The player plays Hisao Nakai, who enters Yamaku for the first time after having spent months in a hospital after a heart attack. The setting is in Japan’s Yamaku High School, a school for disabled (and not disabled) high schoolers. It’s a gem of insight onto how to proceed on developing a project, not just a visual novel.Īs for plot, here is a quick synopsis. Aura, one of the writers, does a wonderful job of describing Four Leaf Studio’s journey through development of the game and I would heartily encourage you read through his/her blog posts if you have the time. In the end they did manage to succeed and released the full version, free of charge, this January. This “big bang” eventually consolidated itself into a group called Four Leaf Studios, who, over the course of five years of development, recruited and laid off members, created and completely scrapped art directions, completely rewrote storylines, and overall struggled to keep production for their ultimate goal, the visual novel Katawa Shoujo.
In 2007, after anon posted concept art from RAITA’s doujin Zettai Shoujo, instant support exploded on the board. Katawa Shoujo is a visual novel developed independently by Four Leaf Studios, a group of people whose origins hailed from the /a/ board of 4chan.
Note, if you are aware of the history and synopsis, you may skip the next three paragraphs.īefore expanding on what that statement means, a brief history and overview should first be mentioned. Is it the girl the protagonist befriends? Is it the protagonist? You? Katawa Shoujo may be a visual novel about disabled teenagers, but that is merely the springboard to see the characters that live facing these questions every single day. The player explores these key questions not just for their answer, but also for whom these questions are directed towards. These questions from the official website summarizes the themes of the game concisely.
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