"I don't get these games from the Classical Pre-NeuralNet period at all, guys. Why doesn't that Lilly chick just get prosthetic eyes? Didn't Japan have vending machines?!"ThistlewickVII wrote: If they have no frame of reference, they might not understand the game. It's about overcoming misconceptions, that these girls are people and legitimate love interests.
If they have nothing to overcome, what does the game become?
A game about a crazy guy who wears a leaf when he showers and drinks on the school roof?
In all seriousness, I tend to agree that KS's influence in the long term is going to be pretty limited. I part because it's a VN and has to drag all that baggage behind it, and also because the idea of people with disabilities being people first is so weird to a lot of people. Could it have some staying power in actual disability communities? Has anyone gotten into contact with any such groups?