I wish I could give this 5 stars but I kinda had my issues with the first half, it wasn't bad but the pacing was kinda horrible, Anges start was kinda slow and I wasn't too interested and the stuff on Rokenjima was kinda more treading over the same ground that was already done in previous episodes, and there was barely any Battler Beatrice stuff so all sides of the story were kinda just feeling slow and not too interesting for me.

The second half of the Episode, I'm not too sure when I'd say it happened but with Anges story it really started to interest me around when she summoned Mammon and her story very much began to take form, it defintely adds a lot of new mysteries to be solved but the best moment was very much Ange on the Rokenjima with Kasumi and the scene with Marias book was honestly heartbreaking, I actually cried during that scene (the fact it was 3am might've also helped, but it was a very sad scene) especialliy the reveal of Marias uu ing because god damm that destroyed me. The ending with Battler and Ange was great too.

The stuff on Rokenjima was interesting but honestly it wasn't until after George and Jessica were killed that it became like 10/10 it was still good before then but it just didn't feel right, I don't really know how to explain that but like Gaap and Ronove being so easily beat just felt wrong and I mean it's on the player if they decided to trust the game again and I wasn't wrong. The prisoner group escaping was a fun scene and the stupid loser flag bit was very funny, also those rabbit girls are very clearly Marias chess pieces that Rosa broke the 4th one, I don't know what implications this really is going to have other than I guess they're Marias furniture? or magic is all toys? very much a focus on like Childhood and innocene here with magic and Beatos only friend in the golden land being Maria reinforces that, Beato defintley does seem to be kinda stuck in a child like kinda way? idk how to put it but that's my theory for now.

Battler and Beatrice don't really interact much this chapter, blue truth is very interesting but I kinda felt it was introduced super early and then since there's no arguing during the game itself it's just kinda pushed away until the very end of the game in the tea party basically, I feel if maybe it was used a bit in the game it could've been better maybe? but idk not like I forgot what it was I just thought it was odd how little it was used I guess? idk. Tea Party was crazy, with like the real ending being hidden away there, nuts, the bit with Battler alone on the island was really cool and then the game with Battler and Beato at the end was great and it was nice to see what actually appeared to be genuine feelings from Beato even if they were all just being thunk, but she very much seemed like she wanted to die with the intentional provking of Battler, the ignoring the fact the some of the blue was just factually wrong due to the red (as pointed out in the ??? anyway but still) but right now I very much believe she just wants to die, she still confuses me but it feels like Beato is being forced in some way or something akin to that, I can't say for sure but alot of lines kinda make it feel that way, idk if it's lambdatletla(I have ZERO clue how to spell her name) but that would make sense, the punishment game mentioned in the ??? as well seem to point to something like that too. The final scene of Battler and Beatrice was sweet but I still don't trust it, I get Beatrice want's to die, so she lays her heart bare, whatever that means here and the mystery is Battlers own death but I don't fully understand it all tbh, I guess for now I'll interpret it as it seems but I have doubts. also the bombs in the food !! (sucked that I got spoiled on that amazing theory but oh well)

Lots of cool reveals and information and twist and turns etc that I don't have the writing skills or brain to fully write and comprehend in a way that anyone else would care about, which is fine though tbh. A amazing chapter that I feel has ass pacing which kinda ruins the first half but the second half was so good I feel it mostly makes up for it. Very very excited for the Answers arc.
(also uuhhh, Music was insanely good as always, they used some Higurashi SFX which they hadn't before like the phasor lots of cool stuff here, and I played with Umineko project too btw)

Starters, this was INSANE what a chapter, I was already blown away with Chapter 1 & 2 I thought they were really good, I was thinking it'd get better but it wouldn't ever get THIS good like I hoenstly lack words to descrive how I feel, I hoenstly felt every emotion reading this chapter so much crazy shit happens and it all works and makes sense and I love it all and just so much godd damm stuff happening here it's made me go crazy.

I'll try and write a proper rough review, but I mean all my reviews for the WTC games so far are more just me writing my rough thoughts with no real like analysis etc which I mean is fine by me, so expect more rambiling until I perish.

I don't even know where to start with my review here, I'll be honest the first few bit of the game kinda boored me, not much was happening the stuff with Battler and Beatrice was amazing but the actual stuff on the island just kinda felt really boaring and a retread of stuff we've already seen in Ch1 & 2 and with the actual Island I'd say it didn't get good until Eva found the treasure then stuff started to interest me. But the other story happening with Beatrice and Battler was really intersting me but I've got alot of thoughts about that so I guess I'll get there in a second. Anyway, despite focus on Eva at the start I was kinda iffy on her still, but as the plot has gone on here I started to like her more, might sound odd but seeing that she actually honestly cares and loves her family (immeadte, as in husband and George) but like it was nice to see that she actually cared, becasue on first impression and Ep1 I was kinda thinking that she would just hate them but it was nice to be proven wrong. I have zero theroies with Eva witch tbh, and if I'm being honest I have very few theories at this point, when reading Higurashi I was able to come up with a few theories that ultimatlley held some weight by the end, but in Umineko I've got nothing I'm still lost in terms of figuring shit out by myself... I guess Higurashi was just more based in reality and therefore easier to try and theorise, but like I don't know shit about witches, and like they have to be real theres no way they aren't right? like I know Battler closed his ears as Beato explained stuff and that suggests that maybe they aren't? but I don't knowww my brain melts but like they have to be, like there is no rational explanation for half the shit in this chapter. anyhow sidetracked, uhh island stuff was cool though boring at start got pretty hooked once the stories got interwined, brings up loads of questions that I don't have too much to say on right now, just overall crazy good, defintley made me like the main cast a whole lot more.

Now, Beato and Battler stuff is where it gets all crazy, after reading all this stuff I can't trust Beato ever again bro what the fuck was that!! I was fully in belief that she was trying to change, and I guess I still kinda too since I mean she seemed somewhat conflicted in the very end witth like the way her sprite was looking but like maybe that wasn't meant to mean anything?? idk maybe it was still a trick?? I have NOCLUUE, and in the ??? with Lankas(whatevertherestofhernameis) is like blackmailing/ forcing/ using / idk???? Beato to win and and like my brain can't take it it's all too much. It was so nice to see them getting along in the end theres so many cool moment s here and then it was all a lie? or like I have no clue, I don't even know what to feel. Like I suppose Beatos whole change maybe came about quite quickly? and like suggests she was faking? or like I just... I don't even know what's genuine or not at this point, Battlers got it rough man... I can only have full trust in him, and I really hope that him and Beatrice can like get along but I really doubt it now, it just aint happening, but I guess with how it was looking there couldn't of been any more games between the two of them if they got along properly? so it makes sense because they wern't just going to like remove Beato as the villain (?) like 3 episodes/games in. I apoligse for anyone who decicded to read this because this is such a mess but my mind is in pieces... I actually was tearing up near the end with the stuff with Beatrice and her changing and all that and then the ending just like destroyed me I was acutally like going crazy, but I mean my own fault for trusting R07 tbh.

I apoligse for this mess of a "review" but my brain is in pieces and the only cure is clearly to go read more Umineko I'm sure... but still this is honestly one of the most well written things I've read recentely, I am completley hooked one everything happening, like I just need to see how the stuff with Battler and Beatrice plays out. and just everything, so much stuff I didn't even mention here but honestly reading this made me foreget that there are 5 more episodes to read and like this episodes felt like it in itself could've been the finale. and as always gotta say the VA work done here is insanely good, everyone does such a great performance, like i'd be fine reading without it but holy shit it really increases the quality like it still would been a insanely good chapter without it but the VA work pushes into being even better somehow. Also music is insane here too! just a overall crazy good chapter that I'm not good enough at writing to say, and I missed out so much stuff I could've said etc, overall a crazy chapter with so many twists and turns and character growth and nongrowth because whatever the hell happend and the ending and I have gone insane because Umineko is actaully peak ficition, I can't believe the people were this right