Katawa Shoujo: HNNNGGGGGGG!!!

Heh heh, so I played a bit, starting out with Hanako. I don't mind some adult content, but to me the game's a bit too either-or. Now, if it was a bit... less explicit, I'd be fine. It feels like I'm enjoying it in some fundamentally improper way.

I guess I'm just unaccustomed to this kind of media.

You can disable the sex scenes if you want but it might end up making things hilarious depending on what the Relax-o-Vision shows you a picture of.

For example, getting a picture of fried shrimp on a barbecue during Hanako route.

I don't mind explicit sex in works that aren't intended to be pornographic; I don't think there's anything about sex that precludes it from featuring in serious stories or demands that it be kept implicit. I remember George R. R. Martin responded to a question about his inclusion of explicit sex in A Song Of Ice And Fire, and he said that everything in the books is explicit, and he didn't feel he ought to make sex the sole exception. There's nothing wrong with a serious story being arousing in parts, any more than there's something wrong with the danger being exciting or the tragedy being sad.

That said, I don't think many writers really try to do this in an artistically solid way. And since writers to a large extent learn from each other, there are not an awful lot of people who're good at it.

Having friends who run the worst examples from fanfiction by me though, has left me pretty numb to the levels of narm in visual novel sex scenes.

edited 6th May '12 5:21:21 PM by Desertopa

It did say in the intro that Hisao needed something basically along those lines (constant medical surveillance), but I've done Emi's, Rin's, and Hanako's routes and he hasn't needed anything like that yet. I guess you can count the visits to the nurse's office after runs with Emi, but it seems like the nurse just measures his heartbeat or something. Anyway, I can wave this away in my head by saying that Hisao was actually getting some sort of medical treatment that wasn't shown for the same reason he wasn't shown going to the bathroom. Still, it just seems really needlessly stressful to switch schools halfway through your last year.

I have to say I kind of enjoyed being mean to both Emi and Rin, which may make me a bad person.

Well, if he did happen to keel over suddenly, presumably he'd be less screwed if it happened as Yamaku than at his old school. And he was given the choice of whether or not to go there.

The option to turn off sex scenes is a complete joke and should not be used by anyone unless they happen to have a severe medical condition that would kill them if they ever saw graphic depictions of sex, in which case they should stay far, far away from the internet in the first place why the hell does my spellchecker not recognize the word "internet".

That option... really could've been handled better! Which they probably knew, so I guess they're making fun of people who turn off sex scenes. Oh well~.

Actually, after hearing what happens when you turn off the sex scenes, I am totally doing that.

You have strange fetishes.

I'm positive you already knew that. Unless you're saying this for the rest of thread to know.

Recording it for posterity.

"Strange fetish" is redundant. I don't think there are any fetishes that aren't utterly bizarre. Enjoy your cantaloupes, Saiga.

I could point some out that are common place, but I think doing so is actually grounds for a thumping...

edited 7th May '12 8:15:35 PM by OhnoaBear

Even the common ones are pretty damn weird.

Only the way folk pursue them, I should think. Though there might be some semantic dissonance leading to this derail.

I turned the sex scenes off, and watched a sex scene in the library, just to see what would happen.

I was rewarded with chinchillas. Also, Shizune's breasts were still visible. Worst censor ever?

Real chinchillas or drawn chinchillas? And where were the uncensored breasts? Somewhere funny, I should hope.

Real chinchillas.

Also, it was just Shizunes normal sprite-thing standing there with no clothes on.

The replacement-censor is for the sex scenes, not the nudity. There's at least one other (plot relevant, to a degree) scene with nudity in that's still visible.

edited 7th May '12 8:54:49 PM by Feather7603

That seems kind of useless, but okay.

I still like the idea proposed a long time ago that the sex scenes should be censored by having Kenji burst in and drag Hisao away to rescue him from the evil feminists.

Everything after that proceeds as usual.

I don't see how it's useless. Nudity does not equal sex, especially as it's partial nudity we're talking about here.

True, but the type of people who would disable the sex scenes and the type of people off-put by female frontal nudity overlap greatly.

It's more than enough to get someone in trouble if their personal Moral Guardian is spying on them.

"I swear, dad, it's actually a very profound work about what it means to be alive and to find a purpose !" "And also how to see naked girls ?" "... That too."

Hey, for some people seeing naked girls is a big part of their purpose in life.