Inspired by an erotic doujin bonus page, created by people from 4chan, about dating girls with disabilities? Everything about the idea sounds terrible and exploitative. Katawa Shoujo would remain in development for another three years before finally being released on January 4, 2012, after about five years in development.Īs you can probably see, the backstory of the game is not one you’d expect very positive results from. The demo consisted of the first act, introducing the various girls and their personalities. The game began development in earnest in 2007, with the demo first launched on April 29, 2009. The people interested in helping became Four Leaf Studios (4LS), naming themselves after the 4chan logo. The page came to 4chan’s /a/ board, where a group of people decided to actually try and make the game a reality. The page was simple concept art for a visual novel dating sim about girls with various disabilities. The idea behind Katawa Shoujo started with a single page from the end of a Nausicaä: Of the Valley of the Wind doujin written by Raita Honjou, also known as RAITA. But what exactly is this game? And why would I be so hesitant to play it? The answer there lies in Katawa Shoujo’s origin. Where the demo made me laugh, the rest of the game made me cry and think, quite different from my first impression of the game. Eventually, in 2012, the game finally came out. The demo of Katawa Shoujo was amazing, painting a vivid picture of its characters and their troubles and experiences.
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The only real reason I picked it up at all was because the demo was both free and in English.
At first, my expectations weren’t too high. It was wading through this morass that I came across a demo for a game called Katawa Shoujo. Unfortunately, all I could find were either completely in Japanese with no translation to be found, available with translation, but costing upwards of $70, or pornographic to the extreme. I had just learned about them and was curious as to what sort of stories you could tell with the style. Back about 10 years ago, I became interested in the idea of trying out a visual novel (VN for short).
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