Ah, shame.

Luckily we have a workaround.

Heh nice simultanios release with Steam and GOG. Think i can wait for a bigger discount this time since i need to read chapter 5 next.
Also read on steam that tips have problems that soft-locks/freezes the game.
Wonder if this happens here to when you finish the first chapter and check the tips

I have never bought a new GOG release so quickly upon logging onto this site. I love this series so much, and waiting for this one to finally come out.

Looks like I need to finish Chapter 6 and start this. I'm pretty close to the end of 6 I believe.

Thanks GOG and MangaGamer!

Not at all. They have style, originality and sense behind them. You immediately recognize it. Meanwhile, generic art #893603 has nothing of the sort. It's simply bad. Also, if the art was "awful", I'm sure it never would have become as popular as it is, especially in Japan.

There's an extremely easy to install fan patch with decent art and voices for chapters 1-6.

In fact, I highly recommend playing with the fan patch and voices, as quite a lot of the child characters' dialogue is intolerably stupid in unvoiced writing.

Work on the patch for chapter 7 (this one) has started.

You should've mentioned that it's free and open source and I would've clicked. Oh, wait, I clicked anyway! Nevermind me then.

But speaking of dialogue, does the mod actually change it then? And by child characters.. you mean who? Most of the main characters are minors.

No, it doesn't. PS3 censorship is rolled back, too (censored lines are unvoiced).

What I mean is writing (generally speaking) doesn't reflect real human speech word for word. When some auteurs go ahead and reproduce ums, ahs, awkward pauses and such on page / stage / screen, it looks unnatural.

Higurashi has kind of a similar problem -- the main cast emote in direct speech a lot. They laugh, cry, shout, fangirl-squee and fangirl-drool, tease each other, etc. Traditionally, this is not something conveyed by direct speech in writing, but in this here VN, it is, and the result, unfortunately, looks (at least to me) like a nonreader tween's first novel.

But add (Japanese) voices, and it works.

Yeah, no, the originals are terrible. MG's are best. "Generic" my ass

I want to try Higurashi series, but did I start from the beginning or the story is not internconnected?

It's interconnected and the intended experience is to start from the beginning.
(The Umineko series is a separate story.)

Oh I'm sorry, Mr. No-True-Scotsman. No, they are not generic. And I am quite familiar with character designs. Protip: talking down to people does not make you sound like an expert, dumbass.

One thing that Japanese certainly do well, or at least differently, is naming their games. "When they cry hou", indeed.

Western games are more like "Pillars of War!" or "Power & Steel: The Enigma!" or "Wow Look At My Big Dick!". They should be more japanesque, like "Kwarzipartsu: Usually Happens When You Jump Roof To Roof At Midnight Or Something"

Thankfully, they just called it Thief.