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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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...
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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!