6/9/2023 0 Comments Katawa shoujo flowchartThrough his interaction with the game’s characters, he generally “rescues” one or many girls (more rarely, women) from herself, or from some more quantifiable aggressor. The stories in visual novels commonly deal with deeply-damaged people, and commonly put the protagonist in the role of hero. What else would a niche, shut-in audience of otaku want but a gameplay experience that blends anime porn tropes with emotional simulations of human drama – without any possibility of becoming stuck or frustrated, since visual novels are indeed more “story” than “game”? And when you do that, these games don’t actually seem all that weird. I put “weird” in quotes, by the way, because I actually tasked myself with understanding and explicating them. Some of my earliest writing explored the “weirdest” games I could find – bunny girl dating sims, teenage girl “training/raising” games, brutally sexual supernatural murder mysteries, and stuff like that, and I think my work was recognized fairly early on in my development as a writer just because I was pouring so many words onto stuff no one else would touch. It’s with a mix of amusement and chagrin I admit my career as a game journalist might well have never taken off if it weren’t for the erotic visual novel genre. ![]() The Internet's Leigh Alexander gave us her take on visual novel, Katawa Shoujo.
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