May 16, 2022
One of the main ways to create a mystery is to not recognize your own limits, to advance as intensely as a ferocious predator and still have the flight instincts of a herbivore. A well-aimed good story is seldom built straight from start to finish, but first a blueprint is created to determine its function. The finish line is built right after the starting line and so the author just needs to do his best in this crazy marathon.
That said, Umineko shows itself to be a rising line of quality and just like an investor seeing his company's profit soar, all that's left is a
...
happy leap for such a high and pleasurable bet.
And speaking of betting, no matter how much money you lose, as long as you have a path laid out and written down in painstaking calculations, your failure will become your future success. Umineko part 1 seemed too biased, an exaggerated confidence for little demonstration, its second part however shows us that even in failure there was a reason, which was not to fight for something useless, but as a strategist who creates failure to divert his attention until that the surprise attack arrives, and well... We've reached Umineko part 3, haven't we?
About the mystery/story, the arguments are expanded in a more logical way as the puzzles collide in a way that is as intense and fun as bumper cars until they are incorporated into a logic consistent with interesting theories applied in this field. logical. Going back a little bit, there's a good build with wordplay and mystery preludes that finally reach its afterword... Or is it just your interlude? How a movie with a hyperbolically extravagant ending full of explosions and flashes that would hit-kill an epileptic, so, feeling that something is missing, after looking at the length of the movie, you find that there is still 3 more hours of duration!? Anyway, what I mean is that the author understands the vision of a reader, and this is an extremely precious essence that every mystery must have, after all, what manipulative technique is absent from the understanding towards the next? It's a corrupt kind of empathy, but perfect for an intersection as lunatic as this!!!
The Builds can range from "massive" wishes (Hoho, that works fine here) to small bumps in each character's arguments... It might seem biased as at first hand, small clues look like they'll go in 1000's of possible places, but in fact there is a great connection with time. In general, we have the witches and the epitaph that work with the future, full of tips for the reader to understand the future plot twists coming from a greater plan, what represents the author's ideals and the famous mysterious phrase "That fog that was there the whole time and no one noticed", further embodying the mystery. Not satisfied, going directly to the mortal plane, we have humans who link to the past, usually these giving clues about the complex relationships and feelings of each of the victims and culprits.
Those who suffer under the pressure of all these mysteries are none other than the victims. Expanding even further, we have the characters in general. Here many of its incongruities are part of a larger project, as already shown in part 2. Writing is also amplified as well as empathy and with that, we can create an interesting link for each of the problems and psychopathies apparent in this present, but it wasn't enough to rescue what was already lost.......
Umineko can definitely gloat over her mystery and how the journey between parts was chock full of hints, but it's ridiculous to think how incongruous some characters are. No, it's not right to specify this, so let's just generalize that all characters are doomed to commit ridiculous actions for the tiny cracks in this subtle, imperfect paper cut.
Yes yes... Some characters actually proved to keep some dark secret, but there are still certain annoying incongruities that are not explained, even looking at macro, micro, virtual simulation and among others. So we have some forced and pointless actions, some characters forgetting about their past feelings and falling into ridiculous pieces (Battler...... You're chad, but stop that shit!) and some personality issues continue.. The time frame for suffering is always overcome very easily, which breaks the reasoning even more, as it is as if the construction of feelings was interrupted, evidencing their own lack of control and attention. This ends up taking away a lot of literary value that a certain sentence could have, almost as if laughing at human complexity and saying that any spark of trauma could be suppressed after 5 seconds of dialogue.
Problems are included in the characters in a majority, but not total way, as we also have the script with problems
Don't get me wrong, it was fun to travel through these literary timelines that connect in an intense way, sometimes so intense that they generate a kind of epiphany to meet other paths or just generate an insecurity when bumping into a solid mystery that reveals itself as thick as cement and at the same time as delicate as paper.
However, these little temporal wordplays also seem to leave lines out of place, like a skillful geometry teacher mistaking the angles where the points should intersect.... More specifically, we call this incongruity.
Obvious battles where the result is depressing or some repetitions that only make the reading more tedious work as annoying counterpoints... Being even more rigorous, there are some small plot twists that come out of nowhere without any logical preparation, they are just given suddenly, almost like the typical stupid fight between omniscient beings that appear out of nowhere with a completely fictional action, always ending with "I predicted this", without any preparation behind it (Take for example the first battle between golden witches)
As an addition, we couldn't forget about the "thiller" horror that accompanies the mystery... The horror here still tries to be as caricatured as possible while covering itself with gore, which can sometimes be extremely superficial, even a creative way to introduce a narrative horror. . However, as much as there is a certain improvement over its previous episodes, the horror still seems like a comic duel of faces in which you can get 1 or 2 laughs. It definitely has its tense moments, but even these are still pretty weak... By the way, don't expect a psychotic break or a scary creepypasta, as it's more possible to get the opposite of that.
Anyway, not to close with a bitter taste in my mouth, I weave my last compliment before a summary.... This time, Umineko expands more on her previous philosophies, to the point of bringing infinite beauty in this limited life. Contradictory concepts collide in such a paradoxical way that they find their own meaning, even if in another reality, thus assuming the pure and beautiful metamorphic antithesis of paradox, like a butterfly ready to reach the horizon, and after all, what would this conflict be if not a clash between illogical truths? Shit, just as contradictory, but that's exactly why it's fun to think about!
STORY: 8 (Although there are some inconsistencies, the story was very inviting and became a success in what it set out to do, so I think it's a fair note... Besides, we still had room for some philosophy and depth, so I really believe it was a work Well done)
CHARACTERS: 7 (Interesting, especially on the part of witches and their meanings... Unfortunately it's not more than that, because it's still irritating to review some characters' actions and the gaps left by them. As a vote of confidence, I can say that there was a good job of dismemberment and on their own problems..... By the way, are Kyrie and Rudolf cyborg spies bursting with testosterone? I just don't understand their strength and how contradictory it seems)
ART: 7 (I'm glad to see that the illustrator of part 1 is back... His art is really elegant and fits well with Umineko's setting. It has its counterpoints like lack of detail and predictable framing, but it's still pretty decent! By the way, he improved the incongruities of his art, since in part 1 there were a lot more mistakes)
FUN: 8 (Self-explanatory)
I bow my head in reverence to the unseen fantasy, accepting faith and what they call rational. I put my knees in reverence to a well-engineered mystery and finally, I chant my prayer, carrying in each of my palms, a truth, I contract them and join them so that they never let go, allowing the two to coexist without destroying the finite space that hands could not cover.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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