Ren'Py - Academy34 [v0.30.1.4 Public] [Young & Naughty]

Gotta say, i want to like this game a lot more than i do. The images are nice, and the story is okay.. Well, it's the beginning of a potentially interesting story. Thing is, it's a huge grind! So little to do, and many characters who look like they will have a purpose, but currently don't.
There are a couple of repeatable events, but they're rather short.
This seems to be a more VN style game, as choices don't seem to impact the story.
I think there are a few missed opportunties, such as a weekend, repeatable event, or having the "do your own homework" or "do someone else's homework" have a consequence, like dropping grades.
It is a bit weird. The game is structured like a choice-consequence game, but there are few choices, and no consequences.
Still, i think it's early days, and the game does have potential. I'd keep an eye on it, but i wouldn't say it's a must-download, right now.

In a word... Disappointing
I was looking for an overwatch based game and found this one.
At first, the graphics looked "MEH" to me, and I didn't want to try the game
But after reading a lot of positive comments, I decided to give a try, hoping for an interesting and funny game.... but... NOPE. Nothing like that.

---- Characters :
---- Renders/Graphisms :
Considering it is handmade and 2D, it is a commendable effort. Not to my taste, but not an issue neither.

---- Story/Writing :
---- Background/Atmosphere :
The background is based on overwatch, and it does match pretty well. Probably the selling point of this game.
The dialogues are well written and sometimes funny
The story is non existant. You just spend days and days...

---- Animations :
---- Sex scenes :
Well... that is to be expected with a 2D game, can't do miracles.

---- Gameplay :
---- Contents/Updates :
Nope, just nope. I don't see the point on spending days and days doing nothing or repetitive actions, not once or twice, but more like 40 times.
Extremely grinding and boring. The lessons are uninteresting. You can spend weeks with nothing happening.

To sum up, the repetitive gameplay buries the game which was not even good to start with.

Great Concept Amazing art work the grind for money is a little annoying but not horrible with time this game could become ever more amazing the art is fantastic and the content is decent with future updates this game keep improving and as a request add more dva content and and the character ashe

Fantastic artwork and a well put together game. I haven't experienced any bugs and the UI is intuitive and easy to navigate.

My only gripes with the game in it's current state is it's general lack of variety between days. The weeks play out in the same manner with little variation beside the quest points. I'm sure this will improve as the game continues development however.

Also, while the writing is decent there is definitely a disparity between the characters personalities in game compared to their official counterparts. While it is to be expected I would like to see some of the traits that makes people interested in the original characters woven into the writing.

TL;DR - A well made game with fantastic artwork, but, needs more meat on the bones and the writing could use more characterization.

It's not a bad game. I'm actually pretty impressed with the idea that this might actually be the only 'proper' Overwatch game out there and on this site. Art style is decent. Writing isn't really a factor to this game, since it seems like the approach is to put stories under a girl's path. Which it thankfully does better than games like Chloe 18, and other similar ones where days pass by with nothing happening. It's pretty polished overall, but I had expected the public build to have had more content than just Tracer, seeing as how this thread was posted in January.

I don't own Overwatch, although I know a lot about it, due to the net and the characters being inserted into Heroes of the Storm a lot lately, so honestly I wasn't really a major fan, of the characters normally or erotically... until Academy34.

The story itself is simple enough, but the game has beautiful artwork, and the developers seem keen to deliver on the sexy side of things, which there isn't a lot of right now, but they seem to have some big plans. I especially like how they are adamant about doing away with the "grinding" that dating sims seem to painfully suffer from.

The game is still relatively new, but they seem to be pretty passionate about making it, something that is heard often with these games, so hopefully they mean it enough to deliver further, because it has recently shot to the top of my watchlist.

I can easily see this game getting a full five stars from me maybe a couple months from now, but there isn't exact much to explore at the moment. That said, I have found myself playing quite a bit lately, as the story available right now is short, but fun and sexy (Tracer is pretty hard to resist). And isn't that why we play these games in the first place?

A-class content so far..not much in game yet, but original drawings take time, so it is understandable.. also kudos for an original idea and realistic looking characters.
Looking forward to the future updates...

Played through the first demo and I think this one has a lot of potential. As is obvious with early demos, there's just not a lot of content. Understand that going in.

Now as to what there is, I have to admit I'm rather impressed. The art style is consistent, clean, and a wonderful change from yet_another_cgi_rendered_incest_story_0428189. Further more the coding is solid and works very well. I didn't notice any bugs or errors playing through the whole thing and trying to find them. Finally I feel like the whole thing fits very well into the theme presented. Characters actually feel like they have a taste of the characters who inspired them, but with a young lusty vibe. An alt universe overwatch as it were.

The only real issue I have with the game is that when you're going to make a parody / fan game around something, you need to decide how close you're going to stick to lore or established cannon. As such it would make sense for Mei, Reinhardt, Torb, etc to be older teachers, but be younger than they are in OW, however that then precludes someone like D.VA. Now of course as a porn game you can just throw all this out the window and say fuck it.... no problem. But where this breaks down is when there is a certain expectation for a character and it doesn't quite fit. Reinhardt as a literary professor? I suppose if you stretch your logic, it kind of makes sense, like... maybe he grew up on stories of heroism and bravery. But overall it feels very weird at time. McCree lacking any sense of gravitas? Genji being a peeping tom?

It's not a minor point, and of course there could be some changes coming down the line, I just don't know. I think that over all the game has a lot of potential and would suggest that anyone check it out, especially fans of OW.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...

(01/18/2018 - Original Review - v0.2.3 Demo)

Not a bad game/visual novel parody of Overwatch...

The visuals are all 2D Hand Drawn, and look pretty darn good... The blue highlight for clickable things is a really nice feature... Very creative visuals with humor in mind...

The script had very few spelling/grammar errors, but there were a few times when the wrong word was used, almost like broken English... The plot so far in this demo is really simple, revolving around a male protagonist student attending an Overwatch Academy... He then has to attend classes and interact with other characters... This game is definitely a humor based parody of the Overwatch game, with an adult twist... Since it's a Demo, there isn't much actual content, and the author's let you know ahead of time when you've reached the end... The current content is very linear, but not sure if future content will be that way...

Overall, I think this game/VN shows a lot of promise, as this is definitely humor based... The visuals are awesome... I can see this one has a lot of potential... I'll definitely have to check this one out again, a bit later into it's development...

(03/30/2018 - Review Update - v0.4.3)

This game is still doing pretty well with the humor... Most parody games I play tend to go with parody type visuals but yet the story text isn't always that funny... This game is doing a little better on that front compared to most... I don't play the game it's poking fun at, but I've watched it being played, so I have a decent clue as to some of the references...

The visuals and text are still going strong... Even some of the dialogue pokes fun at the game development itself, which is cute... The game is definitely giving off a more grind vibe with the more recent content... Needing to spend a lot of time raising money to push the progression along... Once you open up the shop, the spy camera is really the only item that appears to do anything for the moment... There are achievements that you can gain by spying on Tracer doing yoga in different poses...

Beyond the spying on Tracer, the two sex positions with Tracer in her room, and opening the shop up, it appears you hit a content wall at that moment... Since you can't see stats at all and the task menu doesn't ever show anything yet, there is no way to really tell if anything ever really opens up beyond that... I tried spending a few in-game weeks messing around, but nada...

Overall, the game is still trucking along, and I still feel it shows promise... Hopefully once all the functions work, like the task menu, and so on, we'll begin seeing the content train moving forward a bit faster... I look forward to seeing how this game continues to develop...