Recently found myself with nothing to do while waiting to start my new job so I decided to sit down and read through Umineko.
Holy hell what a great read. The Magic Ending is the first thing that has made me openly and profusely sob in a long, long while. I don't think its perfect and I certainly didn't have the intended experience (I ended up accidentally spoiling myself on a fair few things along the way) but even so I do think that it is a true, and truly unique, work of art.

I dedicate this tale to my beloved witch, BEATRICE…

 

>>4126
Did you solve Bern's logic puzzle tho? I think that was the peak of Umineko and peak of logic puzzles worldwide.

 

>>4128
I did!
Took me a few tries but I managed to reason my way to it.
Funnily enough my first guess was the one that Erika mentions as an alternate solution some time later. Felt incredibly vindicated when I read that

 

>>4126
Umineko was the first work to make me feel emotions in a long, long while.
What a great novel.

 

Umineko was the only VN I had dreams of, despite there being longer VN franchises I had read through.
The dreams I can recall were:
Nightmare of Beatrice showing me through her some new special scenario with extra tortures, like it's some festival. It was extra "classic Middle Ages witch" themed as some victim was also being boiled in a cauldron, and another was impaled and crushed via some castle trapdoor.
Nightmare of LD and Bern following me by flight while they treated me with worry, like I'm retarded for trying to escape by parkouring through some castle ruins.
Nightmares of debating against LD and Bern, and I had to debate through a shoddy position.



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