VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - A.O.A. Academy [Ch.5 Gold] [TLGGAMES]

The good:
- renders are awesome
- the girls are beautiful and quite diverse (although all of them but the korean chick have big boobs)
- the music is a great addition
- i like the slow-burn aspect of the game

The bad:
- english (I'm not a native speaker, but even so I see that the english is very bad)
- the dialogues and story is like from a very bad south american soap opera:
- MC (and not just him, all of the girls in fact) always knows just by the look on her face, how the other girl feels. That's a cool superpower for sure, but it's ridiculous if all the charaters always know how the other feels, even when they know each other for just a few days. And the dialogues suffer because of this.
- the dialogues in general are somehow hollow
- the villians don't know how to use google maps or maps in general so they are walking around town asking where to find the academy.
- the academy doesn't look too small, but everyone notices a guy who's not a student right away
- the girls meeting a evil goon immediately know he's bad news
- all the girls are ready to help a girl they met a day prior even when it's supposed to be really dangerous
- and I could continue.

I'm not sure that I will be able to finish this game, because every 5 minutes I must bang my head against a wall just how ridiculous the writing is.

I know I missed something, because I don't see how this got more than 3 stars. The dialogue is okay and allows for some character development. The story is not very interesting due to some plot to kidnap so and so (I stopped paying attention about Chapter 3.5). The sexy times are pretty much non existent on the route I chose. The couple of animations I did see were average and offered no wanky. Let's just leave this one on the abandoned pile.

For an abandoned VN, this is pretty good.
The renders are good, Jenny & Ashley are "super" model level...
Of course, the story doesn't have an ending, but for what's there (there is a lot), the story is overall pretty good.

Harem tag is misleading. Maybe it would have worked out with an ending, but not being able to get together with Jenny & Ashley seems criminal...lol

Overall, this is a solidly good abandoned product that is worth the time to read. There are just too many issues combined with unfinished/abandoned that prevent this one from being excellent.

The game is abandoned, but that shouldn't be a reason not to give it a try. Otherwise, it is absolutely excellent.
The characters are realistic, each with their own background and their own problems. The time management is also realistic - so don't expect to get everything done in limited time windows. Pick your favourites and if you're interested in other girls, get ready for another playthrough. It will reveal more story bits and pieces and overall doesn't feel boring at all.

The renders are very good, the animation is also very good. The sex scenes are balanced and build up gradually. And even though the game is not finished, there is a lot of content and scenes. Don´t worry about blueballing.

To sum it up:
+ Characters and their diversity
+ Story
+ Logical scene, relationship and story building
+ Quality of renders and animations
+ Quantity of content and multiple possible playthroughs

- The game will never be finished
(The open ending is unpleasant, of course, but consider how many other stories end this way. This gives you the opportunity to think creatively and make up your own ending.)

Such a shame this one had to end up like that. This game could easily be my top-3 if not for the unfortunate end of its development.
I found most of the love interests pretty well developed, likeable and last, but not least - genuinely unique. Writing fits the story perfectly, seems not too savvy at first but I really enjoyed Valerie and Aurora and their stories. Other girls have the looks (Val does too tbh oowee) but these two just had that sorrow in their eyes (like in my native lang song).

When I see this game, I find myself dreaming what if somebody picked up where it was left off. Yes, it was that good. RIP A.O.A.

WARNING: You can't complete this game. You can get to about 80%, but just as everything takes a real dark turn - the game checks out. Since it's been abandoned, the story ends before it reaches the prominent conclusion.

Oof, someone recommended me this game without telling me the game was abandoned. What a project. I chugged through four chapters to find almost no sex and quite the action-packed story. If you're looking for steamy porn scenes, this is not your game. But if you're a fan of stories (albeit a bit stretched at times), you can play this. I'm reading stories about the developer abandoning the game, possibly even dying? My gosh, how sad to lose such talent. Rest in peace if you are no longer with us.


A.O.A. Academy

The premsie of the game is nothing too special. Farmboy has family issues and heads to big city in order to develop a new life. I thought the game would be more sex-focused, but it's definitely focused on trauma processing and building relationships. You meet a couple of... damaged individuals in the academy and it's up to you how you handle their trauma.

Graphics are really good, as well as shot selection. Story is pretty action-rich, but borders on unbelievable at times. The characters did eventually grow on me and most of the romanceable girls are really gorgeous. The game might be trying to tell too much in a little time window, but that ambition is also what makes this game memorable for me. The sex is intimacy-heavy and is primarily aimed at gaining trust rather than lustful fucking. People are damaged here and you're trying to seek joy living through all these damages.

My first playthrough went nearly without sex, which goes to show you can really mess things up for yourself. I then took several more plays discovering the different romance options and liked most of them. In the end, I really struggle with not having closure for the struggle - but finding some of the sex scenes does make up for a lot.

Dev was really onto something here and I feel - even though there are a myriad of issues plaguing this game - that it could have gone down to be something extra special. Now it's just an interesting option. But one I enjoyed nonetheless!

Play this if you don't need sex, but like to see sex develop over time. Also, be prepared to be frustrated you can't finish what you started.

What I played was very cool and enjoyable with enough gameplay involved in a VN. Great plot. Awesome characters, incredible art and sound. It's sad that is abandoned because it looked so good that really make me wanted to play more.

Renders are amazing. Story is good if not slightly rushed. The girls all have very defined personalities and stories. The MC doesn't come off as a Gary Stu or is epicly dumb. You also aren't banging all of them left and right. The shy girls are shy. The forward girl is forward. The music is great. Jenny is bae.

Edit: As this game will never get its proper ending I will say this, its one of my favorites. All the LIs were unique, there was no harem, and the romances were well written. We may never know why the dev didn't release the final part we were apparently days away from getting, but it is hands down even knowing theres no ending that it is one of the best written AVNs out there. I know people frown on "that other game" comparisons, but it does that one thing that makes that a great game and surpasses it in some areas: character work. You want to know the outcomes of all their stories and their interactions because they are compelling and well written. I'd still recommend this even in its unfinished state.

Best VN games I've ever played.
Characters really beautiful and perfect.
Story and expressions are really good.

This is my number 1 VN.
Also everything about this is perfect.

Please comeback, I really need this game to be complete version. I'm sure we're always support TLG Games

I really curious about chapter 6 and my Jenny

Solid game game overall, deserves a 4 star, but I have my complaints

Too much dialog:
A lot of times the dialog just goes on and on. There is a ton of text at each scene before moving on to the next event, it makes me just want to click through and move on which is obviously not good.
Even the sex scenes have too much text, we're always making deep dives into the minds of these characters, in my opinion that really takes away from the scene.

Constant color filter:
Not sure if anyone else feels this way, but it seems like there's always a filter over the entire VN, making the color feel unnatural and odd.

Sex scene quality:
Not too impressed but okay

One of the best games ive played in F95 yet. Story mostly is so compelling and that i missed an entire day playing through it. Renders are amazing as well. Beautiful game, just sad to see it abandoned. The story line could also have choice/chance with most of the girls. for example, if we go for Elizabeth, we cant go for Aurora, and so on.. Choice is good for changing some decisions in game play, not choice of girl.. just saying

A.O.A Academy [ch.5 Gold]

Truly a top tier game. Excellent graphics and well polished models. Loved the story and I'm glad this one isn't a fuck feast. Ofc all the girls have eyes for MC but unlike in many games they are taking it slow. Loved the slowburn. Girl's aren't cock worshipping sluts. Each girls have their own personality. They are fun and many of them have troubled past. It's a college VN but unlike many other college VN's this one has a different aura.

That harem tag is recieving, this is not your usual harem game. Some of the girl's path locks out others. Ashley's path locks Jenny's path and vice versa. This applies to other girls too. If you want to know about each girls more have a separate save for each of them. In Jenny's playthrough you can star 2 way relationship between jenny and jade. If you want to explore the game fully play witha WT mod or walkthrough, but mod is better. But play it your own first time. I absolutely loved each girls and their romantic path.

+ Story
+ Well polished beautiful models
+ Slowburn
+ Romance
+ Music
+ Good looking MC

- Abandoned ( hoping dev will comeback and finish it other wise it will be another gem in the fallen category )

AOA is considered by many to be one of the best AVNs and there are many reasons for this. For one, AOA produces a great triple A atmosphere, similar to some of the best VNs on the market. This is due to the great renders, good music and exciting plot. Lots of characters, maybe too many, but interesting nonetheless.
I say too many, because some of the more interesting protagonists are therefore sometimes only superficially illuminated, which is not ideal, especially when they have dramatic to melodramatic background stories. One simply wishes for more details, more influence and more decisions to really feel a sense of bonding.

On balance, however, AOA definitely deserves five stars, because up until the time of its abandonment it was one of the leading VNs, especially at the aesthetic level. I could have gone into more detail, but the fact that the game was abandoned quite suddenly and without notice in the middle of its development makes that unnecessary. It's a real shame.

If the situation changes again, I will also change my rating. But if the current state is the final point, there is simply too much left unsaid, the characters remain sketches and none of the conflicts have been resolved. That is rather unsatisfactory. I would have preferred a less ambitious VN with an ending.

The story is great, it has drama, comedy, romance, I don't like games with romance because usually they are too cheesy or exagerated but here the dev found the perfect balance.
The girls, all of them are pretty sexy and have different, interesting and marked personalities, you won't hate any of them.
The bad thing, this is not really an harem game, if you choose to romance Ashley that will lock you out of some girls path, if you choose Jenny she will lock you out of Ashley, so you have to play this game like 8 times to unlock all the content of every girl because there are hundred of branchs, if you go to the gym with Valery you can't go to the pool with Jade and Rebecca, so you have to choose with which girl you want to start, and even if you choose to go to the pool you have to choose if you want Jade or Rebecca, you can't get more than a girl at the time and you have to wait until you can persue other girl.
It makes no sense, why in an harem game you will be locked of romance others girl if you are already with one?? And why the MC is so stupid to not want to start a relationship with Ashley when days before he was thinking about that? Why if the MC say that he have feelings for her, he doesn't do anything, but he still persue other girls and even Sung-Ji?
Everything about the way how, when and who you have romance, looks really stupid to me and makes no sense.
And ruins all the experience that an HAREM, (I repeat, H-A-R-E-M because this is supposed to be an harem game), game should give you.
The cellphone app is bad, you open the phone, choose who you want to message and the interface is pretty simple and not really nice, but that is not much a problem, the problem would be that every time that you select "back" to go back and then send a message to someone else the cellphone app close completely, so you have to open again the phone go to the message app, select the other girl, send the message, choose back again and the phone close again, and you have to do everything again, it becomes really tiresome and stupid, other problem in navigation would be when you are in freeroam, the arrows don't help you much because you don't know where are you going, you are following the arrows until you see someone to interact, and no place has a name to know if a door leads to the bath or to hell, some times you could walk from back to front a couple of times because you don't know where the arrows takes you.
Edit: I kept playing and I saw that many decisions or conversations don't make sense, like I meet Clint, but later when you see him again he doesn't recognize you, later you talk with Aurora and you tell her to make and schedule and tell the MC when she is free so they launch together, but when you are in the hotel with the girls and they are talking abour Aurora he never tells them about that conversation, moments later you have an "encounter" with Adam and you can insult him, mock him or ignore him, I ignored him but later when you talk with Jenny the MC tells her that he insulted him. There is no consistency in any conversation and contradict everything what happened before. Is exactly the same with the girls when Jenny is the "main girl", she is okay with the MC fucking everygirl and even help him to be closer to Ashley, but if you are in Ashley path, she is not interested in him, why in one path she acts like she doesn't care and in the other she cares?? It makes no sense.

The only bad thing about this game is having to reject the girls. A game for each of them would have been great, they are all worth it...
It would also have been better if the MC's face was more expressive, although it is the least compared to what I mentioned at the beginning.
I forgot to say that I did not give it five stars not only because of the above, but also because of the poor textures in some renders and the lack of animations

I'm not sure how far along i am far as content wise but what i have played so far i really love it. The story really pulls you in. It pulled me in the first 5 min of the story. Normally i play these games for the fap material and i wasn't gonna play this because i heard it was a slow burn kinda game. But i have to say it really doesn't bother me i just love the story and if it keeps up this way till the end i'll be very happy. The story as you might guess i give a 10/5 stars art work is 5/5 stars the girls are all great personalities 5/5 stars i haven't gotten to the sex scenes yet but had a few nudity scenes but at this point i'm not that worried about the quility as i'm sure it will be as good as the rest of it is. All in all i give this an 5/5 rating i highly recommend this game.

It´s a very good game.
The characters are well written and modeled.
The story is very interesting and very well written, although there are some grammatical errors.
The soundtrack is very well chosen.

So overall 5/5 stars

This game has one of the best renders I've seen so far. There are, at certain points, subtle animations like hair movements that are absolutely stunning.
Ambient music complements this beautifully. It just lets you sink into the render completely.

However, everything else leaves a lot to be desired.
- Unrealistic background setup and character dynamics just breaks the immersion and constantly reminds me I'm just looking at a computer screen.
Consequently, the story is uninspiring and feels like a bunch of side quests sewn together. Conversations are trivial and gets you nowhere.
- Characters are basically drama queens making untimely gloomy faces. I think this is half the renders. Genuinely not fun to interact with.
- Every girl is just love at first sight with the MC. I know there is a relationship point system, but does little to none in terms of sense of accomplishment. Relationships are not earned, but entitled.

With renderings this good I expected SOOO much more. Sadly, the deficiency is substantial.

This is the first time I write Review Pardon me for my English skill.

After playing chapter 5, I can say this is one of the best VN I've ever played. The starting is usually mixed with the morderns and the nostalgia, sometime I feel it carried a deep feeling and emotional. Beside some small problems, AoA had lots of things, that the other VNs didn't have. Well that explained why AoA didn't have to create too much "Chaos" to make me in love with this VN.

With the ingenuity in building the characters, the dev let me know about the innocent school romance, "College is the place of love,". In my area, the chance to get to know about this ~0. Now thanks to the VN, I knew how boys and girls will react when they have their first love, first kiss, even first 'make out'.

1) Yeah, well, the girls played an important role in the VN, make the story and the renders became colorful and awesome:

By building the "Jenny's Gang", I can feel the importance of team making, and then become a family. Each girl has their own story, their own path, their own scars in their minds. But they didn't give up, they help each other when they can. Their reunion now undimmed by the time, unbounded by the situations. Not only that, in them i can see the true-right of a citizen: the desire for justice, the pursuit of hapiness, and the dreams of a better life.
By using "Ashley's Group", now I can see what's normal college students's life. Optimistic, Girlish, Cheery are the right words to describe them. Especially, when they're in love, it could be a bit cheesy but sweet. When seing friends in trouble, they're not hestitate to be a helping hand, when they could
The characters "Elizabeth, Aurora,..", now I believe: No matter how stressful they are, how busy their works are, it didn't turn them into a "dried" robotic girls. They are still so romance, and they both love the mc in their own way.
From the character "Jenny", now I realized that I have lots of things to learn from her. What are those? I think I'll let you guess then, it's not easy to say in words anyway.
Last, but not least, Adam... Slow down, you must think I'm completely out of mind, but just hear me out first. Do I hate him? Yes and No. By building this villain, Adam reflected the sadly reality. By their own benefits, some people wouldn't mind solding you out, no matter if he/she's your family member. Or putting your life in danger to exchange the power, etcetera.. I wasn't lying, some of you are reading my review chose to be this kind of person. What matter is, are you going to change?

2) Next, the background music turn the VN to a lively world:

Hello Love is the first song came to my ear. From the first chapter to chap3, the bgm was awesome. Each of them matched the stories and the situations perfectly: Sad, emotional, romance, sexy,.... But from C4, why do I feel like it changed? Where are my favorite bgm??
Well, I can list some of my favorite musics: Hello Love, Burried Treasure, Pacifica, So Good, Coastal, For the Moment, In the Sky, You Won't Find Me,...
In short, the bgm is amazing

3) The Renders fired it up!

- Each girl's emotion are so real, so deep, so good! I love his renders. Eyes colors, haircut,... mixed together, with their emotions, the characters became more delicate. This is one of the rare feature in VNs

4) Uh-huh, the bugs screwed it up... a bit...

- What a shame! Nobody likes bugs ofc. I saw some wrong worlds using, even wrong characters in conversations. What happened in chapter 5, maybe I don't have to talk about it. Hope the dev's going to fix it soon! I prefer a stable VN, no matter how long does it cost, I can wait!
- Moreover, in some sexy scenes, does the dev have to describe it "that" detailed? I feel it's unnecessary, but for some solo translators.... "Ugh, so f*ckin* long, so exhausted"... If the next update released with fewer details in lewd scenes, the translators could do their work properly with a fewer hiccups.

Well, this is an "almost perfect" VN, in my opinion. Wish the dev all the best and succesful in your life, and thank you for some "lessons" you taught me by this VN.