Thread:AustinDR/@comment-27729149-20151217041133/@comment-27818776-20151217053331

So because of that, Takano doesn't become evil, but Hinamizawa would be screwed if she didn't come to research the Hinamizawa Syndrome. That, and to make matters even more confusing, it's unknown if the Bernkastel that appeared at the end of Higurashi is the same one that will become the main antagonist in Umineko. Pretty much, Bernkastel is the accumulation of all the Rikas that were killed in the previous worlds that suffered despair. Higurashi's Bernkastel was ambiguously evil, because her preventing Takano's tragic backstory from happening actually led to an event known as the Rice-Killing chapter, which was what she most likely had planned, though I don't know.