Narumi Nitpicks: Iwaihime
Iwaihime is a story about curses and people succumbing to their own paranoia as their visions and perceptions of the world distort in horrific and unimaginable ways. In other words, it's Higurashi , albeit a mediocre discount supermarket brand variant of Higurashi . Playing Iwaihime has contantly reminded me of Ryukishi's previous works, namely Higurashi and Umineko , and this constant comparison really doesn't do it any favours. Several scenes in Iwaihime bear great resemblance to those from R07's previous works, only they're executed with a lot less grace in this leading to this constant back and forth comparing the games scene by scene. And who could blame me for doing so? The game advertises itself as being written by Ryukishi himself and I bought into the hype precisely because of this, and you know what they say about misplaced expectations. As a horror story Iwaihime just simply doesn't work. It's nearing Halloween so I deliberately played this at ni