At several points you will be given a choice of how to proceed with a situation such as agreeing with one person or another or heading to say the town or the library. The game follow Hisaso as he prepares for his exams and mingles with the fellow students as he tries to come to terms with what has happened to him. His new school contains the facilities and staff to deal with such a condition along with many others as evidenced by the eclectic student body. Okay now that we’ve got that covered lets carry on with the review, Katawa Shojou is a visual novel dating sim where the player takes the role of Hisaso who is transferred to another school after suffering a heart attack. You, as the central protagonist, must select one of the boys, girls, pigeons or world leaders on offer and woo them basically by siding with them in everything and anything and hoping that the creators haven’t put in any text boxes vaguer than bioware’s options of who the heck knows.
The biggest of these outside of Japan would easily be the Ace Attorney series and so if you’re still not grasping the idea of a game with a static screen and reading required then perhaps you should go check one of them out.Īnyway the term dating sim is likewise a term that you may not be familiar with but is fairly easy to guess at. Often during the course of the game the player will at serveal moments be required to make a choice often concerning what should be said or where the characters should go next. In them the game plays as you would guess very much like a comic or novel with often fixed screens and scrolling text along the bottom that the player is required to read. Visual novels are not a big thing in the western world but quite big in Japan and neighbouring territories. Now before we get too far into the review I should probably cover the basics of the genre for those mysterious people who go outside and talk to each other. Now who came out of this happy, the people wanting this to succeed or fail is what I hope to find out. This raised about every red flag in the book and it is likely that people only picked it up at first with the intention of seeing a complete train wreck play out before their eyes.
This is in all likelihood the final release of Katawa Shoujo ever.Katawa Shojou probably came to most people’s attention with the statement that it was a dating sim, about disabled high schoolgirls, made by a bunch of people on 4chan. Katawa Shoujo 1.3.1 is released! It contains several script fixes for the Japanese localization.
It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.
Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends-and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization.
Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan.