Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQzffZTFy5c
Text Version:
Umineko is interesting for being a story about how some people experience trauma so great it renders them irreparably broken. An “ideal” way of life becomes an impossibility, and in order to survive, traumatised and broken people will resort to “less-than-ideal” environments, both mentally and physically. Rationalists – those terribly complacent bunch – hate Umineko, declaring, “How dare Ange not choose truth.” They cannot fathom the idea some people’s souls may be too fundamentally shattered to live “rationally.”
And really, even if the story was horrible, Umineko would already be a masterpiece for the atmosphere and OST alone. This game has hundreds upon hundreds of tracks, some of them only playing once, and every last one of them is perfect – genuine insanity. zts is a miracle of the universe.
…(Sigh) Still mad lastendconductor only plays once ever, for such a short time it doesn’t even have the ability to get to the best part.
(I have very complicated thoughts on Umineko, much more so than on its prequel, Higurashi. I plan on returning to Umineko in the future with a more expansive and deeper look into its narrative and philosophy. However, first I will have to re-read it, and that will probably be far off in the future, once I can read it in its original, untranslated form.)
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