03-09-2012, 05:30 PM | #126 |
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Wow, you sure played through that! Glad to see you enjoyed it enough to finish at least one path. A little disappointed there's not much more commentary, but I guess "Talon already said everything XP" is what I should have expected. ^^; *sigh* Major props for going back and quote-replying to older people's posts though. Much appreciated. I'm sure bbb'd feel the same way.
Regarding what I said about Yuuko ... (half-safe to click now if you don't care about spoilers, not safe to click if you do care) Spoiler: show
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03-09-2012, 05:40 PM | #127 |
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I was under the impression Yuuko was older thou- Oh, wait. She did say the guy she was dating turned out to be... Hm.
Speaking of unexplored relationships: Spoiler: show I really liked the nurse too. ^~ Hope to still see more of him in other paths. Not sure who to go for now, trying to decide between Shizune and Rin. Before that though, I'm curious about this "Day of Despair". X3 Oh btw, how do you check your percent completion?
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03-09-2012, 06:07 PM | #128 |
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You should be able to see a percent completion for the entire game when you check the bottom-left corner of the Library section, which can be accessed by clicking on Extras on the main menu. As for a percent completion for each individual path, there isn't one reported by the game itself afaik: mine have ever been estimates reported by me based solely on how far down the list of chapters I am. (Obviously this is a bit flawed since not all chapters are equally long nor are the long and short chapters evenly spaced.)
Regarding the other romance from Emi's path ... Spoiler: show Do things in whatever order you like best, of course, but I do feel like my order was pretty good. Brief-run down of what I did ... (NOT spoilers! 100% safe for anyone to read IMO! Only putting it in a spoiler tag to condense it.) Spoiler: show
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Reached "The Day of Despair". Kinda underwhelming, but I guess mostly because I already knew the major spoiler going in. =x
Spoiler: show Working on some of Emi's other choices, trying to find the Bad End/what happens if you don't talk to Mutou. Got the extra CG out of it. To be honest, I found the emotional impact of this scene more compelling, and seemed perfectly suited to the story. Spoiler: show
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Decided to shoot for Shizune now (since I'm not exactly certain how to get onto Rin's path yet, and might as well get the duds out of the way first). Just had tea with her and Misha at the Shanghai.
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Haven't actually played in a while due to being busy, but I'm curious; What exactly does Katawa Shoujo mean? For some reason, I haven't been able to get the thought out of my head that it means 'Broken girl'.
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The name is apparently so offensive to most modern Japanese that, when you take a look at a lot of the imageboard threads that were posted in the various peak moments of KS's development cycle (e.g. when they released Act 1, when they went to Comiket last year and handed out art books, and finally when they released the game in English), what you see is that 50% or more of the posts are brief "WTH @ THAT NAME " posts. That stated, you really shouldn't let the name get in the way of you playing -- and enjoying! -- the game. It's a wonderful game, very thoughtful and considerate and warm and fuzzy and loving and everything good, and the name is really a very unfortunate result of none of the team members having been fluent enough in Japanese back when they started this project to have recognized the offensiveness of the term. What's funny is that some (not all, but quite a few) of the Japanese posters on message boards point to this name and say that this is why Westerners should stay the fuck out of the eroge business and why we're giving Japan a bad name. Us? Giving you guys a bad name? If we're going to equate the actions of one individual with an entire nation, then we might point out that you're the fuckers who wrote the offensively-titled doujin that inspired the game in the first place!
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So this is bullshit, and I saw it coming a mile away.
I was trying hard to take the Lilly path, but in the end, Spoiler: show Edit: went back to the save just before the event and changed my answer about the art club. Guess I'm on Rin's path now. Which is okay, she was my second pick.
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05-03-2012, 01:30 PM | #135 |
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So I'll admit, this story is pretty captivating and somewhat emotional.
I enjoy a lot of the analogies and metaphors used as well, they're actually kind of sad and yet... beautiful. I don't particularly care what kind of game it is anymore. It's actually a rather touching story. I'm in Act 3 of Rin's Path at this point. I certainly hope the others aren't nearly as difficult... |
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They're not. I never got any bad ends when playing through Hanako's, Emi's, or Shizune's paths for the first time yet I got numerous bad ends playing Rin's. If you go back through the thread and expand some of my old posts that are safe for you to read you'll probably see some mentions of this. I don't know if you're yet to the part where this one particular occurrence happened to me, but there was this one time in Rin's path where ...
I'd also encourage you not to take it too personally. Getting back to what happened to you the other day with the Day of Despair, I'll say this: the joke in the fandom is that people who get the Day of Despair first are going to be "forever alone." But winning at a nerd-made eroge does not make one a real-life Romeo. Nor, in your case, does it even apply: you've already had at least one serious relationship lasting well over a year (iirc), not to mention I dunno how many other shorter-lived romantic relationships you've had, so yeah: I wouldn't let the game get you down. ^^; Still, if that was your, *ahem*, natural ending that resulted from making choices in the game as you would IRL, I will give you a ribbing. deoxys: Jerk. -.-; All in good fun, my friend. All in good fun.
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Haha, well. I wouldn't have made many of the decisions past the point where I met Lilly in real life, but I began to make them to try to drive my direction towards Lilly's path... and instead I got the Day of Despair. Having not really known anything about this game prior to that, getting that ending completely blindsided me and quite literally left me with my jaw hanging open. I imagine steering off of Lilly's road probably occurred when I said the wrong thing to Hanako since the two of them are a pair. Oh well :l
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All the more reason you shouldn't let getting a bad end as your default ending in a dating sim visual novel bum you out. ^^;
And yeah, I think shooting for Hanako, Lilly, or Rin is when you're most likely to get the Day of Despair ending. If you go back to ... this post (click), you'll see that I got that ending too when shooting for Hanako. In fact, it was my second "path" of the game, my first being Emi's which by all accounts is one of the most easily or most commonly docked onto. Anyway, I explain around that time (I think?) the hypothesis that you're more likely to get the Day of Despair when aiming for Hanako, Lilly, or Rin since, in order to get them, you have to come most perilously close to the DoD. Put another way, I think Emi and Shizune are safer bets. Docking onto them, and how to go about doing it or not doing it, is much more straightforward. And you never end up seeing that nighttime ascent of the hill that you do when pursuing Hanako, Lilly, and Rin. (Note that that scene is the final chance you have at avoiding the DoD. If your Act 1 has been Rin-centric, answering favorably on the hill nets you Rin. If your Act 1 has been Lilly and Hanako-centric, answering favorably on the hill nets you the Lilly+Hanako parent path and then you're later given a choice as to which of the two girls you want to pursue. If you answer unfavorably ... ^^; ) I'm working on getting myself to push forward with the Rozen Maiden and Ichiro Heian mangas right now (I don't know what it is with me and stalling on manga! @_@) so I don't want to divert attention away from them by going back to KS, but I should definitely finish off the Shizune path which I just left hanging at the start of the final act and I should then go ahead and play the Lilly path. If you guys keep playing and posting, maybe it'll make me feel left out enough to want to pick it back up and play too.
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I don't get it, on the hill I answered with "It's my condition" and it still threw me off their path. WHAT DOES THIS GAME WANT FROM ME
edit: Then again, Hanako wasn't with us, it was just Rin and Lilly... perhaps it's because I had been keeping my distance from Hanako the whole play through. |
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The reason that choice knocks you off Lily's path is because being stubborn about your condition is part of Lily's path. Do you want a blind girl feeling sorry for you? No! You pity the damn blind girl! You don't show her your weakness, you show her that she's weak!
Actually, I forgot what choices landed on her path. I know you have to pay a little attention to Extra Crispy, I mean Hanako. I think answering "it's my condition" is also what lands you on Lily's path, since it plants that pity into Lily, where she's gonna look down on you and spit on you. "Look at the poor boy with the heart condition. I bet you can't even look at porn without having a heart attack." |
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...wat
So, first you say not to answer that way... then you say to do that... Goddammit, Lily is the coolest. Well, Rin is kinda cool. I suppose. I have to admit, before I played Katawa Shoujo, I said to myself "I bet the legless girl is on track and is the best one calling it now", and guess what. I mean.. I don't mean to be that way but it was rather predictable :l |
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So let me just say I am thoroughly enjoying the Rin path, if only because it is incredibly relevant to something I am going through right now.
This line in particular popped out at me: "Maybe it's just my own mind playing tricks on itself. Still, Rin feels like a puzzle in the form of a girl. I feel attracted to it, compelled to solve it, the overly rational part of my brain refusing to let me give up." iknowthatfeelbro.jpg edit: Aaand so he does it! Spoiler: show Last edited by deoxys; 05-03-2012 at 06:14 PM. |
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Sorry to triple post, but I just ended Rin's Path (all three ways) and I wanted to talk about it.
Spoiler: show And now I will take a break from Katawa Shoujo for a good few days before I go back and try a new path, because I am seriously burnt out. Even though the game says it took me 14 hours, not counting the amount of time I had the window open and not playing, I probably spent a good 9 hours on the story. I have no idea how Kind flew through it that fast, but then again, I am a slow reader, as I like to envision the story in my mind as it is being described, as if I were there. All in all, I wouldn't call this an H-Game. No, I think that's pretty lame to just describe it as such. I think this is just a romantic story that builds around tragedy and the process of healing and acceptance, with a few very brief mature scenes (albeit some of them a bit awkward at times). It is a story of hope and sorrow, and a story of love and finding love where it is just an illusion. It's a story for everyone. |
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Though I was under the opinion that most Eroge are like this. ._. *So says the person with zero Eroge experience* EDIT: Oh. Right. The game. I haven't played in a while for reasons similar to Talon's- when I get a spot of free time with all my work done, it's usually spent reading Yumekui Merry, playing hacks or making hacks.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Your post sure makes it sound like you're another solid member of the Rin Herd , but we'll see! We'll see. You've still got four other paths to explore.
What did you think about ... Rin Act 4 spoilers Spoiler: show I guess some other, more general things to ask you about are ... What do you think of the music? Everyone has different tastes. Curious to see what you thought of the soundtrack given that a lot of the music you seem to like. Which were your favorite tunes of the ones you've heard so far? What was your favorite CG in this path? If I had to guess, it'd probably be ... Spoiler: show but I dunno. You tell me.
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Spoiler: show The soundtrack is great! I love mix of music a lot. I'm considering trying to find the OST... it's something I'd even pay for. As for favorite songs, I really quite enjoy Innocence, Friendship's melodic ode to Canon in D (intentional or not), Lullaby of Open Eyes (which really gives me feels... almost want to tear up hearing it), Raindrops and Puddles (events if it sounds like generic town music in an RPG), and while not a favorite, Caged Heart really makes you feel the fragility of the situation whenever it plays, which is distressing. Is it bad that I'm actually falling into this kind of weird depression now that the path is finished? Like I feel like while it ended well enough, I kind of want more, like Spoiler: show I wont lie, I'm finding myself actually already wanting to play more, but... I grew so accustomed to Run that I'm not sure I really want to do another story
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I know the feeling. It happened to me after I finished with Hanako's path. (Not so much after Emi's since Hanako was my #1 girl whose path I wanted to play, but definitely after finishing Hanako's.)
You can get the soundtrack, no hassle, straight off the website from the makers of the game. See: this link, then click on the DDL link for the soundtrack, "Katawa Shoujo Enigmatic Box of Sound".
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Well, I went through last night and created 4 new save files and successfully docked onto each girl's path in each file... only really needed the help of a walkthrough on Hanako's and Shizune's, Emi's and Lilly's became obvious to me after that.
So, I guess here I am... now debating between Shizune's and Lilly's next, because I hear Shizune's is pretty riveting. Also, sorry about the poorly written previous post, it was written from my phone. Talon, the CG you guessed was definitely my favorite. As for all the cutscenes now being unlocked for me, I'd definitely have to say my favorite is Hanako's. It was incredibly well made... I even inadvertantly mouthed "holy shit" at how good it was. I kind of wish there was a Katawa Shoujo anime... Last edited by deoxys; 05-04-2012 at 02:34 PM. |
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That's a very interesting play approach. I've never heard of anyone doing that before. I can't say I like it personally but I see no problem with it. Different strokes for different folks. It's certainly one way to "shop around," as it were, with each of the remaining girls and then be able to decide whose path you think you're most excited to dock onto next. (Though how could you not be most excited to dock onto Hanako's!? *grumble grumble* [/best pony arguments] )
There's something you said though that I'm going to have to raise my eyebrows at colossally: "because I hear Shizune's is pretty riveting." HuhWHAAAAAAAT now!? O_o I have never ever heard ANYONE describe Shizune's path as "riveting." bbb, bored. Talon, disappointed. Yuki, meh. The Katawa Shoujo forum while I was browsing it daily from January through mid-February, a collective disappointment. Sure, there are some people who say "SHIZUNE IS THE BEST! " still but those people have always been few and far between. Unless there was a v.2.0 path that I'm just not aware of that completely rewrote her story ... ... ... I gotta ask you, who did you hear this from? >.< ^^; 'Cause I mean, they don't have to be wrong, per se. It could 100% be riveting for you personally. But I've just ... I've never heard someone use that word to describe Shizune's path overall. (Maybe a specific scene at the very end of Act 3, sure, but the path overall ...!?) I usually hear that word reserved for Rin's or Hanako's paths. (Have avoided Lilly path discussion so I dunno if they use that word for that path or not but I do know that it typically wins the e-peen arguments within the fandom for Best Path of the Game, so ... *shrug*) Anyway, if you do dock onto Shizune's, I hope you enjoy it. There should be plenty of older posts for you to have fun reading in this thread if you do. bbb's (path complete), Yuki's? (path complete), and mine (path almost complete).
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