From: KamikazePotato | #010
But yeah, my travels through Umineko went something like this:
Episode 1: Magic exists?
Episode 2: Magic exists.
Episode 3: *understands the concept of a fantasy scene* Wait, magic DOESN'T exist
Episode 4: scrambling and failing to solve stuff
After that I tried solving things a little more, but I was never anywhere near as good at is as everyone else.
Yeah, pretty much this. It's nice since I basically went through the same ride Battler did. I remember loving the Ep1 Tea Party since I was all "what a lame way to cop-out of a cool mystery" and then Battler was all "wait, you guys aren't actually accepting this? Magic isn't real!"
I got through Episodes 1-3 in about a week since it was awesome. Then Ange slowed things down with Ep4 and things were never quite as good since then.
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No amount of planning will ever replace dumb luck.