Higurashi - Game Discussion (spoilers lurk here)

[reptar300]

ok you all seem to know a lot about the game ....do you all know how to speak or is there some cool site that has in depth summaries about what goes on in the game?

[DingoEnderZOE2]

I'm pretty sure they're just very good with Japanese. Feel free to get jealous....if that's the case and rejoice if there is a site with depth summaries.

[LostBlue]

Originally Posted by DingoEnderZOE2

I'm pretty sure they're just very good with Japanese.

You've guess right. We've all played the game. I'm just late to the party.
The website Sushi-Y posted is a great collection of theories and facts throughout the game. Although it's all in Japanese. Some of the observations/theories are just hilarious tho~

[Freakman]

I'm so glad Higurashi doesn't have its own "Moonlit world", otherwise the forums would be plagued with idiots that think they have the right to spoil the game for others because they "know".

[LostBlue]

Question

While I opening up the nscript.dat in the later half of the games, I found this line:
トミー＆クラウドの贈り物

What is this? The award for Rena-Pan?

[NykylaiHellray]

Is there any way for a non japanese reader to really get the most out of the games?
Mainly as I am crap at japanese, I started doing a course alongside my uni one (bad idea) and also my teacher only was at the first level on the japanese profiecent test........also he insisted on teaching us it in romanji first. (opps sorry going into rant -_-).

Anyway, even if I did learn japanese with a better teacher now, its going to take me ages to catch up ;_;


Oh just one quick (non emo ranting) question, did satako and the others ever find out about satoshis body being found at the begining of episode 9 of the anime, in the game?

[DingoEnderZOE2]

That wasn't Satoshi.

[reptar300]

does anyone know where i can buy a japanese book with all the symbols so that i may translate the game?(i hate not knowing japanese)

[Sushi-Y]

Originally Posted by reptar300

does anyone know where i can buy a japanese book with all the symbols so that i may translate the game?(i hate not knowing japanese)

I think it's called a Japanese-English dictionary. ^^;

Or you can go here, if you just want to search for kanji words:
http://www.kanjidict.com/demo/frame.html

But if you don't even know hiragana and katakana, then you're probably better off starting here:
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/

[NykylaiHellray]

Originally Posted by DingoEnderZOE2

That wasn't Satoshi.

If it wasnt satoshi, who was it?

[LostBlue]

Originally Posted by NykylaiHellray

If it wasnt satoshi, who was it?

Mamiya Ritsuko. The TIPs section serve a purpose.
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...6&postcount=50
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...5&postcount=51
http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...7&postcount=53

[NykylaiHellray]

^^' opppsss I missed that. If only the anime made it more obvious, i better read the tips now more often.

[l46kok]

I just finished reading Tsumihoroboshi-hen, but one thing still didn't clear up on me.

Why did that white van try to run over K1?

[Sushi-Y]

Originally Posted by l46kok

I just finished reading Tsumihoroboshi-hen, but one thing still didn't clear up on me.

Why did that white van try to run over K1?

*copy and paste from previous post*

Originally Posted by myself

First of all, I suggest you take a look at the Higurashi wiki:
http://www.wikihouse.com/higurasi/index.php

Read 鬼隠し.

[l46kok]

Originally Posted by Sushi-Y

*copy and paste from previous post*

Read 鬼隠し.

Ohhhh thanks.

So I'm guessing there isn't a definite answer?

[LostBlue]

Originally Posted by l46kok

Ohhhh thanks.

So I'm guessing there isn't a definite answer?

Spoiler for for those that read minagoroshi:

Not that I know of, but I'm fairly convinced it's a L3 event b/c of the horn. I'm still trying to figure out what the gardeners were doing in Tsumihoroboshi..? This to me is so far out there... I don't understand the need for the 山狗 to go there... and circle around for hours the day before... well, I guess the day before was for the phone lines or something... but the school?　prepping for the 34 (checking the windows, etc)?

Concerning that Wiki...

Spoiler for Spoilers:

Spoiler for you sure?:

Spoiler for protected in Japanese to preserve the mystery:

I was rereading that wiki...

綿流し編:

Tips「スクラップ帳よりVIII」にある、綿流しとされる「明治末期の事件」とは？

• 正体は羽入でほぼ確定だろう。

えっ！？　何故？　ちょっと矛盾していない？　だって巫女さまだよ？　羽入は古手家の頭首か、本当に梨花が 言い様にオヤシロさまだよ？　何故その人が綿流しＳＰＥＣＩＡＬの犠牲者に？　Ｍｓ　Ｃｒａｚｙの女王説の 関係？　だが、それは無いと思う．．．だってもし明治の犠牲者は羽入としよう．．．これで女王説は完全に間 違ってると証明される、何故なら明治時代に村は全滅しなかったから。その上に、何が証拠に羽入は明治時代に 生きてたと判明できるの？服装は巫女服。言語には特に特徴はない．．．「あぅあぅあぅ」を除けば　＾＾；　 明治時代に繋ぐものは無いと思うけど．．．　一番の特徴はやっぱり額の鬼角だな．．．自分的には羽入は雛見 沢誕生と共にずっとその悪趣味な背後霊ストーカ幽巫女存在だと思うけどなぁ

Also I was thinking...やっぱ梨花じゃなくて羽入がループの原因だと思う。いや、ハッキリ言うと、この梨花 ループ説自体が間違ってるのでは？　梨花の意思は全然関係ないかも。何故なら梨花が死んでも話は続くから。 　羽入は気にった人に取り付いている。　その取り付いた人が死んだらループに戻る。　現に梨花が死んでも羽 入は世界に止まってる　(祟殺し編、目明し編で主人公達は最後まで足跡は聞こえたから）。　だけど、これも 矛盾してる。梨花の時間がまた再度始まってたら羽入はすぐ側に居て、梨花に前の世界でその後の出来事を伝え ない。　羽入は本当に梨花の見方なの？　まぁ、羽生も梨花と同じで06/22以降の記憶がループ当時で無くなったと否定出来ないけど．．．　もしかしたら、その取り付いた影響から 他の主人公達の前記憶のきっかけになっているかも。　梨花自信もループは単なる勘違いで、一番長く取り付い ているから記憶は世界が変わる度に消えないのでは？　死期の時の記憶は飛んでるのは単なる羽入は側に居なか ったから。圭一もレナも前世界で死んだ日の記憶はちゃんと持っているから．．．梨花の時と矛盾してる。羽入 は梨花の側じゃなくて他の人に取り付いてたからの影響なら説明出来るかも．．．それと、梨花の時間が無くな っているのは、前話では羽入は主人公との付き合いが長かったので　(詩ぃの場合少なくとも二年、レナの場合 数年、その前は圭一と赤坂だったから、これも数年）　梨花の記憶関連影響は弱まったでは？

[Freakman]

Interesting theory, although you kind of lost me at some point, but I wanted to comment on something :

Spoiler for Japaneseified:

(祟殺し編、目明し編で主人公達は最後まで足跡は聞こえたから）

LostBlueの説明がありえないくもないが、あれはL４やL5の症候なのでは？

[kj1980]

Well, it is almost the fateful third day of Comike, and the countdown is to make a mad dash to the West Hall booth あ54ab to get yours hands on the final chapter of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni and Tasogare Frontier's Higurashi Daybreak.

...well, that's for some people. I've decided to pass off this year's Comike - getting too tiresome for me. I decided I'm gonna be lazy this year, so I pre-ordered at Toranoana.

In any case, I'm sure some of you here will get Matsuribayashi-hen one way or the other (which I won't discuss).

So why not make a thread out of it? Some of us kept the lid on everything for a long time - we'll definitely need a place to blow off our id once we go through the final chapter.


Several notes:

IF YOU ARE READING THIS THREAD AND DON'T LIKE TO READ SPOILERS, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER. YOU TAKE YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY FOR READING THIS THREAD

Comments such as "I'm too lazy to learn Japanese or buying the game is a drag, so gimme gimme" will be deleted.

[Keriaku]

I just have a quick question before I probably never come to this thread again, but what does Minagoroshi and Matsuribayashi mean?

[Freakman]

Minagoroshi is slaughter. I'm unsure about Matsuribayashi, so I'd rather avoid giving you wrong info

By the way, I was thinking : it would be best to keep the comments in Japanese (at least the meaningful parts, to turn off potential people actually just *looking* to be spoiled.