katawa shoujo
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A Visual History Of Attractive Video Game Characters: The ’10s
22The past few years produced a huge amount of great games and a surprisingly decent amount of them have well-developed characters that are hard to forget. And, of course, some of them look really attractive.
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That Game About Dating Disabled Girls Is Excellent (And You Should Play It)
When I first heard that a visual novel centered around dating girls with physical disabilities was being made, my first thought was “only in Japan”. Of course, I was completely wrong. While made in the style of a typical Japanese visual novel — and even based on a Japanese sketch — Katawa Shoujo was created…
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CNN Thought Gamer Chopped Off His Arm, Missed ‘Joke’
“Boy Severs Arms After Playing Video Game” read the headline of a story that ran on CNN’s iReport site earlier this morning. It’s the stuff of nightmares for video game advocates, another chance for those who demonise games’ effects on human behaviour to crucify the medium.
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That Game About Dating And Disabled Girls Actually Got Made
Nearly two years ago, Leigh wrote a great column on a dating game called Katawa Shoujo being made by members of a 4chan group. What made it stand out were two things: one, it’s been in some kind of development for over a decade, and two, it was a dating game based on girls at…