Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: 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 that the user can read. They laugh, they cry, and they get angry. The user takes the protagonist's point of view and experiences the story. Still, this is a game and not a novel. As the player, you can unravel the mystery surrounding the events in the game as the scenarios unfold.
Story
The 58th year of Shouwa, early summer. It is June, and the summer heat is here earlier than most years. There are crickets during the day and cicadas at night. We are in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside. There are less 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 another goes missing. The series of deaths is related to the unrest surrounding the dam construction project. A murder case that was covered up is being reopened. Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse? Someone who was supposed to be there isn't. Someone who shouldn't be there is there. Someone who was alive last night is now dead. And someone who is here now is not alive. So there is no way to avert the tragedy. There is no choice but to give up. But don't give up. Only you can resist.