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>>22063898
>At least westerners with shit taste can just patch the game and enjoy their soulless Alchemist sprites with the original text
The patches are not perfect and have multiple issues. In Higurashi, Hanyuu stays in her shrine maiden outfit the whole time instead of having a school uniform in her human form, which makes the whole thing look silly. Her sprite also gets her legs cut off in a scene and floats awkwardly at the top of the screen, transforms into the original sprite in a couple of scenes, etc. Also, there's the recurrying problem of the game alternating between soulless, empty, boring-ass Alchemist backgrounds and original backgrounds, seemingly at random, because many of the original backgrounds can't be replaced with their shit version because it doesn't exist in the console releases.

The Umineko patch also has issues. There is a part where Natsuhi is being punched and kicked by Eva in EP5, which is supposed to take place in the parlor, but the patch fucks up the backgrounds and the entire fucking 20 minute long scene is ruined because the background is now the magic cathedral and the whole thing loses its sense of realism. Also, every time a certain song plays, the voices become super high pitched and everyone sounds like a chipmunk. It happens during Clair's climactic farewell to Lion and her death, during some random scenes in EP8 and during the fucking final scene where Battler and Erika say goodbye to each other and Featherine refuses to show the book. All of that is ruined with chipmunk voices, making it quite awkward for first time readers.

And yes, if you are so insistent on replacing R07's hard work with crappy soulless replacements, you can always play "Umineko Project" instead of patching the game. But that comes with even worse issues because of the awkward, unnecessary lipsync, the crappy magic effects of the PS3 version, the silent credits in EP3 ???? Tea Party, the garbage alternate translation that should've never existed where Beato keeps saying "fucking" this and "fucking" that... It's a mess.

I really don't get how anyone can dislike the original versions and think they look or feel worse in any way. I started reading Higurashi back in the day with the patches because some asshole told me to do it, but I uninstalled the patch halfway through arc 2 because I noticed how awkward everything looked, especially the backgrounds. The original look is charming as fuck and a pleasure to the eyes, not even joking.