Sorry, that should be
visual novel. I'd call that a faux pas, except I've got no intention of looking like I know what I'm talking about here.
It was
Katawa Shoujo/
"Cripple Girls" (Act 1 - Demo Version), that one that was constructed from characters doodled on one sketchbook page by a 4chan members. It's about a teenage boy who discovers he has arrhythmia (his heart stops at the slightest overexertion), and gets sent to Yamaku academy for disabled teens. This isn't really what he wants since he a) found out about his condition at a
very inconvenient time (no spoilers!) and b) He doesn't really see himself as disabled, so the thought of spending the rest of his education surrounded by 'cripples' is depressing in the extreme.
However, stereotype challenging feelgood teenage acceptance not too clichéd blabbity bloopity blah
I like Hanako. It probably says a lot about me that my waifu is the one with the hideously scarred face. Rin's a bit of a laugh though.
On a vaguely related note, a few playthroughs of
Air Pressure left me so relentlessly knurd for the next 45 minutes I just went to bed.
You know what? Since I've only played three "interactive movies" in my life I may as well go into the third. It's
Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story. As you can guess from the title, it's more Western than
Katawa and not as cripplingly miserable as
Air Pressure (and also more than 90 seconds long). It's also the spiritual successor to
Digital: A Love Story, which I never played but seemed to have a profound effect on everyone who did.
The basic idea is that you're a 38-year-old double-divorcee teacher who by some plot excuse of advanced school surveillance (it's 15 years in the future) is able to to eavesdrop on his students' web conversations. You're then faced with the decision with how much you want to interfere with your students' lives, and how comfortable you are about doing it. For me that meant answering pretty much every probing question with "I can’t make your decisions for you, what do
you think you should do?". I prefer to give assistance rather than guidance... except I’m dating one of my students.
Probably weren't expecting all that, huh? Now I need to go play a game where I actually shoot something to assert my manliness.