[Golden Bug-Hunter]

Kevan3: Not really, or if they did it was way too subtle for me to get it.

Ok, here's a crazy idea.

Spoiler for Cracked interpretation:

At around the 15:30 mark the screen shows a yellowy (Golden?) Higurashi (butterfly) flutter past the screen while Keichi is reading Mion's letter.

This butterfly is artistic marking of a 'writer change-up', and the rest of the story was written by someone other than the author of the first half as a fantasy scene took over.

Because seriously, Two kids with a base ball bat and a machete taking on twenty guys with guns? No way. I could kinda buy the part where the club-tricks get half of them to attack the other half, but Keichi and Rena as killing machines just mowing through opponents before and after that bit is so.... WTF. Before the Fantasy part, the lead up and build up was really good as the isolation and paranoia set in. It felt like something that could happen in the Hinamizawa I remember from the other stories. Then it's just absurd.