Ren'Py - Academy: Live! [v0.08.1a Alpha] [passhonQ]

Very good start for a game. Easy to get and plentiful sec scenes, my only criticism is the MC is a bit underwhelming for a guy who is supposed to be the boss. I would like him to be a bit more able to corrupt the girls or enrich then.

v0.04.2 Alpha

Visual: 5*
The VN looks pretty good, the renders are above average for novels shared on the site that were made using koikatsu. The animations are not Illusion's default, which is very welcome and rare.

Novel: 3*
Despite being well written, it unfortunately lacks originality: basically it is "The Headmaster" with fewer options, at least until this version.

Characters: 4*
The girls are hot and don't suffer from the use-the-same-model-on-each-girl-with-different-hair syndrome that plagues most vns that were made using Illusion games. Their background stories are interesting and their personalities well defined.

v0.04.2 Alpha review: 2.5 stars.

Plot is kind of wonky. You've been hired as a teacher at a school for misfits. The twist is that the school is secretly selling footage of the female students to a mysterious group. Also, members of the group will sometimes offer a bounty on a particular girl. So there are three main girls who have large standing bounties and then the promise of various side women.

There are a few problems with this. First, the game proposes to be a management / sandbox type game where you find ways to increase affection and/or corruption to activate events but none of that is implemented yet so it's just a VN for now.

Second, none of it seems to matter. You have a girl with 0 affection and 5 corruption (which is labeled "pure") who gives you a blowjob and has sex with you (and she enjoys being choked) on the first meeting. Another girl with 0 affection and 2 corruption (also pure) finds you creeping in the women's locker room and demands you engage in consensual non-consent sex with her. I can't imagine what levels of depravity they'll get up to if they ever actually like you or become corrupted.

There also just aren't any stakes. I realize most people will say "eh, it's porn logic" but when you're able to punish students whenever you want and do whatever you want and everyone's constantly demanding to have sex with you... what's even the point? Why even bother with pretending to be a real school? I think it'd make a lot more sense if you were secretly working for the shadowy group but the entire school faculty wasn't in on it and you had to stay on the down low, for example. It would also be nice if it were paced a lot slower--maybe a girl agrees to not wear a bra for the rest of the day to avoid her first strike instead of going straight to sex.

I'd like to check back in once the management stuff has been added but for now it feels like a generic koikatsu sex fest.

It's a great game. Very well done animations and sex scenes. I don't really like the open world system with this table, but that's a small thing. Netorase is very intriguing.We have a lot of choices and we can pointwise build relationships with characters and choose the content we are interested in.

Story had potential and it was ok at the start, but playing an extreemly submissive MC that is supposed to be the boss setting the rules and controle the students is a huge fail, MC feels brainless and the students play him when it should be the other way around.
It makes the game boring and pointless, and the lack of choices hurts the game even more, you cant deside to act tuff and be the boss you just follow this sad excuse of a MC around while he acts like an idiot.

Even first student you call to your office gets her way with MC, she acts like a bitch and couldent care less about what MC says and what does MC do...he allows her to kiss her and he kiss her back and tells her he enjoys it, pure submissive and ends up with getting a footjob and a fuck.
Personaly i wouldent have touched her with a 10ft pole, dident like her looks or how she acted towards MC, so clearly i cant play this game.

Doing all of this you have 0 choices so game will be a pure fuckfest game where nothing you do as the player will matter, MC will fuck anyone no matter if you hate them or not, had it been up to me i would have put the bitch in her place and the last thing i would ever is reward her by fucking her for how she acted, and yeah i am just not in to submissive MCs one bit.

First page on forum for this game it says:
"Will the Principal use his position to satisfy the ever controlling Board, or will he get too close to the girls and choose another approach?"

Which might lead you to think its a game with choices, but i dont see that at all, considering you have 0 controle over who MC fucks or how he acts hes path is already set and out of your controle.

v0.03.1
Normally I don't review games this early, but this is a good enough start to bother.
The presentation in the UI and character designs are both done well.
The actual scenes are more than just stock koikatsu animations. They tend to be fairly long, with multiple angles to view from and have a lot of dialogue rather than just 'stick dick in hole'.
The girls vary heavily in personality. Mostly they're just 'anime stereotype', but they're done fairly well so far. The slut is a slut for a reason, the class rep is uptight but not to an unreasonable degree, the 'crazy' girl is just desperate for affection, etc.

Its not really much of an NTR game so far. I've been able to keep nearly (one seen showing board of director shows 2 girls on his bed, but I don't know if those are students) every girl to the MC without issue I would hope this remains possible, aka 'ntr avoidable' as it currently is.
The board wants to see perverted acts, they don't have to be with people other than the mc.
And the MC isn't spineless, you can basically always decide if you'll go with a plan or not and he literally chasing a guy through the entire building at one point. Not too sure what the other reviews are talking about.

Biggest issue with this game is that the current scenes are so long, varied in posing and such that I'm not sure the current format is really suitable for it.
You're supposed to be doing 3 actions per day + calling girls, all of which would have scenes, which is just too much work load to realistically get anywhere in any reasonable period of time.
But that's an issue for the future.

0.002 Alpha. Very early, we pretty much only get through the introduction of main characters and the general direction this game will head in. It was pretty good for what it was, if you like the corruption theme this game has potential. Too early to say how the actual corruption mechanics will work as it gets more fleshed out but I'll be keeping an eye on this.

Pretty naive concept, copied from a much popular game, but the execution is very poor.
The MC here has no spine. Gets jerked around by students, shows no authority and goes along with anything that people tell him to do. Few choices sprinkled here and there, but needs more choices to actually make the MC behave like a principal and not some high school student.

The only good thing was that there is no sandbox, but otherwise its pretty bad. Not recommended at all.