Still the perfect example of a litmus test for people who can't parse a story all these years later

A product made with so much love,care and understanding,that it knew full when it was time to close the book on the series. You can see it everywhere,from the immaculate presentation and soundtrack,to the extremely well thought-out cast,whose interactions are still so goddamn entertaining and most of all,heartfelt.

There's really no other way to say it: there's no other game,outside Umineko,that truly loves stories as much as this one. Sometimes,those very lies are what keep you going through all the suffering. And that's exactly what will make me float on too.

Plus,this is the second game in which Kodaka just fellates Metal Gear Solid 2 to completion. How can you not love something so unabashedly celebratory of everything that inspired it?

Reviewed on Oct 03, 2023


2 Comments


7 months ago

It seriously blows my mind that I still (regularly) see takes on both sides of the discourse spectrum, one being “V3 despises its fans and is calling them out for ever caring about the series and taking it seriously and I hate it since it retroactively makes everything in DR1/2 ‘non-canon’ and now those stories mean nothing” and the other side being “this game is a huge middle finger to the entire series (which is bad) so I love it”. How do these tales still exist in 2023? How is basic reading comprehension at such an all-time low? How is it possible to come out of V3’s ending with such a bad-faith interpretation of a message of love that is explicitly stated 20+ times?

7 months ago

Honestly the thematic pararells between V3 and Umineko was something that I very much noticed while playing through the latter, so I wasn't at all surprised when I found out that the reaction to the ending of both games was similarly (and undeservedly) divisive to say the least.