Buddy if you came just to fap to Katawa Shoujo and ignore the entire story, then this game isn’t for you.
You pick the wrong game to complain about because this is one of the first ones to come out and by far has the best story on here.
Man, that is like complaining your action movie has too few sex scenes, just because you were looking porn in the wrong places.
Yes there are several ways to die and you hit one of them.
I don't want to get 100% completion, i also don't want to use a walkthrough on my first playthrough, because it would break the immersion, we shouldn't even need a walkthrough just so we don't get a game over, maybe if the choices were more clear and made more sense we could actually get an idea of what might happen, there were barely any choices and the ones i saw didn't seem to be important at all. It feels like the author had an idea but failed to implement that in an interactive visual novel, the players are supposed to guess which is the right choice or use a walkthrough, we can't have an organic experience like most of the games here. Like i said, the way the mc dies isn't even related to the choice that led to his death.
Then you choose the wrong option so far so go replay and when you get to the first choice in the game make a save and restart back there when you screw up on your next play through.
Basically this is a "joke" ending, or maybe more accurately non-cannon one. If you read the following scenes, you can understand how Hisao ends up dying. This is not a direct causality link, it's the sum of his first week at his new school.
Just because something is widely/highly regarded doesn't mean you're guaranteed to like it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Hope you have better luck next time.
The MC is definitely a special case of depressed pessimistic. Which, in a way, is understandable given his situation. His whole life got uprooted and turned upside down because of a condition he had no idea he had up until a big high in a teenager's life...
If you only look at the MC then ya I can see your point but this is one of the best VN to come out for story wise.
You forget to mention that, for the time it came out, for an amateur project, it has better quality and animated intros than a lot of profesionnal works had back then.
For me, it wasn't that the girls were disabled that shined to me, but rather the sheer talent of portraying them as regular people who exist beyond the obvious challenges of having said disabilities. It's one of the few VNs I've played where trying to be Mr Fix-Her actually gets girls to justifiably hate you. It's also one of the few VNs where the girls have depth beyond their surface mannerism and personalities that's not "oh she's actually really nice once you get to know her" or "she may be a head above her peers, but she's really lonely and just needs a man." It's one of the few VNs that tries to explain to you that a healthy relationship comes from empathy and respect. It's also one of the few VNs where the girls have a life and social interactions that don't revolve around the MC.
My first blind playthrough i got emi bad ending and it was quite a slap, but (in retrospect) this is one of the best ending to get early in the game so that u get off ur stupid mc protag mindset and pick decisions like an actual decent human being
The sheer depth of the character's psychee is what floored me.
I don't think anyone considers any porn site, fast food chain, or any game churns out a title every year to be highly regarded. If anything, people shit on these things constantly. Are there talented artists that don't get as much recognition? Certainly. I don't think it's so much of a "hive mind" thing going on as much as you only need an X number of people to buy into this one thing for it to be considered successful and have the funds to continue marketing it. There just happens to be a lot of overlap. If you went up to someone with a checklist of 40 items, I'm sure they'd at most check off 3 or 4 things.
