I was, regrettably, a high school 4channer. I quit the site years before Katawa Shoujo was released, so I don't really remember how or why I ended up playing it. Morbid curiosity? It would have been over a decade ago, so any opinions I currently hold about it are vague memories from a very different time in my life.

I went through Lilly's and Rin's routes and I liked them both quite a bit. Only read parts of other routes my girlfriend played, including Emi's and Shizune's, and I thought the writing was noticeably weaker. I could be wrong, but I think each character was written by different writers, so I guess it makes sense that some writing styles just weren't for me.

I've only played a small handful of other VNs, but I kind of fell off the genre because they didn't really hold my interest like Katawa Shoujo. Somehow a porn game featuring teenage girls with disabilities written by weebs from some of the worst corners of the Internet seemed to respect women better than some of the "best" visual novels I'd had recommended to me. How the fuck did that happen?