Unity - Completed - Academy Love Saga: Tennis Angels [v1.1.0 - 18 1600 + DLC] [Tora Creatives]

I have a lot to say about this game because there are a couple parts of the experience to focus on. This game mainly consists of three things, managing characters stats, tennis tournaments, and of course the H-Scenes.

The short phrase I can use to describe this game is, "polished, yet underdeveloped". What I mean by this is that the H-Scenes are really well done, and the gameplay itself that leads you to these experiences is also great. But I just don't like how little content there really is, more so that the H-scenes are purposefully stretched thin by arbitrarily locking them behind level requirements. There are like 2 long H-Scenes per a character, one unlocked after defeating them in a tournament, and the other after reaching a certain level of experience with them. The problem with this mechanic is that if you were to play this game legitimately without tampering with it and cheating it would take you an unreasonable amount of time to unlock these scenes.

The previews for other H-Scenes are also locked behind completing tournaments. But these scenes aren't fully animated, only about 12 are. The rest are just still images with quips and phrases that the girls say after defeat, which are cute but I would've preferred for the experience that the developer worked towards making more of these scenes or at least made the work to getting to these scenes proportional to the amount of content in the game.

This last thing is more of a personal issue with these types of games, but I just don't really dig the narrative of using a gross, ugly looking man as the protagonist of the game. It would be nice if you could pick a gender and the game was more vague about who the player character is rather than developing this story around him. Obviously I have no problem with the narrative and what the game is trying to set up, but I personally just prefer for the player character to be more vague or at least palatable.

I still want to give this game a good rating because at least there is the accessibility of being able to unlock all of the H-Scenes with the click of one button rather than inserting a save file or updating a config file. But, between how little H-Scenes you get, and the way that this game stretches the scenes I just can't give it any higher of a rating. The grind would be a great experience if there were more scenes included in the game.

I beg that the developer also reworks the game to remove the ugly protagonist and patch in a better storyline. If you were to make the main character somewhat neutral and then have a decently attractive side character rape them or something that's fine.

A great game. The H-scenes are fine and all, but the real fun is actually in the tennis. Allthough I have to admit being rewarded with a nice image, or scene in the campaign, is a nice bonus after a win.

Gameplay:
Playing tennis in this game is surprisingly fun and elaborate. Even once you get pretty good at it, it can still surprise you with a challenge. This is due to opponents having different skill sets, which forces you to adapt and change your tactics accordingly. It can be challenging at first but feels incredibly rewarding to figure out and get better. I would never expect something like this in a porn game. Awesome.

The optimization of this part of the game blows though. For some reason, when the ball hits the net, the game suddenly starts lagging a lot.

Story:
Not a fan of "ugly bastard" type of characters and rape'y stuff, so I didn't enjoy it that much. Moreover, the story mode is unfortunately very short, and if your goal is to unlock the whole gallery, then you will spend most of your time on tournament grinding.

Art and animation:
This, along with the gameplay, is the strongest point of the game. The animations are awesome. Although, I would prefer if the H-scenes had more variety with different positions and stuff in a single scene as opposed to them fucking in the same pose for the whole scene. Also, at times, during sex scenes the dialogue doesn't align with what you see on the screen.

Not bad overall; I would rate it 6/10.

If there's ever a sequel of some kind it would be awesome if it had:
- the same tennis system
- more varied sex scenes (for example, as someone in the comments pointed out: there is not a single animated blowjob scene in the whole game)
- longer story
- No rape'y ugly bastard bullshit

PROS:

* Nice tennis game
* Nice interface and sound
* Five girls

Cons:

* Basic design of girls
* Hentai animations are weak and nothing special in terms of fantasy
* Drawing quality of girls mid at best
* Straightforward idiocy of girls as the only way to make hentai scenes possible
* Just another ugly bastard as MC

The game looks amazing but the gameplay isn't great and the h isn't good either.

Story 3/10

An academy with a great tennis team has a coach who goes to the hospital. So they call you in, a known pervert. But a pervert who's really great at coaching tennis.

There's some story with bullying or something but it's not that deep. You beat the tennis team members one at a time.

And that's it. The girls each have their own kind of mini-story series, but it's also not that deep. Really, this is a slice-of-life style game, but it doesn't do that very well imo.

Gameplay 4/10

So. The tennis playing. It's.... okay. The core gameplay is fun-ish. But it's long. Tournaments take too long to beat and I'm not here to play some knock-off wii-sports.

There's some mechanic of breaking your opponent's clothes, but there's no crowd. You play in an empty tennis field and it's all just kind of barren. Whenever your opponent loses a point, they spin in a circle. When you lose a point you spin in a circle. In other words there's a distinct lack of polish.

Art 5/10

The art looks really nice but there's just not a lot of it. Each of the 5 main heroines have 2 h-scenes and a couple of non-h CGIs. The vast majority of other scenes are just art with 1 line of text. It's just lacking all around.

Overall 4/10

The art looks great, the gameplay starts kind of fun, but there's just not enough content. The gameplay gets old an repetitive without involving much h at all, while the story's also lackluster. There's potential for a great game but this game was sent out the door as a proof-of-concept product.

Once again, I wish we could do half-stars. If you're looking for a deep and amazing story line - this is not the game you're looking for. With that being said, there is a lot to like about this game.

First, it IS a game with difficulty that scales reasonably well with some RPG type elements such as levelling and equipment. The tennis is actually pretty fun with slightly different play styles with the different characters and a fairly steep learning curve.

The art is good and the sex scenes are pretty good too as long as you're comfortable with some borderline CNC; definitely not a love story.

I didn't finish every ending for every characters - who has the time - it definitely gets a little grindy once you're through the main storyline (which doesn't take all that long). I will say, the scenes for the npc women are a nice break in the tournament matches - which are also blessedly abbreviated.

tl;dr it's a fun way to kill a few hours.

The game is very grindy. You HAVE to grind.

You HAVE to grind stats. You HAVE to grind items. You HAVE to grind skills.

Until you grind some ZERO variation gameplay for an hour, the game is NOT skill based.

And the grind experience is bad. Say you decide to grind a tourney game. Vs the last player in the tourney, you know the huge stat disadvantage you face through the set that you just lost. And after losing that set, it's a waste of time to play it out. Can you concede and move on and finally equip skills? No! If you do, you lose the progress of the WHOLE tourney. When serving, there is an annoying sound effect that is supposed to warn against afk. Well, you know what, adjusting the serve position with active keyboard input is not AFK. It's just annoying. The score screen is too long for something this repetitive. etc

If the game wants to be grindy, at least make it smooth.

The voice acting is really bad.

The art is decent.

Full disclosure: I cheated the shit out of this.

That said it is actually a somewhat polished tennis game. Nothing profound, bad also not anything bad.
You'll fight play tennis with increasingly difficult opponents who you can add to your roster after you beat and fuck them senseless.

Sometimes you have to prepare some kind of counter to some girls, for example the final boss has a weird super fast serve technique, if you use the first ability you unlock you can block this easily after which the speed is so high she almost never hits it back anymore.

You can do tournaments too get more money for better gear and gaining exp, in my experience this is only useful to progress from level 20 to level 50 to get the final scene for the girls (When I beat the game my highest level was <20). This seemed to me like it would take an absurd amount of time to do this per character so I just gave myself a bunch of money and bought the levels directly. TBH I'm not really patient with sport games though.

There are 10 h-scenes total, 2 for each girl. Also there are single frame stills for the generic girls you beat in the tournament.
There is an unlock all scenes button but it doesn't seem to work.

TLDR; Fast food game, nothing special but quick and fun.

The gameplay is really fun with a good sense of progression, the scenes were surprisingly good, the characters are lowkey freaky as hell, and the story is okay but actually funny at times. It does it's job perfectly, no complaints

Overall 4/5. A simple fun game that isn't perfect, but gets a lot of things done right.

Gameplay 4/5. Its tennis with stats and skill progression, its pretty fun and well made, the problem is AI isn't smart enough, a few hours in and the games will be easy and boring

Story 3.5/5. Story is simple and predictable, but, the jokes, writing, and the asshole MC did keep it entertaining for me.

Characters 3.5/5. The Love interests were all very interesting, however the short length of the story really prevented anything more from them.

Visuals 3.5/5. In game models use chibi 3d graphics, outside of that its your standard anime style 2d art

Adult Content 3/5. Mostly rape corruption, no real build up, no different from most other H games

I wanted to like this. I wanted to give it a chance, the ratings are so good. The captures of gameplay look fun. But no.

Nope the 4th wall breaking right from the start was a point against it but, I can deal with that somewhat if it's well done. It's not really. It does say the company isn't afraid to make fun of itself, and not take things seriously. But they do it in a way that to me felt as a not so pleasant jab at the player, which being me, I didn't appreciate much. It also felt a tad lazy. In the way the use it to introduce things. Then they play it of in a "We're being lazy about all of our games in the series, but ha ha, it's okay, we'll just make fun of ourselves" Only it felt like a forced joke. And the lines to follow all carried on the same. It could be the translation, but honestly, it felt like if I used an AI to write it based on past games, it wouldn't have come out any worse.

But the most off putting for me, was that it wasn't just an "ugly asshole" genre game. No, they doubled down on it right from the get go. Not only is this an "Ugly fucking loser simulator" they don't want you to forget that you are an ugly fucking loser. Does it get better, I don't know. It wasn't witty enough to bother reading on.

Give it a go, if you don't mind. You might find it more to your liking, I found it made me feel in need of a shower, a drink, and something actually funny.

Tennis Angels EX is your typical visual novel but with an endless tennis minigame padding out the run time. There's barely any H-scenes, consisting entirely of a dozen static images with that horrible image warping animation and it takes fucking ages to unlock any of them...

WHY does it take ages to unlock any of them? Because this is a tennis-based game and tennis has the most dogshit scoring system of any sport. Look forward to fighting tooth and nail for half an hour in order to win one game, which is merely one point in a set, which is merely one point in a match.

So in that sense the game is a pretty good simulation of what it feels like to actually play tennis.

H-scenes are very enjoyable and animated.

The gameplay mechanic simulates tennis pretty well and is fun.

Issue I have with the game is that it's very grindy and matches feel like they take too long. Without gears, you character feels very meh

While the game has nicely drawn art and decently animated H scenes, the amount of grind the game simply asks of you is far too unreasonable to unlock everything normally. As far as the gameplay is concerned, the tennis matches actually have some very crisp controls and some decent amount of depth. Unfortunately, to progress through the story mode and get the animated H scenes you're going to need to grind out the tournament mode to level up your characters and get money for new gear and extra EXP.

Without level and gear, your character will feel laughably incompetent no matter how well your actual skills are as every smash hit gets easily countered by the opponent. Even when your character is sufficiently leveled to get through the campaign matches, you have more grind still waiting for you to unlock all the scenes. Each main character has an additional animated scene unlocked at level 50, and the other CG images are unlocked by beating opponents in the tournament mode. With only 3 rounds each tournament, there's a very decent chance you'll repeatedly encounter opponents you've already defeated over many attempts and not see all of the characters.

Thankfully all of the grind can be mitigated since there is a full gallery unlock button...that only activates after you've clocked in 2 hours of gameplay. Nothing is stopping you from simply leaving the game idle while you do other things with your time, and to be fair I think the game is decently fun on its own merit. However the time tax definitely feels like an extra kick to the nut sack while you're already blue-balled after you've already gotten tired of trying to play by this game's rules.

Is the artwork splendidly done? Yes. But is there enough art to justify the amount of effort the game expects from you? Even with the full gallery unlock, I don't think there's enough content in this game to justify the hard drive space it takes up.

A surprisingly decent game.


Art/Animation:

Absolutely stunning, if it wasn't already obvious. Even when it comes to generics in the tournament, they could all easily pass off as female leads of their own.
I don't know why I like it so much, it's incredibly sleek and smooth, even if the design could be argued as generic you can still acknowledge that as the story says, the girls are incredibly beautiful.
The animation isn't as good, not bad by any means, but leaves to be desired. In the Hscenes it's passable, but I certaintly wish we got more than just the girls bouncing up and down while talking.
Hell, Daisy literally is opening her mouth like a goddamn fish, why th?


Gameplay

The flora of porn games is becoming so diverese, we've got something that the average f95 user will never do, sports.
I'm a bit split, while good in concept and the execution isn't too bad, I feel that the game could've been more polished. All the stats have questionable effects and make me wonder if they have any at all, the ai can go from being scarily accurate to being unable to defend against you giving it repeated aces and winning the set, I played on normal btw.
I'm not saying that it's easy or that such a thing would be an issue, but that the mechanics could've been expanded upon. Serves are completely useless, never will you see the ai fail at receiving you, meanwhile you will fail at receiving plenty, it's a mechanic that's only useful when playing againsst humans.
Same can be said for the variations, power is stuns, tech makes them miss, and speed is just faster, this just feels a bit boring, especially since you have no need for anything other than top spin, and trick turn.
Also, the game has a 'management' tag, but it's anything but lmao, it's not your monster girl bifrost or portals of phereon.

Voice Acting

Is it just me or are the VAs here amateurs? Daisy especially, maybe it's a direction problem but it just doesn't feel right.
In hscenes it's not too bad I guess.

Story/characters

A joke, literally not to be taken seriously.
The entire premise is you're a literal molester name moe lester who molested girls in the same college you are now coach again.
The girls are comically evil in the beginning to bridget for virtually no reason, and this issue is never actually addressed other than being explained as scheme by their older coach.
The rest of it is just 'girls falling for the dick' without fail



A decent experience, I'm looking forward to the dev's other game but sadly it's not the same art style, still looks interesting though

Not much to say, but good enough I guess.

What I like

1. Meta jokes here and there, definitely make up for the tedious nature of interactive VN.
2. You can scroll up and down during conversation, it'll actually revert back to previous log instead of opening logs.
3. You can skip the sex scene (I'll tell you why I did).

What I don't like

1. Poorly optimized
2. The grindy gameplay of leveling each girl to level 50 just to get their 2nd scene.
3. Sex scenes are boring, and the CGs are grindy if you want to get it legitimately instead of waiting 2 hours.
4. Speaking of sex scene, who came up with idea to get that narrative, no separation on who's speaking? Is it protagonist? Heroine? Your thoughts? No idea, just read the room and you might know who's talking (except for Kate, it's chore to do, just watch).
5. No way of reading logs back during scenes? Ok.
6. Done with Kate? Well that's it.

Really wish there's more you can do once you won and the girls aren't fuckable for 2 occasions only (or if you can deal with tediousness of leveling to 50, for each girl).

This game had lots of potential but somehow achieve the fuck it up. It could be pain in the ass to play the game. Well let's start with;

GAMEPLAY

• It's fun to play, good controls, fun gameplay, lots of skills and rivals

Here comes the but part;

• Terrible optimization even a calculater should run this game but it's stuttering at critical points and fuck your game.
• Annoying UI: At first it feels like a good plugin but after some time passed it's getting annoying to hear '' MATH POINT , BREAK POINT, bla bla bla... '' just shut up and let me play and yeah u can't close this from settings

Well it's a hentai game after all so we're gonna critize this part too

SEX SCENES

• The animations are not bad, the poses are really good and there are good voice acting

BUT;

• There are just 10 animated sex scenes. 5 of them are in story and comes with first win then u have to grind the each character to level 50 if u wanna see other five.
• 26 of the sex scenes are not animated, just pictures and looks like sloopy AI art. You can unlocked them if you beat the characters in tournament.
• We're in 2025 and still you can't control the speed of scenes.

CONCLUSION


Well it's not a bad game but you can't see the wasted potential. I would love to give 5 but with current version optimization and unfinished scenes feel annoying.

It's a very fun game, I played on normal difficulty and once I knew what I was doing it was not so hard until the last boss, getting her serve felt impossible without more upgrades/getting used to the timing (I'm not entirely sure which, the combination made it pretty easy tho). The scoring and win by two rules are a bit tiresome at times (but it's probably like real tennis? Idk I haven't played or watched tennis). The girls are cute and the scenes are pretty good, some people hate the ugly bastard trope but tbh you hadly see him in the actual scenes so if you are down for the rape you should probably just get over your ugly bastard aversion for this game. I was hoping for more bondage and spanking, sadly there is only the one scene from the previews, but it is really good. Very solid gameplay, cute/hot scenes, I can't give this less than 5/5, delivers exactly what it aims to.

Its a tennis game where the goal is to collect girls to do naughty things with them.

Let's start by detailing the premise. You play as ugly fat bastard, because of course you do, who used to be a top level tennis coach who got kicked off the job for sexual assault. For inexplicable reasons youre then recalled to coach a group of ladies and right off the bat your first decision is to sexually assault them. Nice job.

Gameplay is basically just tennis as one of the girls. Win to gain xp and gold which is then used to upgrade stats and buy equipment. Get to a certain level and you get to wet your dick. And let's be real for a second: this game is not kidding around. You will spend a lot of hours training your ass off and buying better equipment because beating the four girls is not for the faint of heart. It'll likely take somewhere around 5-10 hours to actually finish all four girls, get all their H scenes, and that's not even considering the extra CG scenes collectable only in tournaments. Game can get a bit cheeky in suggesting you grow a vagina, start wearing a low cut skirt, and lower the difficulty because youve just got your balls kicked in for the umpteen time. No, I say. Because Im a real man with a solid pair and this game's not beating me.

H scenes are live2d animated with voicelines, but its fairly standard stuff you get from VNs. Not much else to say other that the sheer satisfaction of victory when you finally get to plug these girls.


Concluding...

The game is fundamentally solid in of itself because it is a game at heart. Youre not thinking of the pair of jugs when youre trying to beat them at tennis. In a way, that's probably why I enjoyed it because I had a ton of fun, and only a small portion of it involved my dick. Sex is so much better if you have to work for it, and this game makes you work like an illegal immigrant working at below minimum wage in a sweatshop.

Easy recommend for those that want a game, instead of a quick handjob session. I suppose I should also mention that for those who dont want to go through the trials and tribulations: there a gallery unlocker right in the game itself. But Id bet it'll be nowhere near as satisfying as when you finally beat these mfuckers.


Some additional points;

- Game needs better tutorials. A lot of stuff is barely explained, so youre likely gonna learn as you work.
- There are storyline scenes that arent about sex. But you'll never know it because the game doesnt play it automatically for you. If you never venture forth to view it yourself in the gallery, the entire game will proceed without a lick of context that leaves it feeling tasteless at best and baffling at worst.
- Seriously dont understand the facinations of using ugly fat bastards as main protagonists, and even less when it involves a sport background.
- Just be warned that there is technically light NTR elements involved here but about the softest kind you can imagine. Im only mentioning it because it does exist but really you'll probably not even notice.

Very satisfying game to my surprise.
Now... save yourself some time and do the campaign on story mode to understand the game and unlock characters faster. ( reading tutorial is for nerds). After that enjoy the game at your own peace.
Pro:
- Good scenes
- Good music
- Funny dialog
- Entertaining
- Easy access ( can unlock all gallery from the menu )
Cons:
- Grindy ( it has lvl ups ,upgrades and items, u have to spend some time to collect them all)
Per total a very good game that I enjoyed playing it.