The game begins with a man accusing me someone of being drunk.

I’ve been encouraged to wildly theorise for maximum entertainment. I guess we’re in for something very long.īeyond the broad premise, I basically have no idea what I’m in for. I went over the mega.nz upload limit, to illustrate just how huge we’re talking. The files weigh in astonishingly heavily for a visual novel, with about 5GB of graphics, audio, more graphics, even more graphics, and video. Wren said I’d be best to play the Umineko Project version, a fan adaptation of the graphically rich PS3 version to PC, which is supposed to be better than, say, the Steam version. There are many versions of Umineko, with different quality of graphics and animations. However, it sounds exactly like the sort of weird internet bullshit I like, so let’s go for it. These things are apparently wildly popular in dōjin softįandom, but I was totally ignorant of them until that conversation. Unlike many VNs, it’s a purely linear story, no branching (this is sometimes called a ‘kinetic novel’, but people don’t seem to use that in reference to Umineko).

Visual novels which start as a questionably supernatural murder mystery and, as I understand it, get increasingly metafictional after the characters end up in purgatory.

うみねこのなく頃に Umineko no Naku Koro ni, literally When The Seagulls Cry) is a very long series of dōjin soft We were talking about the astonishing scope of Homestuck, how there isn’t really anything that uses the medium like it, and she got very enthusiastic about me blogging this…

Umineko ps3 credits