Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.

The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.

Katawa Shoujo contains adult material, and is created using the Ren'Py scripting system. It is under development by an international team of amateur developers, and will be released free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License. It will be released on January 4th 2012.

-Katawa Shoujo English 'About' Page.

Anyone else played this?

Played it but never finished it

You can't finish it as the full version isn't out yet :V

The full version's release date is January 4th 2012, so give it a try then!

desperately needs help on gettin good ending

Here you go. The full game: http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2012/01/katawa-shoujo-released.html

I have a question...... Is their multiple good endings for each girl? Like, does a girl have different good endings?

>>7
I believe there are 2-3 endings for each girl.

Good Luck!

Omfg I have been waiting for this game like forever!

>>9
And it's worth every bit of the wait.
:D

Also, Melons.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/01/08/2ch-outraged-by-discriminatory-katawa-shoujo/
But treating Koreans as sub-humans is fine.

>>8 i hope you are wrong, because i didnt save any of the parts separately, merely overwrote as the story went on

i never knew that anyone eals played Katawa shoujo.

Lol Oh lilly

I am disappointed in myself, i ended up having to look up how to get to rins part. Everything else i had no issue with, besides getting hanakos neutral. Though i guess thats just because im lazy. Currently getting towards rins part in act 1. Good game overall, not complicated.

Game beaten.
SPOILER ALERT



Lily decided to be sneaky n have a hidden ending.

I had to cheat using a flow chart to get all the endings, but the game overall was excellent, great story, its is easy to get caught up in the character story arcs for hours


btw if anyone wants a Flowchart i can post it later

Now now, dont ruin the experience for them.

This is a great novel, I truly enjoyed playing Lilly's and Emi's routes so far. I'm currently on Shizune's and still need to finish it. >_< I love Lilly's route so much. <3

I'm so much like Rin it's not even funny.

This game is permanently in my top 5 vns. It's taking me a while to get through, but I'm enjoying every minute of it.

AAA~ gonna download it

I <3 katawa shoujo! It's really cool.

TTT~TTT I cried when I got Lilly's good end!!

<3

Is indeed a very good game. Although I do have to say it's my first dating sim. Very well written story with characters that you actually start to care about. I even got a little misty-eyed when I ran into some of the bad endings.

I really loved Hanako's route I went and played it so many times even though I got all her endings I cried on her bad ending but I cried buckets with her good ending I love Hanako~! <3

Lilly's good ending was just amazing.

>>28

I know right? I got it on my first try too!

Oh man, this game. Totally worth the wait. All dem feels, man. All dem feels.

What's cool about this is that a bunch of promising projects have come up after this game's release. It'll be interesting to see how they all turn out!

Hanako fan here. Almost have 100% completion on KS, just have to finish Lilly's endings, I'm done with everyone else.

>>>> 31

Lilly's Ending should have been first to complete. TT~TT Gawd that storyline is so original, that it made me not play this game anymore...

Not that I'm criticizing your play through sequence...

Just downloaded Katawa Shoujo last night. Played it for two hours straight. Loved it! Will be playing more today. Great Choice for my first VN.

I simply love this game! The stories are real sweet and the characters are very original :)

it is my favorite visual novel of all time i almost cried reading and and wished girl as great as them were real

>>35

There are girls as great as that...

Its my first VN and im really enjoying Lilly's route. But do all VNs have this little choice? (Mass Effect dialogue lover)

>37

Well Katawa Shoujo has a pretty diverse storyline, to me at least.

But visual novels like Kanon, Air... or anything else by Key is incredibly diverse.

You just have to search around for VNs that fit what you like. ^^

While it is no award-seeking game, I found KS to be a very pleasant experience to read. I am surprised at how decently it handled its material, and the characters were overwhelmingly likable. There may not be one I disliked.

I started playing this after a whole group was talking about it on another forum, and I have to say I really love it. Part of why I'm playing is because I have some issues about amputees, and this actually seems to be helping me get over them a little. Rin and Emi are actually my favorites characters! I've only completely finished Shizune's path, but I'm playing five save files simultaneously, so the others aren't far behind. ^o^

I just beat the game man was it fun.

Bump

I haven't gotten too far into it but I'm in Emi's path (>w<)/ shes so sweet and its really touching ;w;b

I was about to go create a thread for this and then I saw it right here. I finished Emi's ending just now. Mainly because I didn't know how to go for anyone else. But it was a pretty good story. Got really good towards the end, and not for the reasons most would think.

I just recently finished playing through all 5(technically 6) routes. Here is the order I got them in:

1. Kenji
2. Shizune/Misha
3. Lily
4. Emi
5. Rin
6. Hanako

My favorite had to be Shizune despite the fact that there were literally only 2 choices in her route. I just really connected with her. Same goes for Lily. God I wish they were real. All in all, I could play this over and over again and never get tired of it. Its just that interesting.

I just finished Emi's ending (all of them) and have decided to go for Rin's path out of spite because I REALLY hate Emi now >_<

Possibly because I got the bad ending first.

I finally decided to take a look at this game after hearing what everyone was saying about it, and I have to say, I think this is a pretty good game (and that's coming from someone who never plays these kinds of games). Especially Kenji. Kenji is full of win XD

I loved this game :D Emi's route really did piss me off though since I got the bad ending first haha I still need to find the time to play through it again :P

I had the bad ending first, too :D But yeah, my mistake :D

>>48
>>49
Am I the only person who felt that I was cheated out of the good ending for Emi because I said things that most decent people would have?

THAT is why I don't like Emi at all LOL

>>50 I don't like her either.. I like Lilly :) and yeah, Emi was kind of strange and needed special treatment :D

Oh my gosh this game is the one VN that got me into visual novels. I know have gotten a Clannad port and I'm hoping to get more! :D
I would like to see more english Visual novels, and am currently trying to create one with a team.
This game is pretty awesome. To those that made it (Four Leaf), you guys are awesome.

I played it once, and got the Emi good ending. After that I looked it up on youtube and I found some videos of a guy playing them and commenting. The guy made everything so funny that I haven't been able to play it with a straight face ever since.

KS is amazing... I fell in love with Emi on my first play through choosing everything as I would in real life and was amazed by how cute and adorable Emi was while being so strong and lonely at the same time... I'll stay with her as long as I can... However long it takes.

Haha I had a feeling Katawa Shoujo would appear here.

Well, it's a great game :D Why souldn't it appear here? :D

what VN is this neh??

I went into this game expecting to love Hanako right off the bat... but Shizune happened on Act I, and she kept happening, and...

Well, my first route was Shizune. It was awesome.

Then I came back and started running Hanako's - I'm still on hers now. I dislike Lily as a character right now, based on the fact that she's annoyingly gentle.

If only Emi wasn't a crazy little running girl.

The only route I've taken so far is Lilly's route, and I can honestly say that feels were had. The reason why I love Katawa Shoujo is because it's not fetish masturbation material, but instead, they handle the different disabilities very delicately. Furthermore, the addition of disabilities creates a better character because every disability has a backstory, creating more unique characters.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I started playing it. It is a storygame.. :D

Went with Rin thinking, "Oh, this'll be fun! Rin's so funny!" No. I came down with a serious case of the feels.

this game made me cry TT

I finished Emi's story (good ending yay!). I thought it was pretty good. I guess I'll play through with another character.

I finished Hanako's route just today, and I have to say, it instantly moved to my favorite path. It didn't make me cry, but it made me feel good. Feels were had, and it was just very sweet. As for Lilly's route, I was on the verge of crying, and it was one of my favorites. I took Rin's route, but sadly, I couldn't get emotionally attached to Rin. Rin would have to be more of a bro to me. Rin is awesome as a character, but the route itself didn't make me feel for Rin. Up next, I was going to take Emi's route, then Shizune's.

I just started playing this game today and it seems pretty solid right from the get go. I think I'll enjoy it.

I'm going to be honest here, Katawa Shoujo may just be the game that leads me to other VNs. Any quick suggestions? (Before anyone suggests it, I will NEVER play School Days. As much of a "nice boat" it was, I am always going to shun away from School Days.)

You could "play" Narcissu.. It's a great VN but it really is just a story.. No choices or whatsoever.. But the story is great. I recommend you to download Narcissu 2 because it contains both.

which means it contains Narcissu 1 and 2 :D

>>66

I should point out that "running from school days" due to the Nice Boat ending is generally a sign that you never actually cared to look into School Days in the first place. It's a visual novel, and the ending everyone associates with it is just one out of many. It's the worst possible end, at that.

Meaning you have an entire cast of characters and stories which are perfectly good and non-gorey, yet you immediately discard it because of a single ending in a game you know nothing about.

What the fuck? At least provide a reason besides "durr, I'm ignorant and a sheep" for avoiding it. It's a good novel.

>>69 I want to get that ending. It'd be badass.

I have to say, I really like this visual novel. My favorite path was hanako's. The main reason I like it is because they didn't push her path as to be a sexual lust one. You have sex with her once, and that's it. I personally play visual novel because I like the stories about them, not because of the ecchi-ness (maybe a little..) her ending was lovely and it ended with a really nice scene. I LOVE EHT.

Played through it all, Hanako is still the most satisfying. On an unrelated note, here's pic.

Rin, I just blew my head up...Hanako's was my favorite anyway.

It's a very good visual novel. Would had liked to have more choices about what happened instead of oceans of texts even if I don't mind reading

Found this on their official imageboard. This looks like hiimdaisy's work. Could anyone confirm this?

If anyone can confirm if it is really the work of hiimdaisy, I would be grateful.

>>75 >>76 Katawa Shoujo in a nutshell

I actually just beat Emi's route... though ironically i was working on Hanako...

I just started playing this, it's really good so far.

Started this a few days ago as well, very impressed by it, it's great.

Does the background art really bother anyone else? It didn't stop me from playing, but when everything about this game is so good the attempt to filter photos felt that much worse to me.

hey guys did you know its made by 4Chan

this is what ends up happening to me every time

>>82
It wasn't MADE by 4chan, the original image was created by a japanese doujin artist, Raita. In 2007 the image was posted on 4chan and a group of people from both 4chan, AND other places created the group Four Leaf Studios, and yes their name was based on 4chan's logo but whatever, who made the game.

Please do some research...?

whops my bad

>>85 It's alright, the important thing is to enjoy the game.

true

The game was made completely by volunteers. It's freaking amazing. The AAA game industry can't even top it with million dollar budgets.

for a free game its good if you want another free VN check out Sugars delight although be warned it is Yuri and is really short with no choices i believe.

Bump for Emi-bros everywhere.

>>90 pfffft I see this for Hanako-bros, though.

This Visual Novel will make you mistake that it is japanese made... NO!
And to top that... it's FREE!
Doing it for the Art... and give everyone a one of a kind experience of what it's like to be one of the disabled...

I wanna play this so bad, and I'm a girl, but free VN with a good storyline?
I'm there.

I can say right now that if this were to be translated in Japanese and sold at a Dojinshi market in Japan it would make bank! I have seen what they have to offer here in Japan (lived here for over a year) and honestly people would eat this up if they found out about it. This would classify as injure-moe or "itai-moe" in the Otaku market

>>94
But wouldn't the majority be turned off by the derogatory term 'Katawa'?

I downloaded this game recently.. I like it. At the moment I've only finished Hanako's route ;w; I love her

This might sound messed-up but was anyone else hoping for a foot-job from Rin when you finally get with her? I thought it be kind of funny to include that in the game (I can only imagine how Hiso would react ^_^).

>>97 "So do you want me to do it with my foot...or my mouth?" -Rin Tezuka

>>97 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!

But Emi is still favorite. She's adorable!

Well, she's like, the exact opposite of me IRL...

100 Claimed by Hanako-fans and stuff.

Woah!~ My thread baby's soooooo big!

I played Lilly's first...those feels... O-O

just.. already playing this one

Tried Emi's route. I still prefer Hanako's route.

>>104 even when i took emi's route, i can't believe she can do "that"XD

So, more than a year has passed since the release of KS. You've had plenty of time to prepare for this question?

Which route, in your opinion, was the best?

Please avoid spoilers in your answers.
[Even though they'd certainly be Late Arrival Spoilers by this point.]

Im half way though Lily's, and I still have to do deaf-bitches rout too.

I have to say, that despite the lack of choices, Shizune's Route struck a chord with me. And I mean a BIG chord(Not like that, get your mind out of the gutter.). Followed closely by Lily, Hanako, Emi, and Rin. Rin's I found to be the funniest, but I couldn't establish an emotional connection. Emi, I liked her determination, but it just wasn't enough.

>>106 Emi, Lilly, then Shizune.....haven't played Hanako and Rin's route yetXD

>>106
The best routes for me were: Emi for getting me to start exercising and Rin for helping me to move past a difficult stage in my life.

I really didn't want to like hanako
I really REALLY didn't want to because EVERYONE I know was all about hanako so I ended up playing her route last and
I
LOVED IT
she's by far my favorite

100% it and then my harddrive crashed. eh. That's life.

>>112
I was working to 100% when I had to reformat due to corrupted install... :( Gives me a reason to replay everything though! :D

Order of awesomeness:

Hanako>50(Emi), Emi>Rin>Lilly>Shizune.

Hanako is so cute and I was happy for most of the story, except when she hid away in her room.

Emi was the immensely distant second, making me feel exactly as Hisao did the entire time.

Rin seems a lot like me, but uses a different medium to express her feelings than I do. Didn't really make me happy, but made me feel extremely accomplished to get to see her embracing the sun.

Lilly kept me too close to Hanako to really like her, but it did make me extremely sad when she was about to leave for the final time. Did make me feel happy to see her return.

I didn't really like Shizune and did her story just to do it.

I started playing it last week. I honestly didn't expect so many feels.

I played through Hanako's route first, and found it cute, but not that much special. Don't get me wrong, I liked, but a friend kept talking to me how good it was I kinda expected more.

Then I went through Shizune's route. I...liked it. A lot. Her personalite, and the contrast with Misha, and her family, and the storyline in general. I really liked it. It's my favourite, for now.

I finished Lilly's route yesterday. I honestly didn't expect the feels. So many feels. I *do* get emotional easily, but goddamn, I cried. The part where she says she decided to leave. It was...it was sad. Really fucking sad. And when the little music box started playing while Hisao was at the hospital. Oh god, I started laughing and crying. Neighbors probably didn't apreciated it, sice it was 3 AM, but what the hell, it was worth it.

Now I can't decide wheter go for Emi or Rin. Any suggestions?

I would go with Rin's arc. Her mindset is pretty intriguing if you ask me. Also, the neutral ending is a real killer...god it's just as feely as Lilly's neutral.

I've never played it, but I'd really really like to. Mainly because I heard there's this armless chick that acts like irl me to the letter.

Many manly tears were shed. Many. Manly. Tears. 10/10 Would cry again.

loved this vn to death, honestly if you are playing for the first time id recommend doing Hanako's route before Lily's because seeing Hanako's after Lily's made me feel like a really big jerk

I downloaded it, but Google Chrome is reporting it as malicious.What should I do?

>>120 Because Google Chrome can't take the feels.

>>120 ignore chrome's ramblings. i downloaded it using chrome, and i ignored chrome's idiocy about it being malicious, and my comp is now just fine. i downloaded it directly from the games site.

i download this as soon as they finished it. it was great, loved it

Cool...I think I might try this.

there's no need to disable the sex scenes in katawa shojou because the girls are already disabled!
my friend told me that joke.

I wish this game had more choices. I said "yes" to running and suddenly it's all "Emi Emi Emi" even though I was after Hanako and Lilly...

>>127 It's impossible to make a correct choice on Emi's route. Just do whatever.

>>128 even though im a shizune fan, that right there is blasphemy

I played about a year ago and got all the scenes and endings. It's really great and sad, and I love all the characters. Just not some of the paths.

I started playing this before my computer got wiped. I didn't get very far, but it seemed really good and I might try to play it again.

i spent most of my holliday playing every route except hanako's (people have made me sick of her by endlessly ranting about it) cried like a little girl to lilly and rin. Emi and Shizune not as much though.

still the best thing i have ever read.

at first i played it in my android, then i found pc version, i complete all the route, but a few CGs are missing,. i don't really like using walktrough though... lol. btw after that i found alot of VNs and Eroges. i think i have been influence by Keima in The World God Only Knows....lol...

I did all the routes 100%, Hanako's my favorite. Rin's the most complicated. Cried either way

Tried it, got bored, then got bitched out for being annoyed at people over-praising it as if it was groundbreaking. I don't really see it as much of anything.

Really, all I see it as, pick a girl you want, go with her. That's it. I think people overemphasize the fact that the girls are crippled... I don't think it really matters. So someone is crippled, so what? That doesn't really matter to me, 'cause the person is still a person with a few different traits.

Also, the premise of you not falling in love with someone and dying 'cause of a broken heart is retarded.

I finished Emi's rounte, it was OK but nothing particularly special. The story was there, and i heard people say it was really sad so maybe some of the other routes are better and a bit more complicated, but from my experience, I agree with Day/Dia.

completely beautiful

Sly just began playing this! It seems to be a very beautiful story that's well written (or at least well translated).

It's made in America. It's not Japanese, so there's no need for translation,

I finished all the paths, and Rin and Lily's routes were my favorites

I guess I have an answer for those who didn't feel attached to Rin ^^
It's because her route didn't mean to attach you to her but to make you feel disattached and that made me to feel more feels. (who expected threesome when playing Shizune's route)

I missed one picture, i don't know which routes goes wrong.. (-___-'')

I recently started playing all the routes again. It's so hard to get the bad endings :( And... and Rin... how will I ever get bad endings with her :( To walk the path of bad on Rin's route is so... cruel...

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all routes complete

Is that the last picture for completing the game 100%?

It's a picture of one of the good endings for one of the girls.

This game is the only game to ever make me cry i choose Lilys route

So I just died by falling off the roof.

Fucking Kenji.

This game is annoying since once you finish a route you want to learn about what happens to Hisao and girl of your choice after you complete their story, yet you know there is currently not continuation of their story to be had, thus leaving you wanting more. I've played Lily and Shizune's routes. Lily's route was my favourite.

Kenji is the most annoying character in history, lol. I love this game though!

for me
best girl: Shizune
best route: Lilly

Lilly's route is the only route that satisfied me with its ending
and Shizune is best girl because, well.. glasses

Wow, I knew it couldn't be a Visual Novels section without a KS thread!
I love this, but only played it twice. I finished with Emi,Pistorius'daughter; and Hanako, Harvey Dent's acciDent.
Never thought I could have cried as I did playing this VN.

Ha-
This VN-
Ha ha-
Fuck feelings-

-My Opinion-

Best girl: Rin Tetsuka
Why Rin... Because Rin is unique... and she brought back memories of Sakurasou (An anime that I cherish)

Best route: Lilly Satou
I'm kinda in love with someone in a similar circumstance. i.e. she is moving to a far away land... and I didn't stop her... but... yeah

Hells yeah I've played it ^^

It's good, I miss it... I might have to go play it again haha

It's terrific! It has everything: from tensions to happy ends(obviously). I love it. my most favorite VN.

Apparently, there's a new "route" that one of the creators(?) made. It revolves around Miki (the girl on the track team with one hand) and her point of view I believe. It's not an add-on or additional route, it's just a typed script, from what I've seen. Just google "Summer's Clover" in google, and you'll find it.

I know this is an old thread, but I don't want to duplicate it.

Anyway, Hanako is the best girl, fight me if you disagree. And the Suzu path of Summer's Clover tore me up even more than any of the routes in the VN itself, even more than Rin's bad end.

>>159 Totally agree dude Hanako is love Hanako is life, the end of her route was so sweet i wanted to cry a bit.

I played this, but... only 2 stories ^^' I need to find a bit of time

>>161 If that's the case, you need to finish the other three, and cry over these beautiful girls.

Who cry to these kind of things?...

>>163 If you haven't read it, you have no right to judge. This villain promises that there were tears by most of the endings. Not always for the same reason, mind, but there were tears.

Katawa was my very first VN and I have to say, ourlittle artist friend had the most feel-invested path of all. Loved the game (minus the nsfw, not my type) But the story was SO good, my gosh, it sold me on VNs as a format of storytelling.

>>165 I understood a lot of what Rin thought, since I think in much the same way, if a little more ruthlessly. Even though I maintain that Hanako is the best girl, Rin is the one I understand the most. Also, that image is very much something that I feel.

>>167 Your crazy. The feels in Rin's path are undescribable

>>168 Rin is clearly atypical neurally, as am I, though I doubt she is as extreme in both level and number of issues. Someone that thinks differently from the rest can understand her.

On May 5th, hard copies are going on sale in Japan. Seems strange to me, since KS was a Western project.

this was the first vn i ever played. and is still my favorite. i am redoing lilly's route as of now

This was my first VN game that I have ever played. For those who want to try out playing VN I suggest you play Katawa Shoujo first.

This one is my top favorite VN
wich is your favorite girl?
mine is hanako

Hanako is the greatest.

As a track runner in real life, I instantly went to Emi;s route and found myself loving it.

i think i did something wrong when i played this game? i fell off a roof and died?

That's a bad end

I FINALLY FINISHED RIN ROUTE, It's not so much that it's long or difficult it just took forever to get on the route.

I've played through it several times. I'ts not amazing, per se, but yeah. it's still fairly enjoyable.

I played that and finished Hanako's Route.
a very tranquil route. (Good H Scene) and I also finished Lily's route (Very good H Scene) *perv face
I dunno what route shall I finish next. But, is there a bonus like if all the routes have been finished, there is a bonus scene like getting all girls in the same 'H' scene? Just asking ^_^ Please kindly answer me if u know it.

Hanako's Route is the best! *u*

Pretty good if you're into the dating simulator side of visual novels. Especially good as a "sick in bed" type game.

It is but at some times it is really sad.

Hanako is best route indeed

Now wait just a second. I'm seeing a lot of Hanako route support. Allow me to explain a little bit about why Hanako route is inherently worse than Lilly route from a canonical standpoint.
SPOILS SPOILS SPOILS SPOILS
So Hanako's route is entirely full of you babying Hanako, EXACTLY the OPPOSITE of what she want's you to do. Sure, you make up for it in the end, but Lilly's route is infinitely BETTER FOR HANAKO THAN HER OWN ROUTE, because when you stick with Lilly, Hanako gets to make her own friends in the Newspaper Club and BREAKS OUT OF HER SHELL ON HER OWN.

bump

>>75 Epic Sax Solo oh god
Ah Eh I Oh You is one of the best damn tracks on the soundtrack.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying Hanako or Rin are the best girls, when clearly Kenji is the best girl. Just look at him.(jk, my favorites, in order are 1.Hanako, 2.Rin, 3.Emi, 4.Lily, 5.Shizune)

His ending though! lol I mean seriously!
Dude I wasn't that drunk!
Me: bro you muttered something and then fall off the roof of the school!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usxrnYRZf_g

hanako best grill

I'd have to agree with >>186
The overall vibe i'm getting from the Dollars is that Hanako is best gril, and that kinda saddens me
pic unrelated

bump

Katawa Shoujo is a favourite of mine. It's got one heck of a good plot, and tbh I can't choose my favourite girl >_< I like all of them!

Am I the only person here who thinks hisao kinda raped hanako on her route? I don't think she wanted it, but hisao "master of romance" nakai just slid in and gave her the D anyways.

Also, Misha best girl

Always knew about the game, took it upon myself to actually dedicate myself to clearing ONE route, completely blind. I ended up getting emi's good route, I didn't like her at first and ended up falling in love with her character!

I started playing but kinda lost interest somewhere around the beginning. Is it worth continuing it?

>>195
Dude Misha would have been a good route I wonder why she didn't get one lol

pretty sure misha didnt get a route for reasons that are explained in the route of another character close to her-- no spoilers.

Long time no see dollars-bbs people! This game was just announced to be coming to Steam! (And itch.io!) Check it out when it releases August 15, 2024!

As of today the steam release is now playable! It's free, so if you've never checked out this vn, please do!

Insane that you dropped back in just to update this thread, huge props

An ancient member just dropped in just to update this thread. They must really like Katawa Shoujo. I remember playing this back in 2016