Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri is a PlayStation 2 port of the original Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novels. The game features new sprites, backgrounds, CGs, music, and full voice acting. The port also features an ADV-style presentation, showing one line of text at a time in a small box in the lower section of the screen, as opposed to the original games' NVL-style, where the text box took up the entire game window and displayed multiple lines. While Matsuri carries seven of the eight original arcs (Matsuribayashi-hen was excluded), three new arcs are included—the Question Arc Taraimawashi-hen, the bad-end Answer Arc Tsukiotoshi-hen, and Miotsukushi-hen, which provides an alternate ending to the one offered by Matsuribayashi-hen.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983 in a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa (雛見沢?) which is based on the village of Shirakawa, Gifu, and has a population of approximately 2,000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Houjou. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser – usually him). Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the evening of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro. In each story arc, he or one of his friends becomes paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their own friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed.

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Alternative Titles

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri, ひぐらしのなく頃に祭

Platform

PlayStation 2

Developer(s)

07th Expansion

Publishers(s)

Alchemist

Genres(s)

Visual Novel

JP Release Date

February 22, 2007

CERO Rating

CERO D

MVGL User Score

9.3 by 3 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

1.0000

Composer(s)

Dai

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