>>741260735
>tried playing this way back when
>really liked Rin
>have to sit through Emi's whole story in order to to get to her
>quit
I appreciate her teaching me to run IRL, though.

>>741260735
That has never happened to me as I don't read visual novels but glad you're working on your porn addiction.

>>741260735
I played Emi's route, got utterly annihilated, tried to start blind girl's route and stopped early on. Never went back to it.
Katawa Shoujo was crazy good.

>>741260809
>have to sit through Emi's whole story in order to to get to her
if you wanna be my lover,
you gotta get wit my frens

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>have irl hananko-like gf
>mess it up and get the bad ending

>katawa shoujo comes out
>play hananko arc to "do it right this time"
>still get the bad ending

maybe its me

>>741260735
All I know about Katawa Shoujo is Katawa Crash should I play the actual VN or is it just a dating sim with cripple girls?

>>741261001
kek

>>741260735
>That summer when I was 20, lonely and played KS
>Spent 4 months running every second day
>Rained for a week straight once
>Gave up and have never been that motivated since
I guess I was doomed from the start.

>be a submissive beta faggot indoctrinated by anime, tv and hollywood about relationships
>wonder why I'm still a virgin
lmao feels good not being an incel or a virgin.

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>>741261001
I knew a girl with really bad burns IRL. It's honestly very ugly, she was half bald, and she had all kinds of other health problems. But she was really nice so I hugged her all the time. I never learned her whole story but I'm pretty sure her parents were dead. She also wasn't shy at all, she was always trying to go after guys and getting rejected. (no I wasn't one of them) Probably the only legit femcel I've ever met.

I wonder how popular Hanako would be if her burns were more realistic. She was my favorite KS girl. (even before I met the real life burn victim)

>>741260735
I never went into it for coomer reasons, I just thought it's some meme, and then I ended up really caring and the various disabilities and how they play into a romance, Lily touching your face to "see" you, and carrying Emi, and giving Rin a hug without her having arms to hug back.
Lily in particular I thought there was something intimate and beautiful about that.
I didn't give a shit about Hanako and never got her appeal

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>>741260809
>have to sit through Emi's whole story in order to to get to her
Huh? You don't have to do that, all of the girls' routes are available in whatever order you want to approach them.
Rin's route is a little tough to get on, since you have to avoid getting too close to the other girls (or trying to be a stud for Emi) without going too far the other way and picking the asshole options that put you on the roof with Kenji.

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>>741260735
I have been seeing rin posts everywhere... well only in /a/ and /v/ here

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>/v/ was so organized and civil they managed to make their own visual novel

I cant even begin to imagine what the board was like back then.

>>741260735
Rin was the only good girl in this piece of shit vn.

I hate collab projects because of the dips in quality. Shizune's writer either fucking hated writing for her or was terrible at his job.

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>>741260735
>Treating Katawa Shoujo as life changing
Read your second VN newfag.

>>741261843
i was on /b/ back then and learned about ks then
wow /b/ i almost forgot all about that place
if you had asked me to list all boards off the top of my head just now i might have skipped it over entirely

>>741261984
It was mostly /a/

Does it have a JP translation yet so I can pretend I'm playing a VN produced by japanese bizzaro 4chan?

>>741262157
yea

you know how come there was never any dubbing attempt for this game

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>>741261984
>/v/ was so organized and civil they managed to make their own visual novel
Yeah that's crazy, hasn't happened since.

>>741262214
Nobody on /v/ knows that many IRL girls.

>>741262214
There was
https://youtube.com/@katawaseiyu?si=lYdFF_IerAADlg66

>>741262025
desu I read a few after KS, if my heart had wings (thinking wheelies gf would be good but she sucked ass and was kind of bitchy and demanding), GNK, which was okay, but the protag basically being like a 17 year old secret agent was kind of shitty fanfic tier self insert gay shit... tried a few others that were even more forgettable.
KS was nice because it made me consider different aspects than just whether a girl was hot or not or had a fun personality. There were difficulties I had to work around.
and in Lily and Emi's case at least, I found them worth it.

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>>741261756
I've never been a Hanako waifufag but I think she's a really good character and the idea of her route is great, even if the execution is (naturally) pretty amateurish and clumsy. I'd probably rank her third after Rin and Emi.
She's basically a trap to lure in poor bastards like this guy >>741261001 who see the sad helpless cute disabled girl and want to protect her and keep her safe from the world. And if they can't recognize that she isn't any less of a person than they are, and that she has wants and needs and her own life to live, she gives them a hell of a wake-up call in her bad ending, one of the best scenes in the VN.

>>741260735
It's crazy how Katawa Shoujo literally could not be made today because of how schizo everyone is on here nowadays.
I wouldn't be surprised if much of the original dev team have stopped coming here altogether, it's gotten that bad.

>>741262352
it's more that when a person's chief "disability" is mostly just shyness it bores me.
Shy girls generally don't appeal to me.

>>741261984
It wasn't.
A couple dudes from /v/ recruited a couple other dudes from /v/ and /a/ and went and made a game, with some feedback from /v/ and /a/ threads.
Every 4chan project is like this. The ball gets rolling with a bunch of excited threads and then, sometimes, someone with some ambition actually turns it into something more concrete than ideas thrown at the proverbial wall. A few TTRPGs got made on /tg/ in a similar way.
I love this place but it isn't really conducive to making things.

>>741262025
S;G isn't as good as you think it is.

>>741262432
/a/ draws/sings/orchestrates
but mostly draws kinda prove otherwise

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>>741262352
i understood Hanako immediately and got the good ending. It was very rewarding.
>tfw no qt baconface gf irl

theres a vn where u can fuck terminally ill girls?? wtf thats sick

>>741261563
That's the sweetest thing I've read all week. You're not friends anymore? You should be. I'm jealous bro. There was a blind girl in my school, I never interacted with her but one time I was with a girl and as the blind girl was in front of us, slowly descending the stairs and struggling, the girl I was walking with said 'I wanna chuck her down the stairs' and I'm absolutely certain she overheard. Her helper lady turned around and gave us the evilest look. Sometimes I'd see her reading, and she'd be sat there bent over with the book on her lap and her head 2 inches from the book.

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>>741262412
They left a long time ago and I can't imagine how much less funny a modern attempt at writing Kenji would be.
Actually, they would make him a modern /v/schizo who thinks every woman he meets is secretly a tranny, but is secretly still in love with the trans girl he used to date.

>>741260735
Who actually reads the dialogue and doesn’t just mash spacebar

>>741261001
personally it felt like it should've taught me that I should probably accept that I don't know others as well as I did (a la the image made by >>741262352) because it would've helped a lot with not feeling so caught off guard by ex GeeFFF going no contact on me

>>741262352
>And if they can't recognize that she isn't any less of a person than they are, and that she has wants and needs and her own life to live
educational videogame

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>>741260735
>got Rin's route as my first one
>which was good because at first sight she was my favorite
>the best and better developed story of all
>that smoking scene
>she just wanted to be heard and understood
>when she finally breaks and cries her heart out
>pic related

Rin is a gift from heaven.

>>741261563
People don't realize how ugly actual burn victims are and not "anime ugly" like this fucking retarded VN shows. And they always end up either overly optimistic to the point it's exhausting or straight up femcel, no in between. I've only met one IRL and she was the most bitter person I have ever seen, even when nobody was talking about her burns. Fucking bitch
anyways this is modern /v/, go post another softcore porn thread or twitter engagement bait screenshot please

>>741262263
It's hilarious how this project was so high quality some people mistook it for the official VN.

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>>741262637
They're not terminally ill, they have a normal selection of disabilities that impede their lives but don't stop them from living it. There's an amputee track star with no legs and an artist with no arms. There's a girl with severe burns who stays close to the pretty blind girl. And there's the deaf class president (and her interpreter with even bigger boobs, but you can't date her).
The main character is the only one with a condition that puts him at active risk, a heart arrhythmia.

>>741261060
It's unironically good, if you have any interest you should check it out.
It's free and I'm pretty sure you can still download it from the website. Actually, I think they put it on Steam a few years ago too, which is hilarious.

>>741262412
here and there, we still have dev anons of various types make games with their sincere feelings at least.

It's a bit dated and really shows its age. The writing is way too western for a game supposedly set in Japan.

>>741261001
art imitates life (or is it the other way around)

>>741260735
Tried playing it 10 years ago, it is an overrated amateurish cringe fest

>>741262352
>Whiteknight her and you get the bad ending
Y'all niggas trolled me with that advice back in 2013 or so when I played it.

The three endings actually go like this:
>Good ending: Help get her out of her shell.
>Neutral ending: Whiteknight her and baby her.
>Bad ending: Let her do whatever and chill (rot) in her room.

>>741263010
Hmmm should I date marry and have children with a burn victim? Seems like it could work out.

>>741263010
it depends on the burns and the natural beauty of the girl.
I had a girl at my school who had nearly half her face burned up but she was good looking otherwise and the burn scare was just red puffy scar so it didnt look that bad.

>>741260735
I was dating a girl in high school when this released and I made her play it.
She got Lilli.

>>741260735
Rin's route was ass and Hisao was a cunt.

>play first time
>fuck up
>get on track for Emi bad end
>get saved by pink hair shouting at me
>get good end
I'll always remember you Big Drills-sama.

>>741263276
Some routes are very good, some are very bad. I feel sorry for people who got shizunes route as their first impression of the game. I will always consider cheating on her the "good ending"

>>741263502
>I feel sorry for people who got shizunes route as their first impression of the game.
CAN YOU FUCKING BLAME ME EVERYONE WROTE HER SO WELL EXCEPT FOR THE GUY IN CHARGE OF HER MAIN ROUTE

>>741263153
I'll add it to my mile long backlog and get to it. I've been looking for a new VN after finishing the Steins Gates

>>741263482
Hisao is a cunt regardless of the route, for a reason he was known as the Master of Romance.

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>>741261984
With five (5) main writers and like a dozen artists contributing to the project it's a genuine miracle how consistently good it turned out.
Special shoutout to Mike Inel for making several minutes of high-quality animation and
NicolArmarfi composing and playing over an hour of great music for the game's soundtrack, for free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-205H5F__no

>>741263432
Did she like it?

If I remember right, that "gimme the chocolate hisao" comic was a thing well before the game was actually made right?
It's been such a long time.

>>741263770
She did but we broke up half way through the route, and she texted me a photo of her finishing, and I was like wtf don't talk to me.

the soundtrack was so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4L7i1uc1Rg

in fact it's probably what carried the game really
I liked it's usage in the beta dawn VN

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>>741263771
Yeah that was one of the memes that came after they showed off the Act 1 demo(?) in around 2010 I think?
>April 2009
jesus

>>741264007
>2009
I miss old 4chan like you probably would believe actually. There's still occasional sparks of it but man I even miss the fucking tripfags at this point.

>>741260735
I'll never understand why 4chan came together and made a half decent vn and then never did anything ever again. It's honestly the best and worse timeline.

>>741264213
>he doesn't know
/mlp/ was at the forefront of LLMs for a short period of time.

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>>741264072
I don't want to think about what they did to Feels Guy
In my mind he will always exist as he once was, kept safe and untouched by our wicked and hateful world

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>comfort her
>bad ending

>>741263721
>Special shoutout to Mike Inel for making several minutes of high-quality animation
I always thought the style was familiar but couldn't put my finger on it. No I don't read game credits.

Rin doomed me to a life of chasing art hoes.

Now I'm engaged to a creative tomboyish girl. We have a house together in the countryside.

>>741264349
the old days of /v/ rage being not ACTUALLY because we hated video games but we were just autistically passionate about them
Sharing in the feels
Hell, even that damn frog was "feel good man".

Never forget the spirit of old video game discussion, deep in your autistic hearts.

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>>741260735
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICH1dyKO3xA

>>741261563
Damn even a half-burned woman puts guys in the friendzone

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>>741264519
I keep the spirit alive by occasionally making /v/ Plays threads for obscure shit nobody wants to make the effort to emulate.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hRekJkWXXI
man

>>741261563
>femcel
nope, you would have fucked her given the chance but since she's chad only you got cucked. fucking foids and their simps

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>>741264686
Glad to hear that, keep on keeping on anon. I don't normally click on those kinds of things because I mostly either play vidya myself or write, but I'll keep an eye out for those kind of threads now.

>>741262572
*rapes her gently*

>>741263010
It varies massively, from "Nemesis" to "a few scars that she's probably really self-conscious about but it's not a big deal". RL Hanako would be pretty gruesome

>>741262352
>And if they can't recognize that she isn't any less of a person than they are, and that she has wants and needs and her own life to live, she gives them a hell of a wake-up call in her bad ending, one of the best scenes in the VN.
She pissed me off because she made too many assumptions when I got the bad ending.
>Get to Hanako's route
>Rin moves back home forever
>Choice pops up between hanging out with her or going home
>If my best friend moved away permanently when I was a teenager I wouldn't want to hang out for the day
>Go home
>Get bad ending
>She accuses me of babying her
>"Wtf? I thought you needed time for yourself, and you're shitting me for that? Fucking bitch"
I felt so tempted to not even bother with the good ending later. I just loaded the save and got the good ending based on that stupid choice.

>>741260735
>i love woke when it's japan!
>i love degeneracy when it's japan!

>>741265334
The people crying about degeneracy weren't really a thing on this site back then. The game was also not made by the japlaknees.

>>741265334
Anons will say the game isn't Japanese or whatever, but it's clearly inspired by Japanese visual novels and this Raita art >>741263153

>>741265412
it isn't japanese though

>>741265412
it's obviously inspired by japanese visual novels, it's a visual novel when almost none of those were made in the west.
But it itself is not japanese.

>>741264983
It's burn victim not burn ouchie. The ones who don't even have hair because all the follicles in their skin literally melted away. RL Hanako's burns wouldn't be perfectly symmetrical either which is "anime" ugly, she would be blotchy, maybe a drooping eyelid and definitely bald or near bald
This VN was a mistake

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>>741265412
It's inspired by RAITA's original concept, but it takes significant liberties with it and tells an original story created entirely by foreigners who met on 4chan, and you can tell.
The setting is supposed to be Japanese but it doesn't really try that hard to emphasize it. It's less "weeaboo" than Persona, they don't even use honorifics outside of one character's nicknames.

>>741264636
It's the other way around, she was always getting friendzoned. I was dating her friend so I was off limits I guess.

>>741262025
>Reddit;Gate

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I haven't played through KS yet, I started but I haven't gotten anywhere, but something tells me Rin is gonna be the one.
She seems chilled out, and I don't want a lot of pressure, and she's an artist so that speaks to me.
Oh yeah also I want her to jerk me off with her f

>>741264469
Legit jelly, congrats /v/ro