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Well, first off, this seems a good excuse to say thanks, for making the game, for making it something worthwhile, for engaging the community, and for having the patience to stick around for six months while people ask for an annotated notarized version of Emi's sexual history.

Random question, mostly simply because it hasn't been asked.

In Act 1, Misha indicates that there's a pool. The pool is never mentioned again. Was there ever any consideration of having any pool scenes? Was it forgotten?
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ProfAllister wrote: In Act 1, Misha indicates that there's a pool. The pool is never mentioned again. Was there ever any consideration of having any pool scenes? Was it forgotten?
The pool's mentioned in order to give an idea of the size and scope of the facility. Generally, having a pool means you've got a hell of a lot of resources, and Yamaku is definitely a well-funded operation. It's entirely likely that at some point one of us considered using the pool for something but I can't recall it ever coming up, honestly.
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TheHivemind wrote:
ProfAllister wrote: In Act 1, Misha indicates that there's a pool. The pool is never mentioned again. Was there ever any consideration of having any pool scenes? Was it forgotten?
The pool's mentioned in order to give an idea of the size and scope of the facility. Generally, having a pool means you've got a hell of a lot of resources, and Yamaku is definitely a well-funded operation. It's entirely likely that at some point one of us considered using the pool for something but I can't recall it ever coming up, honestly.
I think it was one of those things that we threw in to make the place more "believable".

Things like elevators, wide hallways with handrails, and facilities for rehabilitation/exercise were considered essential.

There was also a time where it wasn't going to be a boarding school, but for some reason we went with that option. I think we did it because it was easier to explain why HIsao went there - constant supervision.
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Geographically speaking, where in Japan is Yamaku Academy? (I ask for fanfiction purposes, so you could give me some random Japanese city if you want.)
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Breaker deGodot wrote:Geographically speaking, where in Japan is Yamaku Academy? (I ask for fanfiction purposes, so you could give me some random Japanese city if you want.)
An unnamed city in Miyagi prefecture.
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why don't Rin want Hisao to touch her left ear?
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I'm still reeling from having completed all the stories, but something bothers me. Well a couple little things, really.

Firstly, will you be releasing revisions to correct typographical errors and such (there are a few hiccups in the text here and there)? I know they're really rare, but it can't be terribly difficult to fix.

Also, whatever happened with the library bandit sub-story? I easily surmised, right from the first time Yuuko mentions it to Hisao, that Kenji was the perpetrator (he has Hisao help him with that Cryptography book, after all), but, after Yuuko informs Hisao that she's identified the culprit, there are no repercussions. The sub-story simply falls off the planet. Did I miss a story path that reveals the ending or was one never written? I must know for my sanity's sake!

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Could I find the tabs for all KS soundtracks?
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XacUop10 wrote:why don't Rin want Hisao to touch her left ear?
Maybe she's ticklish there.
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Helbereth wrote:I'm still reeling from having completed all the stories, but something bothers me. Well a couple little things, really.

Firstly, will you be releasing revisions to correct typographical errors and such (there are a few hiccups in the text here and there)? I know they're really rare, but it can't be terribly difficult to fix.

Also, whatever happened with the library bandit sub-story? I easily surmised, right from the first time Yuuko mentions it to Hisao, that Kenji was the perpetrator (he has Hisao help him with that Cryptography book, after all), but, after Yuuko informs Hisao that she's identified the culprit, there are no repercussions. The sub-story simply falls off the planet. Did I miss a story path that reveals the ending or was one never written? I must know for my sanity's sake!

If you don't answer, I'll know the feminist conspiracy is real.
1) Maybe. If we can be bothered to do it.
2) It disappeared. That is, we couldn't figure out a satisfactory way to close the story.
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Erenussocrates wrote:Could I find the tabs for all KS soundtracks?
There's a sheet music thread somewhere on the forum, might have tabs too in it (or not).
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How do you feel about the game, the community surrounding the game, and the feels that the game has brought upon many an unsuspecting reader?
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Aura wrote:
Helbereth wrote:I'm still reeling from having completed all the stories, but something bothers me. Well a couple little things, really.

Firstly, will you be releasing revisions to correct typographical errors and such (there are a few hiccups in the text here and there)? I know they're really rare, but it can't be terribly difficult to fix.

Also, whatever happened with the library bandit sub-story? I easily surmised, right from the first time Yuuko mentions it to Hisao, that Kenji was the perpetrator (he has Hisao help him with that Cryptography book, after all), but, after Yuuko informs Hisao that she's identified the culprit, there are no repercussions. The sub-story simply falls off the planet. Did I miss a story path that reveals the ending or was one never written? I must know for my sanity's sake!

If you don't answer, I'll know the feminist conspiracy is real.
1) Maybe. If we can be bothered to do it.
2) It disappeared. That is, we couldn't figure out a satisfactory way to close the story.
To elaborate on question two: The end takes place in your imagination, which is the best place for unresolved subplots to take place.

Essentially Hisao had other shit on his mind and didn't actually give a crap about the mystery! He was too busy trying to figure out his own problems.
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1) Maybe. If we can be bothered to do it.
If I were to have found and taken a screencap of a particular error, is there a place I can post it without drawing undue attention? I wouldn't want the KA boards to end up cluttered with similar reports, as they're not exactly in the spirit of these forums.
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Mirage_GSM wrote:There should be a thread for that somewhere in the feedback forums.
Personally I think the typos will be fixed - probably along with the first additionla language set
I see what you did there.

At least I think you did that intentionally...

On an unrelated note, I did think of another question:

Why is there never an image of Iwanako?

It seems to me that she played a rather pivotal role in the story's beginning, and later, through her letter to Hisao -as well as being referenced numerous times throughout most of the different story-lines. There are several 'flashback' sequences that reference previous events in the story and something like thatwhen Hisao is reading her lettercould have pushed a few of the points a little further- especially if those flashbacks recalled Iwanako's final visits to Hisao's bedside.

I suppose you were leaving it to the reader's imagination to fill in the imageof this lost love,and, truth be told, I filled it in with someone whom I knewthe pang of unrequited love frommany years ago. There's a certain amount of 'tell, don't show' when it comes to reading, but it just seems to me like something so pivotal ought to have been addressed visually - even if the face were drawn blank.
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