Tag Archives: Higurashi: When They Cry

The case for understanding an author’s intent in creating a work instead of jumping to diagnose fictional characters with autism, Asprger’s syndrome, or anything else which may appear in some version of the DSM.

No need for video game cloud saves if you know how to use Syncthing (sometimes, probably).

I review Night of the Forget-Me-Nots, a 2006 translation of a freeware 2003 Japanese horror visual novel that is a bit scarier without music.

〜I’m not crying, I just have a bit of Stun Spore in my eye〜

〜Tackling Victor’s question about choices in story-heavy video games〜

I review a little-discussed Japanese horror visual novel called Bad End. My review is perhaps unique because I played it on a 2013 Kindle Fire HDX.

The appearance of the unusual “whyever” (in American English, at least) in the Manga Gamer localization of the Higurashi series prompted me to examine the word in detail.