Katawa Shoujo

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Has anyone else played this visual novel? I played through Act 1 a few times until the full game's release a few days ago, and have been playing the full version since then. Of the 5 character routes, I've finished Emi and Lilly's, and am about halfway through Hanako's. I think it's a great game, I found myself really attached to the characters.

Have completed Hanako's route, and last night finished Rin's. I think Rin's an aspie - she has issues relating to people, seems 'in her own world', goes off on tangents that are seemingly unrelated to anything, very talented at what she does, but still has 'normal' fears and desires, just no way of getting them through to others. That's what I thought, anyway.

I absolutely love this game! I really like how it portrays people with disabilities in such a human light. I'm currently on Shizune's route (which is also my first one). I think I'm going to do Hanako's route next.

Doesn't this game have hentai in it?

Is that bad? :> And I've heard about it. I should finish Fate / Stay Night first however.

Another thought: does anyone think that Yuuko might have aspie traits too?

Noticing it was causing quite a stir in the otaku community, I picked up Katawa Shoujo. I have to say, I'm impressed. The quality fluctuates between routes and Acts but overall it's really good. The disabilities aren't something that's exploited in a cheap way, rather they almost completely get pushed to the background by the "real" issues.

I could really relate to Rin's route, and I wonder if her route's writer was inspired by an Aspie.
She definitely doesn't fit any of the traditional Japanese character archetypes typical for these games, that's for sure.

Wait, is this the game where the main guy has a heart defect and ends up going to a school for disabled kids? And there's a deaf girl, and a blind girl, and a girl with her legs amputated? If it is, I was gonna downlad this game, but I didn't know if it was the same game I was thinking of, so I kind of forgot about it. Is it out now?

I posted this in the "Adult Section" since it does have some themes catered to be too graphic for under 18's.

Yeah, and it's the first eroge I have played...it's very interesting as it shows you how people with disabilities cope with relationships but some of the writing is inconsistent.

At first I thought of Rin as extremely Autistic, but some things are very off about it. Namely her loss of wording things...not all Aspies are great at wording things...but she was very weird about it, she showed more ADHD elements then Aspergers as she can talk to people easier but says stupid things that make her awkward to talk to...

I think Rin has some form of Autism though, it's just that I think it leans towards ADHD, I would say Hanako in her story is more Autistic.