In fact, until the end, it plays out just like a regular relationship in development. Apart from being blind, her personality is quite refined and she doesn’t have many of the issues that the other girls have. Very close to being my number one, Lilly’s story is pretty long, but fulfilling. It reminded me of when I was a young romantic always thrown in the friend zone and the disasters that would immediately follow, and because of this I found myself empathetic with a lot of his emotional moments and rooting for his success at the same time. Here you have a girl who lives in her own world, making a downward spiral in the name of her art, in which Hisao gets caught up in, and it’s sad watching the lengths he goes to in order to be with Rin, even when he’s clearly thrown in the friend zone. Rin’s path begins where I started to really appreciate the drama in Katawa Shoujo.
Look at her go for that Tangerine - this scene is cute and I love it. That’s where the magic of Katawa Shoujo surfaces, by putting personality and character development as top priority and adding the sex scenes as a little bonus. These girls are written and drawn so well that I forgot that they had disabilities in the first place. Instead it’s a very natural “She’s horny, he’s horny, watch them go at it!”. A couple of the sex scenes are pretty hot to be honest, which has nothing to do with their vulnerability/disability. When the sex scenes finally occur, they happen naturally like how you might expect it to go down in a real dating situation. It’s interesting to see how the course of the game and Hisao’s attitude differs just based on who he’s dating. The way his academic career progresses and how he handles life outside the dating world also change depending on the girl. Poor writing could easily change such a game from a good romantic drama to a game for people with a fetish.Īround the middle of the game, and in every arc, Hisao receives a letter from a former love interest, and the way he reacts and responds to this letter is different depending on whose arc you’re on. There’s a very fine line between having sex with a girl because she’s disabled and having sex with a girl, who happens to have a disability. If written poorly, the game could reduce the game to make the player feel as though they’re just playing the game to have sex with disabled girls. One of the first things I realized was an option to disable adult content in the game, meaning that not only would it be a dating sim with girls that have various disabilities, but there would also be a likely sex scene here and there, a pretty risky choice. Soon enough it was finally released with the asking price of zero dollars - I couldn’t go wrong! I gave it a hasty download.
If that’s not a tug at the heart, I dunno what is, so I put the game on my radar. It was looking alright until the part where they show the girl with half her body burnt give off that smile. It sounded cool for the novelty, so I loaded up the trailer. A few months ago, one of the news sites I visit regularly posted an article up about a dating sim starring disabled girls.