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.