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Katawa Shoujo; "Disabled Girls"
Tweet Topic Started: Jan 31 2012, 11:34 PM (523 Views)
Psycho Werekitsune	Jan 31 2012, 11:34 PM Post #1
Part man...part beast...full psycho! Posts: 17,366 Group: All Powerful Deity Member #1 Joined: December 30, 2005	Official Site Quote: Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License Where do I start with this? While the game's premise is a little bizarre in itself, the concept behind it's creation is even moreso. Apparently, a mangaka or doujin artist had a piece of concept artwork in one of their books for a game centered around girls with disabilities they wanted to make: This obviously found it's way onto the internet and onto 4Chan. Some members really warmed up to the idea and decided to go through with making the game. They pooled talent from pretty much all over the world and really put a lot of effort into it. The end result is Katawa Shoujo, a dating sim/visual novel about a guy who starts going to a school that caters to people with disabilities and where he meets a group of girls he can end up in a relationship with. This may seem in poor taste, especially when people consider the fact that 4Chan was involved, but in actuality, it truly is a labour of love. Not only is this game really a heartwarming emotional rollercoaster, but it apparently also helps to raise awareness about people with disabilities. The game is so emotionally deep that it even managed to pierce the very black hearts of 4Chan's regulars: Spoiler: click to toggle The game is completely free and available for download from the link above. If you have any interest in the genre, or the story or anything pretaining to this game, I'd really recommend you give it a go.
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-Luffy Foxtrot-	Jan 31 2012, 11:48 PM Post #2
Raining on your parade with a truckload of awkward awesomeness. Posts: 4,950 Group: Elite Member #70 Joined: November 11, 2009	I have a vague interest in this to the point that I have the home page bookmarked on Chrome but fuck it all, I am scared to death beyond my wits of this game.



-Nageki-	Feb 1 2012, 06:56 AM Post #3
Master Posts: 393 Group: Elite Member #90 Joined: October 3, 2010	I dunno. I would be interested in trying it but not until there's a direct download for it.



-Arem-	Feb 1 2012, 10:48 AM Post #4
Fabulous Homosexual Posts: 6,262 Group: Elite Member #59 Joined: November 9, 2009	This needs gay option stat. It sounds like a book I want to read. EDIT: DUDE!! Has anyone seen the screenshots to this? O_O! Edited by Arem, Feb 1 2012, 10:52 AM.
	--- Quote: Blacklightning Nov 14 2011, 02:48 AM I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms. But just for fun, let's play around with his logic a bit. game - gun = gay game + gun = -gay game + gun + Arem = ??? Founder of #TeamArem


-Aroxys-	Feb 1 2012, 02:53 PM Post #5
GALACTUS Posts: 1,659 Group: Elite Member #63 Joined: November 9, 2009	Funnily enough, I heard about this a while back but have yet to play it due to the fact that I'd have to murder my sleep schedule to download it. It seems to be a quality game whose production was taken very seriously, with likeable characters that one could easily warm up to. (I haven't played it, yet Lilly is my uncontested favorite.)
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-Jacquerel-	Feb 1 2012, 03:28 PM Post #6
Master Posts: 1,082 Group: Elite Member #89 Joined: October 2, 2010	Not really into VNs myself but my friends that are seem to have wildly varying opinions Some of them think it's amazing and others think it is terrible All of them agree that the writing quality varies considerably depending on who you pick, and the latter group say that even in the best written ones the descriptions are pretty bland and go into far too much detail about totally irrelevant things So yeah, I guess this is a warning that if you don't like one route maybe the others will be better (or maybe you'll think they're all terrible)



-Nageki-	Feb 11 2012, 09:45 AM Post #7
Master Posts: 393 Group: Elite Member #90 Joined: October 3, 2010	I finally got it a couple of days ago, but I have a bit of a problem with something, I find it kinda hard to imagine going back through all this again to get a different girl. I kinda wanna just stick with who I picked and leave it at that, but some of the other girls seem interesting too. And yes, I know about the Skip Mode thing, that's not really my point. I'm prolly just thinking about it too hard. gets back to drawing



Psycho Werekitsune	Feb 11 2012, 11:49 AM Post #8
Part man...part beast...full psycho! Posts: 17,366 Group: All Powerful Deity Member #1 Joined: December 30, 2005	No see, I understand exactly what you're talking about; the reason I'm so adverse to dating sims is because I find all (or most) of the girls in a given scenario interesting, so I can't make up my mind and when I do, I feel like I'm "cheating" when I go back and do it all again with a different girl. This is probably the one time the completist in me is beaten back by my emotional attachment to these fictional characters.
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