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SUP GUYS LIKE MY REDESIGN

Wow. I not sure what to believe any more...

Looks good. It's nice to a non-hideous Ange sprite.

new trollface

PS3? I'm pretty surprised.
>>6126941
I like it better than the anime one, not as lanky.

Happy, happy times.

Maybe one day ZUN will do something like this and release all his games as a compilation with commissioned character art and even prettier bullets.

Glad to see George is still fatter than normal for an animu character.

Why is genji look all of sudden to be chubby like?

I mad!

HUGE GOAT IS HUGE

The goats seem to be generic american wrestlers in disguise.

>>6126954

>>6126957
>>6126956
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

http://www.alchemist-net.co.jp/new-project/movie.html

Videos!!

http://www.umine.co/

And here's the official site, though not much is up yet.

UOOOOOOOOOOO

BEATORICHEEE

Fucking shit art. Loses practically all the uniqueness of the original, now it's just generic animu.

>>6126955
How scrawny do you have to be to consider that to be chubby?

http://www.youtube.com/v/nN2qXxWuFSE

New OP song.

>>6126970
I expected the purists to jump in a lot sooner. What a surprise.

>>6126970

If >>6126945 is just generic animu, I should be watching more Anime these days.

>>6126955

He's not chubby, he's just very broadly built

Also, am I the only one who actually likes the original drawings more? I mean, these look *nice*, but.. I dunno. Maybe I'm just used to the originals. Especially because their faces seemed to depict more emotion

Plus, >>6126948 and >>6126945 just don't have anything on Beato's original trollface

FUCKING RUINED.

>>6126979
Holy shit, look at all those CGs. They went all out.

Eh, gotta admit, I'm feeling sorta ZUN about this.
There was a certain charm to the original art.

CGs?

Looks great; haters gonna hate.

thoughts on new trollfaces

Technically, the art is better, but I'm just simply not getting the same sort of emotional response looking at some of these previewed screens compared to the original art.

>>6126984
The original art is better, but what do you expect? It would be cool if they had an option in the game to use the original sprites instead though.

>>6126995
> Jessica not dressed as Marisa in the performance scene
What the fuck, even the anime got that part right!

Called a console port aeons ago. Feels good man.

Not as great as the originals, but better than Matsuri.

Is it going to be voiced?

>>6127013
Yep, full voiced.

ROSA


MUSOU

Well, the art is a lot better than Higurashi's PS2 port...but the reaction faces got nothing on Ryu's hilariously fucked up and deformed ones.

>>6126995
>no Marisa cosplay

>>6127018
> full voiced
Same VAs as the anime, I presume? Though hopefully the voice director isn't the guy who worked on the anime, as the drama CDs seemed to turn out much better despite having the exact same cast, just a different voice director.

>>6127032
Yep, fully troll you guys from alchemist!

>>6127035
When Chiru gets its eventual PS3 port, I wonder who'll voice all the new characters there...

I AM SO ENRAGED THAT I HAVE NO SUITABLE REACTION IMAGE.

>>6127035
>Same VAs as the anime, I presume?

Yep. The original music is all being kept, too.

>>6127026
>but the reaction faces got nothing on Ryu's hilariously fucked up and deformed ones.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I look at their bodies and design and they honestly look great, but their faces just feel all wrong. Especially looking at >>6127002, it just feels like these new artists completely lost what made Ryukishi's facial expressions awesome

I guess we'll see how it all turns out, though

While my rage makes me mighty, it is impotent alone. I'm going to hurl some boulders around.

I wonder what bernkastel's troll sprite will look?

also, will someone translated the ps3 game? Let me guess witch hunt, right?

I hope someone can whip up a voice and graphics patch when this does come out.

The music still won't be nearly as good as the original's.You cannot hope to replace dai and zts.

>>6127053
Actually, the only ones that seem to look... off... are the trollfaces. It seems they tried to not only emulate Ryukishi's trollfaces, but accentuate them, with poor results.

>>6127066
>The original music is all being kept, too.

>>6127066
Pretty sure they're using the original music though.
>>6127053
>>6127003
Yeah, I'm getting the same feeling.
There's something vaguely generic about the new art.

>2:14
Lambda and Bern gay lovers confirmed.

The normal faces look great. The troll faces? Nope. Voices would be nice, even if I prefer, say, the EP5 doujin drama cast. But I think I'll keep my shifty 07 sprites.

>>6127019

That picture doesn't do Rosa justice. She should be carrying Maria over her shoulder, hefting a bag of gold over the other, and should still find a way to aim and fire her winchester rifle (or whatever the name of it was, I forget) with a free arm

>>6127066
See >>6127052.

...I wonder how the official VA version of the EP4 Tea Party will turn out compared to that doujin drama that was done a while ago.

YOU GUYS I LOVE THE UGLY AMATEUR ORIGINAL ART BECAUSE IT MAKES ME LOOK COOL AND NONCONFORMIST AND NEW NOT TERRIBLE ART MAKES ME RAGE

Aside from just the expressions, the art in general actually isn't very good. I mean, there's no doubt that the original art was as well, but this artist seems almost amateur; and not in the kind of heartfelt way ZUN and R07 are, who are bad artists but you can tell they try their best. This almost makes me wonder why they use this guy. It's not horrible, but it doesn't strike me as professional. I will say that going all out on CGs is nice, and I do like the new OP, although at the moment the whole thing just doesn't feel like Umineko.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/300/300781/index-3.html

Okonogi = Ken Narita(He did Higurashi Matsuri's Okonogi)
Karumi Sumadera = Sumi Shimamoto
Other are same voices.

>>6127085
> He did Higurashi Matsuri's Okonogi
Heh.

Thing I don't like:
PS3->What? Why? Ok, full HD, but why would I care about that?
8000yen->You are kidding me, right?
Faces->Where is the love on those desings?
No marisa's cosplay->Was it that hard? Really?

So, obviously, Rage

>>6127079
Keep your panties on. You're stupid of you didn't expect people to have a nostalgic connection to the original art. Even if it's objectively worse it doesn't have the character of the originals. They may not be as good but they were fun.

>>6127079
glute-irate Umineko anime fan spotted.

>>6127087
> PS3->What? Why? Ok, full HD, but why would I care about that?
Well why not? Chaos;Head Noah and such were done for the 360. Why not a VN on the PS3? (Though that does bring up the question of why not just do it for the 360.)
> 8000yen->You are kidding me, right?
Is this your first time seeing the Japanese price for a game?

>>6127079
Eh, not really. The new art really is a rather generic looking, trollfaces in particular since the artist used really simple techniques (increasing pupil contrast, shadow over eyes) to create trollfaces, while the original art did so simply through simply feature management. New art makes the trollfaces look like Beato's suddenly snapped for a moment or revealed her 'true self' when she's honestly a troll 24/7.

>>6127099
I assume he is complaining about the system it's on because he doesn't have it. That's how it usually works right?

I like the original art because I'm really really bad with change.

>>6127103
Yeah, the new art is amateurish and unsubtle in comparison.

>>6127099
I'm not talking about it being on ps3, I'm talking about it beeing only on ps3. I would prefer a ds, or even a 3ds release, and thoy would sell more for sure.

;_;

>>6127107
i for one would rather get it on the 360 so i could get 1000/1000 achievements on it instead of a Platinum trophy.

gotta keep building dat gamerscore.

The best news this time is they use original musics.

>>6126979
> 4:39
LLAMA!

>EP 1-4

The static/more mild expressions look fine to me, but I agree that something is lacking for the more extreme ones compared to the original.

>>6126956
>>6126957

GOAT-KUN, IS THAT YOU?!

>>6127116
can't see shit captain!

Just fuck this shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kBWWaUKG7g&feature=player_embedded

TO THE BEATOMOBILE!

>>6127135
this is the DLC generation bro.

Well, I had to get used to the original sprites at first, so I guess I have to do that again. I can't look at these and think "that is Beato, that is Battler, that is a crazy trollface." It's...certainly different, that's for sure.

>>6127135
What's wrong with 4 episodes dude?

just because the chiru hasn't finished yet!

Every single response in this thread is so predictable.

>>6127158
Any yet you offer no originality yourself. Well done.

>>6127153
I know you're lying....

>>6127158
>I'm going to try to insult you despite being unable to by informing you of a vague, faintly negative concept.

Is the new opening on its own up on youtube yet?

I kind of like the new trollfaces for some reason. Maybe it's the shadows.

O_O

>>6127148
What the fuck

>>6127195
>>6127148
It was just a general press conference, not specifically to announce PS3 Umineko.

3XL where?

>>6127148
> Galge
WAT

WAT

...Wait, is that Nana Mizuki?

>>6127192
i'll take five.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THEIR LEGS?!?!

Their legs are 2/3 of their body, holy fuck, did this guy learn anatomy from CLAMP or something?

Legend of the golden witch
-Welcome to Rokkenjima-
AMDR 0617

Senza amore Senza amore La verita non si vede

Movie designed by -------
--------- 07th Expansion
-----------Alchemist

M1984

>>6127200
Then explain this.

>>6127216
It's only half of the body, which is what it should be.
The anatomy and shit is all good, it's just trollfaces we're overly fond about.

So, someone is going to rip the sprites, backgrounds and (not going to happen) voices the second it comes out, right?

...right?

;_;

>>6127226
Alchemist is announcing the two different games at the same time, so they blended the advertising hype for them.

>>6127237
Believe, anon

BELIEVE

Eh, whatever. I like it.

So, what are the chances of us getting a decent Chiru anime adaptation at this point?

Close to zero, you say?

I'll be on my way then, gentlemen.

hey guys guess what time it is

>>6127226

Just check the characters. They are from that gal-gun thing. Every character on that page is from that game, but they are cosplaying Umineko

What are the things from 1:54-2:31 in the second video?

Also, are those red and blue pens?

>>6127231

Are you blind? Go look at any of the female characters. Say, Jessica, or Shannon.

The legs are a full 2/3 of the body. It's like CLAMP on crack.

>>6127103
>New art makes the trollfaces look like Beato's suddenly snapped for a moment or revealed her 'true self' when she's honestly a troll 24/7.
This.

I see no Sakutarou.

>>6127262
Then you are blind, my friend.
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201009/images/00033444/t_iF7H449HDZZmz9n8J28j6MkNliyZXIh3.jpg

>>6127226
>>6127242
>>6127256
I've gotta hand it to them, it was smart advertising/trolling on their part

Hmm, you think we'll be getting a young Battler and Shannon sprite? A young Rosa sprite, maybe?

I want to believe

I am anxiously waiting the Chiru port's Erika and Willard art

Especially the certain Erika face and Will glare

>>6127260
I like how both characters you chose as examples are wearing skirts.

Watch them give Leon tits.

>Bern is flat

DISSAPOINTMENT

>Novel BGM.

Thank you, dear god.

>>6127276
Wonder who they'll voice cast for the Chiru characters? I guess Erika will probably be Yukari Tamura and Lion will be Sayaka Ohara, but I wonder about Will and Dlanor.

>>6127262
He's cute as hell.

>>6127293
> Will
Daisuke Ono to be trolly, but... Nobuyuki Hiyama, perhaps? Or maybe Shinichiro Miki.

> Dlanor
I've been hoping for Ayako Kawasumi for a while, actually.

>>6127287
FFFFFFFFFF NOT OKAY

>>6127269
And you must have an enormous monitor.

I was referring to the OP video.

>>6127303
I don't actually know much about him but just from his sprites, Will looks like a role Takehito Koyasu would do well.

>>6127293
>Lion will be Sayaka Ohara

Can she do a super androgynous voice?

Personally I would hope for someone like, say... Miyuki Sawashiro.

>>6127321
>Will
>Takehito Koyasu

No.

>>6127328
Her Beato voice is already pretty deep, so I think she could do it. Ryukishi cast her, after all.

>>6127319
Of course I have. You don't?
>>6127321
>>6127303
>>6127293
>>6127276
Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourselves? I mean, chiru isn't even finished. Enjoy this if you can, and then worry about chiru.

>>6127270
the fuck am I looking at

>>6127345
What your money will grow into if you treat it with proper love.

WHEN CAN I PRE-ORDER?

I'm getting a PS3 specifically for this. I assume they're region free?

I have a 360 is this game for it? ;_;

>>6127345
Hotness.
But to give you a less obvious answer, telehone cards, except the Bern one which is a B2 wall scroll.

I'm not liking the Gaap, her tits are way too tiny, compared to her fucking huge tits in Ryu's

Beatroll's face will take getting used, but Eva-trice's face looks fuck awesome.

>>6127362
>poorfag

Why is there a man with a goat head?

>>6127361
They are

Don't mess with me you little shits

>>6127377
Goat head? Where?

>non-fat George

I just can't get into at all...

>>6127373
>I'mgoingtobeindebtfag
Honestly, being in a little bit of debt for this game won't kill me.

I like the new troll faces reminds me of Nougami Neuro.

So, can we expect a patch for the PC version? Because these sprites are a god-send.

>>6127150
More like

The mystery machine

I would wait for the eventual sprite patch on this, but but the voice patch will never happen, that alone is why I will buy this game.

>>6127397
If Neuro was in Umineko, he'd solve it before the second twilight of the first episode. It's just not a fair match up.

>>6127403
Oooooooh,
Snap.

>>6127403
ahaha.wav

Someone will end up at least recording the best scenes and putting them on Youtube or something, right?

Right...?

in b4 they ruin this perfect face and replace it with googly eyes.

>>6127403
Oh you.

I don't care for Umineko but these models are generic. At least R07's art stands out from the pile of anime shit.

>>6127415
It happened with Higurashi, so I don't see why not.

>>6127420.
Same.
R07 is how I imagine Kouta Hirano would draw if he were ZUN.

I want to like them, I really do, but they're just so... Generic.

>>6127114
>3ds

Because we needed to see Beato's trollfaces in 3D

The replacement art looks good. How's the replacement writing coming along?

>>6127449
Hey, if they were good, that would be amazing.

Showing gore is a far less subtle/powerful method than describing, and letting the reader's imagination create the image.

>>6127409
Beato: Ho~ a demon pretending to be man.
Neuro: Like wise, man pretending to be demon.
Neuro: I will break the illusion of the golden witch and devour your puzzle.
Beato: I'll trap you in the closed room of a witch's twisted logic.

Beato/Neuro togther: COME NOW LET US BEGIN GOLDEN WITCH BEATOICHE/BRAIN EATER NEURO

*cue dread of the grave and credits*

*off at the corner/ Yako and Battler looking dumbfounded*


Produced by Madhouse in conjunction with shaft and Gainax. FUND IT.

Should've gone for a more stylized artist honestly, but this generic art probably has better general appeal I feel, which is what this release is for, not us already established fans.

>flat Bern
I'm okay with this.

<--- You have to admit that this looks stupid.

>>6127462
You didn't try Higurashi kizuna, did you?
If you had, you would have seen something amazing, even if you had already read the original on the PC.

>>6127458
I want to see this happen in some way, shape or form.

>>6127465
Yeah, I'm kind of wondering why Samsung made the bezel to my monitor longer with clear plastic.

<--- You have to admit that this looks stupid.

Alright now all we need is a Live action Umineko movie.

Also Capatacha

Mystery arodly

Oh god yes I love that stare Satan. I'd rape her if you know what I mean.

Shame it's on the PS3 though. That's really a bit of a bad move. No VN really needs that kind of hardware. Seeing VN's on the PS2 was okay but on the PS3? lolwut?

Eh well, in the future someone'll probably just rip the voices and Graphics then apply them to Umineko. Like to see the voices first though personally. If they're going with the Anime ones,that's fukkin PAFEKUTO.

>>6127481
It reminds me of the clown Shmion from the Higurashi Matsuri ports

When will Umineko be adopted into an eroge?

So where are we, guys?

Well, personally I think the bodies look pretty well done (looks like the Siesta Sisters got a bit of a boob job), but I think the original's faces were more expressive and did the job better, especially things like Beatrice's coolface.

>>6127484
>Shame it's on the PS3 though. That's really a bit of a bad move.
Another kid without a PS3?

>>6127498
Not everyone has both consoles. I have a PS3, but sometimes I wish I had a 360.

>>6127420
>Complain about generic anime shit
>Image of generic anime shit
>What this is I don't even

It's always funny seeing people bitch and moan when a particular game comes out on only one of the consoles. Silly poorfriends.

I think the trollfaces would be okay, really, if not for the odd face discoloration.

>>6127484
Not bad, but I prefer Belphegor's. She looks the type to rape me if you know what I mean.

>>6127363

That wall scroll makes Bern look like a good girl. What the fuck.

Also,

>flat Bern

FUCKING SHIT WHY BERN IS NOT FLAT

You gotta wonder how they're gonna handle the Love Demons since they're also incredibly androgynous.

>>6127502
I don't have a xbox either, and I wouldn't be complaining if it was on both ps3 and xbox360.

>>6127484
I was honestly expecting it to be released on the PSP.

>>6127509

Not really. They fucked up the eyes. At least R07 is able to get facial perspective right and the eyes always look like they fit. The new sprites make it look like they can grow and shrink as they see fit.

>>6127516
This is a port of the question arcs. You're supposed to think Bern is a good girl through almost all of it.

>>6127509
It's mostly the subtlety. R07 didn't need to use shadows over eyes or overly expressive facial arrangements to express how much of a troll Beato is, but this new artist has to rely on such generic and blunt techniques to even attempt to evoke such a feeling in us.

>>6127522
>R07 didn't need to use overly expressive facial arrangements to express how much of a troll Beato is
wat

>>6127498

No, it's just really bad marketing on their part. PS3 is probably the best-selling home console in Japan next to the Wii, but putting it on the Wii would be downright ridiculous. I think more people are complaining not because BAWW I DON'T HAVE A PS3 (I don't have one and don't want one, but I see this as a pretty dumb move anyway) but because...well, it's a VN. Most people play it on computers which are stationary. To put it on another stationary console is kind of stupid, and it seems that they just did it for the HD. It wouldn't have mattered as much if they put it on the PSP or DS (PSP would be preferable, even though I don't own that either) since you can then take the thing with you. I believe they made Higurashi portable after the PS2 port, but they should have went straight to portable with this thing.

>>6127172
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLG_sxUZLw
It is.

>>6127521

Thought they were porting everything, but I'm not talking about the sprite. I'm talking about that phone card/wall scroll thing. It almost looks like as if Bern is smiling innocently instead of having a neutral facial expression. Her sprite isn't bad since it matches the anime one pretty well, but it's impossible to screw Bern up...time will only tell what they did to her trollface. Also, she's flat. That's a no-no. Bern isn't exactly well-endowed, but she's no washboard either.

As for the faces...I do have a problem with Beato, like I said...it's in the eyes. Trollfaces in order of ranking now that this has happened:

Manga: No subtlety, but they're actually rather frightening.
Originals: Subtlety, facial features more rounded, proportions in line. These are really good, but the manga beats it out by sheer insanity.
Anime: They got screwed up sometimes, but were okay. The only problem I had was with the Hypnobeato.
PS3 Port: Fucking horrible because it seemed like they tried to merge the manga with the original VN and completely missed the mark, making them look laughable rather than shocking.

>>6127530
Compare to >>6127509. R07 is actually consistent in feature anatomy while the new artist fucks with Beato's face structure with all the trollfaces.

No shadow, No cliche face, no sudden exagerated change of size on eyes/mouth.

The expression is over the top, but it's still a face a human could make. And the shadows cast on 'glowing' eyes face the new art uses is one of the most overused faces in the style.. It really doesn't get its point across like r07's does

>>6127509
Goddamn she looks stupid.

>>6127481

Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

>>6127481

Honestly, I can't shake the feeling that I've seen that exact facial expression before, like they just copied and pasted it from somewhere else onto Beato's head. It's so familiar, and the original one actually looked fucking scary as opposed to stupid.

Where is my elegant Beato troll face?
Why is there a shitty shonen crazy face instead?

>>6127516
>Bern is not flat
Keep lying to yourself, bro

>>6127481

>>6127536
HD opening is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanHtZQiVAA

>>6127516
>That wall scroll makes Bern look like a good girl.
But Bern IS a good girl.

>>6127593
>>6127606


BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP SHE IS NOT

Would a good girl hold a scythe in such a seductive way?

>>6127598
OH GOD

>>6127617
Obviously she would because Bern is a good girl.

>>6127617
Yep

SAKUTAROU GONNA GET RAPED

>>6127449
Trolling will never be the same...

WITH 3D

Oh, and Virgilia's hat is still eating her head.

>>6127651

I wonder how they'll handle Eva's tits in the Ange flashback. I can't wait to see those glorious 50 year old knockers.

>>6127635
Fucking stupid generic moeblob is now even more generic.

>>6127685
How many buzzwords can one person fit into a post?

>>6127680
>>6127651
Really? I can't see it, and it was pretty obvious in the original to me...

>>6127689
I could have added shittier and shotacon-bait in there somewhere.

>>6127598
Trolldown!

>>6127699
I bet you could have even put an "autistic" in there for that special /jp/ touch!

>>6127692

Probably because of the 4th rose.

>>6127624
>>6127626

Bern is NOT a good girl. She's my deliciously evil mistress. She's a horribly evil girl.

>>6126945
I can appreciate that they're changing up the poses of the sprites and that the furniture won't look so copy/pasted, but I will agree with the sentiment that the expressions are just not the same. They should've done what Fukumoto does; get assistants to draw everything but the faces.

Does someone know which is that song name?

Fuck yes, can't wait.

I would like the new trollfaces if they didnt have those darkened areas with them

it's almost like it's forcing the I AM ACTING EXTREMELY EVIL RIGHT NOW thing

Why is Satan so beautiful?

>>6127074
damn, i want this in HD

anyway, so no HappyEVA as new delicious loli witch and no new arcs? ;_;
I GOT TROLLED HARD

>>6127711
you are strange guy, you know?

anyway, so now that FULL voice acting is confirmed theres no way for Bern to actually avoid SAYING all those cute and embarrasing "Mii~"'s and "Nippah~!"'s in Ura Party 2, right? OH YES!

>>6127002

They look like boring generic shit, just like all the other redesigns.

>>6127783
I can just hear her actress doing it in a sarcastic monotonous voice

>>6127811
you mean Tamura Yukari saying "Nipah" with sarcastic monotonous voice? ahaha, wat

>>6127831
Yes. Unless they have Bernkastel go full-Rika mode for that scene, which is quite likely, considering Bernkastel's statement about it being very embarrassing.

JESUS GOD EVERYTHING IS RUINED

JUST LET M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN MAKE THE LIVE ACTION VERSION WITH ROBERT PATTINSON AS BATTLER AND MIRANDA COSGROVE IN A BLONDE WIG AS BEATO AND END ME NOW

We better get the voice pack when it's released, I mean seriously. I'll be disappointed if we don't.

>>6127842
I would play to see this

ITT people finally find out that R07 art is a charm point instead of a deal breaker

>>6127864
>*pay

>>6127855
/a/ children sure are dumb.

>>6127871 finally

I LOVED IT FROM THE START, MITTEN HANDS AND DERP FACES GOD DAMN YOU

...love is over

Haters gonna hate

>>6127871
The art is charming but I don't think I could enjoy it being voiced as it breaks immersion.

>>6127892
gonna hate awful fucking sub-4LS-quality art. Yes. Gonna hate.

>>6127842
>NIGHT SHYAMALAN MAKE THE LIVE ACTION

>>6127842

>>6127906
Its not like the R07 version isnt awesome as it already is...so it doesnt matter if you dont like the PS3 version, you can just ignore it completely.

Anyway, i liked it, its not superior to the Umineko sprites i learned to love but still looks sweet and so is all the merchandise related (different from the anime one that was simply fugly)

>>6127908
screenplay by Stephenie Meyer

>>6127921

I generally approved of most of what I saw... Then I saw the Troll-faces... I'm sorry but those are terrible, and why did they have to buff up the goat men? During the scene after episode 2 will bern be that buff?

>>6127930
The goats have always been described as being huge.

>Umineko Live action movie

Sounds like sh-

>Directed by M. Night. Shyamalan

>>6126933

>>6127939
You might want to check out how he's fared on Rotten Tomatoes recently

>>6127936

I always figured "huge" meant large in stature, as in taller and well built, like maybe a basketball player or something. Very large and intimidating, but not quite unhuman. I'm just saying if ryu wanted us to imagine that thing when he was drawing them, you'd think he'd put a little more meat on em.

As they are they look like freaking ogres.

>>6127961
Well one of them is supposed to hold Virgilia on his shoulders, just saying.

>>6127270
Oh god, oh god

DAT ANGE

>>6127961
Don't know if I'm just overly aggravated by shitty troll faces, but this artist doesn't seem to be able to do subtlety right, which probably means the HUEGNESS of the goat men are his way of compensating for his inability to create intimidation without RIP AND TEAR.

>>6127939
>Directed by M. Night. Shyamalan

Yup, sounds like shit.

Shroedinger would make better faces.

FUCK YES BERN IS DELICIOUS LOLI AS SHE SHOULD BE

I don't know, I'm not irked by the new art.
I will admit the trollfaces are nowhere near as fitting IMO and it doesn't have as much character, but it's not like the original games are going to go away. This is just an extra to all of you who have already played them, which I'm pretty sure is everyone in this thread.
If we're getting more Umineko content I see no reason not to enjoy it.

Well it's a console port, as I don't have a console I don't care about a fully voiced graphically updated Umineko.

;_;

>ps3
can people even edit ps3 games yet?

>>6128052
>This is just an extra to all of you who have already played them, which I'm pretty sure is everyone in this thread.
I actually just started two days ago, I was skeptical.

I think it looks great, I hope somebody makes an english patch with witch hunt's translation.

This looks great, they are doing everything right. It's seriously making me consider buying a PS3. Only including the first 4 episodes seems kinda cheap for a full priced game, though.

>>6128074
A patch for the PS3?

>>6128076
meh, reading the first 4 episodes takes a lot longer than playing most games.

>>6128074
More practical idea would be someone ripping the sprites/BGs/CGs and patching the PC game with 'em. I dunno how you'd english patch a PS3 game.
Best case scenario: Some company licenses it and gets permission from Witch-Hunt to use their translation as a base?

>>6128079
They included all 8 Higurashi arcs + 2 extra on Matsuri.

>>6128102
Yeah, and it was shit without any description.

>>6128102
Well in the original Matsuri they replaced Matsuribayashi-hen with Miotsukushi-hen, which is one of the reasons why there's Kakera Asobi.
I hope they don't do the same to Umineko. Extra arc I wouldn't mind, but they'd better not replace EP4.

>>6128076
The game hasn't finished yet and I suppose they want to to reap the benefits while Umineko's popularity is at it's highest.

On second thought, it does indeed remove the doujin character.

>>6128094
Would be brilliant. If only licensing companies got ideas that good. Hell, the whole work is already done for them.

>>6128076
Better that than Alchemist trying to write their own ending like they did to Higurashi.

I think I'm the only person here that likes the art.

But really, I just want to here some delicious voice acting for certain scenes.

>>6128094
>Some company licenses it and gets permission from Witch-Hunt to use their translation as a base

..Maybe if we start bugging ATLUS about this right away...

>>6128138
I would actually buy a PS3 just to play Umineko.
Im fucking serious.

Shame is on them for not investing in VN translations...

>>6128164
Well honestly if they get a million and one emails/a huge request thread from half of /jp/ the day after the announcement for this is made, they might consider it... Especially since this is Umineko we're talking about, it's got a huge following and all they'd have to do (unless there are extra arcs) is prettymuch copy+paste the existing translation into the game, with some minor edits as I'm sure there will be a few changes here and there... Provided they get permission from WH.
C'mon /jp/, if we work hard I bet we can get this licensed.

>People thinking of buying a PS3 to read a visual novel they've already read.

>>6128186
Would someone want to license this while the ports of Higurashi are still unlicensed?

>>6128192
Deluded fanboys, what do you expect?

>>6128186
If I could write moonrunes I'd send them an email, since I can't I wont.

>>6128194
I don't see why not, you can enjoy Umineko without even really knowing anything about Higurashi.

>>6128200
Of course, they are talking about
http://www.atlus.com/
and not
http://www.atlus.co.jp/

>>6128200
Uh, we'd be requesting a license from the English-language branch of the company, obviously.

At least Eva is looking good.

But oh Bern, why are you so flat

>>6128202
Yeah, you can. But you wouldn't be as trolled by Bern, she and Lambda wouldn't have any meaning to you, and the word fragment (or kakera, whatever the use) wouldn't have any sense to you. I think Higurashi is somehow needed

>>6128221
Nah i disagree, its a plus of course but you would trust Bern at the beggining anyway and the sea of kakeras is re-explained for the heck of it.

Okay, Atlus has honestly considered doing this, because faggots like me inquire about this sort of shit whenever I'm not slaving away over Shiren the Wanderer and Dokapon, but seriously, guys, there isn't a large enough market for this shit in NA to make it a viable project for us.

>>6128221
I don't think it's needed. And I don't think anyone would go for licensing those at this point, so there's no use in hoping. This is brand-new, so we still have a chance. It's not worth throwing that chance away just because some people would miss out on some Higurashi references.
If they're really interested, people can look up the series and find Higurashi that way.

>>6128221
I've read it with no knowledge of Higurashi, and am enjoying it quite fine.

>>6128233
There's also Europe and Australia.

>>6128237
And New Zeala- wait nevermind...carry on.

>>6128234
I didn't mean we should throw it away, I mean we may also try higurashi (kizuna is pretty new). And I think Higurashi has more fans out there because they may have seen the anime.

>>6128233
Normally I'd agree with you, but considering what series this is and considering a few unlikely success stories of similar stuff (i.e. Phoenix Wright and whatnot), I think if we nag enough there's a chance of a license. It may be slim, but hell, it's there.

>>6128233
Umineko is one of the few VNs that would have a ghost of a chance this side of the pacific. F/SN probably has the best chance, but I'd imagine Umineko would be cheaper, since it's not nearly as successful.

>>6128244
The issue with that is the translation. They might be able to get permission from Witch-Hunt to use Umineko's (or they might not, we don't even know), but Higurashi's translation is by MangaGamer. Giving them their translation would probably mean lost sales for MG, making me think they wouldn't do so.
Translating these is a lot of work and they often don't sell well, that's why ATLUS stays away from these things. We're hoping they might consider Umineko because there's already an available translation that they MIGHT be able to use.

>>6128247
Umineko similar to Phoenix Wright?

>>6128252
There is a problem with that. You are parting on the basis that this game doesn't have any significant change from the original. That may be tru, and that may be not (again, see higurashi. They wouldn't be able to use mangagamers translation since the text is diferent).

>>6128254
It was just an example of another game with a lot of text that ended up being translated AND successful.
>>6128258
They may have to make a few edits, but the majority will be the same. Making some edits is nowhere near as much trouble as translating.

The problem is that it's on PS3. I think Umineko has quite a chance to grab western attention if licensed, but PS3? Not everyone is ready to pay that much for a VN like Japanese, especially most people, ones who barely have any idea what a VN is. It would seriously make more sense as a portable game or a PC remake.

>>6128254
Yeah. Both are text based games, where the gameplay doesn't have an important role. The important part is the text. There are a lot of games like that that became licensed, so it's not a wild guess. But I must say that most of those games were for the DS.

they are not going to license this. its a fucking visual novel, not a popular one either. Higurashi's ports haven't got license and its much more popular than Umineko.

Pheonix Wright got licensed because it actually requires player input in some parts. This is a fucking book. Only the japanese are crazy enough to buy a fucking book for the PS3.

It's stupid to put it on the PS3 anyway, its not made for things like this, such a waste.

>>6128261
Also to add onto this the only significant problem would be extra arcs, I think that's been mentioned before.

...All I really want is a chance for this to be localized, and hell considering what series this is, with enough nagging it might be. Never know 'till you try.

I'm really surprised it's on PS3 as it only has one ADV so far (White Album) and it didn't sell as well as the top 360 VNs. PSP seems like the obvious choice to me.

This is exciting though, it's pretty much the last chance for Umineko to "make it big" like Higurashi and possibly encourage production of a Chiru anime.

fuck umineko.
Higurashi kizuna actually has a chance to be localized. it's for the DS, and quite a few VNs have been localized for the DS.

>>6128276
Name five.

>>6128265
> its a fucking visual novel, not a popular one either

Haha really? Not popular? Maybe not as much as Higurashi, but it's definitely popular. Why do you think they'd even make a PS3 port for an unpopular series?

>>6128284
He means it's not popular in ze Vest.

>>6128283
While not as Visual Novel I have seen the 'Artemis Fowel' novel series ported over to the DS. It shows there is some sort of market for these types of things.
Though it really has no relevance or impact on what is being discussed

>>6128284
>>6128265
Ok, don't argue about that one. Umineko can be as popular as higurashi, and Umineko can use the popularity from higurashi (you just need to say: "Hey, guys. It's from the same writer. If you liked the first one, you will love this").

>>6128283
Not all exactly VNs, but close:
1. Phoenix Wright
2. Time Hollow
3. Hotel Dusk
4. Professor Layton(? I haven't played this one so I'm not sure)
5. Trace Memory

>>6128284
I have to say I do appreciate the level of effort Alchemist seems to putting into something they have every reason to believe won't sell as well as Higurashi.

>>6128283
few=three if you didn't know that one.

>>6128284
Do you know the amount of eroge/VNs adaptations available on PS3/Xbox360?
Umineko has its own fanbase but it's not a "popular" series, heck even in the current thread in futaba they are talking about how much this adaptation is going to bomb.

Higurashi was extremely popular, Umineko isn't.

>>6128262
The PS3 aspect is the biggest sticking point, yeah. If they did it at a lower price point, it might work.

it's hilarious how if one person says Higurashi is more popular all the Umineko fans get offended. why not love both? they're written by the same person.

>>6128301
Umineko is better though.

>>6128301
I can't imagine Alchemist thinks it'll do Higurashi numbers. I don't think it'll be a best seller, but it'll probably be okay.

>>6128301
Because the anime sucked, and unlike higurashi, there was a lot of people who had already read the novel by the time the anime started airing.

>>6128312
Higurashi was already a phenomenon within the eroge/doujin market well before the anime aired.

Heck, it got an anime BECAUSE it was fucking popular

>>6128306
No one here is offended by facts. Higurashi is a better seller and is better for merchandising. They'll probably use Higurashi's name to promote it as much as possible. I like Umineko better, though.

>>6128308
That's subjective, and it's not whether or not something's better that causes it to sell well. Someone can make a brilliant film that goes entirely unnoticed while the latest kiddie blockbuster with horrendous reviews rakes in all the cash.

>>6128308
I wouldn't agree. Umineko has a better mistery, but Higurashi had a better story IMO.

>>6128312
so? where are you going with this? Higurashi is more popular, Umineko is less popular. what are you trying to prove? why so butthurt?

>>6128315
Pretty much exactly this. We're autosaging, by the way.

>>6128306
Popularity =/= quality
I never argued about the quality of Umineko or Higurashi

>>6128314
Yeah, a really cheap anime that tried to shove everything into 26 eps. It was amazing that it got one in the first place, considering it was doujinsoft, but let's not pretend we're talking about something they had full faith in from the get go.

>>6128317
>better mystery
>crossdressing maids kill people, oops actually nothing happened my bad

>>6128319
I think he is trying to say that, if higurashi isn't licensed, Umineko doesn't have even a chance. BTW, I think the same, but for other reasons.

Not that I'm surprised we forgot or anything, but Umineko got an anime too.

While I'd like to see this licensed, I really doubt it will happen.
Maybe the witch of miracles can lend a hand.

>>6128330
I like Higurashi a lot, but it's not exactly hard to beat it in terms of "mystery".

Atlus guy here.
Wrote an overly long reply then realized that I just need to tell you this.
Atlus can't do it.
We focus on establishing connections with developers (From, Sting, etc.) and the only reason you ever saw us localizing Operation Darkness is because Izuna did pretty good for us and Success requested us to do it since they thought it'd do much better in the Western market despite it just being a shit game nevertheless. 07th Expansion just isn't large enough a group for us to really consider setting up relationships with when we really can't expect them to produce enough products to make it worthwhile for us in the long-run.
Stuff like Umineko is definitely viable to an extent, since gamers in general are becoming more accepting of text-cental games, but it's still a pretty big risk and not one we can really handle despite us being dicks and bringing obscenely hardcore shit like Shiren the Wanderer across, but that's ChunSoft at least.

>>6128333
Yeah, just like tsukihime, right?

>>6128330
Obviously, I'm talking about the mistery itself, not the solution.

>>6128331
It also depends on the asking price. The relative popularity of Higurashi could work against it when it comes to the licensing cost. Whereas Umineko isn't as well-known in Japan, but has a small, but hardcore fanbase over here.
>>6128333
Umineko got an anime mainly because of the success of the Higurashi anime, not because it was doing Higurashi sales numbers at Comiket.

>>6128337
IMO, Umineko's story is better, but Higurashi's characters are better.
Seriously the only characters I've really cared about are Beato and Battler in Umineko, the rest are despicable (*cough*most of the adults*cough*) or uninteresting/irrelevant to the story. I felt emotionally attached to the characters in Higurashi, though.

>>6128345
Higurashi's characters are more likable. But I prefer Umineko's precisely because they're more fucked up and human.

>>6128345
That's one of the reason Higurashi was so popular actually, they liked it mainly as a charage.

>>6128338
I'd agree and say I understand, but we're not talking about the 07th Expansion version, we're talking about the Alchemist version.

To be honest, Witch Hunt is doing a decent enough job as translators for the doujinsoft. We don't need an official localization of it. However, a lot of us that like the doujinsoft would also like the PS3 port because of things like the updated sprites and voices.

>>6128338
Besides Atlus though, I really can't think of any company who could ever be willing to bring something like Umineko across, but I do see your point, even though there is My World, My Way which I remembered looking at the current front page of /jp/.

>>6128349
Characters in Higurashi feel more human to me, simply because it seems they actually had layers to them.
Characters in Umineko are pretty straightforward in the most part.

>>6128345
I agree with the characters part. I couldnt get attatched to Umineko's cast because there was so any he couldn't develop hardly any of them.
I loved Higurashi Kai's story though. I love stories about time travelling and such, It was easy to feel for Rika and Shion. I liked how in Meakashi-hen Shion slowly goes into insanity, and becase she is the one narrating it you can see how she's feeling and thinking. I felt sad for a week after reading it.

>>6128360
I feel it's the reverse. The characters in Higurashi feel simplistic compared to the ones in Umineko.

>>6128354
Not from Atlus here, but I'd imagine it's the same problem with Alchemist. I don't think they do that much outside of visual novel ports or... Visual novel-based shooting games and whatnot.

>>6128367
really? have you read the visual novel? the characters go really in depth because they are narrating. In Umineko its usually only Battler or an unknown narrator, so you just the see the characters as-is. thats just my view.

>>6128367
Same here, anon.

New thread anybody?

Question, how easy would it be to extract voices/sprites/CGs from a PS3 Bluray disc?
Would a patch for the PC version even be possible?

>>6128368
Alchemist just does ports, yes. However, if you're looking to branch out into VNs, Higurashi and Umineko are a decent starting point. It would be easier if they had some RPGs, though.

>>6128373
I've read the Higurashi SNs. While you might feel that the first person narration brings you closer, I prefer the way Umineko does it because it makes you think about the characters, their actions, and why they do what they do.

>>6128400

New thread

>>6126933

Damn, time to starve myself half to death and save up for that PS3 I've always been meaning to buy.

The character sprites don't have that Ryukishi charm (gonna miss Beato's trollface ;_;), I agree, but shit, full voice acting? Pretty much all characters voiced by their anime seiyuus? I'd pay full price three times over only for that, easy.

>>6127002
Unimpressed.

If you like the old art more than the new art it's only because you are bad with change and feel depressed when things don't stay the same in your life.