Riskbreaker
The world of datings sims says hello!

oddeye
They are paralyzed you insensitive fuck.

FABIO
If they were Tim & Eric in wigs people would be 5 starring it.

Sundry
This really doesn't expose the game for how horrible it is.
Every girl has a different dissability. Rather than even approach the subject with any class, each dissability is the focus of the girl's personality and her "cuteness".

For example, the girl with no arms grabs stuff with her mouth and requires the player's help to open doors or go to the bathroom.
The blind girl is constantly lost and will "cutely" call out for the player if she thinks the player has left the room.

And so on.

CharlesSmith
That's not even the half of it, if you really want to get creeped out look up the story this is apparently based on.

Pillager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katawa_Shoujo

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Someday, I'll learn...

NewHeavenSalesman
Are dating sim trailers supposed to be a series of images with no explanation besides "girls"?

help me out here, poetv

RocketBlender
"Katawa Shoujo (かたわ少女 Katawa Shōjo?, lit. "Disability Girls" or "Cripple Girls") is a bishoujo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box. As of now, only the demo has been released."

All things considered, wikipedia is pretty nice to this game. WAY too nice.

fluffy
The Wikipedia editors are probably looking forward to it but don't want to seem non-neutral.

I'm morbidly curious enough to download the demo.

fluffy
So I downloaded the demo. I actually made it through until the protagonist introduces himself to the class and notices every little aspect of his fellow students which made them "disabled" (missing thumbs, permanently-bandaged-up hands, etc.) before I couldn't take any more of its shitty, overblown internal monologue.

Sundry
Disaster, I demand you tell us the tale of this freak and how it came to be that he made known his obsession to you.

Lindner
I was there at the beginning, when they were still sorting things out. This consisted of things such as voting on whether the thalidomide girl would have stumps or they'd keep the flippers.

... I voted for stumps. Flippers would kill my boner.

RocketBlender
Did you guys break up because you wouldn't develop a disability for him?

Disaster
He kept telling me about this AWESOME game that 4chan people were making and he would talk about it NON-STOP "Katakawa shoujo" this and "Katakawa shoujo" that and finally I figured I would humor him and see what he was babbling about and he played the WHOLE game from start to finish when I went over to his house to finally see it. He'd gotten all the endings and all the art and everything unlocked and pretty much played it whenever we weren't together. He quoted it sometimes and it was odd.

Caminante Nocturno
Maybe it wouldn't have been as weird if you had supported me HIM!!!

SUPPORTED HIM!!!

SHIT!!!

oddeye
So, you busy later tonight?

RocketBlender
What's the disability of the girl with the dark hair and the glasses? Please tell me she's the blind one. I just think it'd be funny if the blind girl was always wearing a pointless pair of glasses.

Aoi
She's deaf.

There is a running joke about the asshole misogynist roommate of the main character asking her why she needs glasses if she's deaf, though.

I think you all have problems, anyway. In your pants.

Caminante Nocturno
Her name is Shizune, and the only problem I have in my pants is that a girl with significant scar tissue covering her body isn't in them.

Although I wouldn't kick the deaf girl out of my pants.

As long as we're being honest.

FABIO
Does it severly damage her self esteem so she'll be desperate enough to go for disgusting otaku nerds?


GOOD ENOUGH!