The VN that made the Web boil. Twice. When it was announced and when it came out. Watch the humbling story of Katawa Shoujo that teaches us not to judge a game by its meta.
Watch the humbling story of Katawa Shoujo that teaches us not to judge a game by its meta.
Huge thanks to @MacDaddyMatty for the help in reviewing the script!
00:00 Intro
00:40 ❤️🩹 Act I: Beginnings / Gameplay
02:32 RAITA's Omake Page
04:07 Saga of Nurse-Kun a.k.a Damaged Goods
07:49 The /a/ sticky
12:13 ❤️🩹 Act II: Game Dev: Tonal War / Cafeteria choice 1
12:43 Disability and sexuality
19:49 Being at odds with tropes and the genre
32:36 The Act 1 Demo & reactions (put on your hard hat!)
43:55 A summary of misconceptions
45:51 ❤️🩹 Act III: Putting the "text" in "cybertext" / Cafeteria choice 2
46:18 Espen Aarseth and Cybertext (meanings of "ergodic" & "cyber", The iChing, textual machines, textons and scriptons)
53:36 Matty vs The Aporia in search of The Epiphany, the kinetic novel
57:27 A new way to understand games: the narrative, the ergodic and the description
1:00:08 Multiple writers and paths, The Intrigant, The Intrigue, The Intriguee
1:05:28 ❤️🩹 Act IV: develop-ment-ality / Anonymity and production
1:10:12 The three forums
1:13:32 The KS Dev Blog, The Question and The Answer, development highlights
1:21:15 ❤️🩹 Act V: "Cripple porn game" / full game release and reception (hard hat time again!)
1:34:30 Fan reception, The Great Wall of Text, Player Intimacy
1:46:12 Fan made content
1:49:41 Dev made content
1:54:05 ❤️🩹 Act VI: The non-ending
Classic download: https://www.katawa-shoujo.com/download
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3068300/Katawa_Shoujo/
Forum: https://ks.renai.us/
Katawa Shoujo dev blog: https://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/
The ancient Invision Forum: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://z8.invisionfree.com/Zettai_Shojou/*
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