I haven't finished the game yet, but one is for certain. Umineko is a work that tries to be many things at once, combining many elements from different genres and constantly switching between points of view, narrative styles and even main focuses of the story itself. And somehow, despite being rather slow and convoluted at times, it excels at every single one of those things. At some point, it starts to feel as that slowness is a necessary byproduct of an immense ambition this work has. If you have enough patience and open mind to keep up with sometimes absurd directions that the story takes, it really will start shining later on.

I haven't finished the game yet, but one is for certain. Umineko is a work that tries to be many things at once, combining many elements from different genres and constantly switching between points of view, narrative styles and even main focuses of the story itself. And somehow, despite being rather slow and convoluted at times, it excels at every single one of those things. At some point, it starts to feel as that slowness is a necessary byproduct of an immense ambition this work has. If you have enough patience and open mind to keep up with sometimes absurd directions that the story takes, it really will start shining later on.