But none of this was a fatal problem, and the voice acting and limited animation did seem to add something to the experience over flat text. The cramped window and tedium of having to constantly hit the spacebar to advance lines aside (I wish I could just tell it ‘my reading speed is 400WPM, please advance at that rate automatically except for dialogue’ visual novels seem to have the worst of both worlds of novels and anime, where they show as little information as a screen of an anime yet still force you to choose your own pacing without interaction being as easy as a novel where you read an entire page before needing to take any physical action), I’m enjoying it. I downloaded it, ran it in WINE without problem, and on, began playing it…įrom a technical perspective, the experience left something to be desired: a small narrow fixed-size window, which could fit relatively little dialogue and made matters more tiring than they had to be. Thank god for the new artwork! I would have torn out my eyes if I had had to look at the original artwork the entire time. I’d seen screenshots of the original artwork, and they are Touhou-levels of ugly actually, the first time I happened to see them, I assumed they were someone’s MS Paint-style parodies of the actual Umineko artwork.
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I hopped on my usual torrent site to download it ( 1–4, 5–8). I like mind-screwy stuff a lot (like Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, or most of Gene Wolfe’s work), I liked Higurashi, a new graphics set sounded like a good time, I was not in the middle of watching any anime (having just finished the short Little Reimu) nor reading any books (I was mostly focused on transcribing Radiance), and Tuxedage’s opinions seem reliable… so why not start now? I’m watching 10-hour-long videos on YouTube attempting to explain what the heck happened in the novel", even more so than Neon Genesis Evangelion (which I love). Even until the end… Umineko is such a screwed up story that I’m still trying to unravel my head around it.
On the other hand, I kept going”What the fuck did I just read" the entire novel. In June/July 2013, Tuxedage disappeared from IRC for a few weeks and returned on, reporting he had been paralyzed for the past 2 weeks by “a dark pit”-finishing the newest version of Umineko with improved graphics-and describing it as “mind-screwy” and saying, “On one hand it’s pure awesome. But I kept putting it off since there was no particular reason to read Umineko at any point in time.
And if Umineko was crap, I didn’t have to deal with complaints that I had not given it a fair try since everyone agreed the VN was not jut a little bit better than the Umineko anime, but far better. I’ve seen too many book/movie pairs in Western media where this was also true to simply discount their claims, and I thought that Umineko might be a good way to dip my toes into the VN waters. Among anime fans, visual novel fans tend to be the nerdiest and to frequently claim that, while many popular anime were adapted from VNs, the VNs were longer and superior to the adaptations. There was an anime but I was reassured that it was wretched and the palest reflection of the visual novels.
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(Other exemplars of this strategy are Fullmetal Alchemist and Clannad.) I was intrigued to learn that the writer of the original visual novels, 07 th Expansion (Ryukishi07), actually had another mystery/fantasy series which was even longer and in some circles more highly regarded: Umineko: When They Cry. One of the anime I enjoy a lot is Higurashi When They Cry: a time-loop mystery/fantasy series with hefty helpings of gore and the tried-and-true anime formula of luring the viewer in with comedy and sentimentality, then knocking them for a loop with drama and tragedy.
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