What are some good horror or mystery VNs?

[FourZro 10]

Suggestions please.

 

 

And since I've already made a topic, I've got some questions for anyone who's played Chaos;Head and Higurashi.

 

 

Alright, so in Chaos;Head how do the choices work? Is it the green and red things that show his hallucinations? Or are there actual choices eventually? Because the hallucinations don't look like they change anything about the story...of course this is my first playthrough so I could be wrong.

 

And Higurashi, Ch. 1-5 have patches for the graphics, are those the only ones that have patches, or can you use the same patch files for the rest?

[Uzuki Sepia 10]

Some delusion triggers work as choices once you start the 2nd playthrough; until then, they have no influence over the ending you'll get (that's determined by the answer you give in chap 10).

Here's the walkthrough if you don't have it and want to use it

 

 

--Bad Ending--

The bad end in the 6th Chapter is tough to find and you probably won't run

into it on your own. When you are on the roof-top of the O-Front and are

looking at the people below, you get a Delusion Trigger. Skip it by not

clicking either of the lifelines and you will get some statements that you have

to answer as YES or NO (statements do not appear if you had a hallucination).

In order to progress the game answer thus:

1. I saw a sword (YES)

2. I distinctly saw a sword (YES)

3. If I could move from here, I could go take it (NO)

4. You can see that sword from places other than here (NO)

5. It's not actually a sword (YES)

However if you answer the statements the following way, you get a bad ending:

1. I saw a sword (NO)

2. I saw a sword-esque object (NO)

3. I saw it as a hallucination (NO)

The other statements do not appear. After answering NO three times in a row,

you immediately get a bad ending.

 

--Route A--

A ending. Answer the statements in the Chapter 10 as follows:

1. You are me (YES)

2. I am you (YES)

3. I don't exist (NO)

4. You don?ft exist (NO)

5. I'm not me (NO)

6. You are my bro (YES)

7. You are Nishijou-kun (YES)

8. You are Takumi (YES)

9. You are Takumi-shan (YES)

10. You are Nishijou (YES)

11. You are Taku (YES)

12. I am me (YES)

13. I'm a delusionary existence (YES)

14. I exist (YES)

15. I am Nishijou Takumi (NO)

 

AA ending:

Load the save and answer the 15th statement "I am Nishijou Takumi?" as (YES).

 

--Route B--

Unlike in route A which results in endings A and AA, route B is influenced by

Delusion Triggers. You can only get ending B after you have completed game once

and started a second playthrough. Eleven of 40+ Delusion Triggers will

determine if you get this ending.

 

B ending:

1. Trigger 1 (Chapter 1. When talking to Daisuke). Do not select anything.

2. Trigger 8 (Chapter 2. During the FES's performance). Left trigger

3. Trigger 9 (Chapter 2. After the FES's performance, while playing ESO). Left

trigger

4. Trigger 13. (Chapter 3. At the top of the school after meeting Rimi in the

class). Right trigger

5. Trigger 20. (Chapter 5. The first trigger at this chapter. Happens at

school). Left trigger

6. Trigger 24 (Chapter 5. After school near the shoe boxes, when you meet Kozue

and Rimi covers your eyes). Right trigger

7. Trigger 25 (Chapter 6. When Shogun enters the chat room after the

earthquake). Left trigger

From here on the number of your trigger might be different, depending if you

skipped a delusion on the O-Front tower or not. I will assume that you skipped

the delusion, got the questionnaire and the additional trigger after that.

Note, that it is not necessary.

8. Trigger 30 (Chapter 7. After waking up in the hospital and meeting Kazuki).

Right trigger

9. Trigger 33 (Chapter 7. While talking with Sena and Kozue). Right trigger

10. Trigger 36 (Chapter 8. When Ayase starts talking to Takumi about the

Knights of Glajioul in her room). Right trigger

11. Trigger 42 (Chapter 9. When Taku hears Nanami's voice after chatting with

Grim). Left trigger

 

 

Dunno for Higurashi

 

 

p.s. I strongly suggest you Kara no Shoujo and Urobuchi's works (Phantom of Inferno, Saya no Uta and Kikokugai) if you have yet to read them.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Uzuki Sepia

[Harlequin 17]

For Higurashi, might I suggest that you use this:

 

 

Higurashi - When They Cry COMPLETE

 

All arcs (1-8), all patches, working.

 

Fully updated as of - 20th of February 2013.

 

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6

 

Check the readme.

 

EDIT: Translation Patches - Tweaking Higurashi Wiki was fairly recently added to the Higurashi tweak site. I personally do not know how good/bad this patch is right now. Supposedly it fixes some grammar and spelling of the MangaGamer translation for the first 1-4 arcs of Higurashi. This patch is currently not in my pack of the game, so if you want to download and use it you can do so with that link. To use it: Extract all of the files to the arc 1-4 game folder.

 

 

^ A complete pack of Higurashi I put together! With that you don't need to worry about what patches to use and not use. You get all arcs (1-8) of the game with as many patches applied as possible while keeping it as stable as possible. A small "fix" or two was also made. THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT! If you want to read Higurashi with patches, that is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That said, to answer your question, check this: Sprite and BG Patches - Tweaking Higurashi Wiki As you can see there is one graphical patch each for arcs 1-4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

 

 

And yes my suggestion is that you read Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It's fucking awesome. So is the next part of the When They Cry series - Umineko no Naku Koro ni. Read these VNs!

 

Saya no Uta is a great horror VN. A short one at that. Very atmospheric with awesome music and unique characters. Very good indeed.

 

999 can be a bit 'worrying' at times as well. Great atmosphere and music, intriguing mystery, nice cast of characters. Written by the same guy (Kotaro Uchikoshi) behind Ever17 - which is an amazing mystery VN that you oughta look into as well. 999 is an NDS VN though so you'll either need to own a real Nintendo DS, or, use an emulator + rom of the game.

Edited September 1, 2013 by Harlequin
translation patch notice

[Ryu 15]

Let me VNDB that for you.......

 

Tag: Horror

Tag: Mystery

[iLoveTsundere 10]

Ever17 for mystery , Dustmania if you consider guro as horror , like many do , 3M (Marionettes manipulating the marionette) and Shitau o Arau if you want horror i suppose , these 2 arent translated though.

[Stàr 10]

3M -Marionettes manipulate the marionette- Fak U Tsun.

 

Also I'm guessing Saya surely counts as horror? Saya no Uta

 

Just VNDB easiest thing, you can filter by language.

[FourZro 10]

walkthrough

 

Thanks, I was looking for a walkthrough.

 

 

For Higurashi, might I suggest that you use this:

 

 

Higurashi - When They Cry COMPLETE

 

All arcs (1-8), all patches, working.

 

Fully updated as of - 20th of February 2013.

 

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6

 

Check the readme.

 

Sweet. Thanks a lot!

[Dan. 11]

for mystery umineko and ever17

for horror saya no uta

 

those are the ones i have played/am playing, and all three are very good