Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user…
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi is an adventure developed by 07th Expansion, released 13 November 2015 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi is
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2015. It was published by MangaGamer. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The 58th year of Shouwa, early summer. It’s June, and the summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years. By day there are crickets, and by night there are cicadas. We’re in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside. There are fewer than two thousand people here. But every year, there is an event. This event is a mysterious death. On a certain day in June, someone dies, and someone else goes missing. The series of deaths is connected to the upheaval surrounding the dam construction project. A murder case that was covered up is being reenacted. Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse? Someone who was supposed to be there isn’t. Someone who wasn’t supposed to be…
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi is the 81st of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. The next entry was Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi in 2016.
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What it launched against
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.2 Watanagashi launched on 13 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and Star Wars Battlefront.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, Star Wars Battlefront.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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