Kud Wafter - General Discussion

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Kud Wafter - After Arc Discussion

Biz and I were discussing it last night. I legit didn’t know the distinction between the routes.

My understanding is… Wafter route is a mixed bag of Kud porn and moe feelgood.
After route removes the H-scenes and has actual emotional storytelling.

The good side to this is that they had the decency to clearly distinguish the two faces of the story.
The bad side is that Wafter is compulsory to unlock After. Whyyyy would they do that. It even covers a lot of the same content.

In the 18+ version is mostly as you described.
The all ages version fixes that problem. It basically removes the Wafter part of the 18+ version so you don’t have to read it twice. Also, Wafter contains Shiina’s story (at least it does in the all ages version; not sure about the 18+ version)

Kud Wafter - After Arc Discussion

      I haven't.

To be perfectly honest, I’ve heard enough bad things that I’m not overly anticipating reading it either. But that could just be me having a jaded mindset.

To be honest, I’m afraid most of what you’ve read is true…it’s mostly a fandisc that panders to people who like Kud a lot like me. But like Asperity said it isn’t completely horrible it does have some good things.

The new characters are really good and have good backstories with decent drama
Shiina is an odd duck in her family; which makes her relateable as I’m sure her mother and sister hate space and rockets as much as my own mother and brother hate Japanese culture.
And Yuuki: imagine Kurugaya Yuiko as mad scientist but she also has a well developed backstory and reasons behind her behavior
There are also some nice slice of life scenes: though Kud behaves a bit weird in some of them though (to make her more moe I guess)

The final part (the “let’s throw some drama at Kud” part) was mostly melodrama though. I will give my thoughts with spoilers in the After thread.