Shizune’s playthrough lasted an almost exact duration of nine hours. The writing I will hold judgment until I have finished more routes. Some of the music almost borders on catchy, however, their simplicity and restraint evinces their purpose as background lullabies. The art is serviceable, although the obvious changes in art styles can be a little jarring at times. To have limited Misha’s character as nothing more than Shizune’s walking translator would have done Misha a disservice, and the writers has rightly avoided that by injecting drama centered on Misha.Īs for the presentation.

After all, she is nearly an inseparable part of Shizune’s life during the course of the game, and to not involve her between Shizune’s and protagonist’s budding relationship would have been a greater atrocity. Certainly, Misha deserves a substantial role and her own spotlight in Shizune’s story.

I must say though, without spoiling too much, the tension that surfaces between Misha and Shizune came somewhat out of left field, and felt underdeveloped. So despite a specious impression of simple-mindedness, Misha possesses more emotional complexity than Shizune, and I dare say due to that Misha is the more interesting character of the duo. Misha, on the other hand, was the one who generated most of the emotions of the route. One can already gather this information without needing to journey through her route anyway. By the end of the route all I learned about her is that she is a deaf-mute, ambitious, assiduous girl. The writing forming her character is lacking in emotional impact. However, her character feels a little bit, and pardon the pun, two dimensional. These are all qualities that I respect, and as such, Shizune’s personality is one I can hold in high esteem. Shizune is also a forward, strong-willed, hardworking, and responsible girl. Glasses score big points on my list of criteria of female attractiveness. I first chose Shizune based on one simple reason: because she is bespectacled. A team of people formed Four Leaf Studios with the goal of turning that possibility into reality, and roughly five years later the complete program was released a little over a week ago. It all started with a drawn concept image of five handicapped girls, and the possibility of a visual novel was suggested. I will give a very brief background here. For those with virgin ears to Katawa Shoujo, you can read about the details of its history and conception at the developer’s blog site. Those of you who frequent /a/ of 4chan will have heard and may have even anticipated for this game, or rather I should say, visual novel. I finished my first route of Katawa Shoujo yesterday.

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