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>>23236586
>Now you remember Higurashi live-action
What were they thinking? The anime and manga adaptations were already bad enough, they shouldn't have ruined such a masterpiece with another awful adaptation.

The recent steam release of Chapter 6 of Higurashi is quite awful.

I'm pretty sure they just completely forgot to restore the original music for this one.
I bothered making a fix for it last night, compared it directly with the original Japanese version.
It's exactly the same as their shitty 2010 release. A lot of the music choices are really questionable when comparing to the original. It gave some scenes a really different feel to it than intended, it really pissed me off comparing them one by one.

The songs made specifically for that release are also really bad in my opinion, they're almost all under a minute.
And they even replaced 2 tracks with fucking sound effects on loop, I'm not even kidding.
https://youtu.be/iVay367HM3Y this one, I'm pretty sure there are people here familiar with it.
I really wanna know who thought it was okay to have this playing on loop for around 10 minutes straight...

I wonder, do they actually have people testing this?
There's also a bug that's also present in Meakashi where the BGM would not play for most of the tips. Again, how did nobody notice this???
Speaking of which... Meakashi is STILL missing it's final credits sequence, the one where it says what happened to each character. This is really huge if you're reading for the first time, and multiple people have actually pointed this out to MangaGamer and their programmer, a year later it's still not fixed.
It also uses the sound effects from their previous English release instead of the ones from the original..


I think I know why the question arcs are fine, because they used the Japanese version and put an English translation on top of that, there are like notes in Japanese in it, mostly just the full text in Japanese of the sentence before the command where everything gets kinda split up.
But for the Answer arcs they obviously seem to be using their previous English release from 2010 and putting in the original Japanese text in there.
I'm actually quite curious how much the translation for the Ch 5 and 6 differs from their 2010 release. I wouldn't be surprised if they're completely identical.

I find it really messed up they actually release them like this. I have no clue how they have taken over an entire year for Ch 6, and they release it like that...
Higurashi deserves better than this...

Check steam discussions if you want those fixes I made.