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Saya no Uta cidden nasıl anlatacağım konusunda çok kafamın karıştığı bir yapım. O kadar karışık duygularla kaplı bir eser ki Saya no Uta anlatmakta zorluk çekiyorum. Bu yapım korku, grotesk, aşk, paranoya, lovecraft, yamyamlık, şizofreni, cinsel istismar, bolca bilimsel komplolar ve daha çok ilginç garip şeylerin karıştığı bir senaryoya sahip. Her inceleme korku yapımlarını ne kadar sevdiğimi söylüyorum o yüzden fazla oraya dalmaya gerek yok. Bu yapımın hikayesi beni öyle bir gerdi ki anlam veremedim neler olduğuna tüylerimi diken diken etti. Sesleri o kadar güzel ve vurucu şekilde hazırlayıp sahnelere yedirmişler ki oyunda olan anormal olayları bile sanki benim başıma geliyormuş gibi hissettirdi. Karakterler yarısı ilginç yarısı ise yani hikayenin araçları olarak kullanılan mağdurlar olarak tanımlanabilir. Saya no Uta ses kullanımı olarak ustalığını bestelerinde bile gözümüze sokuyor. Oyunun müzikleri o kadar iyi o kadar güzel atmosferi delilikten huzurlu bir esintiye yöneltiyor ki bayıldım. Hikayesel olarak zaten çok bir detay verebileceğim gibi durmuyor. Çizimler ise bazı kısımlarda 3 boyutlu olmasından dolayı sırıtsa bile ana karakterimizin algısının bozulup gördüğü iğrenç dünyayı muazzam yansıtıyor.
İç karartıcı ve insanlıktan soğutan bu hikayeyi nasıl önerebilirim emin değilim ama yazarının akıl sağlığından şüphe ede ede okumak istiyorsanız bakmanızı öneririm.

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I really wish I could praise this game beyond it's visuals. It's hailed as a horror VN classic and although amazing in concept it's just dull, and even downright pedophilic towards the titular character.

Every time this game starts to get good, it fucks itself over with a creepy, annoying protagonist and how it creeps so repetitively on the character who is a young girl.

The real horror of this game is the part that's not even meant to be horror.

This is basically weird fetish material.



Song of Saya is a great visual novel: compelling and horrifying yet emotionally resonant. An excellently-written, mature story that handles its subject matter so well that it managed to make even the worst fucking thing imaginable pretty and sympathetic. There are sex scenes, yes, but they're not there to cheapen the story with waifu bullshit, or 'reward' the player. Much like its other elements, Song of Saya masterfully weaves eroticism into the tale without letting it fall to plain old titillation. Everything was well done: mystery, horror, a bit of biological philosophy... and love.

It's worth getting all three endings as it's not a long read, and there are only three choices to make in the entire story - this isn't a very player-driven VN. In my opinion, that's a good thing, as it's entertaining enough to just let it play out. Cozy up, lie back, press the Auto button and enjoy a story that's touching and depraved. This is one VN that's as worth your time reading as any book.

saya no uta is a miserable, unforgettable, intriguing and captivating experience.
i do have my issues with it - i didn't enjoy the sex scenes. i do understand that this is an eroge, but unfortunately to me it seemed like these scenes were placed with the purpose of shocking the viewer and being transgressive. i didn't enjoy it, so i chose to read the censored steam version, which was more particular to my tastes and i enjoyed it more. i do enjoy transgressive fiction (i am a visual novel reader, after all), but unfortunately i didn't enjoy the sex scenes, let alone the rape scenes. if you're like me and don't enjoy those, i'd definitely read it censored, it didn't take away anything from my full experience.
with it's shortness, i'd definitely recommend this game for new vn readers, specially those who are interested in a cosmic horror. it was the story that got me into visual novels back in 2020, and it's an experience i'll never forget.
the music is extremely remarkable, specially the game's opening track "schizophrenia" - the song truly grips with it's violent noise and twisted sounds, setting the mood for the entirety of the game.
saya no uta made me fall in love this type of cosmic horror mixing beauty and depravity, the enticing visuals of the flesh and gore, mixed with the alluring beauty of human-like creatures.
this story expertly understands the depravity of desperation, of grasping at straws for a semblance of humanity in times of misery.
even though the story has many flaws, i fully believe saya no uta deserves the praise it gets.

thanks urobuchi why does it say blu-ray player are u serious can u cctually play this on blu-ray

Solid Horror VN, very fucked up (in a good way). Also you can do everything in it in about 6 hours, so its not a big time commitment like some VNs.

i'm gonna steal something from urobutchi's goddamn house

I played 1 hour of this until I was dumbfounded, my friends and partner found out and told me to get a refund.

I was still curious about one element of the narrative so I watched someone read through it on YouTube....

Best decision I ever made was refunding it. I know my friends got my back ♡

Also thanks Steam.

The ost slaps and Ryouko should slap me harder

Was confused when he started killing people. Isn't he the main character? Aren't the main character supposed to be a good guy?

Primeira Review de 2024, e também, primeiro jogo terminado em 2024. Saya no uta é uma visual novel de horror e gore, que conseguiu ser muito melhor do que eu esperava, pelo menos no começo. Essa review porém, vai ter um sistema de notas diferentes, para jogos que se limitam apenas a contar história. Então é isso, vaamos lá:

História[5/5]: Saya no Uta tem 3 finais possíves. Todos eles na minha concepção, sendo bastante distintos, e bastante tristes. Não existe necessariamente um final bom em Saya no Uta, até por que o que os personagens passam nessa história é apenas tragédia atrás de tragédia, que na minha opinião atinge o seu apice antes da primeira escolha que é feita. A lore da Saya, junto com a forma como o mistério é construído, mostram como foi bem construído a história desse jogo. Diria que essa história em espécifica foi a mais macabra e aterrorizante, não só pelo POV do protagonista, mas pela visão geral de tudo.

Narrativa[2/5]: Quem não fica espantando com as duas primeiras horas desse jogo está morto por dentro. É terrível e trágico, e isso é muito bem exposto dentro do jogo. Mas apesar de ter entregado um bom terror, esse jogo tem um terrível problema na MINHA OPINIÃO é claro. As cenas de sexo, são desnecessárias e até fora de mais da curva. No inicio quando acontece a primeira cena, eu imaginei que era apenas para causar uma certa estranheza no que estava rolando, a cena só estava ali para deixar muito mais bizarro toda a história, talvez até mostrar que tem um romance ali. Porém depois disso foi só laderia a abaixo, se era essa a ideia mesmo, eu não consegui encarar dessa forma. Senti que era apenas fetichização pura. E chega a estragar bastante a obra, me fazendo até a desanimar e parar de assistir na metade. Levei pouco mais de 2 semanas para voltar a jogar apenas pelo fato de que perde o total interesse. Além de que, no inicio da segunda metade, ou melhor, na primeira escolha do jogo, eu sinto que o jogo se perde totalmente na questão de terror, e foca mais na tragédia apenas. Sinto que isso deve por que, todas as cartas foram jogadas na mesa de uma vez, e agora o jogo apenas tenta desenvolver a história e explicar todos os mistérios. Não desgosto, mas acho que ele muda muito a forma e isso causa um desanimo talvez.

Arte[4/5]: O jogo no geral é lindo, até as cenas de gore ou as cenas que são para ser "feias", são muito bem desenhadas. Eu diria que o único problema é alguns sprites dos personagens estar mal desenhados. Mas no geral o jogo é bem bonito. Os cenários pelo menos são bonitos demais, e devo elogiar que sair da visão do prota e ir para a visão dos outros personagens bem no inicio da Novel tráz um ar grande de satisfação, fazendo essa visão oposto ser muito agrádavel e me fazer sentir bem imerso no jogo.

Trilha-sonora[5/5]: Simplesmente um álbum musical, com uma história por trás. A trilha sonora desse jogo é MUITO BOA, de fato torna o jogo muito melhor, elas se repetem bastante, mas isso não é problema por que são muito boas e vale bastante a pena. Acho até que a trilha-sonora se destaca mais do que o jogo inteiro em si. Muito bem feita.

Personagens[4.5/5]: Eu sempre valorizo mais o elenco de personagens de uma VN do que a própria VN. É sempre importante ter personagens carismáticos e interessantes, que torna o tempo de tela dele sempre divertido. Saya no Uta, tem um bom elenco de personagens tirando a Yoh que na minha opinião é apenas o mais do mesmo. O restante é muito bem desenvolvidos e bem apresentados. E mesmo com pouco tempo de tela, alguns até conseguem deixar uma marca trágica em nossas mentes.

Geral[4,1/5]: Quando eu dei uma pausa desse jogo, eu imagenei que quando terminasse ele teria no máximo um 3.5 de nota. Os dois últimos finais que vi salvaram bastante ele na minha opinião. É um jogo bom que é estragado pelas cenas de sexo, então tirando isso é um ótimo jogo na minha opinião. É isso, se for jogar se prepare por que o terror e o horror gráfico desse jogo são absurdos de mais, e pode deixar você sem dormir a noite. Mas é isso, um ótimo jogo!

no quiero saber qué archivos tiene en su ordenador el creador de esto

it's good but overrated and imma be honest, urobuchi-sama you did not have to show me the loli getting banged

Offensive to many, unpalatable to most, and misunderstood to a comical degree, Saya no Uta is a transgressive work of art that I will not soon forget. It perfectly connected my frustration with straight male fantasy fodder, heteronormativite ideas of sexuality, social isolation and the landscape of erotic media as a whole and packaged it into lovecraftian psychological torment. This game will be on my mind for a long time.

Poorly written edgelord shit.

Rare based moment from Urobutcher

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Dropped after the second rape scene. I like horror, but that's not horror, that's just gross.

almost finished it but it crashed while doing the second ending
hard to think the same person would write madoka magica and psycho pass years later

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Has a strong hook and an interesting concept that is ultimately bogged down by a lack of any substance whatsoever. While the score is fantastic, I'm afraid I can't give the story the same praise - it's edgy torture porn that leaves much to be desired.

I think it does a great job at setting a tone, and it's packed with some genuinely chilling scenes - the mystery, disgust, and morbid curiosity I felt going through them had me on the edge of my seat, and that's one of the few things I'll give this game credit for. The h-scenes, however, were completely unnecessary; there's one in particular that serves no purpose to the plot other than appealing to the author's barely disguised rape fetish. And in the off-chance it's not that, it's just a cheap way of making the story "dark" with minimal effort.

The plot itself was barebones. The build-up was there, but the climax was unsatisfying no matter what ending I got. And while I can normally appreciate a game that leaves me unsettled and uncomfortable, by the time I reached the final ending I just had a sour taste in my mouth from how cheap and pointless it all felt.

The characters were just... boring, too. I found myself mixing up the main character's friends names so many times it's not even funny. Saya herself was interesting for about a minute, but it felt like the author got too tired to finish developing her and decided to whip his dick out instead. She spends about half of her screen time having sex and sucking the cock of the most irredeemable protagonist ever conceived in fiction.

There genuinely could've been something here - the twisted relationship between the protagonist and Saya could've been so much more, and it frustrates me that the author chose to make it so shallow and honestly gross. There's a few attempts to dive into psychology - particularly the fragility of the human psyche - but they ultimately don't lead anywhere other than highlighting the apathy and despair these characters feel.

Honestly, I'm disappointed that such an incredible OST was wasted on something like this, because it was the track "Song of Saya" that got me curious about the game in the first place.

It has some cool ideas and I ended up reading it all the way through, but ultimately, I don't think I'd ever read this again. I don't recommend it unless you've got thick skin, a strong stomach for gore, and enough self-loathing to justify making a purchase like this.

talk about post-nut clarity! for all the reputation this game has i would have liked to see the monsters be way grosser, it falls back way too much on characters having their minds broken by witnessing the indescribable horror happening just offscreen


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I always say, true art makes you feel stuff. This made me feel all sort of stuff. Anger, fear, uneasyness, hapiness. Dunno but it's a lot.

At first I though the thing on the image was basically a kid. But it's not, just a very thin girl and a monster. Yeah that thing there, it ain't real chief.

Our main hero fucks this chick that made me angry at first because I though I got tricked into playing a porn game for weirdos, but in reality he's fucking something entirely different because schizophrenia. He lives with her too and never leaves house. Perfect right? Hmm...

The endings are what they are, endings to the story but there is one that is depraved but beautiful, and describes this game perfectly.

It's a horror game, and the psychological one games or stories seem to have lost with time. It'll make you feel a ton of things. You won't be the same after it, at least the first week.

something something the developer's barely disguised loli rape fetish something something

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i love the concept of fucked up meat/bile/organ vision and alongside the incredible score it's really easy to get engrossed within the opening minutes. unfortunately it ends up being wasted on a story with a few good moments and too many shameful scenes which serve no purpose besides sexual gratification. even outside of those incredibly distasteful scenes it still often ends up too edgy for its own good, the unfitting score choice during koji and fuminori's final confrontation as well as koji's conversation with his hallucination during his ending come to mind. i think the endings themselves are all pretty interesting but the fast pace the last two take to come to their conclusions are a bit unsatisfying. it's all a real shame because it could absolutely be something way better than it is

Top ten games I would like to unknow.