Our viewpoint character in Katawa Shoujo is Hisao Nakai. If one were to go through each route, they could easily spend at least 20 hours in Katawa Shoujo, which is a massive amount of content for the genre. My first time through took me about 5-6 hours, which would be a pretty long visual novel on it’s own, but 4-5 of those hours were unique to the route I was on. Each girl has their own route through the game, meaning acts 2-4 are going to be different for each romantic option you pursue.
Katawa Shoujo is divided up into four acts. Katawa Shoujo had a larger team behind it than most visual novels, and it really shows here. The music is reserved in a way that fits the mood of the game well, and is well implemented to beautifully complement the scenes.
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Significant events are shown in seemingly hand-drawn full screen portraits that serve the story well, and although they do vary in quality a bit, can be absolutely beautiful at just the right times. The backgrounds, which are mostly composed of heavily filtered photographs, really work with this game and serve to create a bit of a distinct art style. The anime inspired character designs are excellent and show a great deal of care in the design.
The production values are among the highest I’ve seen for a non-professional visual novel. Immediately upon opening up the application, it becomes apparent that Katawa Shoujo stands apart from the pack. Each of the five women you can pursue seem to have already come to terms with their disadvantages and have learned to adjust to them. Each of your prospective girls has their own disability, and they are a significant factor in their lives, but as presented, their disabilities are not the source of their problems. The central theme of the game seems to be that people with disabilities are just like everyone else.
It seems that the miscreants within Anonymous can actually be decent every once in a while. Luckily, Katawa Shoujo actually treats its subject matter with respect and maturity. Really? And I’m going to be reviewing this, huh? And we’re expecting this to end well? Cripple Girls) is an eroge… featuring women with various disabilities… that was put together by members of the infamous image board 4Chan. Today, in our newly christened Visual Novel Theatre, we’re going to be reviewing Katawa Shoujo by Four Leaf Studios, one of the most famous visual novels floating around on the internet. You know that thing I used to do where I would talk at length about visual novels? Yeah, we’re doing that again.
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