The "feels" bazaar.

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Guys I just finished Lilly's Route.............
I *manned* through Hanako's ending just fine.
Emi and Shizune barely had any feels.
But Lilly's ;_;


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Now I'm worried about even trying to go after Rin with so many feels already.
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icannotfindausername wrote:Guys I just finished Lilly's Route.............
I *manned* through Hanako's ending just fine.
Emi and Shizune barely had any feels.
But Lilly's ;_;


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Now I'm worried about even trying to go after Rin with so many feels already.

Soooo, tell us how you're feeling.
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pandaphil wrote: Soooo, tell us how you're feeling.
Didn't realize this was a support group :p :lol:
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icannotfindausername wrote:
pandaphil wrote: Soooo, tell us how you're feeling.
Didn't realize this was a support group :p :lol:
No, it's just that this is the feels bazaar :lol:
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icannotfindausername wrote:
pandaphil wrote: Soooo, tell us how you're feeling.
Didn't realize this was a support group :p :lol:
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Guys I'm conflicted.
Should I start on Rin's arc or wait until the weekend?
I'm a full-time college student and am worried that if I start the longest arc in the entire game my performance my drop too low.
But then again I'm overflowing full of feels after Lilly's ending and really want to see what people acclaim the most emotional route.
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icannotfindausername wrote:Guys I'm conflicted.
Should I start on Rin's arc or wait until the weekend?
I'm a full-time college student and am worried that if I start the longest arc in the entire game my performance my drop too low.
But then again I'm overflowing full of feels after Lilly's ending and really want to see what people acclaim the most emotional route.
It's not that long and you don't have to do it in one sitting.
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Just play it in chunks at a time, when you have the time. Set an alarm so you don't end up blowing an entire afternoon, or save and quit after a scene transition.

Stories are better experienced in parts, anyway. (In my opinion, obviously.) Take the time to process what you've read before moving on with the next bit.
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I've only recently finished the path of Emi, and the path of Hanako, I realized how deep their story really is, and it makes me think of myself in my childhood when being confronted with loneliness and self-denial.I for one thing lost my parents when I was very young, and the being the elder brother, I was taking care of my sister for a few months, until our uncle came in contact with us, from then on life, was rather easy, economically speaking, but I cant help but feel lonely, many people I know, don't know this side of me, especially not my sister, I've always tried to be an example for her... I for one thing relate myself highly to Hanako and Emi since for some time I too have locked myself away from other people and from society in general, but I did that so that I couldn't get hurt, because the pain of losing someone was too much, So I locked everyone out of my life, and when a tragedy came up, I learned how to put on a monotonous mask as if nothing has happened, and it works for the most part, until I felt those feelings that Katawa Shoujo (Specifically Emi and Hanako) made me feel, and I want to feel that for someone in my life... Long story short... I have felt something I have never felt before for those characters, I'm not sure what to define it as(I think it can be called 'love', but I'm not sure since I have not a lot of experience in this). I've watched the ending for many a millennia, I'm here to ask the veterans or the ones that have experience with dealing with these kinds of feelings... Is it possible to feel true love like that, for someone in real life?


TL;DR Is it possible to feel what I've felt for the characters of Katawa Shoujo, for someone in real life?

P.S Sorry for the rambling and the wall of text, but I'm really curious...
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Noizestorm wrote:I've only recently finished the path of Emi, and the path of Hanako, I realized how deep their story really is, and it makes me think of myself in my childhood when being confronted with loneliness and self-denial.I for one thing lost my parents when I was very young, and the being the elder brother, I was taking care of my sister for a few months, until our uncle came in contact with us, from then on life, was rather easy, economically speaking, but I cant help but ....
TL;DR Is it possible to feel what I've felt for the characters of Katawa Shoujo, for someone in real life?

P.S Sorry for the rambling and the wall of text, but I'm really curious...
Although my situation is no where near as dire as yours seems, my condolences by the way, but I think that is what separates humans from the rest of creatures. We are more than capable of sharing and emulating feelings that are not necessarily a first hand experience, feelings that are not part of our personal composition, so I would say yes. Your "average" healthy human being will be able to relate with such emotions and feelings should they get sufficient description.
Stories are better experienced in parts, anyway. (In my opinion, obviously.) Take the time to process what you've read before moving on with the next bit.
As much as that is a valid argument I don't think I'm strong enough for that, I mean, this game man... When playing through a route I could not think about anything else but the well-being of that character, and having to step away from the story just seems to taxing to be worth the reward, in my opinion at least.
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icannotfindausername wrote:
Noizestorm wrote: Stories are better experienced in parts, anyway. (In my opinion, obviously.) Take the time to process what you've read before moving on with the next bit.
As much as that is a valid argument I don't think I'm strong enough for that, I mean, this game man... When playing through a route I could not think about anything else but the well-being of that character, and having to step away from the story just seems to taxing to be worth the reward, in my opinion at least.
I don't this I've ever played KS not in 4 hour or so chunks and then though about nothing else till I got back to it.
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Sea wrote:
icannotfindausername wrote:
Noizestorm wrote: Stories are better experienced in parts, anyway. (In my opinion, obviously.) Take the time to process what you've read before moving on with the next bit.
As much as that is a valid argument I don't think I'm strong enough for that, I mean, this game man... When playing through a route I could not think about anything else but the well-being of that character, and having to step away from the story just seems to taxing to be worth the reward, in my opinion at least.
I don't this I've ever played KS not in 4 hour or so chunks and then though about nothing else till I got back to it.
Yeah, I played about three hours one session and then two and a half the second, and the time between the first and second session absolutely killed me.
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Why is Rin's route so friggin awkward?

I've played all the other routes and have yet to finish Rin's but I can't help but notice that her route the one withe most awkward and discomforting situations of them all.
I'm reaching the final scenes here and have yet to get the feels I was expecting from comments, is it just me? or is Rin's arc really slow until a certain point ?
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icannotfindausername wrote:Why is Rin's route so friggin awkward?

I've played all the other routes and have yet to finish Rin's but I can't help but notice that her route the one withe most awkward and discomforting situations of them all.
I'm reaching the final scenes here and have yet to get the feels I was expecting from comments, is it just me? or is Rin's arc really slow until a certain point ?
Its not just you. Maybe I was influenced by the fact that I played hers after Lilly, Hanako, or Emi, but her route just made me feel unhappy. the other stories tended to feature scenes of reaching out, and socializing with others in the school. Rin's route to me seemed to be all about closing yourself up in your own reality. Just, You and Rin against the world.

For someone like me, who has a problem with loneliness, this storyline just made me unhappy.
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icannotfindausername wrote:Why is Rin's route so friggin awkward?

I've played all the other routes and have yet to finish Rin's but I can't help but notice that her route the one withe most awkward and discomforting situations of them all.
I'm reaching the final scenes here and have yet to get the feels I was expecting from comments, is it just me? or is Rin's arc really slow until a certain point ?
I think the difficulty about Rin's route is due to a lack of frequent outward emotion it relies more on the feeling of despair and loneliness created, particularly In the artoire (think that's its name) where she decides she needs to destroy herself for the sake of art. I personally found Rin quite disarming (pun not intended) as a result, and although I didn't get feels as such, I got a very 'heavy' feeling inside. It's bleaker than the rest of them as opposed to openly emotional.
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