But if you decided to watch the Anime in the end, you'll still need to play the VN to understand the whole picture of the story, as the Anime only covers the first four arc of the VN.
It comes with a set of rules in coloured texts which are failed to be captured perfectly in the Anime. Umineko is one example of Unreliable Narrator done right. Not to mention that the legibility of those letters are questionable. And the content is completely different than the first one. Officially called Umineko When They Cry: Gold Edition, this version of the Steam game includes the following new features. The problem is, latter on several letters similar to it which signed by the same person are found. Catbox Creative is teaming up with 07th Expansion and Witch Hunt Translation Group to bring an updated version of the visual novel Umineko When They Cry to Western audiences.
There's a letter in a bottle that claimed to be written by Maria, one of the victim, which explains what really happened. No ones know what really happened there, only there resulting casualties is certain. The story is about the tragedy that happened in Rokkenjima Island.
If you decided to try the game in the end, make sure to patch it with the sprites from the PSP release.
But later on, the character sprite has been renewed in the PSP release. The graphics of the original PC release isn't really appealing, but the sound effects managed to bring out more charm to the already great story. Click to expand.Umineko is one of my favourite VN, or to be precise Sound Novel.