(Are we going to need to draw a family tree at this rate?) Hideyoshi is president of a company, and George’s dad. We meet more members of the Urishomiya family, Eva and Hideyoshi. Thank you, huge exposition dump for clarifying this complicated family structure. Apparently there are five Urishomiya cousins, two boys and three girls. And to clarify the info on ages, George is 23, Battler is 18. Not sure which one, if either, is Kinzo’s son. …no wait, they’re cousins, Battler just thinks of George as a brother and uses a brother honorific. Apparently it’s even weirder in Japanese (the second screenshot is from the game’s ‘grimoire’ of cultural notes): Battler is the younger, but tall, possibly because he took steroids but I think he was joking there.īattler acknowledges his name is weird. Through some awkward exposition, we learn they haven’t seen each other for years, and George is old enough to smoke and drink, which would suggest he’s 20 years old. How much effort does he put into his hair each morning? I guess these are the ‘idiot children’ of Kinzo (or perhaps more likely grandchildren?)…īattler certainly looks like a protagonist. Another character, Ushiromiya George, is also introduced. His name is Battler, somehow - Ushiromiya Battler (the game appears to be using Japanese name ordering conventions). The protagonist is flying somewhere on a small plane. This means absolutely nothing to me yet, but the song’s not bad. (The fancy lipsync disappears… though we still have voice acting, a lot of the text is over a black screen.)Īfter a very dramatic yell of BEATRICEEEEEE, we get the OP: Beatrice is suggested to have supernatural powers to hear this ‘final plea’. And… he made a contract with a witch? Which will destroy his soul when he dies? O kay…Īnyway he wants to see the face of someone called Beatrice before he dies. The translation feels very stilted and over-descriptive, and I’m not sure if it’s just the tense.Īnyway, Kinzo goes on a big rant about how he doesn’t want to leave anything to his kids, he started with nothing etc. The game takes a moment to spell out this implication. Nanjo implies Kinzo will die of his illnesses before he finishes pwning him at the chess game they play every checkup. We’re introduced to a third man, Ronoue Genji. Not only do you have these gorgeous painted backgrounds and character portraits, but it’s all lipsynced as well. The visual quality is incredibly impressive. The man who’s been drinking turns out to be Ushiromiya Kinzo, who dresses like he’s probably a wizard. It starts rather drily describing a room. Unlike most VNs I’m used to, this is written in third person past tense. 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.
Umineko when they cry family tree ps3#
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.
Umineko when they cry family tree series#
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…
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