Yay, someone else who liked it ;_; (Lion was awesome. And Will and his cat. And Bern was just asfjkhbffhkku) but I'm afraid I haven't got them confused.
I'm in the visual novel community, which is mostly full of fanboys and based around 4chan (usually /jp/) and IRC. About a week before the English patch for episode 6 and the Japanese version of episode 7 came out, everyone literally went from 'Ryuukishi best guy ever have my babies' to 'Umineko worst game ever Ryuukishit can't write it's terrible' overnight. It was the most surreal thing I'd ever seen. I loved episode 6, and episode 7 too, but alas I couldn't fangirl either of them because uttering the magic words 'Umineko' causes about 20 people to descend on you to lecture you about how Umineko is terrible and you should feel bad for liking it blah blah blah. The sheer amount of maliciousness people seem to have for it is astounding. A lot of my friends are already writing off Key's new game 'Rewrite' because Ryuukishi's one of the writers for it.
I'd heard about 2ch going crazy over episode 8 but I just assumed that was an extension of all the wank ep6 and 7 caused. (Those pictures of the broken discs fucking hurt though.) I'm kinda dreading the release of the full episode 8 English patch just because I don't want to sit through yet another hatefest where I will inevitably be the only one defending the game...
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I'm in the visual novel community, which is mostly full of fanboys and based around 4chan (usually /jp/) and IRC. About a week before the English patch for episode 6 and the Japanese version of episode 7 came out, everyone literally went from 'Ryuukishi best guy ever have my babies' to 'Umineko worst game ever Ryuukishit can't write it's terrible' overnight. It was the most surreal thing I'd ever seen. I loved episode 6, and episode 7 too, but alas I couldn't fangirl either of them because uttering the magic words 'Umineko' causes about 20 people to descend on you to lecture you about how Umineko is terrible and you should feel bad for liking it blah blah blah. The sheer amount of maliciousness people seem to have for it is astounding. A lot of my friends are already writing off Key's new game 'Rewrite' because Ryuukishi's one of the writers for it.
I'd heard about 2ch going crazy over episode 8 but I just assumed that was an extension of all the wank ep6 and 7 caused. (Those pictures of the broken discs fucking hurt though.) I'm kinda dreading the release of the full episode 8 English patch just because I don't want to sit through yet another hatefest where I will inevitably be the only one defending the game...
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