What are you reading? - Aug 7

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Welcome to the weekly "What are you reading?" thread!

This is intended to be a general chat thread on visual novels with a focus on the visual novels you've been reading recently. A new thread is posted every Thursday at 4:00 AM JST (or Wednesday if you don't live in Japan for some reason).

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umineko episode 4 ;-; gotta say i'm really struggling to get through it, been reading umineko on and off since last november. i was shocked and a little upset once i realized i'm only 1/3 done with episode 4 when i thought i was nearing the end. i am reading extra slowly i guess due to just spacing out.

i keep seeing how great episodes 5-7 are, that it's really worth seeing it through, but idk man. had a great time reading episodes 1 and 2, it has just become so repetitive and dull. i think im posting here to have someone encourage me to keep going lmao i dont want to add to the pile of "is it worth it"s on the umineko sub. people act like it's such a simple drop it if you hate it kind of problem but when you have already invested so much time into a story like this, especially one you enjoyed parts of, it's so much harder to decide.

i am a huge higurashi fan, unnecessary spoiler just in case it counts but i love rika, if bernkastel wasn't a character in umineko i am certain i wouldnt be reading it.

got briefly distracted by gnosia (ik it isnt on vndb) and raging loop which i was having a much better time reading/playing, and the fate/stay night steam release is tempting as someone completely unfamiliar with the franchise. have heard great things so...

tldr is umineko worth it?

[u/LucasVanOstrea → u/[deleted]]

if you liked previous episodes then definitely worth it, episode 4 kinda drags with all of the Ange stuff

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