naikou said: If you have a different interpretation of what it means to be a person, then Umineko will seem unfair. I won’t say it’s unfair strictly speaking, as clues were indeed scattered across EP1-4. However this is really cheap: in the end, the bulk of the mystery relies on a verbal trick, and that’s it. You may disagree and think it’s ok, but I do consider it sub par, as far as mystery is concerned. Good thing Umineko is a story about a mystery, and not a pure mystery. At least we got awesome characters, epic danmaku logic battles and <very good> music. |
| Yeah... mystery novels are actually pretty boring, a lot of the time! Mostly because you don't have many interesting characters (except the detective, but he/she never goes through much development). Also, Golden Age mysteries were all written during the 20's, so some of the clues are so outdated that you can't even solve the mystery. verbal trick It's not really a verbal trick, per se. It's more a matter of philosophy. But, eh, I do understand where you're coming from. |
dioptase said: naikou said: If you have a different interpretation of what it means to be a person, then Umineko will seem unfair. I won’t say it’s unfair strictly speaking, as clues were indeed scattered across EP1-4. However this is really cheap: in the end, the bulk of the mystery relies on a verbal trick, and that’s it. You may disagree and think it’s ok, but I do consider it sub par, as far as mystery is concerned. Good thing Umineko is a story about a mystery, and not a pure mystery. At least we got awesome characters, epic danmaku logic battles and <very good> music. I thought it was kind of annoying because it just changes how I have to interpret like half of the red truths. Things I thought I could trust or people I thought were dead area all of a sudden not. |
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