First impression of the girls vs final impressions?

[SpunkySix]

I didn't say that she was misrepresenting her age, just that she doesn't actually know that Hisao's birthday is much closer to hers than she thinks.

Oh, that's possible then. Misunderstood, my bad.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

Or we could simply go with that particular snag in the law not existing in the KS universe's Japan, so Emi's still a year older than Hisao. It'll require us to contradict less stuff that's established in the VN.

This. I don't see why she'd lie about that or even stretch her age a little for no reason when the whole point of that scene was to slowly build up the intensity of her confessions, which tend to be true things.

I suppose this makes sense, putting a lie before saying something so personal to you to someone just seems like a pointless exercise.

[Atario]

It was more frustrating on Emi's that Hisao didn't get what was going on fully for AAAAAGES after the rest of us could've written a bloody thesis on it, but ahh well

We don't know that he didn't get it. He never mused about it, nor talked about it, but he also never puzzled over it. Seems to me he just avoided making assumptions the way we did. After all, Emi's dad could just as easily have been gone by abandoning the family rather than by death.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

It was more frustrating on Emi's that Hisao didn't get what was going on fully for AAAAAGES after the rest of us could've written a bloody thesis on it, but ahh well

We don't know that he didn't get it. He never mused about it, nor talked about it, but he also never puzzled over it. Seems to me he just avoided making assumptions the way we did. After all, Emi's dad could just as easily have been gone by abandoning the family rather than by death.

Aaah, I suppose so. I think that her dad dying was the more likely one given her and Meiko's reaction when he's brought up, but I guess he wouldn't wanna risk it, and it's not the sort of thing you can casually bring up in conversation.

[Oddball]

It's the part about visiting him that threw me. I assumed he was in a hospital braindead or comatose or something.

[SpunkySix]

I do believe that Hisao even begins to narrate his hunch before going back on it because if he's wrong he could totally destroy his relationship with Emi right there and then.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

I do believe that Hisao even begins to narrate his hunch before going back on it because if he's wrong he could totally destroy his relationship with Emi right there and then.

I have a suspicion you may be right there :/ Looks like I'm gonna have to play through Emi's route AGAIN... oh no...

[Potato]

I do believe that Hisao even begins to narrate his hunch before going back on it because if he's wrong he could totally destroy his relationship with Emi right there and then.

Because his relationship with her at that point was totally something worth maintaining...

[SpunkySix]

I do believe that Hisao even begins to narrate his hunch before going back on it because if he's wrong he could totally destroy his relationship with Emi right there and then.

Because his relationship with her at that point was totally something worth maintaining...

Hey, he liked her for who she was. That's worth fighting for no matter what sort of walls she was putting up.

[someguy1294]

Damn it Spunky, why can't you just be happy that I don't think Emi's an idiot?

Because you're wrong.

Don't go there, man. I have no desire to be cooked.

[HarvestmanMan]

Damn it Spunky, why can't you just be happy that I don't think Emi's an idiot?

Because you're wrong.

Don't go there, man. I have no desire to be cooked.

Silently?

[someguy1294]

Silently?

Precisely.

[AaronIsCrunchy]

My impression of the nurse changed quite considerably during Emi's route: at the start of Act 1, I thought he was going to be a comic relief character with a bit of an inadvertently callous streak, what with the borderline-inappropriate jokes and the erratic flipping between serious and joking. As it goes on, he 'becomes' somebody who genuinely cares for those that it's his responsibility to look out for, whilst not mollycoddling.

I know he's not a girl, but bovvered.

[SpunkySix]

My impression of the nurse changed quite considerably during Emi's route: at the start of Act 1, I thought he was going to be a comic relief character with a bit of an inadvertently callous streak, what with the borderline-inappropriate jokes and the erratic flipping between serious and joking. As it goes on, he 'becomes' somebody who genuinely cares for those that it's his responsibility to look out for, whilst not mollycoddling.

Yeah, it was neat that he could be funny and still end up having a lot of substance.

Him and Meiko would be so cute together...

[Munchenhausen]

So basically, Nurse would make a pretty good father figure for Emi if she can overcome her issues?
Bescause yes :3