Saya no Uta
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| Developer(s) | Nitroplus |
| Publisher(s) | Nitroplus |
| Release date(s) | December 26, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | 18+ |
| Platform(s) | Windows98/2000/Me/XP |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| System requirements | PentiumII 300MHz, 32MB RAM, 800x600 16bit display, DirectX 8.1. |
Saya no Uta (沙耶の唄? lit. Saya's Song) is an adult visual novel by Nitroplus with gore and horror elements.
Some fans consider the plot to be Lovecraft-like. Although direct references of Mythos elements are minimal, the dark, eerie atmosphere essentially reminds people of his works. Also, Nitroplus is more well-known for the production of the heavily Mythos-inspired Demonbane series.
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[edit] Plotline
Fuminori Sakisaka has a traffic accident which killed his parents and left him heavily injured. While he had a brain surgery to save his life, his perception of the world has changed: everything he sees becomes blood and guts, people's looks and voices seem like monsters, and delicious food tastes disgusting.
As he contemplates suicide in hospital, Fuminori meets a beautiful girl among the flesh-covered walls. She introduces herself as Saya, and is apparently looking for her father. Due to his loneliness, Fuminori does not want to be separated with Saya, and thus ask Saya to live with him, which she agrees.
However, while to Fuminori, Saya appears as a normal girl when everything else in his point of view is flesh and guts, normal people see it differently — just as he sees normal things as flesh and blood, Fuminori sees actual flesh and blood as normal. Saya is actually an intelligent monster, though what she actually looks like is never revealed (the only revelations are that she is covered in slime and have large tentacles). Her favorite food is human flesh, and her hobby is modifying brains and human bodies. However, as Fuminori genuinely love Saya, Saya does not kill much for his sake.
The truth is revealed when Fuminori comes home to see Saya eating the slime-covered corpse of a girl he knows (appears as yellow-green jelly-like thing in Fuminori's eyes). When he tried it, he actually finds the human flesh delicious due to his twisted senses.
There are three endings, depending on the choices that the player makes:
- Saya helps Fuminori returns to normal, and leaves him since she does not want to reveal her true hideous self. Fuminori becomes confined in a madhouse for the rest of his life.
- Saya is killed by Koji, one of Fuminori's friends. Fuminori committed suicide upon Saya's death, and Koji turned crazy.
- Saya and Fuminori kill Koji together. Afterwards, it turns out that Saya has reached the last stage and the ultimate goal of her life: reproduction. The spore-like matter she releases is a mutating agent aimed at humans, created by researching the human genome obtained during sex with Fuminori. The "spore" is spread across the globe by updrafts, slowly turning the entire human population into Saya-like creatures.
[edit] Characters
- Fuminori Sakisaka (匂坂 郁紀?)
- The protagonist of the game. A medical school student, he suffered a near-fatal traffic accident which killed his parents and left his perception of life permanently altered. As he wades through the "world gone berserk" of flesh and blood, he seeks the affection of the only thing he sees as normal — a mysterious girl named Saya.
- Saya (沙耶?)
- The only person Fuminori sees as normal. She has become Fuminori's pillar of support in the crazy world he sees.
- Kōji Tonoo (戸尾 耕司?)
- Fuminori's friend. After Fuminori's accident he has been trying to help Fuminori's life get back to normal, and hence he enters Fuminori's lunatic world.
- Ōmi Takaha (高畠 青海?)
- Kōji's girlfriend and Yō's best friend. After Fuminori's accident she has become worried for Yō's sake.
- Yō Tsukuba (津久葉 瑶?)
- A friend of Fuminori's who has a crush on him. Since his accident she has been worried and heartbroken at his sudden change of attitude towards the world.
- Ryōko Tanbo (丹保 凉子?)
- The physician in charge of Fuminori's condition. She becomes suspicious that Fuminori had been hiding something during his routine checkups after he had recovered from his injuries.
[edit] Soundtrack
It should be noted that every track has a title that starts with an 'S'.
- SCHIZOPHRENIA
- SABBATH
- SEEK
- SPOOKY SCAPE
- SONG OF SAYA I
- SONG OF SAYA II
- SIN
- SUNSET
- SHAPESHIFT
- SCARE SHADOW
- SCREAM
- SAVAGE
- SILENT SORROW
- Song of Saya (沙耶の唄), sung by Kanako Itō
- Shoes of Glass (ガラスのくつ), sung by Kanako Itō
[edit] Trivia
Many plotlines of Saya no Uta share similarities with manga Phoenix - Resurrection, specifically the life of Robita. In fact, at one point of the dialog, Fuminori explicitly referencing to this as he came to realize his twisted visions.
