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Higurashi When They Cry Hou |OT| I'll play with you. Come, cleaver girl!
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It's more fleshed out than the anime, which crams a few arcs to fit into one anime season.
From what people who have read the VN have said, it seems like a lot of things were cut in order to fit the whole plot into two cours' worth of episodes, so there's probably going to be more world and character-building going on in the VNs.
Following what I've been doing with Higanbana, I'll probably write my thoughts down as I read through the VN, and I might end up posting them in here every now and then as well.
Still, I don't know if anybody would care about that kind of stuff, or if that'd be too much like hijacking the OT and turning it into a let's play thread.
TheNoblePirate
Member
Oh man, tempted to double dip for this version, if only to support all the people involved. The When They Cry series (Higurashi and Umineko) has been an amazing read from start to finish! I highly recommend it to anyone. It doesn't have 'choices' like with many visual novels, so it's literally just a straight read...for the most part. The experience is made even better with some good headphones and reading in the dark, hehehe...
OH, yeah, for all you peeps who've only seen the anime? Yeah, not even comparable. The entire first season squished a huge amount of story into a short span of time, completely rushing a lot of things and skipping or cutting some (IMHO) vital scenes. The novel gives you so much more, the experience is just more complete as a whole. Part of which is the atmosphere, and the thoughts and exposition...
Which reminds me, I read in the OP they got the original music in this version? Can anyone verify if that means even the Question Arcs got the original music? And what about sound effects, were those fixed as well? I need to decide on whether this should be the version I do a re-read of or not, or just stick my modded version.
OH, yeah, for all you peeps who've only seen the anime? Yeah, not even comparable. The entire first season squished a huge amount of story into a short span of time, completely rushing a lot of things and skipping or cutting some (IMHO) vital scenes. The novel gives you so much more, the experience is just more complete as a whole. Part of which is the atmosphere, and the thoughts and exposition...
Which reminds me, I read in the OP they got the original music in this version? Can anyone verify if that means even the Question Arcs got the original music? And what about sound effects, were those fixed as well? I need to decide on whether this should be the version I do a re-read of or not, or just stick my modded version.
tim_pkmn89
Member
The anime is the Cliff Notes for the series
Basileus777
Member
These aren't the PS2 sprites, they are brand new ones.
cj_iwakura
Member
What's the deal with the music? And will the music patch work if it's still changed?
InternHertz
Member
PS3 and Vita versions are fully voiced.
I hope they'll decide to release Sui for PS4 too.
Basileus777
Member
This uses the original PC music I believe. Any patch will probably be need to be remade as this is running on a different engine now (Unity). It probably wouldn't be difficult to do as all the assets are just sitting in sub-folders and aren't even archived or encrypted. Even the scripts are just in text documents.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Waiting on voice patch for now! I could probably do it myself but I'm actually busy for once but the patches seem to already be in the making.
I hate hyping it up to high heaven then my friends are all "THE GAMEPLAY SUCKS"
You aren't playing 999 for the gameplay/are going in acknowledging you have to redo everything a ton of times, pay attention guys ;_;
edit: Rock and a hard place scenario. If I don't hype it up, they don't touch it, if I hype it up, they expected even more.
Basileus777
Member
Thanks for the link. I'm liking those sprites more than the new ones.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I finished this up earlier. It definitely gets creepy and gruesome in a couple of places. I hope Chapter 2 isn't too far off.
Ban Puncher
Member
I craft a badge and get a Satoko background? Satoko???
Ugh.
UGH.
Ugh.
UGH.
I feel you. I sold the cards, hoping they will also become affordable later on... xD
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well the fan patch will happen just like all the other versions, but it seems the sprite guy isn't up for it so it'll have to be someone else.
cj_iwakura
Member
Always been Ryukishi's strength. His Umineko art is even better(well less bad), and Rose Guns Days' is solid.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Favorite anime of all time, glad to get another chance with the VN version as I never went very far before.
Unknown Soldier
Member
If you're only going to play one VN ever, I would choose Steins;Gate over Higurashi.
I'm still going to buy Higurashi, just saying.
So, in between studying for the upcoming chemistry test, I managed to read up until the point where they give you the first two tip scenes. One thing that stuck me as odd was how often Rena spaces out after Keiichi and/or Mion tease her with double entendres or anything remotely suggestive. I guess this might be Higurashi poking fun at fanservice?
Also, I just checked Kizuna and it seems it had Mion say something about revealing Renas's three sizes, which appears to be absent in the Steam translation.
I guess I'll get to read a little bit more in between each mockup test I got for reference, but I won't actually get to the part when things begin escalating until later.
Also, I just checked Kizuna and it seems it had Mion say something about revealing Renas's three sizes, which appears to be absent in the Steam translation.
I guess I'll get to read a little bit more in between each mockup test I got for reference, but I won't actually get to the part when things begin escalating until later.
AHA-Lambda
Member
How long is the first chapter?
cj_iwakura
Member
4-5 hours or so, but I speed read.
AHA-Lambda
Member
wow, that sounds quite long for a VN, especially if this is 14 parts! :O
cj_iwakura
Member
The core story is only 8, I think the rest is bonus/side story material.
Umineko took me ages to read to completion (up to Ep8, mind you), so I'm expecting Higurashi to take just as long, or maybe a little bit less for the first few chapters.
tim_pkmn89
Member
The first part in the manga is 2 volumes. The finale part is 8.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Paraphrasing Kojima: You will feel ashamed of your words & deeds.
Professor Renegade
Banned
Holy crap I didn't even know the anime was based on this. Might have to buy it.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
It looks like the problem I had launching it on Windows 10 was just with the Steam version.
I think it looks much nicer with the BG patch despite the PS2 BGs not being quite as high res as the filtered photos, but maybe that'll be corrected when someone rips the PS3 verison's stuff.
Going to tuck this away till the voice patch then.
I think it looks much nicer with the BG patch despite the PS2 BGs not being quite as high res as the filtered photos, but maybe that'll be corrected when someone rips the PS3 verison's stuff.
Going to tuck this away till the voice patch then.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Took me about 7 hours according to Steam, and that was including all of the tips and everything. Maybe five to six hours if you just read through the main story.
Am I slow? I'm at almost six hours and knowing the story, I'm just about the point where things get interesting, there may be another four hours left.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Someone partially automated a voice patch so uploaded a video sample:
https://youtu.be/zR9aL9NEQNo
It missed quite a bit of audio points in the automation so I'll fix it up myself later if no one else takes it up by then.
https://youtu.be/zR9aL9NEQNo
It missed quite a bit of audio points in the automation so I'll fix it up myself later if no one else takes it up by then.
I got a few cards and put them for sale. Where do I check if they were sold?
Let me know if you manage to get it working, I'm very interested in that.
Let me know if you manage to get it working, I'm very interested in that.
You'll see your Steam Wallet balance go up, as well as getting an e-mail with "You sold an item on the Steam Community Market".
I ended up selling my cards, and now that they're cheaper I ended up buying them back. I'll probably just end up crafting my first ever badge. Do I get a background and an emoticon after crafting the badge, or is it randomly decided if I end up getting both, one of the two or even nothing at all?
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Oh it works! It's just time consuming finding the missing voiced parts and putting in the corresponding audio sometimes so it'll take a while.
I just noticed I got some money, but I'm not sure which one I sold.
Alright, I'll wait until everything gets sorted out.
Valve notifies the email attached to the account.
To check in Steam, go to Market, and at the top of that page is a 'My Market History' tab. It'll tell you in there.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Why doesn't this version of the game come with voices? Ugh.