Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25555436-20150613000756/@comment-11188061-20150613133422

- You missed the point. VNs always do branching heroine paths, but they don't usually make it pieces of a complete puzzle that leads one by one towards the truth.

- In my opinion it's not. But since your responses are always so unnecessarily extreme, yes, not only just sex in this visual novel, but the whole existence of sex itself is forced, mediocre and should not exist in this universe.

- You seriously do not think I don't know Sudoku; which means you're missing the point. Again. What I mean is that after all the brilliant puzzles solving and mysteries, the final key to cutting through time and space and save the oh-beloved comes down to a... Sudoku puzzle which you see in every morning paper.

Let's just say that there are better choices to pick the final puzzle for the epic finale of a story. And yes, an anti-climatic ending can totally sour the entire experience. We Chinese even have the proverb 'Tiger head, snake's tail' to describe exactly that feeling.

And indeed, if you've played the Visual Novels the author of 999 Hours made you will know its story isn't actually that impressive. Remember 11, Ever 17. But of course, for your pretend-cynical reasons you just have to interpret my response as a rage post of some sort.

- Let's put it this way. 999 Hours or Higurashi do exactly what you say putting the focus on you, reading the story, the conversations, checking every small detail in dialogue, all so you can interpretate, analyze the info, and make a theory about what actually happened. However, none of them largely invalidates all the consequences and choices and storyline that built up to that point like Umineko by making the first few Arcs [spoil]a false experience on a game board where the protagonists is thrown in to make him suffer.[/spoil] Of course those are all events that could've, and would lead towards the truth of what really happened on the island... except that a large parts of it remains a mystery and you never really know what happen except theorize what probably did happen and did not.

It's dissatisfying. Not to say that it's a bad game, but towards the end the realization that it's possible to ignore all the mysteries of the first few Arcs and still enjoy the story as a whole just by going through the final Arcs makes it a really, really dissatisfying experience.

And yes, the Reality ending to me is the bad end. The Magic ending is the true end, and the one that actually makes sense because it connects directly to all the lessons the protagonists have learned throughout his experience in Umineko. The willingness to enjoy illusions as illusions and not destroy it with truth, yada yada and so on.

On the other hand, Reality ending sculpts a completely different person who has learned nothing from his experience. After crying and suffering and laughing and smiling and going through all that experience, what came out of Reality was a completely disconnected character that seem like he came from a parallel universe and has zero experience of what happened throughout Umineko. It is a terrible done ending. It was there for the sake of just providing an ending, and even a blind man can see that Magic ending is the one that's given real effort and polish in.

- Hate it for the right reasons? Everyone has their own values. What you think is right may be wrong through my lens. If I have to shut up every time my perspective doesn't fit yours the only way I can live is to die. So I am going to say what I will say, and you can dislike it and express for all you like, but I am not going to shut up, and I will persist that Umineko in my opinion is a poorer game as compared to Higurashi, and I dislike how it large invalidates the player's emotions during the first few Arcs towards the end.

- No, you only said that it's a 'Harem genre with a clothing design so horrible it makes almost every girl there look like a damn whore both on purpose and by accident'. Did I mention that despite having harem moments it is not a harem? Also do you enjoy using the word whore, since I see you using it often here and there in your posts? Do you know that when you haven't played said game, and yet use strong, offensive or conclusive words to describe your verdict of a game, the ones who actually did play the game gets really, really annoyed?

Let me tell you something Live. You aren't cynical. You're just a kid who loves giving strong opinions. You love pretending that an issue is either 1 or 0, but you more often than not ignore the fact that it also takes 2 mini 1s to display that 0 on your screen. Even the slightest hint of dissent from anyone can provoke an absolute refusal and often irrational refutal that very often a complete asshole. And from your behavior so far in this Wiki you seem to be doing it on purpose, so fuck you too, fucker. This is my last reply on the subject.