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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > No Dine. No Knox. No Fair. No [Color]. Let's Play Umineko no Naku Koro Ni!
 
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Hidingo Kojimba
Mar 29, 2010

Shiny777 posted:

Don't think the autism possibility is ever brought up like by name or anything. Maria's almost certainly got some kind of disorder, quite possibly from that spectrum, but the game never comes out and says what exactly it is.

As for Battler's name, I've seen one explanation for it that sounds vaguely plausible. It is, however, kinda tied in with one of the game's biggest plot twists. And still doesn't explain why the hell his parents thought it was a good idea.

Given the mystery novel homages, I kind of figured Battler's name was a really obscure Agatha Christie reference. One of her detectives, Hercule Poirot, had an assisstant called Hastings. I dimly remember one of the books/tv-adaptations mentioning his nickname in his youth was "Battler". Battler Hastings.

Yeah, it's terrible.

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