Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
A re-release on a new engine with updated art and a complete re-translation. The updated art contains only all-new sprites contracted by MangaGamer, drawn by Kurosaki of Caramel Box. No CGs or new backgrounds have been drawn.
Players have an ability to switch between old and new art, and English/Japanese languages.
The original soundtrack and content, previously cut from the English release of the game, have been restored.
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All ages?
...wtf?
It's the same sort of deal with the Steam release of Littlewitch Romanesque, it was labelled "All Ages" because it had the sexual content removed. Higurashi didn't have any sex scenes to begin with, so it's technically always been "All Ages". Even though it's most certainly not for children.
Ha
What are you even doing here? Sound novels are basically "books" with sound, and why do you think lack of +18 content makes story worse or not worth your time? Sex-scenes in VN's are generally very bad attempt to fish for additional neckbeards with nudity, often adding nothing to the story but cheap fanservice. I don't want to sound like an fanboy or anything but discarding the rare VN's that actually have a plot instead of shitty high-school sol and forced sexual content is the worst decision you'll make, but considering the quality of your comment I don't think you'd find this particular work or anything else by 07 enjoyable.
I have yet to play this...so I'm hoping it has some choices. If this allows at least s-o-m-e user choices that would be good.
I really like the idea of alternative art. Ryukishi07 is an excellent writer, but he really can't draw lol. Or if he's not the one who drew the sprites, then the artist he used realllly isn't to my taste.
I downloaded and saw that since the sprites files are unecrypted, changing the images in the folder HigurashiEp01/DataStreamingAssets/CGAlt will change the sprites. In this way, you can switch Mangagamer sprites to Alchemist sprites as long as you adjust the sizes and transparency of the sprites (I tried this). The same thing may apply for background in the CG folder, which means it may be possible to change the background to Alchemist images.
Scripts seem to be compiled on run-time, so changing the text in the scripts is possible by editing the text in the scripts folder (I tried this too and I could edit in-game text). Adding voices may be easier with this Steam release, though inserting thousands of WAV files seems to be too bothersome for anyone.