Katawa Shoujo v2 - "Why can't I hold all these feels?" - Games

One of the better jokes I've heard, hands down.

[QUOTE=AppleJackson;37189507]Got Emi's first way back in the early betas. I was gunning for Hanako though, but obviously failed hard haha. I fucking hate Emi haha.[/QUOTE] Emi's arc reminds me of everything that went wrong with a really good relationship with a girl I was really interested in. I for one have a good reason to associate her with bad memories.

Just finished Hanako's arc, got the good ending. And I wish I could think of something to say.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37195127]Just finished Hanako's arc, got the good ending. And I wish I could think of something to say.[/QUOTE] "I'll have an egg and some toast too, thanks."

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;37194924]Emi's arc reminds me of everything that went wrong with a really good relationship with a girl I was really interested in. I for one have a good reason to associate her with bad memories.[/QUOTE] Why did I read this. Dammit.

[QUOTE=RedRibbonMurderer;37197144]Why did I read this. Dammit.[/QUOTE] Wh-what did I do :c

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;37197186]Wh-what did I do :c[/QUOTE] I haven't done Emi's ark yet, but it's no big deal.

[QUOTE=Dippeggs;37193925]I see there's still some life in this thread. Any who, while there wont be sequel, there is a spin off in the works called Love Despite. Remember though it's totally separate from KS, also it was recently started so you'll have to wait a while for anything playable. [url]http://blog.love-despite.com/[/url] [url]http://love-despite.com/[/url] I'll go back into my hole now.[/QUOTE] I don't really see the point of spin offs for this game, nothing could really surprise me anymore. And sequels, it would be nice to have one, but at the same time not. I'm sure you all understand me when I say it's confusing like that, every story ended with a happy ending and fucked with your emotions, it should stay at that. If there were a sequel, it would be hard to put your emotions of a rollercoaster again, KS pretty much gave every thrill I think I could take. And how would you off about it? You are supposed to graduate pretty much after the game ends, so would you take your waifu out into the real world or something, get a job and all that junk? I think everyone should just imagine what happens next and keep it in their head.

[QUOTE=YourFriendJoe;37197901]I don't really see the point of spin offs for this game, nothing could really surprise me anymore. And sequels, it would be nice to have one, but at the same time not. I'm sure you all understand me when I say it's confusing like that, every story ended with a happy ending and fucked with your emotions, it should stay at that. If there were a sequel, it would be hard to put your emotions of a rollercoaster again, KS pretty much gave every thrill I think I could take. And how would you off about it? You are supposed to graduate pretty much after the game ends, so would you take your waifu out into the real world or something, get a job and all that junk? I think everyone should just imagine what happens next and keep it in their head.[/QUOTE] Erm Perhaps spin-off wasn't the correct word. They're more like spiritual successors. They don't have the same setting or characters so they aren't sequels either. The only thing in common is the base idea.

[QUOTE=ILY;37197975]Erm Perhaps spin-off wasn't the correct word. They're more like spiritual successors. They don't have the same setting or characters so they aren't sequels either. The only thing in common is the base idea.[/QUOTE] I still wouldn't play it probably

[QUOTE=YourFriendJoe;37191256]Wake up soon, I need more ks fanart, playing parts of the game I never finished is no longer enough.[/QUOTE] [t]http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/image/2779.jpg[/t] [t]http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/image/2762.png[/t]

[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;37198931][t]http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/image/2779.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I require more of this.

[QUOTE=RedRibbonMurderer;37199092]I require more of this.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if you wanted more pictures by the artist or more pictures that are similliar but i couldn't find any of latter so have more by the same guy. [t]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/070/a/c/rin____by_ollycrescent-d4shbxf.jpg[/t] [t]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/014/5/e/ks___shizune_and_hisao_by_ollycrescent-d4mc8nd.jpg[/t] [t]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/017/c/0/disconnect_by_ollycrescent-d4mq0q5.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;37199196]I'm not sure if you wanted more pictures by the artist or more pictures that are similliar but i couldn't find any of latter so have more by the same guy. [/QUOTE] I meant Hisao/Hanako

[QUOTE=AppleJackson;37184868]What do you recommend? The only books I ever read that I liked were Alice in Wonderland, which I have read 4 times, and Through the Looking Glass which I read twice.[/QUOTE] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=YourFriendJoe;37197901]I don't really see the point of spin offs for this game, nothing could really surprise me anymore. And sequels, it would be nice to have one, but at the same time not. I'm sure you all understand me when I say it's confusing like that, every story ended with a happy ending and fucked with your emotions, it should stay at that. If there were a sequel, it would be hard to put your emotions of a rollercoaster again, KS pretty much gave every thrill I think I could take. And how would you off about it? You are supposed to graduate pretty much after the game ends, so would you take your waifu out into the real world or something, get a job and all that junk? I think everyone should just imagine what happens next and keep it in their head.[/QUOTE] I thought the same until I started reading fanfic. Particularly this one. [url]http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4955[/url]

[QUOTE=lord0war;37199381]Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] I thought the same until I started reading fanfic. Particularly this one. [url]http://ks.renai.us/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4955[/url][/QUOTE] Holy shit. I just read that and I can safely say that's one of the few fanfics I've read on the internet that is actually good.

Man, this thread is still popular. I do keep telling myself to replay the VN, but never do. WHICH IS WEIRD SINCE I RUN THE STEAM GROUP

Well, it's been 21 hours since my last post and since I finally figured out something to say, I thought I should get back on it. Let's start with why I decided to download KS. Well, it was for a number of reasons. 4chan made it and if that doesn't make you at least a little bit curious, I can't help but think you're lying. The premise is....intriguing to say the least. I never played a VN before so I figured 'why not start'. And I liked how the characters looked so sure, let's go. The original reason I decided to go for Hanako is probably the same as most people who went for her on the first play. She's a beautiful girl (yes, she only exists in 2d land but people call paintings and their subjects beautiful and they exist in 2d land and if they're allowed to do it then so am I), even with the scars. She's shy, introverted, fragile. There's a few reasons for me when it comes to Hanako as a person. Parts of her remind me of myself, such as the shyness, her preferring to be alone a lot of the time and her nervousness in big crowds of people and her behavior around people she doesn't know. Of course, shyness in girls has always been a fairly major attraction for me, can't exactly point out why. Might have something to do with the fact that shy girls tend to stick to themselves, prefer keeping an aura of mystery about them and as we all know, the mysterious has at least some appeal to most people. As I progressed through Hanako's arc, I started to feel sorry for her, especially after she told Hisao about her accident. I didn't think something with a lack of interaction such as a VN could do this to me. Losing her parents, getting half her body scarred, the bullies, her obsessive clinging to Lilly, it didn't exactly leave my emotions in the same state it did before, let me tell you that. But what I loved the most about Hanako's arc and what is probably to blame for its effect on me emotionally is Hisao. I could pretty much guess what Hisao was going to do or say to a certain extent because his course of action is incredibly similar, if not identical to what I would do. Now, I can view this as a good thing or a bad thing because the bad times made me feel sad and like shit while the good times made me genuinely happy. So....in the end all was well I guess. But then we get to the climax. Being someone who hangs around on the internet, I was little a stranger to the cripple porn jokes about KS so when Hanako stripped and showed her entire scarred body, I knew it was now or never, it was just THAT simple. But when Hisao proceeded to bone her, something funny happened. I mashed the spacebar until I saw Hisao falling asleep. Why? Because I didn't want to see something that didn't feel like I would do. And that's when I took a step back and realized that was the first time I've done something like that. I always knew that I wasn't a nameless mute protagonist. I was Hisao Nakai, a kid with arrhythmia. But I just skipped through a section not because I didn't like it, not because it was badly done, not because it felt uncomfortable. I skipped it because even though it was HISAO doing it, it displeased ME. But oh boy, then comes the climax proper. Not going to write another wall of text for that one but suffice to say it made me pretty damn sad. I sort of saw it coming but that did nothing to change my reaction to it. I'm pleasantly surprised by how well KS is made and, more importantly, with what it evoked in me. Not something I thought was possible considering the genre but now I'm sitting here typing this wall of text about what I felt and thought during Hanako's arc so shut my fucking mouth I guess. Off for another replay soon. Maybe I'll go for the ever so cheerful Emi, that incredibly cute, at times child-like girl. Or maybe Shizune. That blue hair, those sexy glasses. Or maybe Lilly with the pretty blond hair and those mesmerizing eyes. Oh lordie...

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37210544]wall[/QUOTE] [B]4chan made it and if that doesn't make you at least a little bit curious, I can't help but think you're lying.[/B] If a bunch of anonymous people sat there in one thread and made it, yes. But it was just a group of people like any other VN. [B]I mashed the spacebar until I saw Hisao falling asleep.[/B] There's a content filter [B]Or maybe Shizune.[/B] Best character, worst route.

[QUOTE=ILY;37210575][B]4chan made it and if that doesn't make you at least a little bit curious, I can't help but think you're lying.[/B] If a bunch of anonymous people sat there in one thread and made it, yes. But it was just a group of people like any other VN. [/quote] True but it still intrigued me a little bit, as irrelevant as it may be. [quote][B]I mashed the spacebar until I saw Hisao falling asleep.[/B] There's a content filter[/quote] I know. And I didn't turn it on because I didn't expect to happen what did.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37210544]But I just skipped through a section not because I didn't like it, not because it was badly done, not because it felt uncomfortable. I skipped it because even though it was HISAO doing it, it displeased ME.[/QUOTE] So basically you were mad that someone else was boning your waifu Game over man

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37210544]Well, it's been 21 hours since my last post and since I finally figured out something to say, I thought I should get back on it. Let's start with why I decided to download KS. Well, it was for a number of reasons. 4chan made it and if that doesn't make you at least a little bit curious, I can't help but think you're lying. The premise is....intriguing to say the least. I never played a VN before so I figured 'why not start'. And I liked how the characters looked so sure, let's go. The original reason I decided to go for Hanako is probably the same as most people who went for her on the first play. She's a beautiful girl (yes, she only exists in 2d land but people call paintings and their subjects beautiful and they exist in 2d land and if they're allowed to do it then so am I), even with the scars. She's shy, introverted, fragile. There's a few reasons for me when it comes to Hanako as a person. Parts of her remind me of myself, such as the shyness, her preferring to be alone a lot of the time and her nervousness in big crowds of people and her behavior around people she doesn't know. Of course, shyness in girls has always been a fairly major attraction for me, can't exactly point out why. Might have something to do with the fact that shy girls tend to stick to themselves, prefer keeping an aura of mystery about them and as we all know, the mysterious has at least some appeal to most people. As I progressed through Hanako's arc, I started to feel sorry for her, especially after she told Hisao about her accident. I didn't think something with a lack of interaction such as a VN could do this to me. Losing her parents, getting half her body scarred, the bullies, her obsessive clinging to Lilly, it didn't exactly leave my emotions in the same state it did before, let me tell you that. But what I loved the most about Hanako's arc and what is probably to blame for its effect on me emotionally is Hisao. I could pretty much guess what Hisao was going to do or say to a certain extent because his course of action is incredibly similar, if not identical to what I would do. Now, I can view this as a good thing or a bad thing because the bad times made me feel sad and like shit while the good times made me genuinely happy. So....in the end all was well I guess. But then we get to the climax. Being someone who hangs around on the internet, I was little a stranger to the cripple porn jokes about KS so when Hanako stripped and showed her entire scarred body, I knew it was now or never, it was just THAT simple. But when Hisao proceeded to bone her, something funny happened. I mashed the spacebar until I saw Hisao falling asleep. Why? Because I didn't want to see something that didn't feel like I would do. And that's when I took a step back and realized that was the first time I've done something like that. I always knew that I wasn't a nameless mute protagonist. I was Hisao Nakai, a kid with arrhythmia. But I just skipped through a section not because I didn't like it, not because it was badly done, not because it felt uncomfortable. I skipped it because even though it was HISAO doing it, it displeased ME. But oh boy, then comes the climax proper. Not going to write another wall of text for that one but suffice to say it made me pretty damn sad. I sort of saw it coming but that did nothing to change my reaction to it. I'm pleasantly surprised by how well KS is made and, more importantly, with what it evoked in me. Not something I thought was possible considering the genre but now I'm sitting here typing this wall of text about what I felt and thought during Hanako's arc so shut my fucking mouth I guess. Off for another replay soon. Maybe I'll go for the ever so cheerful Emi, that incredibly cute, at times child-like girl. Or maybe Shizune. That blue hair, those sexy glasses. Or maybe Lilly with the pretty blond hair and those mesmerizing eyes. Oh lordie...[/QUOTE] I always mash the spacebar during the sex scenes, but I don't want to turn the filter on. It feels like I'm depriving myself of content, even though I don't want to see it. [QUOTE=ILY;37210575] [B]Or maybe Shizune.[/B] Best character, worst route.[/QUOTE] Elaborate. She's my favourite too, what's wrong with her arc?

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;37210622]Elaborate. She's my favourite too, what's wrong with her arc?[/QUOTE] Nothing out of the ordinary really happens unless you do the wrong thing. If I wanted something drama-free I'd go watch a slice of life show.

I thought the whole [sp]love triangle thing[/sp] was interesting. Obviously something's a little lacking, but that can't be avoided because communication with her lacks those nuances. And of course, your communcaiton with her only becomes good in about act 3.

[QUOTE=JgcxCub;37210918]I thought the whole [sp]love triangle thing[/sp] was interesting.[/QUOTE] It wasn't though [sp]A love triangle, I mean[/sp]

[QUOTE=LuaChobo;37210613]the hell did you think the content filter was for then [editline]13th August 2012[/editline] swearing?[/QUOTE] I suppose when it comes to content filtering in general some people don't trust an automated system not to remove things you may actually want to see, so it's better to just leave it off and try to ignore the stuff you don't want to see. [editline]13th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=JgcxCub;37210622] Elaborate. She's my favourite too, what's wrong with her arc?[/QUOTE] The writing makes her arc sort of boring at times. It doesn't quite have the same degree of emotional nuances as the other arcs; too much of the time events just seem to roll by without very much at all of importance to the characters or their relationship happening. The events of the other acts played your emotions like a grand piano, but the writing in Shizune's lack a focus on their relationship which seems to make the experience a bit dull and confusing. The [sp]love triangle[/sp] plot element had loads of potential but it was terribly underutilized and never seemed to get examined or resolved right proper.

[QUOTE=Jund;37210972]It wasn't though [sp]A love triangle, I mean[/sp][/QUOTE] It sorta is not the way you'd expect though I guess.

Shizune's route seems to focus on the sidecharacters and generally uninteresting daily events instead of the relationship between Hisao and the girl of choice like in the other routes, that's why most people dislike it I guess.

I think that was partially out of necessity. Communication with Shizune is considerably harder than with any other main character, and even when you learn to communicate with her directly, her lack of speech obviously reduces the ability for nuances to easily form.

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;37187127]Just out of curiosity, who did y'all pursue in your first playthroughs and why?[/QUOTE] I started with Hanako because shy girls are cute, yes, that was my only reason. After her good ending, I did the bad ending, felt like shit and didn't touch KS for a day or two. Did Rin's afterwards, [sp]The depression part really fucked me up[/sp] and I didn't touch KS for a week, my dick didn't work like it should and I felt like shit.