IRL Significant Others

[acewing905]

I only show my friend the video version of "Gimme the Chocolate!". That's as far as they will know about KS.

Someone made a video of that? ::whywouldthey::

[yummines]

Out o curiosity, how are you guys describing it to people where they automatically think it's some perverted sex thing?

Just saying it's a game with cripple girls is enough for a lot of people's brains to go south.

You just have to know how to sell it.

Calling it a game where you get to sleep with crippled girls is going to give you a different reaction than calling it a romantic character drama set in school for the disabled.

the problem is that once you mention that its a Visual Novel they immediately assume "Visual Novel" is a euphemism for "porn game"
given the nature of most VNs i dont blame them. after all, all characters in this game are 18 and over right?
i guess you could say its different because its made by americans? then again its made by people from 4chan so...

[metalangel]

I've told my missus about it. She doesn't mind, she hasn't fallen over herself to play it either. I might ask if she wants to try it later, she does enjoy books.

I think those of you getting bad reactions should consider who you're talking to and avoid mentioning one or more of the following things:
-anime
-disabled people
-sex
-4chan

[Enemy |]

I only show my friend the video version of "Gimme the Chocolate!". That's as far as they will know about KS.

Well that is sure to take any prejudice he might have about the game away

[rydiafan]

Honestly it doesn't bother me if ppl don't like it .... as long as they let me be and treat me like a second class person for playing " cripple porn " it really doesn't bother me

It's not like im a better person for playing it or they are a better person for not playing it ( i told them about , they said no , that was that ) People will dislike this VN ( either they think it a hentai game , a sappy dating sim , or they tried it and they just don't have the " feels "

We have to stop defending this game as much as we do ... if ppl don't like it that is their choice and we can't force someone to like it

Let's just enjoy the game ourselves

[Snow_Storm]

Someone made a video of that? ::whywouldthey::

You are acting like they did a live action version of it.

Well that is sure to take any prejudice he might have about the game away

Knowing my friend, if I did show it to him, he'll get a kick outta it. We also show it to a female friend of ours and she was cracking up the whole time.

Anyway, while I was mocking the game on my Facebook status, my friend, who is actually disabled, actually wants to play this gmae because it shows how the girls get around theier disability or some shit like that. Me being the asshole I am to my friends, I told him that "Hey! They finally made a game for your type of people!"

[Brisingr]

I have tried to introduce the game to the videogame/anime clubs at the college I attend but nobody seemed interested after I said either "reading" or "some nudity". I did manage to get a few of my friends to actually download the game but both of them managed to get the manly picnic ending on their first try and have lost interest. I keep bugging them to play but they are lost to zombies on Call of Duty.

[StepmaniaFreak]

It takes a particular type of person to really want to try and play this game. I did it out of curiosity, but then again I'll try pretty much anything at least once. Some people just can't be persuaded.

[Guest]

my boyfriend doesn't care about visual novels and i doubt i could get him to play one, but he'll listen to me talk about them at length i did make him watch the emi in the track shed scene so he'd know why i was laughing so much.

i got one friend to play a vn once, but i most of my friends are uninterested.

[Walrusfella]

My wife is going to play it in a couple of weeks when she's done a few other things. She thought the concept was really cool when I explained it to her. Like I did, she has no preconceived notions about the medium/genre, so it was a fairly easy sell.

[eleventhirtyeight]

Well my boyfriend is the one who got me into it, because he fell in love with it very fast, but we both have a hard time getting other people to understand (he also keeps calling it "Cripple Anime Dating Sim" in front of others to annoy me).

But yeah. :3 We played some of it together and we share fanart and fanfics and stuff and reference it in public to confuse everyone else.

[inquisitivenegro]

Well my boyfriend is the one who got me into it, because he fell in love with it very fast, but we both have a hard time getting other people to understand (he also keeps calling it "Cripple Anime Dating Sim" in front of others to annoy me).

But yeah. :3 We played some of it together and we share fanart and fanfics and stuff and reference it in public to confuse everyone else.

Tried to subtly convert the most weaboo person I knew (not healthy anime-fan, obsessive weaboo) by planting the KS-installer on a hard drive with k-on, clannad, haruhi and other over hyped anime he wanted but leaving out the last episodes of each series so that he would browse through and "accidentally" find it.
The next day in the middle of class: "Hey why do you have a cripple fetish hentai eroge?"

[Teryn]

The next day in the middle of class: "Hey why do you have a cripple fetish hentai eroge?"

Priceless, gah! ^o^ So nice when someone gets it... mostly.

... Why does liking people who may have an obvious disability of some sort have to count as "fetish"?

Maybe it's because we're higher maintenance to some degree, needing help with things, but usually less than most expect.

Up until I had my own physical disability to contend with, one of my former best friends was in a wheelchair. Within a few months of meeting her (we only met once a month for an anime club), I stopped thinking of her as "friend-who-is-in-a-wheelchair", to being just "my friend".

To drag myself back to the topic: Yes, I agree with a lot of posters to not heavily advertise the sexuality and moreso the story making you cry and the like. People is dumb about sex.

Maybe talk about the Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) series to introduce the genre? It's probably the most successful VN-style set of games published in English.

[inquisitivenegro]

The next day in the middle of class: "Hey why do you have a cripple fetish hentai eroge?"

Priceless, gah! ^o^ So nice when someone gets it... mostly.

... Why does liking people who may have an obvious disability of some sort have to count as "fetish"?

Maybe it's because we're higher maintenance to some degree, needing help with things, but usually less than most expect.

Up until I had my own physical disability to contend with, one of my former best friends was in a wheelchair. Within a few months of meeting her (we only met once a month for an anime club), I stopped thinking of her as "friend-who-is-in-a-wheelchair", to being just "my friend".

To drag myself back to the topic: Yes, I agree with a lot of posters to not heavily advertise the sexuality and moreso the story making you cry and the like. People is dumb about sex.

Maybe talk about the Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) series to introduce the genre? It's probably the most successful VN-style set of games published in English.

yeah get them to play the hanako route or something, short, plenty of feels and only one h scene

[yummines]

The next day in the middle of class: "Hey why do you have a cripple fetish hentai eroge?"

Priceless, gah! ^o^ So nice when someone gets it... mostly.

... Why does liking people who may have an obvious disability of some sort have to count as "fetish"?

Maybe it's because we're higher maintenance to some degree, needing help with things, but usually less than most expect.

Up until I had my own physical disability to contend with, one of my former best friends was in a wheelchair. Within a few months of meeting her (we only met once a month for an anime club), I stopped thinking of her as "friend-who-is-in-a-wheelchair", to being just "my friend".

To drag myself back to the topic: Yes, I agree with a lot of posters to not heavily advertise the sexuality and moreso the story making you cry and the like. People is dumb about sex.

Maybe talk about the Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) series to introduce the genre? It's probably the most successful VN-style set of games published in English.

well the thing is Phoenix Wright is more well-known (heck he's a fighter in UMvC3, as well as having a Professor Layton crossover soon) and is pretty obvious there's nothing innapropriate. plus his games have much more comedy in them.

KS was made by a bunch of anonymus users and you cant skip the h-scenes if you want all the feels.