Reviews VisualNovel / Katawa Shoujo

While everyone has their own opinion and I try to respect it, there's one part of the review that I am obligated to disagree with you.

That is the part about the sex scenes. They are the most realistic and emotional ones I've seen in any Eroge. They're unfappable, but in the right ways. As for the music, there's a fine line between heartwarming and cheesy, so I won't argue with you about that. That's YMMV. Anyways, the Comfort me thing was blatantly obvious due to context and Rin never does hug you. She says it one time, but she really isn't hugging you. Those arm stumps just can't hug. ;_;

If you bothered to read the text before the "comfort me" scene, it would have been obvious to you that she was asking Hisao to comfort her with his dick. Also, I don't see how "To Become One" is at all cheesy. It's a waltz type song, which to me, actually fits the tasteful nature of the sex scenes. If they were to play "Ah Eh I Oh You" over the sex scenes, I would have agreed with you on them being cheesy.

I didn't like "To Become One" as much as "Letting My Heart Speak" (which is my favorite song in the game), but I found it appropriately romantic.

Some of the decisions are less than obvious, but it's best to think of them as influencing Hisao's thoughts and values. Re-reading the last few lines of dialogue can help, especially when deciding whether to "comfort" Misha.

I disagree about Shizune and Hisao. Shizune is an interesting character in that she starts out with good intentions, then loses sight of them, but in her good ending, starts to address the flaws in her personality. Hisao develops in different directions in each route, so while I was less fond of his decisions in some of them (angsting a lot more about life in general in Rin's route and acting overprotective of Hanako while assuming no one cares about her in her route), the good endings have some nice moments of character development (such as him realizing that he pushed away his old friends before helping Shizune and Misha reconcile in Shizune's route, and telling Emi that he's not helping her out of pity, but because he loves her in her route).

The thing about Rin and hugging had, if I understand well, less to do with her body structure and more to do with being part of her bigger problem of having basically no one who understands her.