The game progresses through text at the bottom and intermittent choices that allow the user to determine how the storyline will end. The game is a visual novel, similar to the Ace Attorney series, with two-dimensional characters that appear over static backgrounds. There was some controversy, however, after several users on the Japanese text board 2channel pointed out that the word Katawa (かたわ) is a slur in Japan for "cripple" and were offended by the game's title. In the interview, Aura stated the game "was designed to make a genuine and honest story, rather than fuel for fetishes." Reviews of the game appeared on the Escapist, ScrewAttack, and the Daily Dot and a TVTropes entry was also created for it. ReceptionĪfter the demo was released, several Japanese culture sites including Kotaku and Japanator reviewed it, asking questions about the motivations behind the game and ultimately concluding that the game handled the girls' disabilities tastefully, calling the game "surprisingly compassionate." Īfter the game's proper release in 2012, an in-depth piece was published on Kotaku, featuring an interview with the game's lead writer, Aura.
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On January 4th, 2012, five years after the project's initial conception on the 4chan board, the full length game was finally released for download. After the initial release of Act 1, Four Leaf Studios accepted one new member, Mike Inel, who handled all of the animations for each character along with the reworking of the opening sequence and all of the act title cards.
The preview has since been translated into seven other languages: French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and both simplified and traditional Chinese. On April 29th, 2009, Four Leaf Studios released Act 1 of the game as a preview, introducing the main characters and providing both good and bad endings for each of the paths. But even though our story has ended, you will now be able to experience a new story the story that Four Leaf Studios existed to create." Release As a single entity, we will not be producing another game. "With that, the story of Four Leaf Studios is finished. Following the full game's release, Four Leaf Studios announced it had no plans for its members to collaborate on any new projects.
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Their sole purpose was the creation and release of Katawa Shoujo, intending it to be free to download. Four Leaf Studiosįour Leaf Studios was a volunteer group formed in 2007 of twenty-one developers from around the world. Interest gradually grew, and after three months of discussion, a group of 21 developers from various Internet communities came together to make this game a reality. In January 2007, the /a/ ( anime) board on 4chan stickied a thread about this art to its front page. One of these pages included designs and preliminary ideas for a visual novel set in a disabled school. The doujinshi was released in 2000 by a member of the Zettai Shoujo circle named RAITA.
The idea for the game stemmed from a bonus page of a hentai doujinshi based on the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, titled Schuppen Harnische.
He ceased posting until September 2008 when he stated he had a new job and the young girl was living with him. Users gave them the honorific names Nurse-kun and Ampu-tan, posting fan art of the two. He began posting in December 2006 making fun of the girl, but over the course of the next six months, he built a relationship with his patient. This game was based on a story told by a poster dubbed Nurse-kun, an anonymous poster who claimed to be a registered nurse taking care of a seven-year-old orphan who lost both of her legs, her right arm, and right eye in a car crash. Previous to Katawa Shoujo, 4chan users came together to publish the visual novel Scarred, released in 2007.
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