gaming Katawa Shoujo routes

[vinolent cupcakes 24]

Ok, so I am playing Katawa Shoujo because my friend Holt told me it would make me a better person and would teach me a lot about life and people, and for a while I just played the game, I stayed up pretty late last night playing it and now I am a little over 4 hours in. What I don't understand is that I looked up the game and apparently there are different routes you can take where you become closer friends with each different girl, but my game seems to be centered around Emi, even though I have made maybe 4 choices, max. How did this happen? Was the game set up to be centered around Emi randomly at the start of the game, or did the few choices I made turn the game towards her? I am pretty far into Act 1: Form, and apparently once you start the first act it is decided which path you go down??? I don't know. But can you change which character you are hanging out with, because Emi is cool and all but I think Misha is cool too. I know there are already threads like this, but I have specific questions about the game so thats why I started a whole new thread.

so basically, my question is this:

1) did my few decisions decide that I am hanging out with Emi, or was that predestined, and

2)can I change it and hang out with other people, and

3)is it normal to not really get very many options? Because I have been playing for a while and I havent had very many choices at all

 

Also, about how many hours does it normaly take somebody to finish the game? I have been playing for a little over 4 hours and I dont really know how long it will take

[Jadefire 2,797]

The character you end up with is determined by the choices you made, which determines which scenes you get in the first chapter. For example, you most likely ended up with Emi because you chose "Yeah, definately" when the nurse nagged you into excercizing, which later gave you the option to push yourself hard at the track, which gave yourself a heart murmur. Had you not done that, you likely would've ended with someone else.

 

Once you've finished Chapter One, which ends shortly after the school festival, you're locked on your route. From then on, your choices determine whether or not you get your routes' Good Ending, Bad Ending, or Very Bad Ending.

 

Katawa Shoujo is a visual novel. Basically, a book you interact with. You're mainly supposed to enjoy the story rather than save the day. So it's normal if you don't get as many choices as you expect, as the game is fairly linear.

 

Short answer: the choices you made pushed you towards Emi.

 

Also, Misha doesn't have a route. Playing Shizune's route will reveal why.

[vinolent cupcakes 24]

oh, ok thanks! that actually makes a lot of sense, and thanks for telling me which choices paired me with Emi, that helped me understand it a lot better. I hope i get the good ending though, bad and very bad sound, well, bad.

[Sepia-chan 495]

You ran and had a heart attack. That's why your on Emi's route.

It's obnoxious, honestly, I mean, you didn't know that running further would put you with Emi, but I guess that's how dating sims work.