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 takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Nevertheless, this is a game, not a novel. As the player, you will be able to unravel the mystery surrounding the events in the game as the scenarios unfold.
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 there is.
Someone who was alive last night is dead now.
And someone who is here right now isn’t alive.
So, there is no way to avert tragedy. There is no choice but to give up.
But don’t give up.
Only you can stand up to this.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Pentium III 800 MHz | Pentium 4 1.4GHz |
| RAM | 512 MB RAM | 1 GB RAM |
| OS | Windows XP | Windows 7 + |
| Graphics Card | OpenGL Compatible Card | DirectX or OpenGL Compatible Card |
| Direct X | Version 9.0 | Version 9.0 |
| HDD Space | 500 MB available space | Unknown |
| Game Analysis | An Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU is required at a minimum to run Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz to play the game. Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce 6100 graphics card you can play the game. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 500 MB of free disk space available. The minimum memory requirement for Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi is 512 MB of RAM installed in your computer. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 1 GB of RAM in your system. Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi will run on PC system with Windows XP and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions. | |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 1 Ghz or faster processor | 1 Ghz or faster processor |
| RAM | 512 MB RAM | 1 GB RAM |
| OS | Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion | Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion |
| HDD Space | 500 MB available space | 500 MB available space |
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | 1 Ghz or faster processor | 1 Ghz or faster processor |
| RAM | 512 MB RAM | 1 GB RAM |
| OS | Ubuntu or equivalent | Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04 or newer |
| Graphics Card | 128Mb OpenGL2 or higher | 256Mb OpenGL2 or higher |
| HDD Space | 512 MB available space | 1 GB available space |