Re: blind characters in games of any media, present and discuss.
Hi.
Really, the only blind character I can think of at the top of my head from a mainstream game or otherwise is Lilly Satou, a character from a 2011 PC game known as Katawa Shoujo, which when translated from Japanese, literally translates to "Disability Girls". Indeed, the story of the game tells about a young man and five girls living with varying disabilities. It's a visual novel game which takes place in a fictional school known as Yamaku High School for disabled children, located in an unnamed city somewhere in modern, northern Japan. After a trip to the hospital due to a heart attack, the main character, Hisao Nakai, is forced to transfer to a school specialized in providing education and healthcare for disabled students. Over the course of the narrative, Hisao has the opportunity to come to grips with his condition and adjust to his new life. The game itself is choice-based, where you read through text, and occasionally get to respond to prompts with some preset responses. The choices you make impact the rest of the storyline. Depending on the choices picked, the story chronicle Hisao's deepening, and eventually, he has a romantic crush on one of the five female characters, depending on, of course, the choices picked throughout the game, with each of the girls having different routes, similar to another visual novel that was released in 2017, Doki Doki Literature Club, which even though they're running on the same visual novel engine, RenPy, DDLC has a completely different story, but let's not get too off-topic.
Certainly back to Lily, her bio on the official website reads, "Blind since birth, Lilly is caring, responsible and friendly - the perfect foil to Hanako Ikezawa, her best friend, whom she shares an almost mother-daughter relationship with, in addition to her free time often being spent drinking tea alongside her companion. In class she is a diligent student, with her sense of confidence serving her well in her role as class representative of class 3-2."
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