Last time on Higurashi 4, I remember being somebody else and going to Hinamizawa... at some point in time? Glad I left notes in someone else's topic! (Yours, =P). Mamoru Akasaka, expecting a child, there five years before Keiichi's story, dam project protests under way, lots of lore about the families of the town. Okay, let's do this? Oh yeah, and the PM's kid was kidnapped and I'm sent here to see if the ODA had anything to do with it.
North Wind and Sun. Oh, Ryukishi07.
Ukita Waterworks - New Place. Wonder if that's around the garbage site with Colonel Sanders.
A camera... and a knapsack. To look completely... casual... O_O
Is Akasaka.... Tomitake?!?! Is that why we're here? He'd been going to Hinamizawa the past few years, but wait, didn't he not come back here, or see Ooishi at the least, in seven years? Or did Tomitake take up Akasaka's slack in coming years after whatever happens happens.
And there it is. The passengers staring at him from the bus. Wonderful. Thank you creepy-ass town.
Ha! He was directed to get off there. Yup, he's intentionally been marked by being too trusting.
Awww, there's a sleeping girl in there? But who? Who?
"Whether we could tell if they were a boy or a girl was, in the end, dependent on whether or not we could get an image of their genitalia." ...Yep. I am definitely thinking more about Umineko than Higurashi when I play this game.
"MEEP" Yay Rika! XD, 'this girl was way better at interrogating someone than Ooishi', XD
"Tomitake Mk II" Okay, there goes those earlier theories!
This fatherhood gaze is heartwarming. Don't crush me later, game.
Makino: Farmer mayor assigned to accompany Akasaka (and Rika). Auditor of ODA?
Ugh, Akasaka. I know you're happy to be gushing about our wife ready to give birth, but, uh, you're touring a random ass village instead of being with your pregnant wife. Why? Isn't that suspicious? *beat* Oh good, Makino asked that right away.
Rika being cute, Rika being cute, Akasaka sharing an opinion, Rika being cute, Akasaka explains thinking she's to oyoung to understand, and Rika gets this new face where she's all business.
Kiichirou Kimiyoshi - Mayor of Hinamizawa and president of ODA
Why doesn't the Mayor get a portrait, but the teacher at the school did?
'It's already been decided?'?
Geez, serious-faced five-year-old Rika is intimidating. "Go back to Tokyo." Rika's pulling Akasaka back before he crosses the street...
Geezus, who is this kid???
Maybe she was possessed, but she was warning Akasaka. Why? And now she's a small cute little Rika-chan again. I need to think. Hmm... 'It is decided.' 'Go back to Tokyo.' Warnings. Is there foreknowledge? The Rika that appeared... didn't look sinister so much as... done. Tired. Forlorn. WEll ,the smile was sinister, but she was also described as a stray cat earlier by Akasaka... is there some tie here to FredeRIKA Bernkastel? If... if Akasaka leaves to go back to Tokyo, instead of staying, would things change? If the Dam Project ends because it is decided that that happens, what would change? Does... oooh. I really need to pay more attention (helps that the last time I played was a month ago)
Okay, so, if Akasaka goes back, would that prevent some of the deaths that occur? I forget who is first and why, but didn't Rika's parents get demoned away for... no it was Satoko's for collaborating against the project. If Akasaka leaves, does that save Satoko's parents? Or Rika's? Or both? Or the dam people and their hacked up limbs? What does Akasaka's continued presence do?
TIPS: Whoa, there is a kidnapping and it's involved with the Dam Project? Wow! I'm tempted not to say it's the same one Akasaka is looking into, but...
Predetermined fate??? Wait, I was thinking that was Keiichi's kitchen, but maybe this is Bernkastel?! Past data determining events to come, but predetermination is so boring and suffocating. If only things were different than expected? Well, this doesn't sound like the prelude to Danganronpa at all!
Narrator (Bern?) hoping for a rain cloud (bad times, chaos, change) because he/she's tired of clear skies (order, established story, sameness).
Oryou Sonozaki. A heavy millstone that needs lots of people to turn it for it to work and grind things to a pulp. The town working together to stop the dam, in unison carrying out a kidnapping? Or the dam project being stopped would be very hard to start up again. Mion and Oryou smiling about Irie wondering idly whether the project could in fact be stopped.
Very interesting episode...
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