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Not really a new game suggestion but I don't know if there is a more appropriate section for this question/suggestion. Any chance that Song of Saya's soundtrack will be released as a digital product? Or will it always be exclusive to the boxed version of the game?
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Due to some existing licensing agreements, the rights to release the soundtrack as a digital product is sadly hard/impossible.
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Week #1 - Visual Novel Discussion: Saya no Uta
沙耶の唄(Saya no Uta), also known as Saya's Song and Song of Saya is a short, 5-10 hour visual novel developed by Nitroplus in 2003 and written by the legendary Gen Urobuchi . Some of his other popular works include being the mastermind behind Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero .
Saya no Uta is considered "horror" and contains Cthulhu mythology, paranormal activity, gore, some sexual violence, psychological problems, and is voice acted. Its managable size, unique story, and eerie presentation are what make it one of the most popular visual novels to date. As of May 2014 Saya no Uta is the third most popular visual novel among the VNDB community with a popularity rating of 80.94.
Fuminori Sakisaka has a traffic accident which kills his parents and leaves him heavily injured. When he has a brain surgery to save his life, his perception of the world changes: everything he sees becomes blood and guts, people's looks and voices seem like monsters, and food that normally appeals to him tastes disgusting.
As he contemplates suicide in the hospital, Fuminori meets a beautiful girl among the flesh-covered walls. She introduces herself as Saya, and is apparently looking for her father. Fuminori does not want to be separated from Saya, and asks her to live with him. She agrees.
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Listening to some of these songs reminded me of how it felt reading Saya. Because honestly I had kinda forgotten. And this is a perfect example of why music is so important for games in general, and very much so for visual novels.
It's so alien and beautiful. Scary/creepy too for some people (like me). I'm pretty bad at explaining myself, but yea, I have honestly not read anything that is even remotely similar in feeling. And yes, that is a very positive thing in this case. A one of a kind VN.
I only played the (bad/good?) ending where Saya succeeded in what she was trying to do. The game was hauntingly beautiful but just so revolting . Hard to explain how those two can express themselves at once.
I didn't really like Fuminori as a character, but I loved Saya to pieces. She was a very innocent creature for as twisted as she was.
Weekly Question: Who was your favorite character from Saya no Uta?
(responding to myself, how meta, ha-ha)
Gen Urobuchi's story really brought life to his characters. You seldom find a story as bizarre as Saya no Uta and you're even less likely to find a cast of characters that naturally fit in with such a strange world. Every character in Saya no Uta piqued my curiosity from the get-go. Something about their attitudes and overall demeanor resonated with the creepy OST and unique setting. One character in particular really stood out to me: Kouji Tonou.
Kouji Tonou was, in my opinion, the most deserving of praise and sympathy. Throughout most of the story he had his friends' well-being in mind. Calm and collected most of the time, he tried to re-assimilate the main character into their circle of friends and often gave Fuminori the benefit of the doubt. His kindness and bad luck would be his undoing in one of the routes, but his character evolves at a pace that is extremely believable. Often times in a fictional story a character will have a change of heart and the cause may not feel deserving to the reader. Sometimes the reason rings true, but the extent does not. Either way, it is rare to find a character as human as I found Kouji Tonou. The leading example of this is the change that happens within Kouji. Over time he grows irritable and the once calm and collected character he was slowly becomes influenced by the madness of his best friend Fuminori.
After an attempt on his life, Kouji begins to start living life purely for himself. He seeks out Fuminori, not for revenge or hatred, but to have peace of mind. All the while, Kouji goes through the trials and tribulations associated with delving into the macabre. As I read, I was astounded by the changes taking place within him. I was there, experiencing an incredibly dark transformation that was being told in a manner that made it not only completely understandable, but believable . And that is what makes Kouji my favorite character from Saya no Uta. He doesn't do anything breathtaking. He doesn't make the impossible possible. Nothing like that. It is simply because he was portrayed so well that his character and his transformation felt real . That is why I consider him the best character in Saya no Uta.
Why else would you not respond best and only girl? :3
His best friend (Kuoji?) definitely. Very likable character that gets more and more interesting as the novel progresses, and I truly felt like his ending was the most interesting one.
The other two endings really weren't my cup o' tea but Kuojis ending really struck me.
what do you guys think about the particular ending where fuminori chose to have saya alter his brain back to normal?
for me personally i think that was the ending that had the most impact.
It definitely had the most emotional impact for me. It was my second ending and it had me convulsing from the start of the ending scene til the credits finished.
Thematically, SnU is amazing. The moment you start, everything is so disgusting and feels wrong, and it does what it means to do sooo well. The perverse love between Fuminori and Saya is beautiful. The music is chilling, haunting, romantic, and all that good stuff. The sex scenes are actually very relevant and it would be worse without them.
I think that where it does fall a bit flat though is the plot. It moves along at a fairly steady pace, but it doesn't really feel like it's moving by itself, but more like new contrivances and plot points are being written in to keep things moving. If they weren't there, the plot would pretty much just be "they fuck a bunch of times, Saya has babies, and the world gets destroyed". That by itself doesn't scream "CONFLICT!". Conflict only occurs when you bring other characters into the story, which Urobuchi does, but... pretty poorly, IMO.
I mean, it looks good on paper: Saya wants to help Fuminori. Fuminori gets papers n' stuff referring to his condition. Saya sees what she can do, but decides to try it out on neighbor first. Cue rape scene and first choice. But there are a bunch of problems with it: The first is that it just kind of happens and... That's it. It's a useful tool for showing how deep their love is, but it doesn't really have any meaning in the plot beyond that. You could have skipped the part over entirely, and the plot would still be the same. Oh, and the neighbors reaction feels very implausible and absurd. Not necessarily the killing of all his family members, but raping Saya afterwards definitely felt more like a plot device than a natural turn of events.
Likewise the whole "looking for information about Saya's "father"" thing felt a bit forced and just seemed to be there to trigger further events.
Honestly, though, that doesn't really matter that much. You can tell plot wasn't meant to be one of its strong points. It was designed to be atmospheric and haunting and thematic. What it's meant to do, it does exceedingly well. Unlike Urobuchi's other works, it looks and feels much more "personal", instead of just "epic", and it's without a doubt my favorite work from him.
Looking back on it, I almost think some of the "weak points" of the plot are a purposefully made decision. One of the things I took from Saya no Uta is that Gen Urobuchi was doing his best to convey that the characters in the story are people. The story is out of this world - it has murder, rape, extinction, you name it, but underlying all of these immense and powerful themes are character's with trivial problems and desires.
I might be going on a limb here, but many of the events in the plot are crucial to building the character's up as believable individuals that one could relate to. Sure, they may be involved in something much greater themselves, but they are still at their core people with basic needs and desires that drive them forward. So while you could skip a lot of the stuff in the middle and retain the general attachment to the world and its inhabitants, without the neighbor segment, the various interactions between Fuminori and his friends, and Saya's search for her father you're left with a much more inhumane Saya, a more detached Fuminori, and have less perspective of the drastic differences between Fuminori and normal people. Also, a lot of the insignificant conflicts between Fuminori and his friends help give the reader an understanding for what Kouji is going through.
Saya's desire to meet her father along with her vulnerabilities exposed during the rape scene personify her, making her less of a monster to the reader.
I could totally be trying to find something where there is nothing, but this is just one idea ;).
Indeed. It has an incredible opening. Just sets the tone perfectly, making you disgusted and intrigued by the mystery it presents. Really far out stuff, really well done.
is that the one where Fuminori is renamed Josh or some shit
This is the only game for which I actually have a tiny collection.
Awesome! Take a picture if you have the means. I'd love to see your little Saya no Uta collection :D
I've got the american comics too, and they're indeed awful.
This is the VN I always recommend everyone for their first, because it's not too long, original and very dramatic.
seems a bit overkill for a first VN - the subject matter may not float too well with some peopl
Lol there's definitely less extreme VNs you can start with, this is pretty hardcore stuff even for veteran VN fans
Great game. Ending up like the main character became one of my biggest fears in life. I also had nightmares after reading.
My favorite end was the one where Fuminori ended up in the psychiatric hospital and it's shown that he knew that saya probably wasn't human but he didn't care
Saya No Uta (Song of Saya) follows a medical student by the name of Fuminori. Shortly before the start/events of the game, Fuminori is in a tragic car accident where his family is killed and puts him into critical condition. He undergoes a experimental procedure that saves his life, but causes his perceptions of the world to change drastically. Fuminori wakes up to a world that is covered in gore-ridden, rotting flesh and where people are giant rancid smelling flesh monsters whose speech is alien and sounds like nails on a chalkboard; The world that he knew is gone, and his friends have warped into creatures whose very sight disgusts Fuminori to no end.
Unable to cope with the new horrors of the world, Fuminori starts to slip closer to insanity and contemplates suicide until one day a girl by the name of Saya, who is looking for her father, appears in his hospital room. Since his accident, Saya is the only person he has seen as human, and he instantly reaches out to her. Not wanting to lose this one thread of light in a grotesque, insane world, Fuminori offers to help Saya find her father and asks her to come live with him. Naturally, she accepts, and then we begin our journey deeper into the fucked up world of Saya No Uta…
Saya No Uta is one of the most emotionally gripping pieces of literature I have read to date(And I read -a lot-). The CGs and backgrounds help you to view and perceive the world as Fuminori does, bringing you to sympathise and understand Fuminori’s disgust at the people and his surroundings. While the backgrounds are somewhat grotesque, they are not overly so, it was the writing that truly painted a gorey, stomach churning world for me. To add to this, the music was jarring and distorted, adding an even more unsettling feeling about Fuminori’s surroundings; The only time the music is even close to being “normal” is when Fuminori is around Saya.
One of this game’s greatest strengths lies in its writing. Great attention is paid to Fuminori and Saya’s relationship and though the course of the story you begin to form an emotional bond for the couple. Even as the pair evolved into what can be considered villain roles, I found myself sympathising with and actually rooting for Saya and Fuminori, even when they performed actions I normally would consider morally “wrong” and reprehensible. The story does such a great job of pulling you into Fuminori’s world that by this point in the story, you completely understand why Saya and Fuminori begin to do the things they do and even root for their success. In the midst of all the horror, gore, murder, rape, and general depravity, there is a heart-string pulling story of true love and devotion; Saya would do anything for Fuminori, and Fuminori would do anything for Saya.
Saya No Uta is not a fuzzy, heartwarming story with a happy ending. It does not invoke feelings of happiness in the reader, as most Visual Novels aim to do; This does not diminish the emotional impact it has on the reader though. While there is, ironically, a beautiful love story intertwined into the story, Saya No Uta puts you on the other side of most peoples moral viewpoints and leaves you with a giant philosophical question; Are peoples actions that we find wrong, really wrong? I found myself asking and self-debating this at the end of Saya No Uta because while in “Fuminori’s shoes” I found his actions to be in the right, completely justifiable, and even had me thinking that I would do the same if I were in the same situation. Yet, if I were to see or hear of someone doing the things Fuminori and Saya did, I would more than likely find their actions to be horrible and immoral.
All three endings were immensely bittersweet and left me crying like a little girl. There was no win-win situation; every ending had elements that could be considered good and bad. There are only 2 choice points in this game, and each one drastically changed the outcome of the story and ending. My favorite ending was the one where Saya and Fuminori triumph (can’t say much more or else I’ll be spoiling) because I had become so attached to the couple that I was ok with everyone else getting basically screwed over for the sake of their love. The other two endings just broke my heart too damn much because of them. I have left out information and reviews on the routes because personally I feel the only way I would be able to review them would be to reveal spoilers of the story and well…This VN is just too good to spoil in a basic review.
For anyone interested in truly emotionally touching stories that doesn’t have a soft stomach, I would highly recommend Saya No Uta. While short, Saya No Uta is one of the best Visual Novels I have read to date. Nitroplus really outdid themselves.
As stated above, best Visual Novel I have read so far. Amazing story, beautifully fleshed out main characters, no noticeable typos or awkward sentences, and art and soundtrack that fit perfect with the game. The H-scenes were short (most involve rape/sexual slavery) and didn’t detract really from the story.
The full screen text-boxes irked me some, and the side characters were not really given much attention development wise, but it was understandable given the length of the VN and the fact the meat of the story revolved around Saya and Fuminori.
Available for sale in English with both a digital and hardcopy release for PC
VN by Nitroplus, English localization by JAST USA
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