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What do we actually know? 1) She gets dizzy going up stairs No. She tells Hisao that she gets dizzy on stairs . There's a huge difference. (... and a lot more good stuff I sniped ...) I've been thinking about your reply, Mirage_GSM, and you're got some very good points. Misha only mentions the dizz...

I'm thinking how I feel about some of the other characters in the VN. Yuuko: Yuuko has aspirations. She has dreams. She's working hard to make those dreams a reality. That makes her a complete character in my eyes, and good comic relief. Jigoro: A complete ass, but an interesting complete ass. Havin...

For me, anti-feminist anger is a real enough and poisonous enough force in the world that I just can't find Kenji funny.

My favorite, which I don't think I've seen mentioned anyplace else, is Hanako x Misha. Think of all the things they'd share. -- They are the winggirls of two of the top girls in Yamaku, Lilly and Shizune -- They have both had pretty horrible middle school experiences, to the point where they both co...

What do we actually know? 1) She gets dizzy going up stairs 2) She inhales parfaits 3) She hated the idea of coming to Yamaku, but her middle school experience was so bad that a few years of complete isolation sounded good. (She and Hanako really should get together and swap war stories). So, from t...

As a game avatar, Hisao need to be just a little little more dense than the player. It would kind of wreck the game if Hisao was super-perceptive and knew what to do all the time. :) A few random points about previous posts: 1) Hisao had just spent 4 months in a hospital bed. It's a small miracle he...

Without reading through all of this, I have to say, I'm not seeing why fanfic needs to have limits at all. I for one think seeing a hypothetical where Hisao never has a heart attack would be interesting, and as far as I know, I'm not out of my mind or anything. Read through the thread. It's very go...

Bringing up the legitimately interesting question though, I've given thought as to whether being able to enter your own name would change the experience any, and I'm going to give it a big "slightly". Seeing my own name might have made a minor extra impact in especially feelsy scenes, but...

I liked the slow pace and attention to detail, especially in the first part. To me, the purpose of the story was the images and poetry of the words; the 'plot' was just a framing device to put the images in. I admire the poetry of your descriptions, such as Rin glowed like fresh paint just spread on...

“It’s done for now but probably won’t be done later,” said Rin

I love your Rinisms. Simple and literally true, just not how most people would say it.

I would guess that they would be useful for things like brushing her teeth, but for real work like painting they'd wind up in a corner.

Rin's route give a very different perspective on a lot of issues that are subtext in the other routes -- so absolutely play it.

And to get the whole route you've got to go through it several times, making different decisions each time.

Yes, it's worth it.

While working on KS, we weren't so fed up with VNs as we are now ... Ow. TheHiveMind mentioned a while ago that he was really burned out at the end, and it sounds like he wasn't the only one. Seems like 4LS flopped over the finish line. I'm glad you made it :D Can you talk a bit about why you're so...

I think Shizune's bad ending was actually better for her character than her "good ending" was. I agree 100%. I've actually been thinking about this a bit, so you're getting a long reply. What do we know about Shizune's history? She joined the Student Council and became president at least ...

I've been trying to think of why I dislike Kenji so much. In our society, there is a lot of virulent anti-feminism, and it's depressingly extensive in gaming culture. Women who simply talk about this will often receive death threats. It's a real problem. If you want to find more about this google &q...