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I don't like Rin. My feelings toward her are a mix of hate, exasperation, and pity for her condition: autism . As for her route, I think it is the worst route in the game in almost every way. It's badly written, it's boring, and it's confusing. I think her route is like the booby prize of the game;...

You can't really understand any of the characters fully unless you finish all the bad and neutral endings, and reflect on how the choices you make bring you to those endings. I'd say 100% completion is an absolute must! Actually, I'm a proponent of doing more than one 100% completion, but I understa...

I think the storage shed scene is easily the worst part of Emi's route, and probably the worst part of the entire game. It's painfully unnecessary, awkward, and immature. But, it doesn't influence the quality of the rest of the route or the rest of the game. If you didn't enjoy it, just forget about...

I think you're underestimating the law of accelerating returns. Technology is progressing at an exponential rate. It took us thousands of years to tame electricity, but it took us less than 200 years to use electricity to being powering supercomputers. Even looking at video game technology, major d...

Flowers. Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. Those cheesy cards they sell in stores (there are definitely romantic ones, or should be, anyway). Flavoured lubricant.[/flippancy] These are things that can be interpreted many different ways??? They can be interpreted as "aww... she's just being a cute li...

I don't really know what to think of Rin's route. I felt the same emotions as I did with the others but...I just didn't understand half the things that were going on. I was quite literally confused for half of the 9 hours i played it. I felt the same way when I first played it, but I think I've com...

There is no more reason to think Lilly's ending is a dream than there is to think the end of Inception was a dream, or that all of real life is a dream. Which is to say, it's theoretically possible, but there's absolutely no evidence supporting it.

Armed? No. Dangerous? ... I hear she's pretty good at kicking...

I think she's got a better chance than Yuuko, in any case.

Poor Rin, the only character left with 0 votes

Megumeru wrote: Shizune in Yukata just feels so 'right'. I don't know, it makes me all fluffy inside

I'd say Shizune in a yukata seems completely out of character for her. But that's what makes it so cute.

I'll agree with that, roughly (I think Hisao is driven to Rin more by circumstance, confusion, and implicit societal pressure than by selfishness or altruistic narcissism). But yes, the good ending is bittersweet, and the neutral ending is a more realistic outcome. Aura even says that the neutral en...

Eh... I don't think Rin is "madly in love with [Hisao]" early in the route at all. She's more comfortable with him than she is with Emi and... that's about it. I doubt she even contemplates seeing him as more than a friend until after Hisao confesses to her. I know the codeine kiss occurs before tha...

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Mirrormn wrote: Oh how many times I've thought that to myself about Shizune's route -.-

Says the guy who just wrote all of that brilliant insight on all of Shicchan's arc...

Such insights are not born of a single reading, that's for sure. I think I've probably read Look Aside close to 6 or 7 times now.

I think you're misunderstanding Hisao's character. The expectation for the genre is for the main character to a "blank slate" upon which the reader can project their own emotions and decisions, but Katawa Shoujo really doesn't work that way at all. That becomes clear even as early as Act 1. The best...

Dawnstorm wrote: I'll need to go through the route again, this time paying better attention.

Oh how many times I've thought that to myself about Shizune's route -.-