concept pretty well.
Said no one. Ever.
I said it and so did he : )
I will never understand why people are so desperate for (you)s. At least on reddit numbers go up.
it's a hype visual novel, just vibe with the ost and twists and turns, drogonnig07 can suck it with the muh mystery purease solve it
thanks for the insight only took 400+ posts for a real intelligent post
Nihi.
do not lewd the rabbits
Nihihi
This entire thread is just one guy baiting for attention and samegayging. have a nice day, my dude
All of Ganker is just one guy yes I'm replying to myself and no we won't kill ourselves yet
Some troons display advanced signs of schizophrenia, so it's better to avoid eye contact and slowly walk backwards:
source
it's trash don't bother
Asahi Mizuno.
code, prostitutes
URGY-420
wtf i love sucking wiener now!?
umineko sucks
Umineko glorifies escapism and self-delusion, it's basically the Anti-Evangelion, and everyone that likes it are worse for it. Weak willed people that want to hear that ''it's okay to be weak''. Pathetic. Frick magic, I reject that crutch.
Sorry, but 2D and fiction is many times better than the hell hole that is real life. If you didn't think so either you'd go outside instead of discussing it. Escapism is and always will be better, and that's the message of Umineko. It's just objective truth.
that's a lot of projecting
magic is real
Does it matter if Yasu is female or not when the whole point of the VN is to headcanon as much shit as you want as long as it makes you feel better?
It really doesn't. But these Black folk can't talk about anything without filtering it through their caveman /misc/speak to check for wrongthink and [ENEMY TRIBE]'s ideology.
Finally a smart post. Why do you think the author went out of his way to make the sex of Yasu ambiguous in the VN? Because it goes with the theme of the catbox. He WANTED you to speculate and debate and create your own headcannon, like in so many aspects of a vague story that is 99% unreliable narration. There is not much to conclude about the story, it's mostly a mirror where people see what they want to see. It would be genius if Ryukishi didn't backtrack and frick everything up in the last chapters by giving it, unambiguously, a pro-escapism overarching message.
>but this shit was NOT worth the time it took to read it
Of course it didn't, in what planet a 70+ hours VN is worth reading?
a VN you like, homosexual
a VN I like is paced well, short, and to the point. That's why Ghost Trick is my favorite VN, it even has gameplay to boot.
>ghost trick
>vn
i have NEVER seen anyone call ghost trick a vn. gameplay is too lengthy to be considered one, even vndb agrees
You haven't? The puzzles itself are pretty short compared to the trials of an AA game, it does use gameplay to move around more though, I would categorize it as a hybrid, half VN, half Adventure game. 999 and AA games also skirt that line, but not as much as Ghost Trick I think.
Ghost Trick is a great mistery. I also recommend Return of the Obra Dinn but that's not a VN.
>paced well short and to the point
looks like a 15 years old's standards after he has read what "good writing" is supposed to be on some goodreads review
I know because I once held the exact same opinion as you do, you'll grow up I hope
I just value my time that's all. I never said those qualities equate to good writing, just that these are the types of VN I like instead of multiple dozens of hours spent on uninteresting bullshit, maybe if you read more of those long winded VNs you like so much your reading comprehension will improve.
Imagine seething online over a visual novel because your life sucks so much and you need an outlet.
Rosa is Beatrice.
>Why?
Because I love her and think the story is better this way.
whatever happened to that italian guy he had some really good theories
What's the difference between the VN & the series? I find it hard to believe the first chapter of the VN is the first episode of the series. It's like 12 hours vs. 20 minutes.
The first four chapters of the VN is the entire anime series. So half of the VN.
Don't watch the anime, by the way. It sucks.
What makes it suck in comparison? Not what makes it a bad adaptation, but why do you think the writing quality is worse than the VN?
Anime/movie adaptations are always the interpretation of the cliff notes by someone that's not the original author.
You really didn't answer my question.
>Adaptations bad!
What nuance was lost in the adaptation?
That wasn't me, by the way.
>Adaptations bad!
You don't understand. In this case that's absolutely true. You cannot adapt something as gargantuan as Umineko into a 24 (26?) episode anime. Not only do you lose multiple red truths and details needed to solve the mystery, but due to the compact nature of the anime the pacing is shoddy, the plot goes everywhere, and you're simply not given enough time to digest anything. Plus, the anime itself just looks like ass. Then there's the matter of narrator shenanigans, but that's more of a meta issue that you wouldn't get if you haven't been exposed to the series. Etcetera etcetera, that's just off the top of my head. Granted, I do think an anime would work, but in Umineko's case its direction and overall 'feel' is subpar at best and a travesty at worst.
If you absolutely can't get into the VN, then read the manga. We do NOT talk about the anime. We never talk about the anime. There's a reason nobody will ever recommend the anime.
The anime does not exist. That's always been the sentiment in the community.
>The first four chapters of the VN is the entire anime series.
That's not true at all though.
It does cover the first 4 episodes though. Extremely poorly but there was an attempt.
The anime covers the first 6 arcs, then follows it up with another series that covers the rest.
We are talking about umineko you stupid frick.
I wasn't trannoid. Umineko is shit.
have a nice day you stupid frick.
>come to Umineko thread to talk about something that isn't Umineko
How moronic can you be?
The anime is godawful, watch it after you read the VN for a laugh.
Why the frick did he do it?
No seriously why would he ever be "accomplice" and not spill the beans about what's actually going on/who yasu is when he's a canonical coward. Same with Kumasawa.
broo moneeyyy
You ever read a detective fiction? The doctor and the servants are always in on it.
To me the whole troony fanbase thing is really gross and bothers me a lot, it’s obvious to me that Yasu isn’t supposed to be depicted as a “valid” queer but rather a mindfricked piece of shit. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but I personally never saw the VN as trying to promote the Post-Modernism cope shit, but rather used it as a means to satisfy more casual readers from a much sadder reality as well as exist as cope fuel for Ange, who I feel like non-mystery readers are supposed to be represented by. The 8th chapter really just plays as a veiled goodbye to the wishful thinking of the players who took the time to solve the mystery, and additionally act as a cope that most readers now even consider a happyish ending.
I feel like Ryukishi succeeded in creating a character driven mystery story that shines bright on its own, and I feel like the way it was executed was nothing short of genius.
That said, a lot of the non-game related interactions like the ones with Ange and the battle after chapter 7 and other things like that are really cheesy and take away much of the raw emotion that the games as well as meta-verse commentary/exchanges manages to build.
Ange and everything related to her story was utterly moronic, and took away much from what could’ve been an perfect story.
Those flaws are what are to be expected with anime/manga/VNs/JRPGs, but even still it feels tragic that those Japanese weirdisms had to manifest itself within this as well, especially because I really did enjoy Umineko.
What do you guys think?
didn't read I think ur a gay
The only VN that I've liked is Monster Girl Quest.
That's not a VN, that's a Male Rape Simulator.
I fell for the "higurashi is a good vn" meme too. It started interesting enough but the author threw everything in the garbage. Head my warning and avoid it, you will save yourself a lot of time.
Ryukishi07 is a fricking hack. He doesn't know how to write
He can write really well, but he's subversive for the sake of it.
Half of Umineko is "Ah, s you thought this but actually..."
Recent plotge EVNs on Steam:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249260/Birth_ME_Code/ (final plot-related free DLC out later this year)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228600/Blankspace/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1961740/Charmareians/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1568920/Clean_Slate/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820720/The_Divine_Deception/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1338940/Head_AS_Code/ (remake)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271300/Methods_The_Detective_Competition/ (free DLC out sometime this year)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020030/Quantum_Suicide/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432500/The_Sekimeiya_Spun_Glass/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1513120/The_Zodiac_Trial/
Upcoming plotge EVNs on Steam:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728290/Decide_4_God/ (finale to the Abime series)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1041270/Exogenesis_Perils_of_Rebirth/ (never ever)
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1287170/Thiefs_Roulette/ (waiting on console ports of all things)
Some of those have seriously atrocious art
I got really into Higurashi a while back.
Tried going through Umi too, but I lost motivation partway through, and I don't know if I'd read more R07 VNs.
try higanbana
it s very short
I've heard that and RGD are shorter stories, I'd be willing to try them out at some point.
I'd try Ciconia too if it would actually come out beyond one part. Maybe reading it as things are released is a better experience.
It definitely is. Half the fun of R07 works is speculating with others when a new installment comes out.
100% not a mystery and shame on the people that lied to you about it.