11/8/2022 0 Comments Katawa shoujo misha route![]() The girl I saved for last was Rin, who is an armless girl who is obsessed with painting. My last playthrough also made me think a lot about myself and my own past. I can think of several “Hanako”‘s whom I’ve met within my life who I treated as very delicate and emotionally sensitive, when perhaps I was not giving their individuality and strength enough credit. And this is perhaps the most endearing and important part about Katawa Shoujo it teaches you how people actually want to be treated in the real world and the lessons from this game are not only applicable to the girl you are romancing, but are rather relevant to interacting with the world as a whole. When I went back to get the “good” ending, I found myself learning how people want to have their own sense of independence and do not want to make others worry or become obsessed with their care. I was heartbroken but it also helped me to understand that point. In this playthrough I actually ended up with the “bad” ending: where the girl breaks up with Hisao. However, as I got closer and closer to Hanako, she revealed more about herself and I found that she was not as fragile as she appeared and I was reminded that people do not want to be treated like an expensive vase or brittle piece of glass, but rather as an actual person with their own strengths and deserving of respect. She was often found reading in the library, inside the safe world of her books instead of the social anxieties the outside world placed on her. In my first playthrough I ended up with Hanako, who is a shy, quiet girl who suffers from severe burns on half of her body. The writing throughout the game is very sincere and heartfelt, with each path having its share of happiness and heartache. Each playthrough allows you to see this for yourself, and I actually felt a special bond with every girl after I finished their story. Each love interest has her morals, dreams, and likes and dislikes. Each has their own personality and is much more than their “disability”. In Katawa Shoujo, there are five girls that Hisao is able to have a relationship with: Emi (whose legs were amputated), Rin (who lost her arms to a birth defect), Lilly (who is blind), Hanako (who was severely burned as a child), and Shizune (who is deaf). ![]() It is here where Hisao learns to cope with his disability, meet others who have their own impairments, and perhaps find love.įrom left to right: Emi, Rin, Lilly, Hanako, Misha, Shizune This forces him to move from his current normal public school to Yamaku High School, a school exclusively for students with physical disabilities. The main character, Hisao Nakai, suffers from a heart attack and discovers he has an arrhythmic heart. Katawa Shoujo literally translates to “Crippled girls”, and that is what the game is about. ![]() Development began in 2007 and the game was released on January 4th, 2012. ![]() Interest grew among the 4chan community and eventually several developers around the globe agreed to create the game under the moniker 4 Leaf Studios. The idea for the game originated on the /a/ (anime) board on 4chan, a user named RAITA posted some of his drawings which included sketches and ideas for a visual novel set in a disabled school. The origin of Katawa Shoujo is a very interesting one deserving of its own article. I can now add Katawa Shoujo to this list of games. Despite being a 2D visual novel, the characters found within Katawa Shoujo are more three-dimensional than the characters I’ve come across in first-person shooters and action-adventure games. Games like Bioshock and Pokemon made me feel…different after completing them. Rarely do I ever come across a game where I actually feel emotionally shaken after finishing it. ![]()
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