The cuts between the two are used to brilliant effect. The narrative cuts back and forth between the perspective of Fuminori and those who are around him, giving you a look at both the world and the disgusting, fleshy version that Fuminori sees. But because Fuminori sees Saya in the way that he does, she falls for him, and they enter a passionate sexual relationship of complete co-dependence on one another. She’s actually a hideous monster that feeds on the flesh of other people, and they’re driven mad at the mere sight of her.
He sees Saya as a beautiful, child-like waif. Now, Fuminori sees the entire world as a mass of rotten, rancid flesh, and every person in the world is a “flesh monster” – something so hideous and terrifying to him that he can no longer abide the world or people around him. He is only saved by a highly experimental medical procedure that messes with the wires in his brain completely. Saya no Uta follows the story of Fuminori, a college student who suffers major trauma in a car accident that kills his parents. The sex is merely the sledgehammer that really strikes the broader sadistic (as in “in the vision of Sade”) themes home.
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Some have chalked it up as “pornographic”, and certainly if you download the uncensored patch to replace the edited Steam release with the “uncensored” version, the game has incredibly graphic sex scenes. It is a brutally dark and unrelenting vision carefully tailored to make you feel uneasy and uncomfortable at every turn. Authored by Urobuchi Gen – the same creator behind Madoka Magica, Psycho-Pass and Fate/Zero – the game is everything you might expect from the “Urobutcher”. Saya no Uta is a visual novel that was originally released back in 2009. Just because it’s the best place to start. I’ll start with a more general review, though. There are so many directions to take a discussion about this game I probably will write all these pieces, because replaying Saya no Uta has reminded me of just how Saya no Uta is a genuine, bona fide masterpiece, worthy of a lot of discussion. What the game tells us about the nature of perception. In terms of narrative technique, the way the game works with the unreliable narrator is fascinating, the very Marquis de Sade use of grotesque sex as theme is sublime. With Saya no Uta – The Song of Saya in English – now available over Steam, I’ve got an excuse to review what is quite an old game.
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