Ren'Py - Completed - Braveheart Academy [v2.1] [Chrys]

The main gameplay of this is slide puzzles. It's a good thing there is an option to disable it as slide puzzles suck, but when you disable it, this game really becomes a visual novel with some relationship/time management.

This is not a bad thing inherently, but for the majority of the girls the story is kinda basic and did not engage me too much. I also found the MC dull. In hindsight, the scene gallery is probably the best way to experience the game, because who wants slide puzzles??? You do miss the limited events though, as the scene galley doesn't feature them (or at least I did not see them featured).

I was honestly falling asleep while playing this. The writing is bad and with the kind of game this is that just isn't excusable. There was nothing for me get interested, no story hooks, nothing happening at all. It was just stilted random meetings with girls with conversations that were meaningless, no one cares how much someone weighs or how tall they are, that's not how real people speak to each other and certainly not how good conversations are written.

The girls have some interesting designs and that's the only thing the game has going for it, the renders aren't particularly good, the game tries hard with a lot of gimmicky choices at the start of the game that just don't end up being interesting or helping the game whatsoever.

The music choices didn't fit the feel of a school romance game, it was more like funeral music.

What this game needed more than anything was a decent-to-good basic storyline and some bare minimum level of interesting writing. As long as it doesn't have that, none of the rest matters, but even then none of the rest is particularly interesting here. It's just a disjointed mess that felt like a chore to play.

welp, been playin this game weeks ago just to review it now. i guess this game fall at least under my personal favorite top 30, not to say its bad but the competition just tough in my book and top 30 among like 70+ avn games i played is awesome. since the game is completed i guess i`ll go short

+ story is simple and straightforward, no twist, just student life approaching girls, could as well be cons
+ art is ok, animation is ok, more than decent, personally still satisfying
+ free roam, free to pursue or avoid LIs
+ options in beginning of game to avoid grinding and mini games and focus on story
+ extra UI element : phone provide some depth like LIs database, event timeline, gallery and extras
+ in term of quantity the game rich of sexual contents including seemingly made to order contents
+ involve kink that many players kinkshamed but made to be avoidable
+ secret way to access extra LI that becomes not so secret thanks to gallery

- the simple main story had its drawback and with not so much twist and mystery to unfold some LIs story can feels rather cliche, especially those whove been play lots of avn
- the quiz thing comes unnatural, its rather forced into conversation and become off topic, there definitely ways to make the quiz thing more natural and inline with conversation by making it more diverse to fit in more variety of dialog topic and prevent repetitive topic
- the locations are only used as event background, most LIs arent tied with location which makes most locations dead unused, some LIs could spread across location/timeline and provide simple event, minimum conversation to no conversation at all but just to inhabit location during certain time, making the game world more alive and realistic
- sexual scene has no live repeatability due to many LIs not tied to locations/time and only tied to school location and event, most scenes only replayable from gallery
- gallery locked under extra ui element and not accessible directly from option
- the effort of side LIs and extra contents could be channeled to create more in depth bonding story with main LIs because some of em have rather short bonding events
- by added some plot to it, made to order contents could definitely fit in LIs storyline instead of just being extras

1 extra star alone for having a character whose story and background my perfect cup of tea. the kink it has right up my alley and to no surprise it has the most made-to-order content as well. In fact this character alone that makes me add this game to my personal "game i will not delete", and trust me i deleted most of avn games i played, even completed one and some with crazy beautiful graphic but craps story or weak LIs bonding, even games that have higher rank in my personal favorite. to me, this character alone that carry the whole game to be in my personal favorite top 30 because i didnt even finish most of LIs cause i think their storyline are too cliche and has nothing really special to offer.

i read there will be braveheart academy 2, if its gonna follow up its predecessor here are my suggestion:

> improve arts and animation quality
> add more twist, mystery to unfold surrounding mc/LIs story
> add more sexual teases, cliffhangers, to make players crave to dig more certain LIs
> focus on main LIs first and give each of em equal amount of storyline
> adds some humour for more appeal
> make the quiz thing become natural, make it more diverse so it fit in more topic and it doesnt even have to be like a quiz but more like natural conversation with some point counter behind it
> make the locations alive by spread the LIs, make at least minimum interaction that doesnt affect story or points but just to live up the location, live up the game world to be more realistic

> ultimately, add another character like blaire, and all kink it has, with deeper bonding story, raunchier sexual contents.

overall, good game, thanks for developing this game
good luck with whatever under development rn
i hope that dev get all the support they need and continue steadily developing more

cheers~

Its alright, the game definitely shoots for something more than just a standard visual novel which is appreciated but I think the execution isn't so great. The characters, while unique, are written in a kind of stilted way, the puzzles, while optional, are some of the only actual gameplay in the game, meaning that if you turn them off you're not really doing much. I think some other types of minigames could've made the game a lot better.

Nice, this is the good sfuff, worth to try it, it is a good ride, and the endings wow, over all the backstory of Vivi is one of the best for the implications, Blair face is the sweetest and of course Raven is the best.

I really like this game, it's fun and has a diversity of girls from which you can choose to pursue, a lot of great animations. The side events are also something to look forward to if you want some extra scenes. The puzzles can be tedious sometimes, but you can turn them off if you just want the story. You can also choose which kinks you would like to have. Overall, it is a heartwarming and great game, it's one has become one of my favs, that's why I am giving it a 5 star rating.

Ah yes. One of better games here but it has some weak points.

Pros:
+ Many sexy girls with many sexy ecounters.
+ Cute and well made models with lots of well made sex animations.
+ No sounds but some nice sountracks in the background making playing much nicer.
+ Trap and NTR-rape content can be simple avoided if someone is not into it. Turning trap content off will of course disable any shemale ecounters but some of the events will be aviable anyway with alternated versions containing fully female girls. Since I'm into neither of it I really appreciate options turning them off.

Cons:
- Game pretends to be sandbox but I think it's some real misunderstanding. Actually it's a visual (sometimes even kinetic) novel with RNG ecounters - only few events with girls are fixed while others appears in random order and player could pick one of the few aviable at the time. So it's more like start event and watch as it goes. Not much of a interactive sandbox, eh?
- If you want unlock everything you have to carefully plan your moves (getting enough affection before fixed timed events) and keeping eye on days limit. It's seems not that bad but since your decisions are limited to choices randomly picked you'll have to be lucky with RNG or abuse save/load option. Or you can enable easy mode - disabling automatic time skipping so you can run all possible ecounters instead of one (but by choosing this you will finish most content before you reach 1/4 of the days limit and end up with skipping time for the rest of the game).
- Sometimes you will be forced to play sliding puzzles with time limit. I don't know how about you but I don't personally like playing irritating minigames in the middle of romantic scene in order to see rest of it. You can turn them off in main menu but you will loose money rewards granted for them (fotunatelly most things in the shop are not not necessary anyway). I have no idea what's the point of that mechanic. Unless you really love sliding puzzles.
- Some dialogues are... I don't know. Out of place? Sometimes characters are talking some random bullshit that doesn't make much sense and neither fits into storyline. And most sex dialogues are actually terrible since characters speak, speak, speak and speak some nonsense all the time. Seriously they often say more during fucking than outside of it. Really? It would be much better if they were replaced with descriptions matching animations or there would be no text at all.
- While animations looks really nice... Pussy lips are not animated at all. So MC's dick simple passes like a ghost through closed pussies instead of spreading them. It ruines experience a bit.
- Most characters are not well written. First they are shy virgins who have no idea what sex is about and one scene later they fuck like seasoned whores with years of experience. Doesn't make much sense at all.
- Some main ecounters are just short dialogues with not much content and story impact and because of this story chains for each girl should be longer.

Despite all the flaws it's still a really nice game. I personally enjoyed playing and can recomend to check it out.

I'm disappointed... It seems that the rating is good, and there are a lot of views, and it's not a visual novel, as it were, and there are animations, and the tags are good: anal, interracial, ntr, rape, sandbox, etc.... But where is it all here ??? For the whole game, someone was stuck in the ass a couple of times ... ANAL! All these tags for which I played are only in the bad ending! All the girls just masturbate, with their hands, feet, then suck, well, and then you fuck them in the pussy and that's it ... And if you turn off the puzzles and don't take into account moving around the map, then this is the most ordinary visual novel! What are these fucking visual novels for??? Do you like to watch, watch porn, 3d porn! Do you like to read, read erotic/porn books, comics! If you are making a game, then make a game, not reading, not a slideshow, but a game!!! And the game must be interactive! FUCK!!!

Nice game to play! The stories are pretty well-written, and I appreciate the endings for each girl too. I guess that the "true" endings are only with Rika and Raven, since you will be able to have a family with kids with these 2 routes - not that I complain though.

Plain dating sim with okay renders.
All sex scenes are animated nicely and there are some fetishes.
Easy mode option and ability to siabel puzzles is great.
A bit too plain, cut and dry for my tastest.

A fun, funny, well-thought-through dating sim with some VN elements. The girls are delightful, but also multidimensional. Though they're all Honey Select models, they're visually completely distinct -- different sizes, shapes, coloration, etc. (My favorite was green-haired Blake, who's just ridiculously cute, but also sensitive -- and can be played either as cis-female or as a trap/trans female character if that's your preference.) There are lots of fun side plots, including a dating app for hooking up with other characters (and occasionally the main girls as well). The MC is a fun goof -- neither a wannabe alpha nor a complete loser, you can see why these very different girls would actually find him interesting. His sense of humor is... dad-joke-y, but that's very much acknowledged in the story.

The minor downside here is that there's a certain amount of grind. There's a minigame that I really didn't enjoy -- but the dev made it optional, so I turned it off. You spend a lot of time clicking around the map, looking for the next encounter. (Oh, and do watch the calendar -- there are special events that require you to have certain affection levels or to have scene particular scenes with particular girls.) The progression for each girl's romance involves memorizing facts about each of them (height, favorite food, etc.) and regurgitating those at the appropriate moment. It ends up feeling a bit mechanical. (I know -- a computer program that doesn't perfectly model actual human behavior! Turing's rolling in his grave.) The thing is, I played for the harem ending, and the similarities in game play was noticeable between the girls.

Still, the girls themselves are attractive and interesting, the relationship with each girl develops in interesting, occasionally surprising ways, they're all adorable, and, yeah, the sex is good and varied.

I'd give this 4.5 if I could.

Hands down the best looking game I've ever played. The story is a nice touch, all characters are different in their own way and not much grinding, but the animations, the character design, the quality of scenes are definitely one of the best out there. Couldn't stop playing for couple of days. 10/10

It's ok. Nice girls, nice h-scenes. There's no real story here, more like separate progression for each girls. I think they overpromised on what this game is. It's really is not different from the other games of this type where you basically wait, interact, wait some more. It's have a nice notification system so when and where to find people is never frustrating. The small (avoidable) ntr portion at the end is out of left field and not substantially developed.

Despite the fact that this review is mostly just me pointing out issues why/how bad certain aspects of the game are it's actually pretty good content(writing/stories) wise if you don't mind bad gameplay that can be bypassed anyway via the options menu(turn off puzzles) and some cheating(edit money to just ignore that system altogether and charm/fortune to eliminate the rng) and are just looking for some decent short stories I honestly do recommend this game. Just keep in mind that short stories are all that's there, they're good but then the game just suddenly ends bringing you to a menu where you can select any ending you've unlocked by progressing with the required girl enough.(Note: the choice at the start just sets the green haired girl to either a normal girl or a trap, you don't miss out on any content by not wanting to see male on male content.)

The few gameplay mechanics that are in the game were a bad idea
-The puzzle's just feel intrusive and out of place, can be disabled in options
-The rng based encounter rates are intrusive, unnecessary, and add nothing
-The money management is just not a fun mechanic it's unnecessary and you can't really control it

The inclusion of a simple map that you can't really get lost in, with exclamation marks telling you if there's something that can be found or not in the different segments felt like a decent idea for added immersion, when finding and interacting with the girls, I really appreciated that.

The girls' stories are entirely linear and entirely unrelated to one another no amount of progression in any girl influences another so rng based splits in the narratives just flat out spoil moments at times. The ONLY exceptions to the "progression doesn't matter" thing are a single choice within Sofia's route where you get an extra option if you've maxed out Raven's affection and a timed event towards the end where the girls perform better in a sports event based on how much affection they have towards you because power of love or something, if you've maxed both Sofia and Raven you get to choose the winner when they compete. (Disclaimer: obviously progression also matters for the endings)

Lastly the endings are sudden and mostly boring/unsatisfying, aside from the two harem endings, you time skip well into the characters' future and just catch a couple of seconds of their lives where they behave as if they just graduated a few days ago and a cheezy feel good "life lesson/moral of the story" message plays. Out of all the normal route endings the only one that had something memorable was Raven she actually had some character progression going from mellow sad/loner girl to mellow happy/affectionate mom.

You might be wondering so most of the normal endings aren't great but you mentioned "two" harem endings what about those? Unfortunately the dev wanted this game's totally forgettable cheezy little messages that they've attached to end of all main routes to be the most memorable aspect of the endings so the main harem ending is just a realistic if you take the character's personalities into account scenario of what if the girls find out that you've been sleeping with all of them, well they all love you so although a bit upset they're somewhat okay with it but only if you prove you can satisfy all of them, so an orgy breaks out and that's it(it's implied that obviously the mc can but you don't get to see), the dev lectures you on how they didn't want you to pick the harem ending so that's all you get go pick the regular endings now, and for the other harem ending the two girl harem which is really just an alternate Raven ending where you get with her and one of her friends the three of you decide you all like sex a lot so let's be in a relationship you have sex and that's it, then you get the same lecture as in the other harem ending and it's over.

Edit: the shaders are weird in the endings that take place in the future, they make the characters look deathly pale which makes the characters look much older than they are, in particular the mc, he at times looks so excessively old/fragile/unhealthy that he could keel over from just old age at any moment, the only character unaffected by the shader at all times is Sofia who thanks to her already super white skin tone doesn't really look much paler during her ending.

Good kinetic novel but not great game.
Models are cute, animations are nice and there is good variety of scenes. And high score is definitely deserved for the most part. People are correct when they praise this game, but it also has a weak part.
And this weak part is gameplay. There is nothing wrong with being a visual novel. Problem here is sandbox elements, they kinda make you think this game is deeper (gameplay wise) than it actually is. Sandbox here just allows you to pick which path to go first. Pick a girl go through her scenes, pick next girl. It can be somewhat boring.
Basically it is good VN but don't except it to be good management/sandbox.

Braveheart Academy [v2.1]

really funny without being completely nonsensical, lots of enjoyable sex, but also lots of purely "kawai" scenes (which i like), not all the girls are equally interesting, but still respond to different tastes.

amazing for naughtiness the NTR ending, while the other endings have quite disappointed me, a bit too simple and similar between them

Very simple game but offers a tasty entertainment

TLDR - great overall package, safe option for almost everybody.


pros:
- wonderful and diverse cast
- great variaty of events
- nice production quality
- satisfying length

cons:
- somewhat excessive storywriting

V 2.1
One of the best games i have ever played. The characters were made so beautifully. Story wise the dialogues were well written, a little cheesy but fine. But really the girls were pretty well made and the scenes were good too. Enjoyed it quite a lot. Just hoped it would have had more content. But worth playing it from start to end. Thanks for this wonderful game Dev. Good luck with your Ongoing Project too.

Version: v2.1

I have greatly enjoyed this dating sim game, the most impressive part to me were the girls, each was their own person with unique backstory, interaction and way of living. The story for each branch wasnt bogged down with words, it was neither too short of too long, so i never got tired of interacting with any of the girls.
The second most stand out part for me was the visuals, damn did they get it right with the renders, the facial expressions and the outfits, a really beautiful looking game. And if that wasnt enough, the animation is also superb, it was smooth as the curves of the girls and i send my appreciation to the devs.

Amazing game with amazing girls, give it a go.

I wish all of the games on this site had characters as varied as this one. Each love interest actually feels like a different character instead of just being 15 different versions of the developer's dream girl with different hair colors. The only downside is that it's pretty short.