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It's a story about topics gaming pretty fundamentally ignores: disability and social awkwardness. And it mostly wants you to sit and read it. This is not a review, it's an account of my experience of playing the game/reading the novel.Īnimated by some lovely hand-drawn Manga characters, super-imposed over cursorily photopshopped photographs, Katawa Shoujo wants to tell you a story. But heck, I like a novel, and I like pictures, so let's see where this takes me.

It's a visual novel, a format with which I'm not overly familiar. To The Moon replaced a perception of choice with wonderfully vivid narrative, deep characters, and an exploration of subjects poorly explored by any medium, let alone gaming. I found MW3 to fall far short of what I would expect of an FPS, and not fill that absence with anything new, meaningful or worthwhile, thus my condemnation. The debate is mostly unhelpful - it generally comes down to a person's expectations of the game, and those not being met. The other was To The Moon, which occasionally teetered on the edge of that which people were willing to tolerate. One of them shouldn't have, because it is - Modern Warfare 3 (the nuance of " un-game" is lost on the world, sadly). It is the product of an international team of amateur developers, and is available free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License.Last year there were a couple of games that brought up the question of what actually counts as a game. Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and was created using the Ren'Py scripting system. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box. The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends-and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan.