I’ve finally finished Umineko…and with it I’ve finished my ABC Plan…finally
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Umineko is by far the longest VN I’ve read and by far my favorite…and fuck do I want the answer arcs now cause I’m super invested at this point.
Higurashi is a great series and I definitely would say I liked reading and watching it. The way it makes you think of theories and supports all sorts of wild thinking (is it aliens? a conspiracy? a curse? demons? a bunch of hyper intelligent squirrels?) however Umineko blows it out of the water in the way it twists and turns what could be happening at any given moment.
Without any real spoilers a general synopsis of Umineko is that (its a separate story from Higurashi) that from the very start introduces its witch and sets her up playing a game with a fervent anti magic believer.
A group of people are trapped on a island in a storm in a cliche isolated from the rest of the world mystery trope and then begin to get killed in all sorts of ways. the witch claims stuff was done through magic and her opponent continues to claim every person killed in a locked room was done so with traps or someone hiding and leaving the room after everyone investigated and went away etc…
the deaths become more and more fantastically set up and the arguments used to explain their deaths get more and more twisted- a play on words with the characters borrowing fallacy’s or famous sayings to try and support their point…and really the whole thing is fascinating and I love it.
With this I’m done the last game in my ABC Plan however from the very start the point of my plan was to provide me with something to play once I finished any challenge me/monthly theme/pop games I was playing for the month.
…and with this list finished I need to make a new one.
For now my new ABC Plan is this tentative list!
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A Hat in Time
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Beholder
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Camera Obscura
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Dreamfall Chapters
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Everlasting Summer
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FLY'N
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GOD EATER RESURRECTION
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Hollow Knight
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Infinifactory
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Japanese School Life
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Killer is Dead
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L.A. Noire
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Murdered: Soul Suspect
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NEKO-NIN exHeart
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Ori and the Blind Forest
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Portal 2
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Runers
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SteamWorld Heist
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The Swapper
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Unepic
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Valiant Hearts: The Great War
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WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.02
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Xeodrifter™
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Yomawari: Night Alone
with nearly ever game chosen from unfinished challenge me’s or simply my unfinished category its extra motivation to go back to them even while pushing through the new additions.
(not going find extra games to fill missing letters and not going force myself to beat each game (if I don’t like it/am not having fun I’ll drop them) however I am enforcing they have to be played in order…that’s the only way this plan works for me cause its point is to remove the indecision of picking a game to play.)(anything challenged to play outside of the order is fair game however)
Finally I just want to say have a happy spooktober with spooks to all and all a good fright.
“Umineko is by far the longest VN I’ve read” That’s only because you didn’t complete Route-Double :P
But nice work on finishing the ABC List! \o/
I’m… hanging behind there hide
I guess I should really try and squeeze that in too… somewhere o.o
Yaaay congrats blue!! Impressive. :) Believe I’ve seen you comment about putting off Umineko as well, kudos on completing that too. :P Long VNs can definitely be intimidating. I keep forgetting about the challenge until I see you talk about it and I’m like dang it….I was doing so well need to get back to it. ;_;
Looks like you’ve got a pretty fantastic new list, really hope you enjoy ‘em! I will say that I couldn’t get into Camera Obscura, and sadly my Xbox 360 controller refused to work with it (which also caused a lot of restarts/crashing). Hope you like it more than I did, since it is an interesting concept.
That’s such a random item to pick but thanks I’ll keep it in mind
Your new ABC list looks pretty solid. Except God Eater which I didn’t really get too much into it (I guess I’m not a fan of monster hunter games). But other than that, it seems like a very enjoyable list (from the games I know at least). And it reminds me that I also started A Hat in Time, I should probably try to finish it at least too. But MMO has been ruining my gaming time haha.
Well I started god eater already for my challenge me and got kinda bored after a few hours cause of how repetitive it is.
Can’t say I’ll finish it but I at least want to try as its a SG win
Congrats on finishing your ABC plan! That’s a great thing to accomplish. Your new plan looks good, some really great games are on it. Good luck and much fun with it :)
Yeah I actually think an ABC’s plan is hard to best if only cause its a large commitment.
Based on the fact that I was keeping track of a lot of peoples and I saw them jump through 4-5 games really fast and then kinda just stop.
I knew my own would take a while cause its second priority to literally everything but I’m still happy with myself
Yeah, that’s one of the reasons I didn’t join in on the ABC plans…they sound interesting, but I can’t imagine myself sticking to it. Which would lead to me being disappointed and inevitable dissapointment is not what gaming is about :D
All the more, I really applaud those who manage to stick to their plans and even finish them!
Congrats, Blue. :blobdogpeek:
This is probably the first time anyone has managed to make an anime VN sound interesting to me.
Is skanda turning into a weeb :O
Please no!
Grats on finishing ABC plan :D I knew it would take me a long time to finish mine, but it is going very very slow so far :D
keep with it you’re doing great!
Grats on finishing anything letters-related without mixing them up, I’m impressed
its easy they are in order
Yesss!! Whooo!!! Whoo hoo!!! Yeah, congrats!!
You’ve got a standing ovation from me, Blue.
Could I link to this review in my big vn masterpost?
Of course