Also, good news: I found a complete copy of the PS3 game online and ordered it; when I get around to having movie nights with friends I should have the full PS3 port.
Do you really think Hideyoshi "I handed over my watch and begged the bandits to leave" Ushiromiya will be good in any fight that doesn't directly endanger George and Eva?
i am STILL on my bullshit about kumasawa not being alive when the game started due to dying of natural causes and thus never being included in that 18 count
A lot of Umineko's best dramatic tension comes from pieces drawing conclusions that we know are wrong but seem like reasonable conclusions if you don't have the red truth on your side.
all of these are plausible for person x, the artist previously known as person 19, but it doesn't seem that way to BATTLER because he didn't advance to the notion of discarding "person 19" and going to "person x"
But if you spin it around, would a culprit clever enough to perform five to six locked room murders in such an intertwined fashion just forget to grab the deadly weapon?
This is the right thinking, though, especially if we think back to how the motivation for the culprit really seems to be to "convince you that witches are real."
It would be an extremely hard position to argue out of, but I have demonstrated a way to accomplish that locked room trick based on the red truths we were given that hypothetically anyone with the proper knowledge of the mansion could pull off.
But I'm stuck on how Ronove had to literally gag Beato and surrender the first twilight to keep Battler from asking him to repeat methods of death other than homicides.
And other than "suicide" and "accident," "natural causes" is pretty much your only way to go there, and Beato STILL couldn't say "homicide" in red at that point.
If we spin the chessboard around, there's not a lot of reasons for why the culprit would abandon the pattern now while they've been so consistent so far.
Honestly, I'd put solid bets on "Person X" being in the middle of setting up a different closed room when they were taken by surprise by Rosa and Maria, and had to silence them before they could get back.
Also, Rosa and Maria are a.... stretch pick for the second twilight. Outside of the end of episode 3, they aren't truly close like how the previous second twilight victims have been.
In a typhoon this intense it would actually be fairly easy to hide yourself if you knew what you were doing. If the culprit had enough situational awareness to pull all of these other locked room murders off, they probably could've spotted Rosa and Maria before the pair spotted them.
Which means that, for some reason, the culprit took Maria's rose in the first place, and more than that they put it back for some reason too, at that point in time.
Ep3 is interesting because Ep1 and Ep2 feel IMMENSELY UNFAIR by design but, like, I'm in Battler's shoes here in that I can actually start putting stuff together and track what's going on a lot easier.
Seeing the siblings present a united front and refuse to suspect each other is something I didn't expect at this stage in the game. I think really the deciding factors here are a. Rosa, who was shown to be extremely paranoid, is out of the game and b. Eva, who was shown to be nasty in these kinds of situations, is shaken by her dreams and Rosa's death.
The commitment to passivity because "the police will come" is one of the most frustrating parts of the Question Arcs to me, even when it's Kyrie who's saying it.
I really do wonder... if the resurrection ritual didn't 100% work for Beato, what will stop it for Evatrice? Will Piece Battler resist until the end and so Evatrice will have to get into her OWN game with Piece Battler?
...ah. I see. And this "one place" has become increasingly secure, as opposed to the mansion and outside as a whole which is dangerous, which means luring anybody out will be extremely difficult. Evatrice now has a much more limited field to play on.
Splitting the cousins off from the rest of the group, and isolating Eva and Hideyoshi from everyone too. After all, she never promised to only go after the adults, and they still are putting up a pretty strong barricade. The moment Battler leaves the cousin room, Jessica and George are super vulnerable.
YEAH I FUCKING KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN. ultimately it would be boring because it comes down to battler saying "it was nanjo since he didn't have an alibi and there's no closed room trick" while being depressed
THEY'RE GETTING A CART TOO. but how are they planning on getting rid of- oh kyrie came to the same conclusion as battler and figures eva and hideyoshi are a threat and need to be eliminated
honestly natsuhi is, like. correct here. you can deal with not having food for literally one day while you have access to clean water if it means not getting mcmurdered
I'm still on my bullshit about Rudolf and Kyrie going for the gold while trying to eliminate Hideyoshi here in the domain of humans, it's the only thing that makes sense.
Granted it's the OST for a hopeless fight, but in both cases it was used, it was a hopeless fight that nevertheless ended in ideological victory for Humans even if they lost.
This also confirms what I've been thinking in that Kyrie and Rudolf have always been best friends, and that relationship didn't really change after they got married.
...it's not just the bullets. It's the physical gun itself. Kyrie deduced that they were EXTREMELY AFRAID of guns just by how far they ran from those first few shots, and she figured out how to respond in kind.
Reckon up the variables, find a way
Make it real
Make a deal
Until my protector comes
nothing matters anymore. beato is kawaii nowYou cannot outsmart bullet.kyrie has absolutely pegged this man