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Posted May 15, 2020
The eighth chapter of a popular anime sound novel is now available DRM-free on GOG.COM. The story Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi is set in June 1983 and revolves around Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside. During the last few years, the place is plagued by strange cases of murders and disappearances. Will we discover the answer to this mystery?

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC. That’s not all, for another 2 months (until 14th July, 11 PM UTC) you can buy chapters 1-4 together in a bundle with a 75% discount. Lastly, creators and publishers of the series decided that until the vaccine for the COVID-19 is discovered Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi is available for free.
Posted May 15, 2020
Thanks GOG & MG. Here's a chance to win all eight chapters: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/when_they_meow
Posted May 16, 2020
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omega64:
Fair enough. While it does seem rather complicated, they are charging full price and one would think that it's their job to figure that out.
Posted May 16, 2020
oh my god YES! I've soo been looking forward to read Chapter 8! Instabuy! Thank you GoG and especially thank you 07th Expansion & MangaGamer! Pleez bring Ciconia When They Cry to GoG!!!
Posted May 16, 2020
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ShadowWulfe: Not to beat a dead horse, but the Steam version has achievements and the GOG version does not.

It really should not be that difficult to add it to a visual novel.
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omega64: Depends really, I don't know about this one but a lot of Visual Novels use Ren'Py, the problem here iirc is that Ren'Py is open source. But the GOG/Steam code for Achievements can't be public. So someone would have to maintain it and distribute it privately, which you won't see people eager to do for GOG.
That's wouldn't be a problem even if these versions of Higurashi VNs were written for Ren'Py. That engine is distributed under the terms of the MIT licence and thus changes don't have to be disclosed (but they're a bit trivial to decode since it's interpreted python and python bytecode). Ren'Py does support Steam achievements but I imagine nobody bothered to work with Galaxy's non-public APIs.
That being said, it's all besides the point. English-translated Higurashi games are rewritten to use a proprietary engine based on Unity (it's why executables are so bloated and perform poorly on lower end hardware) so this doesn't apply at all. The story of it is rather interesting but your mileage may vary on whether the stated reason behind making a separate interpreter is honest.
Posted May 16, 2020
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omega64: Depends really, I don't know about this one but a lot of Visual Novels use Ren'Py, the problem here iirc is that Ren'Py is open source. But the GOG/Steam code for Achievements can't be public. So someone would have to maintain it and distribute it privately, which you won't see people eager to do for GOG.
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Aoyama Blue Mountain: That's wouldn't be a problem even if these versions of Higurashi VNs were written for Ren'Py. That engine is distributed under the terms of the MIT licence and thus changes don't have to be disclosed (but they're a bit trivial to decode since it's interpreted python and python bytecode). Ren'Py does support Steam achievements but I imagine nobody bothered to work with Galaxy's non-public APIs.
That being said, it's all besides the point. English-translated Higurashi games are rewritten to use a proprietary engine based on Unity (it's why executables are so bloated and perform poorly on lower end hardware) so this doesn't apply at all. The story of it is rather interesting but your mileage may vary on whether the stated reason behind making a separate interpreter is honest.
In this case they would really have to implement the achievements also on GOG, it would be a 10 minute job.
Posted May 17, 2020
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GOG.com: Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC.
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kbnrylaec: The countdown clock is one day short.
Two days passed and the countdown clock is still wrong.
Posted May 18, 2020
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GOG.com: Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC.
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kbnrylaec: The countdown clock is one day short.
Three days passed and the countdown clock is still wrong.
Posted May 19, 2020
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GOG.com: Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC.
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kbnrylaec: The countdown clock is one day short.
Four days passed and the countdown clock is still wrong.
Posted May 20, 2020
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GOG.com: Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC.
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kbnrylaec: The countdown clock is one day short.
Five days passed and the countdown clock is still wrong.
Posted May 21, 2020
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GOG.com: Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi will be available on GOG.COM with a special 10% discount until 22nd May, 11 PM UTC.
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kbnrylaec: The countdown clock is one day short.
Six days passed and the countdown clock is still wrong.
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