/lounge/ - Lounge

It's been a while since I played Katawa Shoujo. Only ever played the Emi and Rin routes, thought I'd 100% the game. As was, I stopped because the Emi route really suckerpunched my feels good while Rin just annoyed me. Just finished with Hanako. I think I'll go with Shizune next. The Hanako route was alright. Didn't hit me as hard as Emi's did but I still peeled some onions over the end like a bitch chef. One issue I had with it, which kind of hovered over the ending, was where the game kind of lies to you about being able to choose your path. When Lilly leaves and you have a choice on giving Hanako a choice on what to do with the day, it seems so arbitrary. Then later on it's obvious that Hanako's boxed into a corner and you shouldn't force her out of her shell, and the game gives you this option to leave her be or be a retard, but depending on what you did when Lilly left, either option has the same result. I do not understand that at all. "Hm, I won't be a retard, oh wait, even though I chose not to be a retard I'll go be a retard anyway", what the actual fuck. And of course I didn't think to save a different file for the choice so after the bad ending I had to zoom through the game again to figure out the correct decision. It sort of cheapened the experience. Still, Hanako a cute. The bar scene where she says she's there for you. The final moments at the end. Cute, cute, cute. Still going to have to put her under Emi. Emi > Hanako > Rin. Have to see how Shizume and Lilly play out, then I have to replay Emi and Rin to see if my opinions change. Apparently there's also a mod to properly date Misha.