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Forever_ambivalent wrote: I forced myself to watch a minute of it.
I later got a headache
Just god no. It was godawful. It killed instafeels for me.
Never again.

Oddball wrote:Five seconds. I lasted five seconds.

Oscar Wildecat wrote:

d2r wrote:Agreed. Nobody should do a Let's Play of KS.

Except Gilbert Gottfried.

Kinda like [url =XXX]Kenji doing KS Instafeels[/url]?

Mirage_GSM wrote:I think that one might be violating the license. It clearly ripped off game assets.

InsaneFeels wrote:Hey guys!

A few friends and I are in the process of a Let's Play of Katawa Shoujo. The main person reading has studied voice acting and improv, so hopefully the end product is well read. Along with some funny side commentary, I'm hoping the series become very fun to watch.

I'm aware that there have probably been many posts like these over the years, so instead of simply asking to watch, I'd like some input.

What is the strongest element of the playthrough? What is the weakest? What would you recommend we add/remove to improve the experience?

Here's a link to the first episode:



I personally think episodes 9-11 provides the best first impression of the series, so if you don't want to make a huge commitment, I'd recommend those. I'll provide the link to episode 9 below:



If you took the time to look at this, thank you very much for your time. Here's hoping for a nice discussion.

Mirage_GSM wrote:Well, I'll try to make this the most constructive I can: Don't make a Let's Play of Katawa Shoujo!

And because I want to be constructive I'll tell you why:

There's aboslutely no reason to do such a thing. A Let's Play is a nice thing to
a) have a look at a game to decide whether it is worth your money or
b) when you have decided a game is not worth your money but you want to have a look at it anyway.

Katawa Shoujo doesn't cost any money! Heck the bandwidth for downloading it is only a fraction of all the youtube videos of a Let's Play.

And when you download it and read it yourself you get the benefit of not having to listen to that irritating and juvenile voiceover. Honestly you and your friend(s?) joking and giggling while Hisao is having his heart attack is killing every bit of immersion and atmosphere 4LS worked so hard to put in there. I don't even want to know what you did to romantic scenes or - heaven forbid - the H-scenes.

And why are you reading the text out loud to your watchers in the first place? Assume they can't read? It's right there on the screen in front of them. I can sort of understand why some Let's Players do this in some games when the script is too small to read on the video, but that's clearly not an issue here.

Finally, if someone installs the VN and reads it himself, they can continue at their own pace and don't have to wait for you to get the voice right or finish doing jokes that don't have anything to do with the VN. It was easily legible without even toggling full screen.

So every aspect of watching KS as a Let's Play is an inferior experience to reading it yourself.

Zarys wrote:Heh ! I have said nothing against this let's play, I just encourage him choose to Hanako. (best girl of the game)
And your reaction is a bit exaggerated, anyway

Alpharius wrote:

Zarys wrote:Heh ! I have said nothing against this let's play, I just encourage him choose to Hanako. (best girl of the game)
And your reaction is a bit exaggerated, anyway

You are bald and foolish!

Alpharius wrote:You, and all your kind are lowly lickspittles, weaklings, pathetic fools.
You are not a critic, you just own a keyboard.