Monthly Archive for February, 2009

How to run Umineko no Naku Koro Ni in Linux

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I did quite a bit of searching and couldn’t find any documentation explaining how to get this to work, and decided since no one else has done it and a couple of people had asked me about it I thought I might as well write it down. My distro in this case is Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and I’m using the Umineko Episode 4 package.

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Umineko no Naku Koro Ni Episode 1 - Thoughts

Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

Late last week I finished playing through the first episode of this. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will be starting episode 2 ASAP. I realise that I’m extremely late to the party and pretty much everyone’s already talked this one to death probably, but I thought I’d jot down a few thoughts. Naturally this is going to have spoilers for episode 1 so if you don’t want to be spoiled then don’t read. Additionally I’d really appreciate it if people who have played subsequent episodes would please not make knowing comments or whatever, or spoil the coming installments.

Additionally I already know that I’m completely wrong about everything.

For those who have no idea what I’m talking about here, visit this site for more info including the english translation patch for the first three episodes.

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