I played the original PC game, and this doesn't look much like it. First of all, Saya isn't a little girl (12-15 or thereabouts) in this rendition, which takes away a huge portion of the creepy factor. Second of all, that goofy look on Fuminori's (Josh's) face wouldn't ever be there... I mean, the guy is horribly depressed all the time throughout the whole 8-9 hours of the visual novel. Also, I don't think the comic could be published in the US without extreme criticism if they kept in the pedophilic, cannibalistic, sociopathic rape and murder fest that really defines "Song of Saya".

The most memorable moments in "Saya" are those that break the bounds of the comfortable and enter the realm of the nauseating. For a spoiler-moderated example in the game, there's a scene where someone besides "Josh" is given his condition. The man promptly hacks apart his own wife and young daughter then begins to pedophilically rape a tentacle monster (how something can both be a child and a tentacle monster I'll leave you to find out). That's all in a single scene. I doubt we'll be getting the full blast of "Saya" in this comic.

On the other hand, I really like the art style, and I think it fits the story well. The backgrounds on the covers (not so much the first one, but the second) maintain that sort of gore "feel" without actually showing graphic depictions of alien organs and the like. And Josh's rendition on the first cover looks hilariously like Fuminori, which wouldn't be so funny if Saya's character design looked ANYTHING like her design in the game... though I can almost see the little "cat-ears" in her hair that original Saya had. Although I nitpick about the differences, I actually approve of the new rendition as an "adult" form of Saya. Having her be a child would have been preferred, but if we had to grow her up, I think the artists did a great job.

I've never read American comics before, but I might have to pick this one up. Hopefully it delivers as well as I believe it will, based on the cover's art style and my ideas of the direction they could take the plot.