RurouniZel
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Katawa Shoujo |OT| (VN, Free, Waifus, etc)
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This made me spit my drink out! LOL
ComputerMKII
Banned
Finished Emi's route. Meh, it was boring and I didn't like the girl. Wondering what route I should play next.
Rin
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Just finished Hanako route and got the Good Ending... I guess? (
... without a guide too. Seems like I had a knack of picking the right choices, hahaha.
Oh man, she's so awesome. That look where she stares at the MC after they have sex was.... something else.
Emi and Hanako done. Next is Lilly, I guess.
the one where she kisses the MC on the road)
Oh man, she's so awesome. That look where she stares at the MC after they have sex was.... something else.
Emi and Hanako done. Next is Lilly, I guess.
ComputerMKII
Banned
Oh boy, prepare to fall in love.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
rubbishmonkey
Member
Just finished my first playthrough today and got Hanako's good ending (yay!)
No where near enjoying Emi as much so far
No where near enjoying Emi as much so far
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
...Excuse me Hanako, would you please sit down from the throne and sit on the number 2 seat...? Thank you, sweetheart <3
Emi, could you shuffle to the number 3 seat please? Thank you.
...
BECAUSE GODDAMN I JUST FINISHED LILLY'S GOOD ENDING ROUTE LAST NIGHT AND SHE SHOULD RIGHTFULLY SIT AT THE NUMBER ONE THRONE!
Goddamn it gave me diabetes just by playing it. So incredibly sweet, almost unbearably so. Un-fucking-believable. Simply amazing. Simply marvelous.
Cliched as hell but since I am weak to that kind of stuff it got me... It got me bad. I was surprised that my smile at the end was that large.
Ohhh boy..... The next routes I am gonna play (Shizune/Rin) need to do something out of this world to eclipse the feel I got from Lilly's.
Emi, could you shuffle to the number 3 seat please? Thank you.
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BECAUSE GODDAMN I JUST FINISHED LILLY'S GOOD ENDING ROUTE LAST NIGHT AND SHE SHOULD RIGHTFULLY SIT AT THE NUMBER ONE THRONE!
Goddamn it gave me diabetes just by playing it. So incredibly sweet, almost unbearably so. Un-fucking-believable. Simply amazing. Simply marvelous.
Cliched as hell but since I am weak to that kind of stuff it got me... It got me bad. I was surprised that my smile at the end was that large.
Ohhh boy..... The next routes I am gonna play (Shizune/Rin) need to do something out of this world to eclipse the feel I got from Lilly's.
Welcome to best waifu club.
Typographenia
Member
Laughing banana, play Shizune's route next and end on Rin's.
Trust me.
Trust me.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I don't know what to say but your post made me smile so much . I know what you feel. Reading her route was one of the happiest moments of my life (if not the only moment when I felt genuinely happy).
Maybe I'll translate that Lilly review I talked about, after all.
Chet Rippo
Member
Yeah, Rin is probably a good one to end with. At least better than Shizune's.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Team Lilly? Ugh, I don't like these newcomers at all.
I bet you still haven't finished it!
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Lilly is totally the best waifu come on now
Typographenia
Member
It's the order I did it in, and it felt like Rin was a much better send off than Shizune's route.
What is with you people not finishing?! How have I beaten this before so many of the people I would have been certain would have finished it all by now?!
The Awesomest
Member
Is there a link to this?
Owlowiscious
Member
Emi's the only one that has saved lives IRL.
(Go Team Emi)
(Go Team Emi)
ComputerMKII
Banned
I've just finished Act 2 of Rin's route. It's good to get to know her better, she seems more likable than before, and although it's difficult to describe her route in terms of themes and feelings, it is interesting. I don't expect to like it as much as Lilly's route unless there are some big surprises, though.
Also, I've been talking to my friends and colleagues less and less lately, and I'm still not interested in meeting people these days - loneliness doesn't affect me anymore and all I want is replay Lilly's route.
Also, I've been talking to my friends and colleagues less and less lately, and I'm still not interested in meeting people these days - loneliness doesn't affect me anymore and all I want is replay Lilly's route.
ComputerMKII
Banned
I'm a student in computational linguistics so I like/have to write scripts for various text processing purposes. I wondered what the most used words in Katawa Shoujo were so I managed to find the script of the complete, final game (stored in 23 .rpy/Ren'py files which amount to 3.5 MB of code/text).
I've run my Perl script through the whole game/novel, scanned all dialogue and narration (ignoring Ren'Py instructions) ignored the stopwords (grammatical, 'useless' words such as 'the', 'though', 'am', 'I', 'were', etc.) based on a list I've found on the Internet, deleted all punctuation and other useless signs (delicate task since it can mess a lot with the results, so I hope I didn't fuck this up), which resulted in a 153,659-word corpus. From that corpus, I've sorted each word based on its frequency (in descending order).
The most frequent word in Katawa Shoujo is 'Time'.
Out of 14,527 unique words, 'Feel' is the 8th most frequent one (just before 'good'), with 'feeling' being 28th and 'feels' being 33rd.
Hanako is the girl whose name gets mentioned the most, followed by Lilly, then Shizune, Emi, Rin and Misha. The main character's name, Hisao, is the fifteenth most frequent word. The longest word in the corpus is 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggghhhhhhhh' (one occurrence) and 6,039 words (41.5% of all unique words) appear only once.
Here are the 25 most frequent words:
Full results at http://pastebin.com/4J5yLRzm
I've run my Perl script through the whole game/novel, scanned all dialogue and narration (ignoring Ren'Py instructions) ignored the stopwords (grammatical, 'useless' words such as 'the', 'though', 'am', 'I', 'were', etc.) based on a list I've found on the Internet, deleted all punctuation and other useless signs (delicate task since it can mess a lot with the results, so I hope I didn't fuck this up), which resulted in a 153,659-word corpus. From that corpus, I've sorted each word based on its frequency (in descending order).
The most frequent word in Katawa Shoujo is 'Time'.
Out of 14,527 unique words, 'Feel' is the 8th most frequent one (just before 'good'), with 'feeling' being 28th and 'feels' being 33rd.
Hanako is the girl whose name gets mentioned the most, followed by Lilly, then Shizune, Emi, Rin and Misha. The main character's name, Hisao, is the fifteenth most frequent word. The longest word in the corpus is 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggghhhhhhhh' (one occurrence) and 6,039 words (41.5% of all unique words) appear only once.
Here are the 25 most frequent words:
Code:
Total word count (ignoring stopwords) : 153659
1 - time Freq: 1416
2 - hanako Freq: 1366
3 - lilly Freq: 1321
4 - shizune Freq: 1289
5 - emi Freq: 1228
6 - rin Freq: 1179
7 - misha Freq: 946
8 - feel Freq: 941
9 - good Freq: 867
10 - school Freq: 709
11 - guess Freq: 643
12 - thought Freq: 633
13 - room Freq: 625
14 - head Freq: 609
15 - hisao Freq: 608
16 - people Freq: 589
17 - hicchan Freq: 586
18 - face Freq: 564
19 - eyes Freq: 555
20 - hand Freq: 537
21 - kind Freq: 534
22 - yeah Freq: 520
23 - door Freq: 513
24 - long Freq: 493
25 - mind Freq: 484Full results at http://pastebin.com/4J5yLRzm
Typographenia
Member
"feel good school"
"thought room head"
"today takes council"
"left person place"
This reads like how I title my artwork, hahaha
"thought room head"
"today takes council"
"left person place"
This reads like how I title my artwork, hahaha
Finished Emi's and Shizune's routes (Rin and Hanako left).
Like Emi's route. Or maybe i like Emi? Hard to say. Does it matter?
It is a tad... even. If you do everything right. If you don't... It is better if you don't do everything right, i think.
As for Shizune's route... I don't like Shizune. But Misha and the story revolving around the pair makes it good.
Not sure which of the three i've played so far is the best. I'll probably avoid ranking them.
Also realized i don't actually dislike "blank protagonist". OK, Hisao is not quite blank but neither is he particularly special. Pretty normal person, no? That makes him relatable.
I say this because i realized i'm okay with blank characters, as long as they're normal humans, unlike, say, the Master Chief from Halo. That guy is not normal, can't relate to him, can't imagine myself in his place.
In Hisao's case it helps Hisao and i both like science and reading.
...This sounded a lot better in my head than once written. Oh, well, the effort is done, so i'll leave it.
Maybe i can start Hanako's route tomorrow... Need to finish.
Like Emi's route. Or maybe i like Emi? Hard to say. Does it matter?
It is a tad... even. If you do everything right. If you don't... It is better if you don't do everything right, i think.
As for Shizune's route... I don't like Shizune. But Misha and the story revolving around the pair makes it good.
Not sure which of the three i've played so far is the best. I'll probably avoid ranking them.
Also realized i don't actually dislike "blank protagonist". OK, Hisao is not quite blank but neither is he particularly special. Pretty normal person, no? That makes him relatable.
I say this because i realized i'm okay with blank characters, as long as they're normal humans, unlike, say, the Master Chief from Halo. That guy is not normal, can't relate to him, can't imagine myself in his place.
In Hisao's case it helps Hisao and i both like science and reading.
...This sounded a lot better in my head than once written. Oh, well, the effort is done, so i'll leave it.
Maybe i can start Hanako's route tomorrow... Need to finish.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Man that makes me wonder, is there Halo X KS fan fiction out there? Cause there really ought to be.
So I've played two routes so far. Not sure how much I should spoiler, but I think I'll throw them whenever I have some doubts just in case.
My first, I went in blind. I wanted Lilly because I liked the idea
. However, I also wanted to be healthy, which means
I went back to an older save and remade some choices, I successfully went down Lilly's path this time. I didn't use any guides still and I
I don't want to read any guides as I'll read more than I need, I know it but could this have eh... ended badly? Are the bad/horrible endings in this game?
Also, I know the two lifestyles are wildly different between Emi's route and Lilly's but damn.
I don't usually like shy girls but fuck Hanako has grown on me. Her growth in Lilly's arc definitely has something to do with it. I want to do her route next but I also want to do Shizune's if only to see if I can find out
I'm somewhat dreading Rin, she was pretty funny and chill in Emi's route but kind of wacky in Lilly's. Kenji is a lot less tolerable the second time you play this eh? His music still cracks me up. Akira is also pretty cool. In fact, I like a lot of the characters, they each have a nice personality and character, this game is really quite well done in this aspect. The fact that the teachers, nurse and staff are there to support and offer advice in their ways is very true and fitting. I like how some of the advice comes back and is helpful. Even the "letter" has its uses in giving opinions and thoughts to Hisao.
My first, I went in blind. I wanted Lilly because I liked the idea
of calm, peace and serenity and she has those vibes. I'm also a big fan of tea, so she won me over prettily easily from the moment she was introduced
running and I ended up down Emi's path, which is nice. I'm a bit more resilient to puppy eyes than Hisao. Her easy going and bubbly-ness is kind of infectious. I don't regret this route and grew to enjoy it pretty quickly. But then, she has to go and be all mopy and stubborn. Completely understandable because, it happens, IRL. People do stupid and annoying things but god, the later arcs was a lot more difficult to get through, I much preferred seeing them having fun and joking around.
I went back to an older save and remade some choices, I successfully went down Lilly's path this time. I didn't use any guides still and I
thought I fucking messed it up good. I thought I hit perhaps a medium ending when Lilly leaves and was pretty :< about the whole thing. Then Hisao gets angry and suddenly chases after her! YES! I then had mixed feelings when Hisao went down. It was a massive bummer and I was pretty down that he didn't "make it", but a part of me thought maybe she heard. When he wakes up in hospital I pretty much figured that happens and it was a bit of a drag before Lilly comes in, but damn. That was good.
Also, I know the two lifestyles are wildly different between Emi's route and Lilly's but damn.
His health. it also makes him less cheery and likeable imo. He did well, all things considered. I certainly wouldn't have fared any better.
I don't usually like shy girls but fuck Hanako has grown on me. Her growth in Lilly's arc definitely has something to do with it. I want to do her route next but I also want to do Shizune's if only to see if I can find out
the issue she has with Lilly. I wish they got along better.
I'm somewhat dreading Rin, she was pretty funny and chill in Emi's route but kind of wacky in Lilly's. Kenji is a lot less tolerable the second time you play this eh? His music still cracks me up. Akira is also pretty cool. In fact, I like a lot of the characters, they each have a nice personality and character, this game is really quite well done in this aspect. The fact that the teachers, nurse and staff are there to support and offer advice in their ways is very true and fitting. I like how some of the advice comes back and is helpful. Even the "letter" has its uses in giving opinions and thoughts to Hisao.
Anyone have brain bleach? I don't want to know someone had this idea.
EDIT There ain't KSxHalo in Fanfiction.net (yes, i checked, don't know why) but there is KSxTwilight. Urgh.
http://www.fanfiction.net/crossovers/Katawa-Shoujo/4880/
That's wrong, VERY wrong.
melichrous
Member
YO! Just thought I'd drop by and say hey.
Been playing through KS recently, so far I've cleared Emi, Hanako and Lilly (all good ends).
Think I'm gonna do Shizune then Rin tonight tomorrow.
I'm not sure if I can bring myself to go through the bad ends, considering how bittersweet some of these good ending seem. I don't think I could take it lmao.
So far, it's a tie between Lilly and Hanako for me, then Emi.
Just thought I'd drop by and say hey.Been playing through KS recently, so far I've cleared Emi, Hanako and Lilly (all good ends).
Think I'm gonna do Shizune then Rin tonight tomorrow.
I'm not sure if I can bring myself to go through the bad ends, considering how bittersweet some of these good ending seem. I don't think I could take it lmao.
So far, it's a tie between Lilly and Hanako for me, then Emi.
Well, crossovers in general tend to be very wrong. Hell, fanfiction in general...
They're not really spoilers but I'll spoiler it anyway (I'll try to be as vague as possible):
The bad endings are all generally abrupt "welp, that didn't work out" stuff. They're mostly irrelevant and are just punishment for not playing well.
And DON'T read this:
Yeah I know Hanako and Shizune have semi-interesting bad ends, but just like the rest they're the direct result of some obvious bad choice the player made. There's not much point to reading them unless you're especially resistant to "that makes me feel bad for no reason" scenarios. But still, I understand that those two are unlike the rest.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Guess someone's gotta do it. Just off hand, do you know if the Chief has a cyborg penis? I'm not too well versed on my Spartan anatomy and really wanna do the subject material justice. Please be detailed with your response, and include any details pertaining to servos, pistons, wiring and any materials relating to sheathing of said components (carbon fiber/Kevlar)
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Do you think the Arbiter is tsundere Jintor? Cause I think Hisao could heal his broken heart
Spartans don't have cybernetic augmentations outside their neural interface. Biochemical ones are plentiful (inc. growth hormones IIRC)... though one side effect is suppressed sexual drive.
...
I probably shouldn't have written this.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Interesting, so the Chief would be soft in all the H-scenes? If Cortana is there would it be considered a threesome or a cuckold? I greatly value your input
I'll stop now lol
ComputerMKII
Banned
Man, Rin's arc is long, reading it starts feeling like a chore...
ComputerMKII
Banned
Found somewhere on the Internet:
Thanks. I'm just glad I'm not going to accidentally get someone killed. Unless, perhaps, if it was Kenji. I find some of the choices seem quite obvious, while others are less so. With Lilly I just went with honesty and such. But then, with Emi, her attitude in arc 4 was really testing my patience. I mean, I understand it completely but I sure as hell didn't like it. I chose a few options that I didn't think was going to be "right" but I think, in retrospect, this ended up far better for her and myself anyway. :\
ComputerMKII
Banned
I'm still reading Rin's route (just finished Act 3). Oh god it's so annoying. I really appreciate the author's imagination and hard work in depicting a character suffering from Aspergers' syndrome, but that route is just pure frustration (and I thought Hanako's was annoying...) I'm feeling lots of rage, both at Rin for being who/what she is (resulting in a disgusting lack of social skills) and at Hisao for having no self-respect and and being a MASSIVE pushover.
Ah, relationships
Hehe... I felt the same way.
Chet Rippo
Member
Computer, you are my enemy.
That Dude John
Member
That should be the KS motto.
When you put it this way it kind of makes me chuckle, though I feel "Ah, hormones." might be more suitable.... Maybe.
Edit. I kind of like how you find out more about different characters outside of your the main in your route. Shizune seems much more understanding and thoughtful in Hanako's route.
Amusing
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Gotta be a chain smoker to hang with my girl Rin, calms the nerves