It's a fight between genres, and a fun read even if it does spin wildly out of control near the end.īeyond that mess, it's also a followup (with some minor character crossover) to the Higurashi series, and both VN series' have been popular enough to spawn official anime and manga incarnations. It quickly pulls things back to the metatextual level, and turns the entire conceit of the series into a time-looping legal battle between the grounded-in-reality protagonist Battler (yeah, I don't get the name either) and his witchy nemesis Beatrice, with the witch attempting to prove - beyond all reasonable doubt - that magic is real and thus confirming her own existence. It's hard to argue with once the very prominent witchy antagonist is introduced.īut Umineko isn't normal at all. Now, in any halfway normal story, that would signal a genre-switch into 'Aha, a witch did it!' territory. On paper, it's your standard 'rich people on an isolated island' murder-mystery story, which goes quickly off the rails as the possibility of supernatural involvement is introduced. While the very first edition of this game came out all the way back in December 2010, this is the officially localised, polished and finalised version of the Cross release, a major expansion which bumped up the size of the playable cast to a respectable 19.įor those unfamiliar with the Umineko series, it's a tricky one to explain. Based on the popular Umineko: When They Cry visual novels (which are also available on Steam), Golden Fantasia transplants the cast from their regular, dreary lives as metatextual murder-mystery characters into a no-holds-barred 2v2 tag-team brawl. Fighting game fans looking for something a little stranger than usual to fill out their library are in for a treat today.
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