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[jackbod]

So a few months ago I beat katawa shoujo blam kapow every storyline only about a week ago have I have perked upa bit from the depprission this game gives me

I was realy bored at first and so decided to play it and I was blown away! yet whenever I try to introduce it to other people they ussually laugh in my face

So my simple point is DONT LAUGH PLAY THE GADDAM GAME!

http://katawa-shoujo.com/

And also a question, are there any other visual novels as good as this one?
My life is bleak without the tension of finding out what happens next when I get home

[inEQUALITY]

I enjoyed Katawa Shoujo quite a bit when it came out, but for me, I can rarely ever go through more than one storyline of a VN. It's too much like an anime or manga for me to accept any other storyline as canonical, and I'm just a purist dick like that (for me, it was Hanako; the ending scenes were a little rushed and awkward for my tastes at times, but it satisfied my eagerness for a conclusion to the story, I guess).

As for good VNs, good luck acquiring them outside of living in japan. However, if you do manage to find ways to do so, pretty much any VN by Key is going to be good imo - especially Clannad (and is obviously my exception to going through more than one storyline of a VN; you'll understand when you play it).

Also recommended: Shuffle! and School Days.

[Reyn]

And also a question, are there any other visual novels as good as this one?

List with all the VNs ever(probably) made. Rated by the site's members. Have fun wasting years on all of these, you won't regret it! In case you've seen the anime adaptation of a VN, do not skip it. It's worth it, and most of them are better than the anime anyway.

I didn't enjoy Shuffle all that much. Seemed a run of the mill VN, but then again I only played the first one.

[inEQUALITY]

I didn't enjoy Shuffle all that much. Seemed a run of the mill VN, but then again I only played the first one.

It pretty much was with a little bit of an exception, but I guess I enjoyed the anime enough that it stands out for me.

[Dariush]

Get back to your /jp/ and take your amputees with you.

[fenrif]

Isn't this the game that caused an uproar because of its portayal of disabled people? What was all that about anyway, is it seriously offensive?

[UltraValican]

Isn't this the game that caused an uproar because of its portayal of disabled people? What was all that about anyway, is it seriously offensive?

I thought it was because you nailed the disabled people

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Also Katawa means Crippled.

[Nighthawk]

Isn't this the game that caused an uproar because of its portayal of disabled people? What was all that about anyway, is it seriously offensive?

I thought it was because you nailed the disabled people

As far as I'm concerned it IS because you nailed the disabled people.

Still, pretty well made visual novel. I played it, and enjoyed trying to figure out each of the characters and how to respond so they wouldn't hate me. It's satisfying to play if you want to kill an evening or two getting one or multiple endings.

[jackbod]

God I wonder if those people who were mad at the game acctually played it Geez
A major part of the story is acheived through conflict born through the disability

[majikero]

Hanako and Emi are the only ones with conflict born from disability. Lily's route is about the guy having problems with his illness. Rin's story is about her art. Shizune's story is about communication problems between her and Misha I think.

The negative uproar is mostly because of the title. "Katawa" has a negative connotation and kinda offensive in Japanese.

[sluissa]

Yeah, almost all the negativity are from people literally judging the book by the cover. The title has some offensive connotations in Japanese, and the authors address that and give their reasons for sticking to it. That aside, it is a beautiful story in every play through. Nothing spectacular, don't expect (Insert favorite classical author), and does occasionally fall into the same pits (possibly intentionally as in jokes) as other stories of this sort do. That said, the art is great, the writing is outstanding and the characters, despite being flat drawings, are very three dimensional. Don't just look at it as porn. It's much more than that and the sexuality takes a serious back seat in most storylines of the game. (It can even be turned off without really losing much. One or two girls excepted.)

I'll be honest, I went into it not expecting much. What I got was better than anything in my admittedly very limited experience of the genre.

[Microcline]

The negative uproar is mostly because of the title. "Katawa" has a negative connotation and kinda offensive in Japanese.

I would suspect that it has more to do with the fact that the game can be mis-labeled as "fucked-up cripple fetish porn made by 4chan" (note the infamous "gimmie the chocolate" comic, possibly the most entertaining thing to come from the game's development), when in reality it's just another paint-by-numbers VN.

[PrimusRibbus]

I'm a bit surprised that people didn't jump on the OP for not including any actual information about the game in the first post. I can't say I'm that compelled to click on a link and download an executable for something that I know zero about.

As for finding out more about the game, from the replies it doesn't sound like something I'd want in my search history.

[Aoi]

Hmm. Turns out I already picked this up a while ago from when it posted its release IndieDB. Must eventually work my way to this... =P

As far as recommendations go though, I'd say anything by Type-Moon; Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night in particular. They tend to have a very different feel from most other visual novels, especially the Far Side path in Tsukihime. (Which, as an added perk, almost completely diverges from the Near Side path less than 15% of the way in, so it's not like you're reading the same text over and over.)

For something with a more traditional style, anything by Key is a very solid pick, though I'd personally rank their big three in the order they were released: Air, Kanon, Clannad. (Yes... Clannad was my least favorite out of the bunch...)

[frostshotgg]

I'm a bit surprised that people didn't jump on the OP for not including any actual information about the game in the first post. I can't say I'm that compelled to click on a link and download an executable for something that I know zero about.

I was about to, but then realized how much of a dick I'd look like.

As for the actual game, I enjoyed it, but only some of it. Shizune was really bitchy, Rin's everything stank of 2deep4u, and no Misha route.

As far as Visual Novel recommendations go, anything by Type-Moon, Kira[that funky star symbol I don't know the unicode for]Kira, Planetarian, and Narcissu are all good places to start. If you want more from there, head over to 4chan 's /vg/ board and refresh until Visual Novel general pops up. They know what they're talking about, and can direct you in the right direction once you know what you like.