LogFAQs > #908561742

Hmmm, I guess I can post about this here.

So I started reading Umineko last night. Well, rereading, sort of--I first tried to read through it about 4-5 years ago, but I ended up hard-dropping it about halfway through chapter 3. (By this I mean that I closed out of the VN and actively made a choice that I wasn't going to read any more.) I'm pretty sure I've talked about my feelings on Umineko in this topic before, but in brief I really liked most things about the VN but really really hated the logic battles...which unfortunately are a rather large part of the story. Anyways for various reasons I've thought for a while that there's a good chance of my enjoying it if I attempted to reread it, so I finally bit the bullet and did it.

An interesting twist this time around is that shortly after dropping it the first time, I spoiled myself on nearly everything about the remainder of the story. I've forgotten a lot of the details (such as how some of the adult characters fit into things, in particular), but I do know the general trend that the rest of the story takes as well as what I guess would be the main "answer" of the games? (MAJOR UMINEKO ENDGAME SPOILERS In fact my knowing this is likely a contributing factor in my decision to reread it, as the two relevant characters were pretty noticeably my two favorites during my first readthrough)

Anyways I don't have much to say about the readthrough itself at this point--I started chapter 1 and read up until everyone gets to Rokkenjima, which at this point is basically just introductions to characters I'm already familiar with. I am looking forward to reading more though, which is nice.

Also if anyone's wondering why now is when I decided to do this, it's because I listened to Ricordando il Passato about 10 too many times over the last few days >.>
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