Higurashi When They Cry

released on Dec 05, 2009

Higurashi When They Cry is a Japanese murder mystery visual novel. The series is focused on a group of young friends and the strange events that occur in the rural village of Hinamizawa, where they reside. The gameplay requires relatively little player interaction as most of the game is composed of text dialogues. The original release contained no voice acting for the characters. The game utilizes intermissions where the player can obtain several Tips. These Tips allow the player to read various supplementary information that may or may not be useful in solving the mystery.


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Pretty well put together mystery. Each chapter gives slight clues to work with on slowly figuring out some parts of the mystery, but nothing is ever so huge or obvious you can make any deduction with absolutely certainty, and I think that’s the goal mysteries should strive for.

Additionally some of the narratives for the individual chapters are quite middling, with slow pacing particularly in the early to middle portions, but each Question Arc chapter is less about attempting to be their own complete narrative and rather fulfill a specific purpose in the mystery and the overarching narrative of all the chapters.

Also Hello! from the original soundtrack fucks so hard idk why they’d replace it in the steam release…

All the praise it gets is so well deserved. A VN the mystery it provides is incredible, with each arc providing a different scenario that makes one question whats real or not, and how it all fits.
Whilst I'm not sure if overlooked, the sound design is also amazing, making good use of enviornment SFX to set tones, whether its by overloading the players senses with the msuic of cicadas, or creapping into a deadly silent atmosphere and vice versa, it just does it so well and has stuck with me since.

So far as humble beginnings go, this is as humble as it gets. Though for all intents and purposes, Higurashi's Question Arcs are effectively the trojan horse that prepares you for the 'tour de force' that is the Answer Arcs, so long as you're actively trying to engage with the material beyond the surface.

Tem seus fortes e fracos, Onikakushi-hen mesmo tendo um começo lento é uma introdução mt boa, Watanagashi-hen é peak e Himatsubushi-hen é uma conclusao boa pra essa metade da história. Lendo a adaptação pela primeira vez, to achando a história mt bem mais contada, sem pressa e com muito mais tensão sendo criada pelos monólogos. obviamente não é 10/10 mas é mt mt bom msm

The higurashi weren't the only thing that cried.(I did, it's me, I sobbed like a little baby.)