Between that and its sexual content, it’s definitely not for everyone… but if those aspects don’t put you off and you want to read a disturbing visual novel, I can’t recommend Saya no Uta highly enough. There are only two choices to make, leading to the three endings, so you’ll spent the vast majority of your time reading. Long after I finished it, I kept thinking about it and the dark, horrifying tale it told. It’s the sort of horror story that sticks with you. What I will say is that it’s definitely a Lovecraftian story, and a darn good one. It took me under 4 hours to see all three endings.
I won’t go into too many story details, because Saya no Uta is fairly short. The story uses these alternate perspectives to great effect, and the overall presentation is much more compelling and disturbing than if it had Fuminori’s point-of-view alone.
While the story begins with Fuminori, who narrates from a first-person perspective as is common for visual novels, it also has sections from the perspective of other characters who still see the world normally. Far from detracting from the horror, the sexual content adds to the unsettling atmosphere that Saya no Uta builds up so well. That might sound like an unusual mix, but it works. Saya no Uta is a horror eroge (a visual novel with erotic scenes). The one thing that keeps him sane is meeting a mysterious girl named Saya, the only person he still sees as human.
It begins with a young man named Fuminori whose life changed forever when emergency surgery resulted in him seeing the world as a nightmarish landscape filled with monstrous beings. Saya no Uta, or The Song of Saya, is one of the most delightfully disturbing visual novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading.
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