Enter the world of Sakisaka Fuminori, a medical student who receives experimental brain surgery after a traumatic accident. He survives, but is left with warped senses that perceive the world around him as a place of terror. Into this world comes Saya, a girl who is the only thing that now seems pure. With a scenario that stands as one of the first defining works of Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero creator Urobuchi Gen, nothing is as it seems – can you find away to escape the nightmare that surrounds you? A seminal work of horror and occult fiction in the visual novel medium.
Song of Saya
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I know that HCGs are uncensored, but I've yet to see if it's good or bad thing - Demonbane uncensored was awful.
ignore the idiot that says that official translation is better..
if you havent read it..then you can take this version..
i dont remember any memes or mistranslation in FANSTRANS version though..
but i might be wrong
and they uncensored CG dont make much different at all..
for one..im not impressed with JAST re-releasing the same thing thats been around for years..
after all..its just the same with that unnecessarily uncensoring since..it was more than uncensored originally..
and ivan..purge his indecent words too
then, can you make this game like this?
game was abaut being play not fight!
lol
have fun!
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and ignore it.
Just use 'cause. It's coolest than because.
I played dis game a very long time ago and I remember one of the versions is much better than the other. But I don't know which (help a lot LOL).
I have come here to play it once more before buy, but I'm going to download both and compare. Then I post it.
I'm almost certainty it's dis one. Whatever.
As far as I remember the game have a good story and many metaphors. Not sure though.
I'm not sure 'bout nothing, don't even know what I'm doing here.
I shall return.
By which I mean more smooth or true-er to the original text?
Saya no Uta actually one of the better written VN
I said ONE of the best I HAVE played. That is an opinion, not a bold statement, so if anyone gets mad they're an idiot. Also the story is honestly very creative and interesting.
It has a new protag called Tatsunami Hibiki, however in the epilogue of the last episode, Takeru showed up along with Cpt. Sagiri and Ikaruga. Marimo is Hibiki's CO and Meiya is fulfilling her body double duty for Yuuhi. Plot twists all over the place, very good story too.
Dear lord.
Alright, here' goes. if you're thinking of playing this game, and have not been introduced to gore or horror, or mind fuck Cthulhu fiction, please, PLEASE play demonbane first.
That game is "LIGHT" but this game is "GRIM" fucking "Grimdark"
you have been warned.
as matter of fact..
i didnt felt that there's actually that much stomach upsetting in this VN
its just a mild stuff you know~
Frankly, the visual novel scene is too much of the sci-fi bizarre mecha stuff that is stereotypical of Japan.
Now Swan Song, that was a true classic. Saya no Uta is merely okay, and not nearly enough choices.
As a general rule, the amount of rape should exceed the consensual sex. Not because it's sexually useful, but because it's badass.
But that's probably about the limit I'd be touching visual novels any time soon.
i wonder how the plot goes will they follow the visual novel or cut the hentai parts or?
So the new translated fersion take lesser file size, does it mean some thing? Or it doesn,'t matter at all??
ONLY play this game if you're into that sort of thing. Otherwise it's a bit of a waste of time. The protagonist is hardly likeable and this game tries its best to be as gut-churning as possible.
While in terns of gore Kara no Shoujo had more graphic scenes, it had a lot of saving graces both gameplay and plot that made up for it. IMO, Saya No Uta has none.
Anyone who starts of a sentence using mon muso quest as a premise for a description should be out right ignored for sheer lack of taste.
And the fact that he immediately hops to Kara no Shoujo shows the complete lack of experience reading eroges.
I mean seriously no one plays mon muso quest for the story, it just doesn't happen so stop acting like you dislike saya because it didn't have a "story" when you are using that trash as your premise to what a story is.
Granted Kara no shoujo Does in fact have a good story, and is more a long the lines of what you should be using as a reference but still not even close.
1. Read it again. 'This isn’t like Mon Muso Quest or Kara No Shoujo where it’s eroge with guro scenes that you skip through.' At any point did I say Mon Muso had a good storyline?
No, I said it had Guro scenes you could skip through and Saya No Uta is one big lot of gore in comparison. Mon Muso is a collection of monster porn scenes. Never disputed that.
2. 'He immediately hops on to Kara no Shoujo shows the complete lack of experience reading eroges'. Why does referencing Kara no Shoujo = no experience? If anything, it shows more experience for referencing multiple genres and games.
And fifteen years playing various eroges. Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups. Two hasty deductions wrong.
3. Assuption three on your part was my saying that I was saying that Saya has no story. I didn't say it didn't have a story.
It's pretty much all story with hardly any eroge. My remark is that the story, which it is, is pretty gorey and depressing and the protagonist is hardly likeable.
4.
My assertion was that you can play a game for 1. Ero Scenes (Mon Muso) 2. Storyline (Kara No Shoujo) 3. Gameplay (RPG mechanic Mon Muso or Detective Mechanic Kara No Shoujo) and focus on these things if you dislike Guro.
However, in Saya the entire story focuses on the Guro elements (describing out what the protagonists sees which is largely a vile world) so that is pretty much impossible.
Conclusion:
Don't skim read and make broad assumptions. I think perhaps you got several other posts mixed up with what I was saying which was a simple warning to people who don't like Guro to not try and sit through this game expecting something different from that.
For all who love excessively described gore and a very, very brief loli eroge scene go for it.
Saya definitely has a 10/10 for story, and I did find the protagonist likable in the same way that I found the protagonist in Death Note likeable. In their own creepy ways they are great anti-protagonists.
My problems with Saya are
1)the graphics aren't as detailed as they could be. I felt there was a lot of reuse.
2)The game is relatively short.
3 *preferential*) The game is freaking gory. At one point the character described the scenery as if someone went around and splattered all the walls with pig guts.
4 *non-issue*) Some don't like that the main heroine is underage and that the game is pedo. I dispute that claim. She actually does have breasts, hips, and could be described as short at worst. I have seen far worse in other anime. The only reason people even bring it up is because the protagonist asks her several times if its okay to be having sex when she looks underdeveloped. If he treated her as an adult, this wouldn't even be discussed.
BTW, the first RPG game i play hoping that i would lose :D
(Play Youjuu Senki A.D. 2048 before but got bored after the first act and quit so that not count)
Anyway, Saya no Uta is a good game (if you can cope with the no good ending). Personaly, I can't digest game w/o good ending but did not change the fact that this game is good.
P.S. no comment on which is better thought (Fanslate or official JAST)
Time to play this game again.
I'm going for it.
If you have found that you enjoy eroges then nothing in Saya should shock you. It is not as gruesome as people make it out to be. At least not in the image department, The story can be a little extreme in places but thats part of what makes the story so good.
The people on here who are bad mouthing it are only doing so because they cannot handle a story that makes them think or more so one that ends the ways this one ends. That's about all i can say without spoiling anything.
I am willing to say as someone who has read Almost every translated Eroge you can find and many untranslated Eroges, That it is very hard to find one that is as true to the story as Saya no Uta. And more so that I have yet to find one that takes this unusual premise and makes it into something unusual and beautiful.
As someone who has read almost every translated and untranslated eroges, don't bother with it unless you want to read about cannibalism and a man seeing everything as if it had gone through a meat grinder several times and stayed alive and his perpectual urge to vomit.
The story is not deep, beautiful nor original.
There's much more to it than that. I can see why the content would offend some viewers, but that's no reason to discredit its merits. The story of Saya no Uta not only has a plenty of philosophical insight, it also cleverly explores the subjectivity of reality and several different moral dilemmas. Everything that happens contributes to the story, and there is no filler material like in most other VNs.
Furthermore, if you look at the reviews on VNDB you'll see that majority of the reviews for this VN have been very positive. It has an average score of 8.42 out of 10.
I'm going to use a Saya reference for lols to explain my position on this, because A. I think it's funny and B. It might be clearer. I realize using a Saya reference might invalidate my argument by acknowledging it was memorable (but not in a good way, for me).
I'm seeing you guys all eat what appears to my eyes as a grotesque pointless read and call it the most delicious meal on earth. Doesn't matter if VDNB gives it a good score or not - a lot of reviewers gave Mass Effect 3 a good review and people were highly divided on it.
It may be true subjectively that for you and many others, this was the best game ever. For me, no amount of persuasion will convince me it was anything other than the worst eroge I have played in my fifteen years of playing eroges and the ONLY one I wish I could literally scrub out of my brain and forget about.
Truth, like everything in the universe, is pretty subjective. That's not a lesson exclusive to Saya though - there are plenty of other mediums that teach this particular truth or life itself.
I guess players will just have to decide. I /really/ hope they just don't want to scrub their brain like I do a year after the fact.
You should read the VN first before attempting to troll people. So pathetic. Heh.
#rekt
With an attitude like that you can make anything sound bad. I personally found the Fate series a little boring, but I still acknowledge that it had a great story and characters.
The heroine is loli and the game is gore; the last thing is a bit of sex appeal *-*
1) you're annoying
2) you always talk bullshit
3) stop acting like you actually buys stuff from JAST and MG, you just another annoying leecher
PS:Ivan aint a AMERIKA-JIN
can i get an advice which one i should download?
the fan translation one or the official translation one?
i dont want to download the same thing twice , summary anyone here kind enough to tell which one has the better translation?
i mean in accuration
and sorry for bad english
(Apparently it was done by the same person whom did the fan translation.)
If you've already played through the game once then there's nothing new to see other than the uncensored CG.
and some improvemrent in translation
The official version has a updated translation,menu,the phase into other menus on the start menu is different,there's no nitroplus logo animation at the beginning and there's no sound library now.
I do like the updated menu thing but i don't like they took out a whole section.
yet after i read this story i felt terible even before i read i know say was a MONSTER but still it terible to give this the best from the best
Hope you all enjoy this VN as i did.
And haven't read saya no uta since the fantranslations came out.
Very tempted to pick this up again as my first VN for 2013.
But its not the usual trap you think it is
*spoiler* Everything,and i mean everything, that the protagonist sees is full of gore and even all of the smells are like rotting flesh and other disgusting smells, due to a the brain surgery. This includes his friends, the ground he walks on and the structures themselves. The only exception is this \Little girl\ and his room which he has trash laying about. now take a guess as to why that is. Now to me this wasn't the bad part, rather the bad part was all of the things that lead to the ending. Truth be told the \good ending is likely the one where the protagonist gets arrested and the \little girl\ dies because in reality this guy needed help and him hiding his issue only ended up making him go crazy. I mean seriously if you feel like barfing any time you talk to your friends because they are nothing more then lumps of flesh, i think you may need some help getting this reversed or have you put out of your misery.
I know that seeing the watermark can break immersion for some people, so I put this together.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ewu8bw1euq73jct/cg.npa
I had an issue editing this CG, so if anyone wants to try to a better job, go ahead.
http://jastusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/evh02.jpg
I also made it so that the items on the menu stay visible longer.
Enjoy
Thanks for that, it was just on my mind when I scrolled down the comments. Now if only I could get the mosaics _back_ on in Demonbane...
...
Going for it!
I found it really nice to read. It has a good flow, the story is a little bit mind-fucking, but still, there was no moment I had troubles with my stomach or was afraid to look at the CGs ;3 in fact, the gore stuff gets light as soon as you get used to the protagonists visual \defect\ since it's part of the story. As for myself, I like to read VNs for the Story, nice CGs and stuff thats out of proportion with reality. This VN has it all. Thanks!
dunno what's waiting for me though
The gore doesn't bother me enough,
it is basically mind-fucking... with some twist
-horror-thriller with actual sense of danger
-monster-girl with no monster-girl
-bloody enough without some sadistic scene
-romantic if you can sympathize the 2nd ending
Deeply Thankful for this VN
So Saya no Uta has comes up as the best story so far...
I'd say im dissappointed but the story was actually good so im happy with it
I first heard about this game just out of high school and researched its plot/screenshots through a few sources (including wikipedia). Both the storyline and artwork seemed very creative and interesting, but I forgot about it over the years... Until a few months ago.
Downloaded the soundtrack first. I love it; 3 or 4 tracks in particular (Song of Saya II & Sin are my favorites).
I finally came across this page a few weeks ago, downloaded the game and finished one of the various endings. WOW. JUST WOW.
I really don't mind the gore, because to me, it isn't overly \visually\ graphic; The music, the voice actors, the text... all of these make the game creepy, disturbing and emotional. I love how you are able to read the thoughts of each character; their hope, desperation, despair, thoughts of insanity. It really sucks me into the game and makes me feel for each character. I never once felt like vomiting, but there were times I did want to hide under a blanket with the lights on.
Anyway, I took a short break, but I'm replaying it for another ending! Song of Saya is very entertaining for those who don't mind disturbing storylines.
Be my girlfriend, please. xD
The only thing keeping women from playing these things is that the vast majority of visual novels is a game about a male protagonist pursuing girls who are created to be attractive to men.
It has been proven, time and time again, that (in general) women usually prefer reading porn, whilst men prefer watching. This makes eroge largely marketable at women, if developers just grasped the chance.
Also, good visual novels (KEY's works, for example) are often pretty sexist. No woman wants that.
On the topic of Saya no Uta, I enjoyed reading this years ago. Quite the utsuge in that it has some of the most memorably depressing endings I have read in VNs. "Glass no Kutsu" is a great ending theme.
Also, while gory, I don't remember this being a "gorefest" so much as a "darkfest." I didn't find it to be unreasonable in its violence.
By the way, can anyone tell me the location of the save file for the official translation? I need to back it up after I finish the game as I'll uninstall it.
and also is it just me or the drawing of the official is differ from the fantranslate?
I own both version for about half a year but now only I have the time to install and enjoy lol
can anyone help me?
If anybody knows a way to fix this please tell me, I don't feel like restarting all the time and then skipping for ages.
This is a bug that occasionally happens in some visual novels and is normally triggered by alt-tabbing or having your screen-saver kick in. I had it with this game. The solution is to alt-enter once, which will toggle windowed/fullscreen, click something to continue on, then alt-enter again to return it back to its original windowed/fullscreen state. Hope this helps someone!
If you're only looking for fap material, though, I'm afraid you'll most probably be disappointed, as this focuses more on the plot. Yes, there are sex scenes, but are fairly sparse compared to the whole horror/mystery/romance thing going on.
All in all, 9/10, would be a 10 but steps on a few of my pet peeves.
Just going to leave my 2 cents.
I read this almost 7 years ago, and I still remember the whole story.
In most shows/games/stories we are presented to a manichaean reality. The hero is mainly good, and the villain is mainly evil. Even defining characters as heros and villains is something we are prompted to do.
Well, this story shows a different way to look at things. There is no black or white character. They all oscilate in the GRAY.
The story is told in a way that makes you understand the character's motives, regardless of morals you might have.
I gotta say I, despite feeling troubled about it, would not act so differently if I was in Fuminori's shoes.
The story is a work of art, with Fumonori and Saya's love being key to shaken all the foundations of the world.
Quite literally, really.
Read it, enjoy it, and thank me later.
So far it reads like an average mystery with some early-2000s style incel fantasy thrown in. No idea why it has such positive reviews, hoping other routes will redeem story somewhat.