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>>46769035
that would imply you going out of your house

Spoiler for the very end of Umineko (if anyone even cares anymore):

I went on a big adventure recently, checking out dozens of different playthroughs, mostly just watching certain key moments of the story or my favorite moments and so on and my overall impression is that Umineko is unironically too smart for many readers. Out of 20 or so different people I watched or talked to 1 (one) person understood all of the subtext and character motivations. 10 people failed to understand the majority of the story, while the other 9 only understood the superficial elements. With the exception of that one person none of them grasped the Rashomon effect at play there, instead only taking in the surface level reading of the unreliable narrator, never truly questioning if this wouldn't also apply to parts that aren't explicitly noted as such. To sum it up almost every single person I know that read Umineko stopped thinking after the second or third episode and either hyperfocused on the most superficial mystery elements (not understanding that the murders aren't the only mystery here) or started shipping characters or other emotionally empty nonsense. Speaking of emotions, about half of them had absolutely zero empathy for characters like Rosa or Kinzo even after finishing the story while being extremely lenient in that regard when it comes to "Beatrice", showing once again that they didn't understand how they got emotionally manipulated on purpose to illustrate a bigger point that Ryukishi was trying to make. Can you guys recommend any playthroughs that are not done by either stoic midwits or hysterical women?