Agreed on this point. I used to read Homestuck religiously. I have an app on my cell that tells me when Homestuck gets updated the minute it does, just to show you how dedicated I was to the series. After I picked up Katawa Shoujo, those updates just meant little to me. It would be like "Goddammit, Hussie, stop updating the comic, I'm trying to ask Shizune out!" Even after getting 98% completion (missing some dialogue strings, heh), I'm still hesitant to keep on top of Homestuck in favor of viewing bits of the Hanako/Shizune/Lilly's arcs again (or the buttsex scene in Emi's because LOL).mysterycycle wrote:after having the whole KS experience, I couldn't get into anything other than KS for a couple of weeks. I thought about it nonstop, and listened to the soundtrack on an endless loop. I no longer had an appetite for gaming of any kind, and any genre other than teen romance/slice of life felt uninteresting, hollow and pointless to me. I wanted more feels, I guess, and I didn't want KS to be over for me.
Eventually, I got better, and started getting into other stuff again. But I don't think I could say that KS has completely left my system (as evidenced by my continued presence here, to say the least). From what I understand, this is a fairly typical experience, so as the forum header says, "don't panic, it's just a game." Let the feels run their course.
But yeah, I remember after finishing all the routes, thinking "Wow, it's over," and just wandering around aimlessly.
No problems were ever had though when it came to switching between the girls' story arcs. Ultimately, they have their lives and I have my own and (I suppose I am in the minority in this) I am ultimately more often than not aware that I am not seeing their stories through just my own eyes, but also through the eyes of Hisao. So nah, I never really felt the waifu phenomenon tbh. They always are primarily Hisao's 'waifus' as opposed to mine, if they can be called that at all.
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