Gameplay is a category I can skip altogether. (sidenote, this is getting hard to write because I’m sick and my hands are shaking. So, instead, I’ll go about this a bit differently. I could certainly try to apply a number score, but I honestly can’t decide whether I hate this game or not. As for review, I don’t really think I CAN review this game. It isn’t a movie, like Heavy Rain, or just a story, like Walking Dead, but a book, made entirely of dialogue. It’s a book at it’s core, with a visual and audio component. But instead, I got one of the most depressing and shockingly well-written ‘games’ I’ve seen in a while. I was prepared to laugh a bit at some bad writing, or possibly laugh a lot at 4chan’s trademark anti-PC attitude. So, one day, with the internet down and with nothing better to do, I opened the game up. He told me it wasn’t as ‘tasteless’ as I thought it was and that I should give it a chance. The game was sitting hidden in my downloads folder for months until suddenly my friend started trying to get me to play it. I thought it was just going to be some freaky fetishy shit, and I wasn’t having any part of it.

I hated anime of all kinds at the time, and there was no way I was ever going to find enjoyment in a fucking anime visual novel by 4chan. Oh trust me, when I figured out what it was, I abandoned ship almost immediately. Katawa Shoujo is, to put it as bluntly as possible, a dating sim about cripples made by 4chan. I suppose I’ll come right out and say it - by the way, this is the game that will 100% lower public opinion of me for the rest of ever. “But Xilirite, what’s so embarrassing about this game? Is it because it’s some weird indie game nobody’s heard of or something?” Now, here I am, about to praise the writing and the surprisingly believable (mostly) characters. And instead I’m making jokes about the actual jokes - the things that were supposed to be funny. I wanted to play it, and laugh about how bad it was, and make jokes about the stupid writing and the bland characters. When I say a game is a guilty pleasure, it will be the only time I ever say that about a game.Īnd I REALLY wanted to hate this game. It is very hard for me to be ‘guilty’ of liking a game - if I like a game, I’m gonna play it, and I’m gonna talk about it, regardless of whether or not people share my opinion. It took me a long ass time to admit that I liked this game.

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