Despite the lack of interactive gameplay elements, Umineko is framed as a game between the author and the reader, with difficulty ratings given in the descriptions for each episode.
This refers to the difficulty of the mysteries in each episode, which the reader is intended to actively try to solve..
It's a normal 4 dimensional Universe with 3 dimensional space and one dimension of linear time.
The black cells represent a supernatural world.
This includes other worlds (Such as purgatory), multidimensional space and non-linear time..
The story focuses on a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, and the mysterious murders that befall them.
Readers are challenged to discern whether the murders were committed by a human or some other, supernatural source, as well as the method and motive behind them..
It is a part of 07th Expansion's wider When They Cry franchise.
The story focuses on the Ushiromiya family and their servants, all of whom are on a secluded island for a period of two days while beset by mysterious murders..
In the visual novel and anime series Umineko: When They Cry, the theme of memory and recollection is explored through the use of unreliable narrators, the manipulation of memories, and the idea that memories can be distorted or fabricated..
Cosmology Explanation.
Very rough diagram showing the structure of the Hierarchy of the World of Witches.
Umineko follows higher dimensional theory depicted by "endeavors", steps on an infinite ladder that leads to the realm of the Creator that transcends all lower layers (and is in itself, layered)..
Beatrice is the main antagonist and protagonist of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series.
She clashes with Battler Ushiromiya, trying to convince him that witches are real and that she used magic to execute a series of bizarre murders on the island of Rokkenjima.
She has lived for over a thousand years..
Umineko is the third title in the When They Cry series, preceded by Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, and followed by Umineko no Naku Koro ni Chiru
Umineko When They Cry is a murder mistery game described as a "sound novel" by 7th Expansion
Thnx well umineko cosmology is a hierarchy as stated in an interview by the writer each layer completely transcends the layer below to the point that infinite in a lower is less than infinite in a higher the top of this hierarchy is the creator domain, which is the endpoint and highest point of the cosmology
