VN - Others - Completed - Saya no Uta ~ The Song Of Saya [Final] [Nitroplus]

Groundbreaking? Sure. Unique? Yeah. Enjoyable? Hell no. It's 120 days of sodom levels of enjoyable. It's one of those pieces of media made by a sick man with an absolutely distorted view of the world with nothing to quite make up for it. Characters are mediocre, art is good, story is perhaps just a scream from the author asking for the world to end? After the kind of amazing and understandable intro everything falls appart logic wise. Characters and situations begin to flip and roll for the plot to continue. MC is nothing more than a drone after the first act and his character quite literally stagnates into that, either he kills the world with Saya or he just mentally dies, there's nothing more to him. Junji Ito knows how to make stories like these enjoyable or at least enterteaning, shocking, or terryfing. This was a drag to read.

Truly a unique adult visual novel that is not afraid to touch on themes and scenes that other visual novels stay away from. The game features an anti-hero protagonist. Without spoiling too much, there's three different endings for how the romance and fate of the world will play out.

The game written by a man who hates the mentally ill, for people who hate the mentally ill.

Saya no Uta sets up Fuminori as a mentally ill man on the verge of suicide, all of his senses being inversed so that pretty is ugly, ugly is pretty, tasty is disgusting, and disgusting is tasty. Naturally, the entirety of where he lives, and even society itself is inherently opposed to what he experiences and so he starts to become more and more of a social recluse in order to avoid having to deal with these things as much. Instead of the game trying to portray him as a sympathetic character going through a situation anyone else would've killed themselves in, including (you), it constantly tries to make him out to be this huge asshole if not outright demonizing him while siding with his torturers.

It first starts with Fuminori trying to cut off his friends, saying he no longer likes them and isn't interested in hanging out anymore, he's blunt and to the point which while not a nice thing, is very understandable and definitely not a bad thing. The "friends" in question then proceed to break into his house in order to "teach him a lesson" with the game hardly able to control its excitement about punishing Fuminori. The "friend" ends up getting killed in self defense by Fuminori's girlfriend (who didn't even know who the "friend" was) and then proceeded to try and frame the defense against a home invader in the most negative way possible to show how Saya is a horrible person for defending her home and how Fuminori is just as bad for... not being anywhere near the situation and not even realizing the aftermath of what happened due to his illness.. but he didn't want to be friends with those people anymore so FUCK him.

Past this point the game tries to switch perspective over to his previous "friends" to try and heroize them in the search of the "murdered" friend who broke into Fuminori's house. Koji goes as far as to start stalking Fuminori in order to pin the murder of the friend in question on him and doesn't stop even when confronted and Fuminori tells him to back off, all while the game goes on and on about how terrorizing Fuminori is a good thing and he deserves it for being a sick mentally ill fuck. The stalking goes so far that Koji and a few others try to illegally access Fuminori's medical records to use his illness against him, of course once again this is portrayed as a good thing that Fuminori deserves to have happen to him.

Fuminori, fearing for his life and freedom, ends up pushing Koji into a well and leaving him for dead. While much less cut and dry legally, it is still definitely in self preservation depending that Koji was quite literally trying to ruin his life on a whim. Koji eventually escapes and goes on an unhinged murderous rampage where he breaks into Fuminori's house to try and kill him just to find out he isn't there, and when he does find out where he is he repeats it and Fuminori is forced to defend himself yet again despite the game trying to paint him as the aggressor.

Gen Urobuchi is a hack who can't write anything other than gay porn worth a damn, but despite all the attempts to warp the perspective of what's actually happening in the game, it unintentionally manages to be a pretty decent story about Fuminori and Saya's relationship and how they come to depend on each other, I guess if you put a blindfold on and keep on throwing darts at a dart board, one is eventually able to land semi-close to a bullseye, which is the best Gen Urobuchi will ever get.

Classic.
One of my favorite vn I ever played.
A good story with several endings, a unique art style, and a masterpiece heart-touching OST which I listen to until the present days. Love it~

In fact, Saya saved my life during one dark period of it.
Thank you, Saya.

I fell for the popularity and 'this is 12/10 classic that everyone should play/know" and its....bad. And I not mean it in 'ugh it have disgusting theme' or 'there are several deaths of characters' or 'there are cannibalism' or....you get the point. Im not the one who get offended or sick by/from the characters on a screen.
Its the plot itself that have enormous problems.

Everything begins promising, just as description says.
But in the middle of the game, right before the first of the three choices in the game, everything falls to illogical shit. From this point on I crushed my face to the bloody pulp with facepalms.
Characters suddenly became as dumb as a brick and start doing illogical, unsubstantiated by the plot (nor in the past nor in the future) actions. And you know why they doing them? Just to make plot grim and dark. Yes, that the only reason.
I mean, yes, they successfully make it looks grimm and dark. But even from this point everything goes to shit as soon as you turn on your brain at least a little.

There are 4 endings, but I was able to finish only 3. I wasnt been able to withstand low quality writing four times in a row.
Graphics is....okay-ish?
Sounds is....it have sounds, okay? That everything that I can tell about sounds.


So again, if you want some grim and, I wont afraid to use word, edgy story its your game. But you better not play it, just dont. Unless you wants to know how you SHOULD NOT make a grim stories. Better read Kafka if you want some grim motherfucking shit. Seriously, it have more values in pretty much every aspect, and youll be able to show off with 'I have read Kafka Transformation...its pretty sick shit my dude...lets discuss it....'

I'm going to be honest, I'm kinda disappointed. People hail this game to be a very dark and messed up story, and I agree up until a certain point.

This is a story about someone who doesn't quite fit in with the world, but instead of becoming a better person himselves, he instead decided that the world is at fault for his misfortune and drags everyone else down. He might not outright said it, but his attitude to everyone else certainly did. If the writer intended for him to be very unlikeable, then good job, I absolutely loathed him. Especially when he tried to justify having relationship with a very young girl... fully packaged with the creepy "only you understand me!!!" line.

Back to the horror part. The first half is really good. Especially when Saya attacked the neighbor dad and drove him into insanity. That really shocked me. But the horror charm disappeared as soon as Ryoko is revealed to be a scientist tomb raider. Now it's a cheap action-crime-drama vengeance story. Instead of developing more on the relationship of the duo and how far the MC is willing to take it to make himself comfortable in the world, we got a showdown ripped straight out of Shounen Jump instead. It feels like something I would write in wattpad, and frankly just comes off as mall-ninja edgy. It seems to be a recurring theme in some of these horror stories. This shift in tone just threw the horror vibes out of the window.

Tl;dr good opener, really disappointing second half.

Love it or hate it, Song of Saya is one of the most memorable works I've ever experienced. It's dark, disturbing, uplifting, romantic, horrific, and emotional to the extreme. But without a doubt its best quality is that it does not overstay its welcome.
Every word has a purpose, every line of dialogue gives us greater insight to the characters. The world is tiny and extremely contained, which is exactly where all the focus is; a tiny slice of the life of a man fucked beyond any justification.

If you have even the slightest interest, play it. It is brief, it is fascinating, and it stays with you because there is truly nothing else like it.

My first run, I got a good end, well idk if it's a good end or not, but I guess it's good for both mc and Saya.

From what I know, there are 3 ends. I don't like this particular choices which led into good or bad. happy or sad. But I pay no mind to the bad ones, because I got myself a good? end?

This is only a story, and the story is good. I don't get disgusted by the gore or monster, it just became natural to see it after watching it for... 3-4 hrs? I take lots of break while reading.

This isn't what I hoped for when I see VN, because most of the times is it is ecchi, just straight out ecchi, but instead this shit is deep, the value of love, mission, purpose for living, what relationship meant, how a person can change. shit went deep bruh

Recommended. But only if you're prepared to spend your day reading this full and complete it.
Again, this isn't what I wished for, but I became stronger after finishing it.

An excellent game, truly wonderful. a schizo protagonist is always welcome in my playlist.
The narrative is just beautiful, really depict the process of going insane, really charismatic characters, the change of Pov's is just what every visual novel needs.
An overall 10/10

Okay... I really wasn't expecting anything even close to this masterpiece I just watched. It is an impressive achievement in storytelling. Horrifying beyond comprehension, and still beautiful. Pure, unfiltered nightmare fuel, but seductive and yes, even sweet at times.

For some precious moments I have been transported back to my teen years. I felt now something very close to the dread I must have felt then, reading the tales written by H.P. Lovecraft out of some really old paperbacks, their pages yellowed by time.

Unbind yourself from the restrictions of petty morality and enjoy this triumph of a love story, terrifying and beautiful. Surrender your heart to lovely Saya and be forever changed.

Classic game I remember playing several years ago. Fuminori's descent to madness and his clinging to Saya, who is the only "normal" in his life, made their relationship special from thousands of other couples in fiction.

Being honest i wasn't giving much credit to this game when i first played, but oh lord how i was wrong about this masterpiece.

For starters i wouldn't really call Saya no Uta a porn game but a amazing VN that does contain some R18 content, so if its the lewd all that you want you may feel a little disappointed at the end. (At least when it comes to the lack of fuckery)

But after half an hour i would say that doens't matter if it as the curiosity, the hornyness or whatever brought you to this VN, because half an hour its all it takes to hook you in an amazing plot that is top quality when it comes to wrinting.

As its probably clear by my praises to Saya no Uta so far, it is (at least for me) a classic VN and a really top quality one. I'm not much a VN guy but i would argue that this one is probably one of the best out there and definitely one of the most unique.

About the technical aspects of the game well, as i said the story is just top quality and you notice that when you see that the characters were developed among and beyond the words. The CGs follow close the writing quality delivering terrifying and yet beautiful artworks.

The most lacking aspects of the this VN were the branching of the story which leads to just four paths and so four endings. I wouldn't call it a damaging factor for the game though, after all there's no point on making several branches if they might come to be disappointing or shallow, whose Saya no Uta's are not.

In short words, i first played the game filled with a little doubt and wre left baffled by its quality. I totally recommend it, not because of the R18 content but because as a whole this is one have a surprisingly good story.

A true classic loli horror novel. Not recommended as fap material, unless you are REALLY starved for wholesome eldrich loli hentai.

Came to fap, stayed for the story.
Its unfortunately very hard to recommend to friends due to it being loli hentai combined with eldritch horror.
I would have been mad for the somewhat low amount of smut, if it had not been such a immersive, enjoyable, and disturbing, read.

Would rate it at 4.5 / 5 as a VN
But 2 / 5 as a hentai VN, didn't nut.

Grotesque, terrifying, disturbing.

Beautiful.

A true classic in the psych-horror VN sub-genre.

Not many games, especially VNs, can stick with the player years after first playing them, but not many games or VNs compare to Saya No Uta.

Infinite stars.

Came to fap, left in tears. And a couple nightmares.
The game has clear Stephen King and HP Lovecraft influences with its horror themes and the blend of gore and psychological horror with a great story, lack of cheap jumpscares, atmospheric horror, and satisfying alternate endings make this game one of my favorite visual novels and my all-time favorite horror experience.
Now I just need to figure out how to recommend this game despite the loli.

"Saya no Uta" is a masterpiece of short fiction in general and of horror genre in particular. I might not find it particularly scary, but it's certainly uncanny and forces to think, especially about such topics as finding your place in the world, and the hold that our brains keep over that precious thing called perception of reality, and how that perception might change between different groups. It's a title that I would recommend for everyone.

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Great game even with disabled porn. Worth to give it a shot.
That being said, h-scenes are great too, tho there're only a few.
One of games here you play for plot and relations, rather than fap.
+ music is more than nice

Song of Saya is one of the more iconic VNs out there. It may not be the 'best' per se, and it certainly has its fair share of flaws having been made so long ago, but it's absolutely a must-read for any VN enthusiast.

An absolutely legendary visual novel, it has good sex scene but it's not about that, it's about horror, and not classic scary horror but existential horror, and it's incredibly well done.

Great art, an amazing ost that's haunting and maddening, and one hell of a story.

Really recommended, a true experience !

Although a bit lacking in the amount of CGs for my taste, this is a really solid VN that combines eroticism and horror into a pretty chilling experience. The music is enjoyable too -- a lot like the story, it's hauntingly calm at times but can also be brutal. There are only a couple of decisions to make throughout the course of the game but each ending is very different. Worth playing if you're a horror fan.