So, thread necro.
Like Tellemurious above, I just started playing Clannad again after noticing that I still had it installed from last year. Doing Kyou's arc and it's so far gone as to be painful and with me talking to myself contemplating the karmic consequences of what Tomoya is doing to himself. But after an hour or two of pressing enter, watching him beating himself up over his relationship with Ryou...I'm kind of getting to the point where I'm just ready for it to end.
It's like...to the point where he's so far into the hole that it seems like he may as well just marry Ryou and spend the rest of his life living a lie.
In my own life once I kissed the wrong girl at a New Year's Eve party just because I happened to be dating her even though the girl I really wanted to kiss was sitting right next to me. It's a curious thing, social pressure. I succumbed to it and all these years later I've known it was a "mistake" but it was a mistake that I understand why I made. But I wasn't going to make it again and so I absolutely was going to kiss Kyou in the field...but now I get hours of angst and self-loathing anyway.
Gahhh!!!
Anyway, +1 to the game for being emotionally effective. Though it is starting to drag on with the hours of clicking between meaningful choices and fake choices that have me dating the girl other than the one I chose to kiss.