i'm not going to bullshit you. going in without any prior knowledge and without any extreme biases, the second half of umineko will constantly throw you. maybe not in the ways you might think, but at the heart. maybe you won't like every twist or vaguery, maybe you'll love how the story unfolds in all its strangeness and magic. i couldn't tell you what you'll think, especially not after everything that happens in the questions arc, because the foundations of a journey like the one this game takes you on are only the beginning, yet remain as important as every minute of its latter half. and if you don't like it at all, that's your right as the reader right? you get to choose--and isn't that the point?