[Mueti]

Finished Sharin no Kuni ~Himawari no Shoujo and Saya no Uta.

Sharin had some pacing problems imo, as I perceived the whole Touka-chapter as kind of uninteresting and too damn long. Other than that it was excellent but I still liked G-senjou better.


Saya no Uta...well, that's a different beast. While I love horror I basically hadn't seen anything that actually frightened or disturbed me since I was a child. Until now, that is. I'm glad I didn't read anything about the game before playing it - had I known the themes I'm pretty sure I hadn't touched it. Which would've been a damn shame.

Spoiler:

The scene when Oumi goes to Fuminori's to confront him. Wow. I held my breath the whole time. But what takes the cake...kinda; is when Fuminori successively walks in on Saya eating her and joins in without realizing what it is he is eating. That whole scene disturbed me like nothing I can recall. It actually made me feel physically ill for a while.
And of course it actually only gets worse from there....but you get used to it! And after a while your sense of what's right and what's wrong gets totally messed up. That game really fucks with your head. I haven't read anything quite like saya before. It was quite short but very, very intense...and beautiful.

Brilliant, brilliant stuff.